BlackBerry Tablet Coming In March?

Will Flash and a secure Enterprise-friendly operating system be enough to lure luxury market consumers and business executives to purchase the Playbook from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion? To the consumer, Flash is a big deal and the promise of a touch screen tablet with the capability to run Flash and Java might be enough to spur sales. But, [...]

Apple iPad: Coming to a Verizon Store Near You

Verizon Wireless customers everywhere are doing a happy dance because the cell network announced it will start selling the luxury tablet from Apple before the end of the month. The news that Verizon Wireless will start selling the Apple iPad on October 28 makes the rumors of a Verizon iPhone more plausible because now there [...]

BlackBerry-Apple Harmony

BlackBerry users are loyal because we sleep with the smartphone and have grown accustomed to the keyboard, which enables typing at standard work speed. When AT&T launched the Torch , CrackBerry users were hoping it would quell the desire to one day switch to the iPhone. That didn’t happen because the pressure to move the [...]

The CrackBerry Orgasm: RIM & AT&T Score

For as long as I’ve been a BlackBerry addict and as long as the iPhone existed, I’ve longed for a smartphone with a full physical QWERTY keyboard and touch capabilities. It has arrived and I hate the name. I have yet to test this gadget in person but AT&T folks can buy it starting August [...]

AT&T To Lose iPhone Exclusivity?

Apple is a cult and as such, can often apply the laws of magical realism to average products (iPad) but in the case of the iPhone, credit is due. So when Bloomberg News posted an article on Tuesday that the beloved touchscreen phone may really be coming to Verizon Wireless, I did a little dance. [...]

Budget Mobiles: Pantech’s Dual-Keyboard Smartphone

The presence of a touch and a tangible keyboard offers emerging mobile phone makers a leg up when competing with the most popular handset makers–Apple, Research in Motion and Motorola. For over a year, AT&T and South Korea’s third largest mobile phone company, Pantech, have been working to expand the Asian company’s presence in the [...]

The BlackBerry Binge

The Dirt: Research in Motion, the Canadian company behind the ubiquitous smartphone, BlackBerry, is gearing up for new releases that will satisfy addicts on all carriers. Previously, those admiring the Bold had to use AT&T services. That will all be history when the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is released later this summer. Set for release on [...]

Mobile Civil Liberties: The Android, The Bold and The Treo Pro

The Dirt: Perpetually connected, the mobile addict is a constant consumer and that’s just what is helping forge alliances between mobile phone makers, software developers, cell phone carriers and advertising companies. Amid a bear market, while the housing and stock markets continue to slump, the mobile phone rumor mill is buzzing, as Palm prepares for [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity April 28

Nina Garcia is looking for aspiring designers to submit contemporary and fashionable packaging ideas for the oral birth control YAZ(R) (drospirenone & ethinyl estradiol). Garcia spoke on behalf of the Nonprofit Step Up Women’s Network and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals when she announced the “YAZ: Step Up and Go Beyond” contest, which will award the grand [...]