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The release day for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm
has finally arrived and the device will be available, starting today, in all of
Verizon Wireless’ stores. The massive hype surrounding the product was caused
by the belief that the Storm might become the first real competition to Apple’s
iPhone; it received names such as the ‘real iPhone killer’ and the
presentations released over the past few weeks pointed out that the company
does mean business with the device, as its features appear to cover all the
aspects demanded by the high-end market segment.
The touchscreen phone...
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Apple has released a software upgrade for the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch that adds new features and fixes some stability bugs. Apple users were caught by surprise as the update appeared on Friday when they connected their iPhones to iTunes 8 and found the 2.2 software waiting for them. Even before Apple first unveiled the iPhone in 2007, the company said that it would continue to roll out significant software upgrades to the hardware devices, free of charge, over time. With the iPhone 2.0 launch last summer, Apple first made geo-triangulation available even in phones without GPS as well as...
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Gamers and Xbox fans have been waiting for the launch of Microsoft’s new Live Experience for the Xbox for a while now. As promised last month, Microsoft has launched a free version of the new console software and it seems like it has made a very good impression. One of the most talked about features on the Xbox Live Experience is users’ ability to directly stream movies from Netflix. This feature is only available to users that have unlimited streaming account on Netflix in order to use Xbox’s new feature. There have also been rumors claiming that movies produced by Sony cannot be streamed...
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Recently, the mobile phone market has been flooded with touch screen mobile phone, some very successful and others not so popular. BlackBerry’s reply to the flooding is, of course, its BlackBerry Storm phone, the first touch screen device created by Rest In Motion. Many have been awaiting the launch of the new device with great excitement, and many people have pre-ordered the phone. Unfortunately for them, the latest news indicates that there might not be enough Storms for everybody. It seems that a last minute detection of a flaw in the phone has caused the manufacturer to stop shipment to...
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Apple has released an update for the iPhone on Thursday night and the 2.2 software update is available through iTunes, being packed with lots of goodies. The 2.1 software update was released in September. Some of the highlights of the update focus on GPS and Google Maps, which now includes Google Street View, allowing a user to see a 360-degree view of locations taken with cameras mounted on Google’s cars. In addition, information on public transportation stops is included in Google Maps. Other improvements include a bug fix for scheduled e-mail fetching, improved stability and performance...
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