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Verizon Wireless to EOL DROID, Devour, Tour and more
Written on 15 Jul, 2010 at 20:36 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
DROIDForums.net is reporting that Verizon Wireless has given the end-of-life nod to the following devices: Gateway LT2016U (netbook) Motorola Devour and DROID Nokia Twist BlackBerry Tour 9630 Samsung Knack, Smooth, Intensity, and Saga Looks like Big Red is making... (Continue reading)
Verizon makes BlackBerry Tour Push-to-talk “free for life” for anyone who acts quick
Written on 30 Apr, 2010 at 12:00 in MobileCrunch | viewed times | 0 Comments
Almost exactly one month ago , Verizon added Push-to-talk support to the BlackBerry Tour! Hurray! Unfortunately, it cost $5 extra a month. Un-hurray. It looks like Verizon might be having a bit of trouble getting people to sign up... (Continue reading)
Video: WP7S (maybe) running on an HTC Touch Diamond
Real or fake? It’s a question often asked in the San Fernando Valley, and it’s been thrown around quite a bit lately with respect to videos purporting to show off the WP7S interface. Here is yet another such video,... (Continue reading)
Sprint schedules mandatory, company-wide meeting for March 31st
Written on 29 Mar, 2010 at 14:05 in MobileCrunch | viewed times | 0 Comments
Here’s what we know: Come March 31st, all Sprint retail employees will be huddled around their computers, tuning into a meeting we’ve heard called “top secret”, “mandatory”, and “company-wide”. Here’s what we don’t know: What its for. Even the... (Continue reading)
Official: Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 getting Push-to-talk on March 30th
Written on 29 Mar, 2010 at 14:05 in MobileCrunch | viewed times | 0 Comments
The good word of the rumor mill said we’d be hearing about Push-to-talk on the Verizon BlackBerry Tour soon, and sure enough: ol’ VeeZeeDub has just made it official. The Push-to-talk application should land in the Tour Application Center... (Continue reading)
Lego-borne BlackBerry Tour probably still lacks WiFi
Written on 13 Mar, 2010 at 22:39 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
How do you know you've reached status as an internationally-recognized icon? When someone decides to make a Lego representation of you, that's when -- so our hats go off to you, BlackBerry Tour , for this distinguished accomplishment. Well-traveled... (Continue reading)
Sprint comes to its senses, cuts Touch Pro2 price to $199 starting October 1st
Written on 30 Sep, 2009 at 7:14 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
When we first caught wind of Sprint’s HTC Touch Pro2 pricing, we had to do a triple-take. As we just confirmed with eCare however, Sprint is wisely bringing the ridiculous $349 price of the HTC Touch Pro2 down to... (Continue reading)
Apparently Sprint and Verizon have refuted the BlackBerry Tour high return rate claim
Written on 18 Sep, 2009 at 12:53 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
The story goes like this: A TownHall Investment Research director was quoted by Barron's as saying that Sprint is seeing almost a 50% return rate on the BlackBerry Tour primarily because of trackball issues. We ran a simple poll... (Continue reading)
The BlackBerry Tour gets torn apart, reassembled
Written on 19 Jul, 2009 at 12:10 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
I don’t get the fascination with gadget tear downs. I mean, who cares? It’s not like any of us understand what the hell is on the circuit boards. I say as long as the product works, lets leave it... (Continue reading)
TELUS launching the BlackBerry Tour and HTC Snap launching on July 15th, Touch Pro2 on the 21st
Written on 5 Jul, 2009 at 11:39 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
It looks as if July is shaping up to be a pretty good month for TELUS subscribers — how does three hot new handsets in one week sound? One of our ninjas just hit us to let us know... (Continue reading)