BlackBerry Curve Apollo coming soon

Posted by BA on Jan 23, 2011 in BlackBerry, Curve, Mobile, Smartphones | 1 comment

BlackBerry Curve is brand name close to heart for a lot of blackberry users. No matter how crazy smart-phones get, Curve series is a breathtaking success. This new BlackBerry curve in black color sounds very promising. The date of launch and availability is still not confirmed:

The new curve will have following specs:

• Screen resolution of 480×360 like current Bolds with HVGA display
• 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE on all four bands
• Tri-Band UMTS/HSPA 7.2 mbps
• Wifi a/b/g/n
• Bluetooth 2.1
• GPS
• NFC
• 512MB of eMMC, 512MB of RAM
• 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
• HVGA 480 x 360 display
• 1050 mAh battery
• 800MHz CPU – Tavor MG-1
• BlackBerry OS 6.1
• 11mm thin

Source: BGR

Samsung terminates Symbian developer support

Posted by BA on Dec 30, 2010 in Mobile Apps, Samsung, Smartphones, Symbian | 0 comments

Samsung sends a reminder to Samsung app-developers today reminding them the termination date of Symbian developer support. Samsung will no more support Symbian app development on their handsets for obvious reasons. They are pushing hard with their BADA platform on some of their phones and Android on rest of their smart-phone family. The termination includes closure of Symbian Lab.dev on 29th December, Symbian forum gets closed on 30th December and Symbian content will be removed on 31st December.

Windows 7 phones in Lahore now -HTC HD-7

Posted by BA on Dec 2, 2010 in HTC, Microsoft, Smartphones | 0 comments

Windows 7 mobile is creating news everywhere. Mobilink today has announced HTC HD-7 and it is exclusively available on Mobilink. The phone has quite good specs and what’s new is … errrrm…  Windows 7. You can get this great phone from Mobilink office for Rs. 55,999. You can get detailed specs of the phone here.

I love my Black Torch

Posted by BA on Nov 8, 2010 in BlackBerry, Smartphones, Torch | 0 comments

BlackBerry Torch is now available in white and red on AT&T but I love my Black one. It’s very elegant and looks much better than the new white and red variants. What do you think?

Nokia N8- First Impressions

Posted by BA on Nov 4, 2010 in Nokia, Nokia N8, Smartphones | 3 comments

Just got a Nokia N8 and I’m super excited about it. I have not spent much time with it but there are a few first impressions of the device that I wanted to share with you guys.

• Unlike Nokia, its battery is locked inside, you cant remove it (that easily)
• Unlike Nokia, (well unlike most of them) its running pretty fast and pretty smooth out of the box
• Unlike Nokia, it’s lightweight and good looking.
• It has a large camera sensor and a very slim Xenon flash

At least I wasn’t expecting above in the box for me

I’ll be posting more about it from now on, so stay tuned

Difference between BlackBerry 9700 and 9780

Posted by BA on Nov 4, 2010 in BlackBerry, Smartphones | 5 comments

BlackBerry Bold 9780

BlackBerry Bold 9780 is a younger brother of BlackBerry 9700 who’s just a little more fashionable than 9700 and we know 9700 very well. Just got hold of a 9780 and it’s as cool as a 9700, seriously. What makes it more cool is the OS 6 and its doing a great job with the new OS despite the fact it does not have a touch screen like Torch 9800.

There are only two main differences between BlackBerry 9780 Bold and 9700 Bold.

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1. BlackBerry 9780 has a 5 megapixel camera as compared to 3.2 megapixel cameara on Bold 9700.
2. And the bigger difference is, 9780 has OS 6.

In cas you are planning to upgrade your 9700, then 9780 is definitely not the choice. If you are planning to get a new 9700, better get a 9780. For existing 9700 users, BlackBerry 9800 torch is a much better choice. And in case you are highly tempted to use OS 6 on your BlackBerry and own an 9700, better flash your OS to version 6 and enjoy having a 9780, well almost   . You can read this post on how to upgrade to OS 6 on BlackBerry 9700.

Here are a few more shots of the 9780 which has the same big 1500 Mah battery as Bold 9700.

BlackBerry OS 6 boots up fast

Posted by BA on Nov 3, 2010 in BlackBerry, Operating System, Smartphones | 0 comments

I just got hold of these two devices. A BlackBerry Bold 9700 running OS 5 and a BlackBerry Torch running OS 6. Apparently both devices do not have a difference in processing power but the operating system boot up time looks drastically improved for OS version 6.

One of the thing that has always been irritating me has been the time a BlackBerry takes to boot. Any other phone does not take that long but things are eventually changing and the new OS has done some work to improve the boot up speed.

Checkout the video.

OS 6 for your BlackBerry Bold 9700

Posted by BA on Nov 3, 2010 in BlackBerry, Handsets, Operating System, Smartphones | 0 comments

If you are carrying a BlackBerry Bold 9700, and want to upgrade to OS 6, the first leaked version is available now. WillyBoy6 on CrackBerry forums has posted the steps, download links and then the whole world starts talking about it.

If you end up upgrading to OS6 successfully, the only difference between your 9700 and 9780 will be the camera.

Here is the source, enjoy!