Blackberry is constantly updating their lineup of phones and most recently updated their Bold line of phones with the Blackberry Bold 9700. If you’ve ever used the Bold line, the 9000 was the most recent of the line. It was a little larger than the current phone but proved it could handle anything thrown at it and had a strong battery life as well. The 9700 contains updated software, a smaller device factor, and proves that smaller things do come in better packages. No longer do you have the trackball but now have a trackpad which makes navigating the interface so much better. The 9700 also contains a longer battery life than most Blackberry units and has lasted us well through the day with multiple options open at the same time. The email interface remains the same as does the browser, but an upcoming browser update is in the words according to those in the know.
Overall, we’d highly recommend the newest addition in the Blackberry lineup as they’ve kicked it up a notch, to quote the celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse. Sturdy, productive, and a professionals dream equal a great product. Grab it from AT&T today for $199 with a 2 year contract.
The iPhone is one of the hottest selling mobile devices in the world and the business uses for such a phone are only growing. Being able to remotely accept credit cards from trade shows or fairs is increasingly a popular trend. Say you are a plumber who goes to a customers home for work and you want to charge them on the spot. Now, two new devices for the iPhone have hit the market. Marked from Square and Verifone are such techie toys. Square (www.squareup.com), doesn’t require a merchant account and plugs into the bottom of the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Just swipe the card, have the customer sign the phone’s pad, and email the receipt. That simple. The other main player in this niche market is the giant Verifone. In the past month, they have come up with a Payware Mobile product which fits onto the iPhone as a sleeve and lets anyone with a merchant account to accept credit cards. Via an iPhone app, it allows you to magically transform the iPhone into a mobile terminal and allow you to charge customer’s instantly.
The main differences in these products is that Square doesn’t require you to have a merchant account, whereas the Verifone product does. Size is also a major factor as the Square product is just a small square that dangles from the bottom of the iPhone and the Verifone product is a sleeve that fits the phone much like the Mophie Air Juice pack.
Have you tried any of these? Let us know in the comments.
Apple’s new iPad, iSlate, or tablet device is all the rage across the internet. No one knows what Apple will call this mysterious internet device, but rumors of ipad and islate have circled the net. The NY Times and WSJ have reported and leaked various rumors, but on Wednesday, we’ll see what the truth reveals from Steve Jobs. What do you think? iPad, iSlate?
The tech news is a buzz with Apple’s announcement on January 27th, for an alleged tablet. Listening and reading news regarding the upcoming product release is almost too much as experts try to figure out what it should be and what it shouldn’t be. A 10″ LCD is rumored to be the size with perhaps a new iPhone 4.0 SDK that will be announced that same day. Will a new iPhone also be announced with an OLED screen and a 64GB storage capacity? It’ll be an interesting next 10 days until Apple lights up the technology blogs and sites with it’s new product. What are your opinions on it?
Aliph, the makers of the Jawbone bluetooth headsets, announced a new model tonight that’s lighting up the gadget world, the ICON. What makes it different is the design, the new low weight of the unit, and its new ability to include apps on a bluetooth headset. The ICON allows you to goto a mytalk website and add features such as announcing Caller ID and other features to change the voices of the ICON headset. Very interesting to say the least and we’re hoping the PR folks at Aliph might be able to spare a unit for review. We’ve posted reviews of different headsets and hoping to add more to the list.
If you haven’t been searching on the net lately, a new and exciting version of Wordpress has been released. It’s version 2.9 and it’s a huge improvement over the previous versions. Mass upgrading of plugins and video embedding support are the main upgrades. It’s a simple click and upgrade feature within most hosting packages and we’re on it now. No visual changes to the end user, but it’s a huge improvement for the site owners. Congrats to WP for this achievement.
We are expecting the new Nokia N900 to arrive tomorrow and are very excited to see it up close and personal. We’ll have a review up as soon as we get it going. Till then enjoy the clip.
Twitter just recently rolled out a new mobile page at mobile.twitter.com. It’s a huge upgrade on the current m.twitter.com page and looks a lot nicer than previous versions. What do you think?
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