BlackBerry Bold 9930 vs. BlackBerry Torch 9850: RIM Smartphone Smackdown

By Grant Hatchimonji | 10/18/2011

The BlackBerry Bold 9930 and the Torch 9850 are two of RIM's most recent smartphones with BlackBerry OS 7. Can't decide between them? Read through out this head-to-head comparison and see which one is a better fit for you.

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RIM to Offer Free Apps to BlackBerry Users as an Apology for Last Week's Outage

By Valerie Sarnataro | 10/17/2011

RIM has announced its plan to offer subscribers more than $100 worth of new BlackBerry games and utilities as an expression of its appreciation for their patience during the service outage that plagued users for almost three days last week.

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BlackBerry Outage Luring Europeans to iPhone

By Dragan Petric | 10/14/2011

RIM managed to anger BlackBerry users around the world with a three-day service outage this week. Our European correspondent says the timing for this - right before the launch of Apple's iPhone 4S - has many on his home continent thinking about leaving RIM behind.

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RIM Claims Fix for Global BlackBerry Outage

By Valerie Sarnataro | 10/13/2011

RIM just released a statement in which it claims to fix the service issue plaguing its BlackBerry users this week. The issue caused three days of outages of BBM messaging and email services.

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BlackBerry Outage Issues Spread to U.S. and Canada

By Valerie Sarnataro | 10/12/2011

Like BlackBerry owners in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa who have been experiencing sporadic outages of messaging and email service for the past three days, the issue spread to users in the U.S. and Canada this morning.

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Norton Anti-Theft Service for Phones, Tablets and PCs Now Available from the Cloud

By Jacqueline Emigh | 10/5/2011

Fending off big rivals, Symantec on Tuesday released Norton Anti-Theft, the first in a set of planned cloud security services for smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

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Most Popular Smartphones for September 2011

By Ed Hardy | 10/2/2011

Each month, Brighthand publishes a list of the smartphones that readers have shown the most interest in during the preceding four weeks. Not surprisingly, devices that have debuted in the past few months dominate this list, though there are a few older ones still holding on.

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Facebook Will Be Timeline of Your Life, for Good or Ill

By Valerie Sarnataro | 10/1/2011

In a new policy known as "frictionless sharing" Facebook will become a full representation of your life. As part of a new system, users' activities in third-party apps will be automatically noted in the news feed "ticker."

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Smartphones Moving Above the $200 Barrier

By Ed Hardy | 9/30/2011

For several years now, the standard price for a high-end smartphone was $200 with contract. Recently, however, several models have debuted at $300, and more are coming soon, signaling the end of what used to be a hard-and-fast rule.

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Sprint Still Committed to Unlimited Data Plans

By Ed Hardy | 9/27/2011

Sprint's Chief Technology Officer told the attendees at a technology conference yesterday that his company is going to continue to offer unlimited data plans to its customers for the foreseeable future.

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T-Mobile Offers All Smartphones at $100 or Less in One-Day Super Sale

By Valerie Sarnataro | 9/24/2011

T-Mobile is cleaning out its inventory by having a one-day in-store sale today where no smartphone costs more than $100. Some of the most impressive smartphones that received a price cut include the BlackBerry Bold 990, the HTC Sensation 4G and the Samsung Galaxy S. UPDATED

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Apple iPhone Owners Show Much More Loyalty than Android, BlackBerry Users

By Valerie Sarnataro | 9/23/2011

Findings from a new study of smartphone owners show 89 percent of iPhone users saying they would purchase an iPhone as their next smartphone, with only 6% indicating they intended to switch to a different OEM and 4% were undecided.

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