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Review: HTC Snap

by Andy Betts, posted Monday 27 July 2009

The Snap is HTC’s first smartphone with a front-mounted Qwerty keyboard since the S640 at the end 2006.

It is a surprise that it has taken the company so long to produce a follow up since the intervening period has seen this once purely business-oriented form factor make the crossover into the consumer market thanks to the likes of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the Nokia E71.

What is less of a surprise is that the Snap seems designed to sit alongside these two models, with the Curve in particular a notable influence.

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“Nobody’s perfect”, says BlackBerry boss

by Andy Betts, posted Thursday 16 April 2009

Laptop Magazine has published a wide-ranging interview with co-CEO of RIM Mike Lazaridis in which he responds to the negative reception to the BlackBerry Storm. “That’s our first touch product, and you know nobody gets it perfect out the door. You know other companies were having problems with their first releases,” he is quoted as saying, effectively reaffirming co-CEO Jim Balsillie’s earlier statement that buggy hardware was now a fact of life that early adopters in particular would just have to get used to. He does confirm, however, that more touch-based devices are on the way.

He also questions the viability of PC manufacturers such as Acer and Dell moving into the smartphone space. “Well, I can tell you if you’re getting into this for the first time, it’s a fairly expensive undertaking, and it’s a very, very ambitious undertaking. They’re going to have a lot of challenges getting into the market. We’ve got well over a decade of experience in this space. You have to sit down and ask yourself what strengths a new player is bringing to the table. There’s lots of Windows mobile devices in the market already,” he says.

Read the full interview here.

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How to: Access Facebook on a BlackBerry

by Dave Harfield, posted Thursday 19 February 2009

Do you use Facebook to stay connected to friends and colleagues? Facebook for BlackBerry lets you stay logged in to your account while away from the desktop