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Rogers says that the Revolution is here – at least until June 19th

June 10, 2009July 25, 2009 drsquid Android, dream, G1, g2, HTC, Magic, Rogers15 Comments

In a press release dated May 7th, Rogers asked cellphone users to “Join the Mobile Revolution on June 2”. Right up until a few days before, when pricing details ($149 on a 3-year term) leaked out, the only thing many users knew about this “revolution” was that Rogers was going to be selling the HTC Dream (a.k.a. “old” Google G1) and HTC Magic (a.k.a. “new” Google G2) Android OS smartphones. While being one of a select few carriers worldwide (along with T-mobile and Vodaphone) to sell Android handsets was a…

Palm Pre has 30 lives

June 10, 2009July 25, 2009 Danny X Palm Pre1 Comment

Earlier today is was reported that the Palm Pre’s WebOS Root image was leaked out, enabling developers (read: hackers) to dig into the guts of the device and see what makes WebOS tick. But what if you want to enable Developer mode on the Pre the legit way?

Nvidia Tegra in the Zune HD?

June 4, 2009July 31, 2009 Doug Groves Nvidia, tegra, Zune2 Comments

The news finally broke last week about Microsoft’s upgrade to the Zune line, with the Zune HD. The device as a number of interesting specs, including a 480×272 multitouch OLED screen for excellent contrast and colour, and will output HD video with an HDMI dock, as well as a web browser. Think of the Zune HD as Microsoft’s response to the iPod Touch. What’s even more interesting is that from most reports (and the sometimes dependable wikipedia) the onboard processor is probably the Nvidia Tegra, a mobile graphics powerhouse which…

Globalive leaked phone plans… AKA was Alex right about blurry cam conspiracies

May 19, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Globalive12 Comments

A poster over at Howard Forums, one of the biggest message boards for all things mobile phones, has leaked a number of stills, plus the planned rates for emerging new Canadian wireless carrier Globalive, who bought up a lot of spectrum in the Canadian airwaves auctions not to long ago. The poster claims that he’s doing this because he was let go from the company, but I’ll get to that in a paragraph.. Among the details? Globalive will be carrying some high end fare, such as the HTC G1 and…

Windows Mobile 7 hardware specs?

May 12, 2009September 14, 2009 Doug Groves multitouch, tegra, Windows Mobile, Xbox Live, Zune7 Comments

We don’t engage in too much speculation here at rgbFilter headquarters (all right we do, we don’t generally post about it though), but over the past few months, there’s been a lot of talk about Microsoft’s Project Pink, which could be a Zune phone, or a software/services platform for future Windows Mobile devices. Heck, some rumours have even floated about Xbox Live integration including gaming. In any case, it appears that the minimum specs for Windows Mobile 7 have been leaked by none other than Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet,…

Rogers brings Android to Canada with HTC Magic and G1

May 7, 2009 Doug Groves Android, G1, HTC, Magic5 Comments

Rogers is teasing the Canadian smart phone public (you’ll have to pick your province when you click the link because Rogers is SO down with web design) with a live countdown to announce the arrival of Google Android phones to the Great White North. Not only are they getting the HTC G1 with the sliding keyboard, but they’re also getting the slightly slimmer keyboard free HTC Magic. This comes just a day after Bell announced the Palm Pre coming to Canada later this year, which leaves only Telus to bring…

Palm Pre to launch on Bell Mobility in Canada

May 6, 2009May 7, 2009 Doug Groves palm, Palm Pre24 Comments

Word came down today that Palm’s last great hope will be coming exclusively to Bell Mobility in Canada. This isn’t really a surprise, given that Bell has always had a better selection of Palm devices than Canada’s other major CDMA carrier Telus. Just like the original announcement of it on Sprint, they’re being very cagey with the release date, saying nothing more than the 2nd half of 2009. When Palm announced the Sprint deal at the beginning of the year, all they stated was that it would be the first…

Cydia Apps for a Time Walker’s iPhone

May 1, 2009May 5, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

I feel like I am already familiar with certain apps on this iPhone device, although I’ve never used them before. If your brains were to spontaneously explode, for example, over a square kilometre, your memories would lie disconnected on the ground in an amplified map of their former positions inside your head. Tiny differences in cranial coordinates would translate to much larger differences over a square kilometre. Someone – maybe even the next ‘someone’ to squat in your now-empty skull – could even decode that map. Well, okay, so the…

Bumptop: An OS add-on in need of a form factor

April 30, 2009 Doug Groves bumptop4 Comments

Recently, Toronto based Bumptop.com came out with a beta version of their Bumptop OS, an add-on for Windows that takes the 2D desktop metaphor and adds that 3rd dimension. I’ve been playing with it for a couple of weeks now, and here are my impressions…

iPhone Jailbreak, Start-to-Finish

April 29, 2009April 30, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

It appears that I promised a full iPhone jailbreak guide in an earlier rgbFilter post. I have since lost any memory of doing it. Fortunately, I actually wrote out all the steps before my latest schism, and have since recovered them for you from my lifestream. Here is the entire rest of the series. Make sure you reread the caveats in that first post!… QuickPwn 2.2.5 identifies which iPhone model to jailbreak…

Windows Mobile 6.5 Release Date May 11th?

April 17, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves opera, Windows Mobile8 Comments

Windows Mobile 6.5 was announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress. At that point in time, the expected release date was estimated to be either late summer or early fall of 2009, with the first devices to follow soon after. According to the Windows Mobile Developers blog the long awaited update the the mobile OS will be released on May 11th at Tech ED 2009. That’s a decent bump in the schedule, and means that new devices running 6.5 should be out sooner than later. Of course, for those…

Launching QuickPwn 2.2.5 to Jailbreak my iPhone

April 13, 2009April 29, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

First of all, try to understand that with new barriers inserted in every software update (you’ll have to hold off on each iPhone upgrade until there is a jailbreak released specifically for it) — and Apple even attempting to make it illegal to do it in the States of America — providing jailbreaking tools for the iPhone isn’t a business with a huge growth trajectory. The people who bring us this crack and the maverick apps it enables are ‘deep geeks’ who are likely doing this out of twin loves…