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Posts Tagged ‘Blackberry’


When Nature Calls: SitOrSquat Mobile App Helps You Find the Perfect Public Potty

SitOrSquat will help you find an acceptable one of these. Or at least warn you if it's not.Seems like you can’t swing a virtual dead cat around the Intertubes these days without reading about iPhone apps. I and others of my ilk are most likely to get wound up about location-related mobile apps; these naturally often involve navigation for the iPhone, not to mention other phones. But there’s a host of other apps providing all manner of location-based services beyond navigation. For example, if you’re out and about and nature calls, as it is wont to do, now you can use your iPhone to find a clean restroom — “restroom” being that quaint American euphemism for toilet.

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More Androids for T-Mo, CrackBerry Beats iPhone, Trent Reznor’s Apple Fanboy Status Challenged

Is this a new T-Mo Android phone? Oh, boy, where to begin? It’s a manic mobile phone Monday out there in the gadget arm of the blogosphere, kids. More than a humble scribe can keep up with, but then we’re just concerned with the GPS-enabled smartphone highlights (because the GPS stuff is what we care about, after all). First up: the biggest news on this front is that it seems T-Mobile is going to have not one but three new Android phones to offer North America by the end of this year.

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Blackberry Curve 8310: That James Bond Feeling

CrackBerry CurveIn my search for the top GPS products, I use scientific criteria and analysis developed over the past 20 years of testing devices. This method weighs various factors, such as the color of the device, the expressions of people who see you using it, and the waiter’s inquiries about it when he is serving your lunch.

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