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How long before pizza smell can be streamed over the Internet?

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In Canada, pretty much any new plan with any amount of data will have unlimited sms, making IM apps kind of irrelevant.

2 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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I hope this is a start of a trend. How cool would it be if every major flagship gets a Nexus flavor?
Maybe they’re in talks with HTC right now.

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Preemptive strike at Babel?

4 days ago on BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer 1 reply

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Did he say iHeartRadio out loud?

4 days ago on BlackBerry 10.1 rolling out to Z10 starting today, will reach US carriers by end of May

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I’d prefer this didn’t happen.
I don’t like feeding Facebook any more of my personal information, and I really kind of like Waze.

9 days ago on Facebook reportedly in talks to buy Waze navigation app for up to $1 billion

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I agree. This is just like downloading a password protected RAR, with the profit pirate requiring some action in exchange for the password.

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What phone do you have?

I have a Nexus 4 (Gnex before that), and I bought a Nexus 7 tablet because I already spent a bunch of money on the Play store. My tablet is for running my commonly used Android apps to supplement my phone’s battery life. There aren’t many tablet optimized Android apps, but phone apps scale well to 7 inches.

16 days ago on Nexus 10 or iPad 4?

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iPod touch gen 2, still have it somewhere and I’m sure it still works.
Never bought music from iTunes, but I did buy some apps.

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BB10 OS needs really needs some user adoption if it is to save RIM Blackberry.

Broadly speaking, new BBs aren’t competitive with top tier iOS/Android devices. But if this thing was free on contract, it would be instantly more attractive to phone shoppers at the cell phone store. It’s a distinct form factor, and has some unique features. It would instantly be the best “free” phone.

At 249 on contract it’s really only attracting people who already wanted a Blackberry, which is an increasingly scarce crowd. Blackberry proudly touts that it’s debt free and making (some) profits. Their stock pretty much bottomed out last fall going below company book value, so their remaining shareholders are in it for the long run anyway… They could survive with temporary smaller margins.

I really believe they should swallow their pride and undercut competitors on price if they want BB10 to GTFO into the market. With more BB10 devices in the market, they would gain developer/services support, and perhaps squeeze out some profits on higher volumes. And then perhaps later, after they’ve made a comeback they can release “premium” priced devices. Carriers typically subsidize $400 on contract, and $400 is still plenty to earn on a phone.

23 days ago on BlackBerry Q10 to be available at all four major US carriers with suggested price of $249 2 replies 2 recommends

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It should be 249 unsubsidized and unlocked, then I may consider it. Its not like it has a big expensive screen or killer specs, where is the money going?

23 days ago on BlackBerry Q10 to be available at all four major US carriers with suggested price of $249 2 replies 3 recommends

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I had a Casio remote control watch 10 years ago. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I memorized all the codes for different TV brands, and I’d mess with people watching TV at school, and those large TV walls in department stores.

Now I want a smart watch with an IR blaster.

24 days ago on Back from the dead: why do 2013's best smartphones have IR blasters?

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The Yahoo mail app for android is really pretty good now. I’m not ready to give up gmail, but yahoo mail has been my secondary email address for the past two months.

about 1 month ago on Yahoo releases new weather and mail apps in second phase of rebuilding effort 1 reply