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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Google will soon put the kibosh on its Gmail application for the RIM BlackBerry. But it continues to push Gmail and its Google Apps onto mobile devices that have supplanted the BlackBerry inside so many of the world’s businesses. On Monday, during a mini-conference at its Mountain View headquarters, Google vice [...]

Canadian company Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) posted on its Twitter account Wednesday that "some users" are experiencing delays with their Blackberry devices, and it is looking into the problem. "We’re getting reports that some users are experiencing delays. We’re investigating and will update you ASAP," RIM tweeted on its official Blackberry account, @BlackBerry. No [...]

Like us on Facebook Apple’s iPhone 4S, on the other hand, is an upgrade of its previous versions. It measures 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm and weighs 140 grams. Display The Droid RAZR has a 4.2 inch screen, qHD resolution, paired with Super AMOLED. Jha claims the new RAZR has higher contrast and richer [...]

BY EVAN RAMSTAD AND YUN-HEE KIM HONG KONG—Microsoft Corp. plans to offer the latest Windows-based phones in China next year, relying heavily on its partnership with Nokia Corp., the software company’s phone chief said Thursday. U.S.-based Microsoft to date has been shut out of China’s smartphone market, which is led by smartphones built around Google [...]

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango,” Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, draws you in immediately with its simple but sexy interface. It’s very easy to get into messaging — both traditional email and IM and newfangled Twitter and Facebook — and launch widgets to track the weather or see your stocks. The colorful Windows [...]

Research In Motion is offering its business customers three BlackBerry PlayBook tablets for the price of two, as it tries to spur adoption of its QNX-based tablet. RIM certainly faces an uphill battle when it comes to tablets. Apple

A year ago, nearly 40 percent of all smartphone users owned devices from BlackBerry maker RIM, according to the market research firm comScore. this summer, RIM’s share of the market fell to less than 20 percent, while Google’s rose from 17 to more than 40 percent with its Android. Apple’s iPhone maintained in second place [...]

Tweet Share Email Users who have upgraded their HTC-made Windows Phone 7 smartphones to the Mango firmware update are now noticing that their handsets are freezing, or locking up, when they’re using Zune Pass. Users have been complaining and documenting their issues on Microsoft’s support forum, and according to these users, Microsoft is saying that [...]

Now that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is out with the new iPhone 4S and Google (GOOG) and Samsung are preparing to launch the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone, customers are weighing their carrier options. Most moved to Verizon (VZ) last quarter. the Big Red carrier added 882,000 post-paid (i.e., retail) subscribers last quarter, more than double the [...]

Sponsored links, if any, appear in green. Verizon Wireless has announced a new data plan option for customers of the BlackBerry Curve 3G smartphone. the new BlackBerry Social Messaging Data Package offers access to popular social networks and instant messaging services, including BlackBerry Messenger, with limited web browsing for only $10 per month. the BlackBerry [...]