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T-Mobile USA HSPA+ webConnect Rocket Launching March 14th-New Price Plans

T-Mobile USA HSPA+ webConnect Rocket Launching March 14th-New Price Plans

Posted on11. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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Today T-Mobile USA announced that they will be releasing the webConnect Rocket USB laptop stick.  This makes T-Mobile the first national carrier in the U.S. to offer a HSPA+ device.  So what does that mean to you?  Once T-Mobile rolls out their full HSPA+ network you can expect to see speeds of up to 21Mbps [...]

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BlackBerry Users Have To Love This Jerry Seinfeld Video

BlackBerry Users Have To Love This Jerry Seinfeld Video

Posted on09. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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The guys over at CrackBerry have posted a hilarious video of Jerry Seinfeld on David Letterman making fun of BlackBerry users (5:07 into video).  This isn’t the first time he has expressed his love for BlackBerry users.

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Verizon Wireless Inks Deal With NFL

Verizon Wireless Inks Deal With NFL

Posted on09. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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Verizon Wireless has just landed a huge 4-year partnership with the NFL.  Starting next month Verizon Wireless customers will be able to watch and follow the NFL draft as it happens on their wireless devices as part of NFL Mobile on Verizon Wireless.  In August NFL fans will have access to NFL RedZone on their [...]

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Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Now Available

Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Now Available

Posted on09. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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Today at the Game Developers Conference Palm announced the public release of their beta Plug-in Development Kit (PDK).  The PDK will allow for easy porting of existing applications and games over to the webOS platform.
The PDK complements the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK), letting developers use C [...]

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Contest: 5 Speck Cases To Be Given Away

Contest: 5 Speck Cases To Be Given Away

Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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We recently gave away a Speck case for the BlackBerry 9700 and felt bad for leaving other readers out.  Speck was kind enough to step up and help us keep the rest of our readers happy by offering 5 cases of our readers choice for any cell phone case currently in stock (at time [...]

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Case-Mate Twitter Contest: ihugitout Hug Case Give Away

Case-Mate Twitter Contest: ihugitout Hug Case Give Away

Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by John.

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We announced this morning that Case-Mate has launched it’s newest iPhone case, the Hug. Well to add to the awesomeness, Case-Mate has let us know that they will be giving away a free Hug on Twitter today. The contest still has about 6 hours left. All you have to do is Tweet #ihugitout + why your iphone [...]

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Skype Mobile Explained Visually

Skype Mobile Explained Visually

Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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Verizon Wireless and Skype are gearing up for the release of the Skype Mobile application, only available on Verizon Wireless.  The video goes over the basics and features that Skype Mobile will have once released.  I am looking forward to giving it a try on my BlackBerry Tour.  You can sign up to receive alerts [...]

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Case-Mate Hug Now Available For iPhone-Wireless Charging Solution

Case-Mate Hug Now Available For iPhone-Wireless Charging Solution

Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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Case-Mate has just announced two new exciting products, the Hug and go Bare.  The Hug is a wireless charging solution for the iPhone 3G/3GS.  There is a Hug case for the iPhone that when placed on the Hug charging pad the iPhone will charge without any wireless.  This is a great alternative to PowerMat.  The [...]

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Apple iPad Commercial shown during Oscars

Apple iPad Commercial shown during Oscars

Posted on07. Mar, 2010 by John.

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Apple had another trick up its sleeve at yet another award show, this time airing the very first iPad commercial during the Oscars.  The quality of the video isn’t be best but you get the point.  As we all know March 12th begins pre-orders with units in stores and homes on April [...]

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Motorola Backflip Now On AT&T

Motorola Backflip Now On AT&T

Posted on07. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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AT&T and Motorola have released the Motorola Backflip, AT&T’s first Android device.  The Backflip runs Android 1.5 (upgradeable to 2.1) with MOTOBLUR and has an unique way of folding over on itself.  In the picture above you can see how the screen would fold backwards, still leaving the screen and keyboard exposed on opposing sides.  [...]

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Weekly Scoop Review

Weekly Scoop Review

Posted on07. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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This last week wasn’t the most eventful one, the news didn’t keep pouring in, but nonetheless it was still a great week here at BerryScoop.  Last week we reported your readers, that means you.. yes YOU, made it the best week we had since the site redesign.  Well this last week we are happy to [...]

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Gowalla 1.0 Released In Android App Market

Gowalla 1.0 Released In Android App Market

Posted on06. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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The biggest competition to foursquare would have to be Gowalla.  Gowalla is a social network that is interactive as it uses what locations you are checking in at.  Instead of badges, there are pins.  See the similarities?  They have officially released version 1.0 of their Android application and it should be available in the App [...]

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Swype Opens Android Beta-Sign Up Now!

Swype Opens Android Beta-Sign Up Now!

Posted on05. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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Starting today Swype has launched an official beta for their text input application on Android.  The reason Swype is so appealing is due to the fact that the user will draw a line over the letters of the word they want to type, instead of pressing on each key.  You can see in the picture [...]

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iPad Pre-Orders For US Begin March 12th, Arrive In Homes and Stores April 3rd

iPad Pre-Orders For US Begin March 12th, Arrive In Homes and Stores April 3rd

Posted on05. Mar, 2010 by Jason Cipriani.

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The guessing game can stop, Apple has just announced they will begin taking pre-orders for the iPad on March 12th.  The Wi-Fi only units will arrive at your doors beginning April 3rd with the Wi-Fi+3G versions coming later in the month.  International pre-orders will have to wait until the end of April.  Steve had some [...]

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