T-Mobile is replacing the antiquated trackballs on BlackBerry’s Pearl 8100 and 8120, and the Curve 8320 smartphones for free from the 15th of February, to any customers who are having problems with them. It’s one of the reasons RIM moved from trackballs to optical trackpads, so if you aren’t having problems yet, mark my words: […]

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Laugh/cry about Nokia all you want, but when it comes down to cold, hard figures, they’re still performing well. They’ve seen a 65 per cent increase in net profits for the last quarter, shipping 126.9m units in the period.
Those 126.9m units shipped in the fourth quarter are 12 per cent more than the previous year, […]

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Walmart’s told the Christian Science Monitor, of all people, that they won’t be selling the Nexus One through its Walmart Wireless arm, despite a product page saying otherwise. That page has now disappeared, and blamed as a “technical error.”
It could be seen as good news, or bad news. Giz commenter Aja175 summed the leaked product […]

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According to a study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, hand-held phone bans have no effect on the frequency of car crashes. Wait, what?
Now, this seems different from specifically texting while driving, which is demonstrably dangerous. But in the four states the IIHS studied, the implementation of a ban on hand-held phones behind the […]

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