US Carrier Speed Claims Put to the Test by PC World
While BlackBerrys currently do not support the latest 4G standards yet (though that will change with the PlayBook soon) its interesting to see which US carrier is currently offering the fastest speeds. PC World’s Mark Sullivan put the top 4 US carriers to the test to see which ones offered the fastest laptop and the…
RIM Needs Your Help to Beat Windows Phone 7 in Laptop Magazines OS Bowl
David pointed out to me that Laptop Magazine has opened up their OS Bowl readers vote competition today which we mentioned earlier. So far the BlackBerry OS is trailing behind Windows Phone 7 by a long mile with less than 7% of the votes out of almost 1,400. Kind of funny since in my personal…
BlackBerry OS Enters Laptop Magazines “OS Bowl 2011”
The Laptop Magazine team always has some good ideas for competitions and the latest is their “OS Bowl.” It pits all of the main mobile OS versions against each other for readers to vote their favorite. Laptop’s editors have given Android and iOS a free pass out of the first round for being “Two of…
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Wins Laptop Mag’s Readers Choice Award
In a welcome turn of events the BlackBerry Torch 9800 won the Laptop Magazine readers choice award for the best smartphone of 2010. That is a bit of an upset considering it was competing with devices like the myTouch 4G and the HTC Evo 4G and beat them out by about 500 votes. Out of…
PSA: Men Please Keep Laptops Off Your Lap…
I always found that the category name “Laptop” was misleading. I have not owned a laptop in the last 7 years that I could actually safely put on my lap. Some of them were so bad you could fry eggs on the back. That is exactly the point of this PSA. I know that many…
Alltel Offers Up Cheap Laptop Data Plans For A Second Line
Alltel let me know that they are now offering customers a cool deal for laptop data cards. If you already have a regular line you can add a laptop data card with a secondary line of service for $40/month instead of $60/month. That is a pretty decent deal. Hopefully with Verizon acquiring Alltel maybe Verizon…