Sprint HTC Hero about to get presaled at Best Buy?
We just got a heads up that the above image you see just showed up in Best Buy’s internal systems… and you know what that …
Jonathan S. Geller founded Boy Genius Report, now known as BGR, in 2006. It became the biggest mobile news destination in the world by the end of 2009, and BGR was acquired by leading digital media company PMC in April 2010.
Jonathan is President of BGR Media, LLC., and Editor-in-chief of the BGR website.
What started as a side project at the age of 16, quickly transpired into 24-hour days and nights of sharing exclusive and breaking news about the mobile communications industry. BGR now reaches up to 100 million readers a month through the website, syndication partners, and additional channels.
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We just got hit with a nice outline of some of Verizon Wireless’ upcoming handset release dates, and boy do they look appetizing. First up …
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac walkthrough
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HTC's Hero swims with the fishes…
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Verizon Wireless releasing OS 4.7.1.42 for BlackBerry Tour soon?
File this one under the rumor category for now (oh check that, we did), but we’ve been told that the next OS release for Verizon’s …
T-Mobile G1 on a starch and sugar-free diet?
This is pretty interesting even if it doesn’t apply to you (you’re not a T-Mobile G1 owner): apparently since the T-Mobile’s G1 internal flash memory …
BlackBerry Bold coming soon in white?
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AT&T pre-launch lineup: BlackBerry 9700, HTC Tilt 2, Garmin G60, more!
One of our oh so trusty ninjas just hit us up with a fantastic-looking pre-launch list for AT&T. These phones listed are not launched yet …
Apple iTunes 9 details, Blu-ray, app organization
We’ve just received a tip from a pretty reliable source that detailed for us some of iTunes 9’s upcoming features and they’re pretty exciting. One …
Exclusive: Motorola bringing a "webOS" to Android? Called Blur?
Where would we be without our trusty Motorola ninjas? We’ve just got the drop on some exciting information about Motorola’s Android plans and how they …
T-Mobile BlackBerry 8520 Hands On (again)
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Apple launching iPhone 3GS 8GB soon?
We’ve had a number of unconfirmed tips over the last few days about this so we figured we’d post it… apparently it seems that Rogers …
Google Voice offering active serviceman and women instant invites
In an effort to help assist deployed servicemen and women in the United States Military, Google is allowing anyone with a .mil email address to …
Sprint and Boost getting some Motorola ROKR love?
We don’t have much info to go on here besides the photo, but we’ve been told that Sprint could quite possibly be picking up this …
RadioShack to rebrand as The Shack?
Engadget reported a little while ago that RadioShack stores would be going through a name change — from RadioShack to simply The Shack. Apparently RadioShack …
Verizon drops pricing on almost all existing smartphones to under $99
Well, hear us out. We’ve had a flurry of tips sent in today that Verizon Wireless has dropped the prices of almost all existing smartphones …
BlackBerry 9700 specifications
While we don’t have a sexy codename for this BlackBerry to attach to the model number, our very same ninja is back again with a …
BlackBerry 8530 headed to Verizon, totes Wi-Fi
It’s no secret (well, maybe you just haven’t heard yet) that the freshly announced BlackBerry 8520 will come in a CDMA flavor as well. It …
T-Mobile's HTC Touch Pro2 hitting August 12th
Well, you wanted it, you got it. T-Mobile just confirmed one of the worst kept secrets and we’re sure there a bunch of happy people …
Skyfire pulls BlackBerry Alpha
We just got a heads up that because one of the alpha builds for Skyfire for BlackBerry was leaked earlier, Skyfire is taking the servers …
Wicked WordPress app launches for BlackBerry
There’s no getting around it — WordPress applications for the BlackBerry don’t exist. Well, there are a small few, but they’re so bad that they’re …
HTC Hero review
When I fondled the HTC Hero for the first time a month or two ago, I was instantly floored. I mean, Android looked this bad …
