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Throwback Thursday: Nokia 8110

By: |Dec 2nd, 2010 at 04:31PM
Filed Under: General
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Released in September of 1996, the Nokia 8110 was a unique member of the Finnish company’s high-end 8000-series line of phones. The device’s curved shape and manual-sliding keyboard cover earned the device the nickname of “banana phone.” The device operated on the 900MHz GSM frequency, had a monochromatic, dot-matrix display, and could store a whopping 125 contacts in its on-board address book. As the press release boasts:The revolutionary curved design fits the natural shape of your f...

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BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider gets caught on video

By: |May 8th, 2010 at 12:25AM
Filed Under: Breaking, Exclusive, Favorites, Featured
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One of our BlackBerry connects sent us in a nice treat a little while ago… it is the first ever live video of the mythical BlackBerry Bold sliding device coming out of Waterloo. The quality of the video is also decently clear, so check it out, okay? We’re still trying to confirm the model number of the handset, but it’s definitely in the Bold lineup as has been rumored, and now confirmed via the branding on the back of the phone. Oh, the device is also running OS 6.0. Video is after the brea...