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Boost Mobile recently added the LG Marquee to its lineup of Android smartphones. Prepaid carriers differ in many ways to the postpaid carriers like AT&T or Verizon. There are no contracts and lower monthly fees but the cost of the phones are usually higher because there is not subsidized pricing. This is the case with Boost Mobile who is charging $279.99 for the phone, but the monthly fee is only $55 for unlimited everything.
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It seems as an incentive for people to upgrade or have upgraded to a Blackberry 7 device, RIM is offering free Premium Applications for Canadian and US Blackberry 7 Smartphone users.

Some of the apps that are offered: ...

Shazam. One of my favourite apps for iOS bar none.

I can't tell you the wealth of new music I've discovered since using this program and ones similar to this. (remember trackID on SonyEricsson phones?)
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Looks like Facebook for iOS has gotten quite a few major revision changes
These include:
*The ability to go offline in chat
*Correct profile pictures for your friends
*Friend lists include ALL your friends
*Name is displayed correctly in photo sets
*Photo's of people who like Facebook pages show correctly
*Friend request only lights up when you actually have a friend request (imagine that)
*Retina iPad changes
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RIM has called out Apple for trying to fix an upcoming vote in the ETSI for the new Nano Sim format.
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Here’s our review of Apple’s new iPad. The first thing I noticed is that the new iPad feels noticeably heavier and thicker than the iPad 2. However, when I compare them side-by-side, they’re both essentially the same thickness (the new iPad is 0.6mm thicker). On the other hand, the weight of the new iPad is 10% heavier than the iPad 2.



Apple calls the new iPad ‘the iPad’, while the older version is the iPad 2. Yes, the new iPad shares the same name as the original iPad. Think of it like Batman Begins, they’re rebooting the franchise. Just to make things less confusing I’ll call the new iPad the “iPad 3”.

There are 5 new key features in the new iPad: LTE radio support, a higher resolution display, a new A5x dual core processor with quad core graphics, 1GB RAM (up from 512MB) and finally; a decent camera.
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One of my favourite apps, Urbanspoon, has gotten a pretty big revision bump for iOS.
You can now select your restaurants based on a filter of your choosing. Some examples are hottest (based on bloggers etc) availability, price and a few other's to boot
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