Asus has announced that their top of the line pair of NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered tablets, the Transformer Prime and Transformer Pad Infinity, will be upgraded to the latest and greatest that Android has to offer. Yes, you read it correctly, Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean is coming “soon” according to the company’s Facebook fan page. On their status update they posted, “Hooray!. 

Google announced today that they will be offering selected apps on Google Play for $.25 (CDN). This was in celebration of reaching the 25 billion app download milestone that the Android platform has surpassed. Google should be populating Google Play with mor apps on a daily basis. Today’s notable $.25 apps are Angry Birds: Space Premium, Asphalt 7: Heat, and OfficeSuite Pro 6+ Check. 

Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins believes that BlackBerry has a good chance at taking the no. 3 spot in the platform war, “We have a clear shot at being the no. 3 platform in the market. Carriers want other platforms. And we’re not just another open platform running on another system. We’re BlackBerry.” Heins as the head honcho around the Waterloo, Ontario, said that. 

Here is a pretty funny iPhone 5 prank video that was put together by the guys at AwesomenessTV. The prank was on Apple enthusiasts who were lining u for the new iPhone 5 last Friday. Dressed up as an Apple Genius, the prankster, was rolling in boxes. I won’t ruin it for you. Check it out below.  

There is no doubt that Apple’s iPhone 5 is the most successfully launched iPhone in company history and with that success comes some criticism. First it was the Apple Mapping system that many believe is inferior to that of Google Maps — found on iOS 5. The number two issue that we have heard from our readers and on forum posts is the scratches or nicks found on the iPhone straight. 

Instagram is no longer letterboxed on the iPhone 5. The popular photo filter application received an upgrade on Tuesday that brings in completely up-to-date with both iOS 6 and the iPhone 5′s taller 4-inch Retina Display. Developers are currently working to adopt the new resolution and 16:9 ratio to their apps and Instagram is one of the first to do so. Aside from the aspect ratio,. 

RIM held its BlackBerry Jam event today in San Jose, California, and was one of the most anticipated events of the year for the Waterloo loyalists. Thorsten Heins took the stage and immediately thanked the millions of devoted BlackBerry users for their loyalty, patience and understanding through this difficult rebuilding and transitional period. After minutes of talking about how great the. 

Selected TELUS customers who have pre-ordered the iPhone 5 16GB have received a letter offering a bump up in spec. According to a document we discovered it started “Thanks for pre-ordering the iPhone 5 (16GB) with TELUS. This device has been so popular that there’s a very limited quantity across Canada and internationally. To help manage our restricted supply, we’re offering select. 

According to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters, it looks like those iOS 6 users who are looking forward for the Google Maps to come back to Apple’s AppStore. The two media outlets have quotes from Google’s Eric Schmidt about the partnership between Google and Apple, plus the lack of the widely used maps application on Apple devices. Basically what we got from Schmidt is that. 

Ever since Samsung first introduced its Galaxy Note, it has made its presence felt in the mobile industry. A smartphone that’s almost as big as a small tablet all packed into one. It has adopted the name of Phablet by many and is by no means usable with one hand. Korean company, Pantech, is looking to enter the Phablet marketplace with its Vega R3 device, which sports a 5.3-inch IPS.