The Galaxy R will be available for less than the price of the premium Samsung Galaxy SII. The Galaxy SII is Samsung’s top end phone with cutting edge technology, and the Galaxy R only has a few minor differences with its screen and processor. So is it worth saving money purchasing a cheaper Samsung Galaxy R contract or do these changes make it significantly less desirable than the SII? The Galaxy R is nearly as powerful as the larger SII, with a 1GHz dual core processor as opposed to a…

We are on a quest to try and find top 3 chat applications that are available for Symbian^3 the OS Running on the N8. There are a couple of really big chat applications available for Symbian. There are a couple of things that I rate the chat applications on: 1. Efficiency – are they efficient and not going to suck away at your battery life? 2. Cross Platform – Are you going to be able to communicate with your friends on other platforms 3. Usability/Design – Is it easy to…

For those of you who are looking to run GCC on the N900 here is a quick guide for packages to install. I am using the latest version of maemo, (fremantle-1.3). First you are going to have to download the following packages on your computer. Links are provided to the repository directory, or if you prefer I will list a direct links to the most current packages: binutils – http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/b/binutils/ – Latest: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/b/binutils/binutils-dev_2.18.50.20070820-4+0m5_armel.deb libgcc1 – http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/g/gcc-4.2/ – Latest: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/g/gcc-4.2/libgcc1_4.2.1-4maemo12+0m5_armel.deb libgomp -http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/g/gcc-4.2/ – Latest: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/g/gcc-4.2/libgomp1_4.2.1-4maemo12+0m5_armel.deb c++ – http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/g/gcc-4.2/ – Latest: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/g/gcc-4.2/cpp-4.2_4.2.1-4maemo12+0m5_armel.deb…

Kik messenger was profiled by Firstsearch Blue twice already back when it was in it’s beta stages. Since then, the Kik messenger app has changed it’s service for the better leading to so many downloads that their servers crashed! The Kik developers have done away with the “Cheap SMS” scheme, where you used to be able to pay a low cost to send unlimited SMS text messages over wifi or 3G. This won’t really be missed, it wasn’t too functional and, if your cramped for cash, its so much easier…

The University of Waterloo Campus is a dead zone for Bell and Telus Cell Phones. It’s so bad that it seems you can’t even get a single bar of service no matter where you are on the campus. If you happen to know any little pockets where you can find some signal, post in the comments so the rest of us can check our texts without having to head to the plaza (we found that once you are in the university plaza you can get a few bars again.) This…