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HTC Arrive At Wirefly For $25 With Free Shipping

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:53 PM PDT


If you’re thinking of picking up HTC’s Arrive, the Windows Phone 7 QWERTY slider of your dreams, now might be a good time. Sprint is selling it at the premium phone price ($199 with a two-year contract), but if you order today from Wirefly you can grab it for only $25. With contract, of course.

Be sure to put in the coupon code “ARRIVE0331″ before checkout to get that extra $25 off.

[via LogicBuy]

RIM’s Next Full Touchscreen BlackBerry Caught On Camera, Might Not Carry The “Storm” Name

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:23 PM PDT

As hard as they tried, RIM just couldn’t find a fanbase with the BlackBerry Storm. Between a mild critical reception, a handful of hardware issues in the first batches, and the super wonky SurePress touchscreen that people came to know it for, the “Storm” name has been… tainted, in a way.

Seems like RIM agrees. A handful of mega clear shots of the next full touchscreen BlackBerry device, currently codenamed “Monza” (or “Monaco”, if we’re talking about the Verizon version) just leaked out, and word on the street is that it might not carry the Storm name.

According to BGR, the name currently being tossed around RIM for this one is the “BlackBerry Touch” (As opposed to the BlackBerry Curve Touch, or BlackBerry Bold Touch.) As long as the rumor mill’s churnin’ out the right details, we should see this thing announced in May (at BlackBerry World, presumably).

CrunchDeal: Fruit Ninja for Android free on the Amazon Appstore, today only

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:58 AM PDT

Amazon wants you to use their brand new Android Appstore. So much so, in fact, that they’re coughin’ up the cash to offer up one free app per day that would otherwise set you back a buck or two. While we’re not going to cover each and every daily deal (you can find’em right over here), today’s free app is one of our favorites: Fruit Ninja.

For those who haven’t discovered the art of unleashing your rage on an endless stream of flying fruit, Fruit Ninja is a game wherein you… unleash your rage on an endless steam of flying fruit. You “slash” at the fruit by dragging your finger across the screen, all while avoiding the instant-kill bombs and trying to keep any fruit from slipping by unslashed. It’s a pretty simple game — but the most addictive ones always are. Plus, it’s, you know. Free.

You can find out how to finagle the Amazon Appstore onto your Android phone right over here.

Google Joins NFC Forum, To Get “NFC Forever!!!” Tattoo Next Week

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:39 AM PDT

NFC (the short-range communications tech that’ll allow us to pay for things with a Jedi-esque wave of our phones) is coming. Hell — it’s already here. It’s just got a mountain of technical and logistical hurdles to overcome before any of us will actually be using it in our day-to-day lives.

Fortunately, there’s a massive group, the NFC Forum, focused on little more than killin’ off these hurdles one by one. Their roster is impressive, to say the least, with the likes of AT&T, Qualcomm, Motorola, RIM, and LG amongst their members. Today, they’re adding one more tech monster to the list: Google.

Google’s already thrown their support behind NFC with Android (where they’ve steadily been adding payment-focused APIs over the last few months), so their fondness of the tech is nothing new. At this point, buyin’ their way into the forum is pretty much just a pledge to stick with the tech — and, perhaps, to influence the standards/specs a bit as they’re finalized.

Twitter Kills The #Dickbar

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:12 AM PDT

Yes, it’s happened. Days after Jack Dorsey comes in to head product, the dreaded #Dickbar, or the Quickbar that inserted ads into your tweet-stream on the iPhone, is dead. While Twitter had taken the step to pin it to the top of the app weeks ago, today it’s decided to do away with it altogether.

From the Twitter blog:

“Rather than continue to make changes to the QuickBar as it exists, we removed the bar from the update appearing in the App Store today. We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what's happening outside the home timeline. Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this. For now, we're going back to the drawing board to explore the best possible experience for in-app notification and discovery.”

In case anyone misses it, you can replicate the experience here.
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