Week in Review: Reviews, Updates, Apps, Glitches and Launches

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on September 20, 2009 8:13 AM

This week ending today, has been full of great news, new apps, and changes in operating systems.

The most popular stories were reviews of two recent Verizon device launches. Our Review of Reveiews of The HTC Touch Pro 2, the most key-boardstastic smartphone was widely read by readers seeking a smartphone that has been called the King of Windows smartphones. The lots-of-features phone the Samsung Rogue Review of Reivews was read many many times because it offers a great OMLED touchscreen display with a slide out keyboard for $99 with a two year contract.

BlackBerry Tour Glitches and Glitch Fixes Du Jour

There were several news stories important for BlackBerry Tour owners. First there were reports of trackball problems. On Friday, we discovered that the RIM had released update OS 4.7.1.53 for the BlackBerry Tour, which users could get from BlackBerry Desktop Manager. Now today, it looks like there have been problems reported downloading the 4.7.1.53 update from the BlackBerry Desktop Manager. We have a call out to Verizon from late Friday. We suggest you wait a few days until all the glitches for the glitch-fix, get fixed. These kind of things usually happen on a weekend. In general operators and hardware makers like to release software updates on weekends, to avoid any business-releated problems.

In the iPhone department, it was reported that iPhone users with OS update 3.1 were able to MMS. In Palm Pre news, Palm will no longer support Windows Mobile and will fully support webOS.

Avalance of New Apps
The apps tsunami continus with the launches of Opera Mini Beta 5 for BlackBerry and Java-based phones, RIM's BlackBerrry Free U2 Album, Google's Fast Flip and Android Open Table restaurant reservations. We found free dictionaries for acronomyns and others for BlackBerry.

The Wall Street Journal will start charging mobile WSJ apps users for some content starting October 24.

There's a new Braille Reader SMS app from Nokia. We've seen a preview of the Palm Pixi.