It looks like we spoke too soon this morning when we reported BlackBerry Messenger was back online — despite RIM saying everything was tickety-boo with its BlackBerry-to-BlackBerry messaging service, we’ve been hit with loads of comments on the site and on our Facebook page that say the service is still borked. At about 11am yesterday, BlackBerry Messenger, email and Internet were …

SAN DIEGO–For those in the know, Sonim is synonymous with rugged phones up to military specifications. The last Sonim phone we saw, the Sonim XP3300 Force, was swathed in rubberized material and impervious to concrete (but not to us.) Now, the San Mateo, Calif. company adds three new GSM wrld phones to its rough ‘n’ tumble lineup, including one with …

Details have emerged on a follow-up to Samsung’s brilliant Galaxy S2 smart phone. Inventively dubbed the Galaxy S3, it could pack a 4.6-inch screen and a 1.8GHz processor. Specs of the new phone appear to have been leaked to Android site Phandroid, as part of what is reportedly one slide from an internal Samsung Mobile presentation. But unlike most PowerPoint …