Talk about bad timing for Research In Motion. On the heels of another disappointing quarterly report, RIM is suffering from an outage that has hit its e-mail and BlackBerry Messenger services today. BlackBerry customers took to Twitter to voice their complaints. The company later acknowledged problems. “Some Canada & LatAm customers report BBM issues. Our support teams are investigating. We …

HTC has decided to get all hippity-hop happy with its latest smart phone, the HTC Sensation XE. It’s a refreshed version of the brilliant HTC Sensation that packs Beats audio tech, as well as a faster processor and improved battery life. Beaten Senseless The Sensation XE comes with a set of in-ear Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Plug these boisterous bad-boys …

The LG Optimus 2X was the first dual-core smartphone to hit the market late last year with its 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, and it soon came to the U.S. in the form of the T-Mobile G2X. Since its announcement, there have been a veritable array of dual-core smartphones, and interestingly, all of them have been Android so far. …