Apple's iMessage vs. BlackBerry's BBM - Fight!

The fine folks at  CrackBerry.com and The iPhone Blog put the beta of Apple's upcomng iMessage (from iOS 5) against BlackBerry's BBM. The video above shows how both interfaces look and act as well as a simple back and forth test on both messaging platform. iMessage is faster in these tests, but consider that there are far fewer users running iMessage (which is available only as a developer me beta right now) than BBM. Still, one can see that Apple thought this over very well and anyone who has been waiting for this sort of almost realtime messaging platform on iOS should be really excited. Consider too that while BBM is for BlackBerry smartphones (not the PlayBook, yet). iMessage will work on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Source: Crackberry.com

The Source brings Amazon's Kindle to Canada

The Source announced today that it is the first Canadian retailer to offer consumers a hands-on opportunity to test drive Amazon’s world’s leading eReaders, Kindle and Kindle 3G, prior to purchase. Kindle and Kindle 3G is available at The Source stores across Canada for the economical price of $159.99 and $209.99 respectively.

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HP's TouchPad makes Canadian debut on July 15 for $520

HP’s first webOS tablet will be available on July 15, 2011 in Canada at the HP Store Vancouver, hpshopping.ca and select retailers across Canada. The 16GB TouchPad will be available for $519.99 and the 32GB TouchPad is $619.99.

Meet Nintendo's Wii U, coming in 2012

The newly announced replacement to the Wii, the Wii U, features a new controller which has a touchscreen interface that can continue a gaming session even when the TV is off. It will be compatible with all games and controllers for the Wii and will also feature motion control, along with video chat. Internet browsing is also promised. As for the console itself, hit jump for a full set of specs.

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