Scotiabank revised interest rate outlook, no rate hike til Sept 2011
Economists at Bank of Nova Scotia said Friday they expect Canada’s central bank to refrain from interest rate hikes until September of next year, as additional liquidity injections by its peers in advanced economies and slower U.S. growth would “handicap” the Bank of Canada’s flexibility

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It’s a busy week here at CrackBerry. Most of the team is off to San Francisco for DevCon, and we are all anxiously waiting to hear what news RIM has to share with us. I know a lot of people are are the edge of their seat to find out if the new Theme Studio will be released this week. Until that happens, all the BlackBerry Torch owners are stuck with the preloaded theme, which I know makes a lot of people antsy. So let’s all keep our fingers crossed for that announcement and more later this week. In the meantime, enjoy the weekly theme roundup after the jump.

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CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. BlackBerry theme roundup for Sept. 27th 2010 – 50 copies of BANdroid up for grabs!

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More Android OS updates than we can shake a stick at: Droid X Froyo update; Sprint Evo 4G; Verizon Fascinate; Samsung Captivate; Nexus One; Sprint Hero; Samsung Moment; LG Ally. The new HTC Sense. T-Mobile G2 available for preorder, in stores Oct. 6.	CrackBerry App Awards Party this Wednesday! If you are going to be at BlackBerry DevCon or in San Francisco come on down! BlackBerry Bold 9780 given the once over on video BlackBerry DevCon Rumors – Tablet, new OS and more?!!
Nokia World 2010 Why I am a Nokia Fanboy Nokia N8 coming to AT&T?	Palm employees head to Nokia Verizon to help developers use GPS, but not on webOS Palm webOS to be rebranded HP webOS?
HP Slate (prototype) vs iPad iOS 4.2 for iPhone preview: set individual SMS tones, new Voice Memo icon Apple releases iTunes 10.0.1, gives Ping a boost	‘Find my Phone’ coming to Windows Live HTC Sense on Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7: Will it tether?

CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Best of Smartphone Experts, 26 Sept 2010

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Y5 Battery Saver

Y5 Battery Saver helps you conserve some of your battery life by automatically turning off WiFi when you go out of range of your trusted networks. Best of all? It doesn’t require GPS to be turned on.

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Apple is launching its iPhone 4 in China on Saturday, Sept. 25.

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Mini Info

Mini Info is a great system monitor, which provides you with a number of widgets for keeping track of things like CPU load, RAM usage, battery life, and storage space. Also, when selected from your app list, it brings up a summery of your system, plus icons to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, volume, and display brightness

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CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Best of Smartphone Experts, 12 Sept 2010

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Anticipation is building around the event that HTC have announced in London for next Wednesday. This event has become so popular that the Facebook page now has 409 listed as attending. So I thought I would give HTC in the UK a call to try and find out a bit more about the event.

I asked a number of questions about the expected large turn out. The event is strictly a non-ticketed affair and will be a first-come-first-serve deal. So if you want to get in, I suggest you turn up early. The guy from HTC said that there wouldn’t any need to camp over night, but to just make sure your there before doors open.

The Facebook event page mentions a few freebies:

We will also have a few phones to give away to attendees!

I asked about this, to which HTC replied:

We like to keep some things secret.

I also asked if everyone who gets in will get a phone. Unfortunately the answer was no, this will not be on the same scale as Google-IO with the Evo 4G.

The whole event sounds very promising and it is brilliant to see HTC getting to closer to their UK customers.

I will be heading down to the event to report back for TalkAndroid.com. If anyone else is planning on making an appearance, please leave a comment below.

Facebook Event Page: http://bit.ly/ckZWYi

Samsung’s Fascinate, the last of the Galaxy S line to be released, will be available online starting September 8th, and in stores the following day, according to Verizon.  The phone, which boasts a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and runs Android 2.1, will cost $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, and a new 2-year contract.  The phone also features the beautiful Super AMOLED display, powered by Corning’s Gorilla glass technology.

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CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Best of Smartphone Experts, 5 Sept 2010

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We’ve been hearing for quite some time that release dates for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 on Canadian carriers was set for September. The big three, Bell, TELUS and Rogers have all confirmed an inevitable launch but no dates were set by any. Rumors suggest TELUS will launch on Sept 16th but, we now have the above information which suggests a Rogers release one day earlier on the 15th. We’re assuming the $999.99 price point is just a Future Shop place holder so, nothing can be said about official pricing from this information. We’ll be sure to keep you all updated though as we find out more information. So, who’s grabbing a Torch on launch day in Canada?

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CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Future Shop systems showing Sept 15th release date for Rogers BlackBerry Torch 9800

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