Lumia Line to Get Nokia Drive Update, 18% of Canadian Drivers Admit to Talking While Driving & HTC Tapped to Build Facebook Phone

Survey Finds That 18% of Canadian Drivers Admit to Talking/Texting While Driving
A new survey has been released by insurance company Kanetix that reveals talking and texting while driving is still very prevalent. The survey was conducted between October 24th and October 26th of 1,344 Canadians and found that 18% of voters admitted to “Talking/Texting on my cell while driving”.
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Lumia Line to Get Nokia Drive Update, Fully Cuts the Network Cord
Since the announcement of the Nokia Lumia launch, Nokia Drive’s been wrestled free from its polycarbonate chains, but the perks of being a Lumia owner are still incoming.
Engadget

HTC Reportedly Tapped to Build Facebook Phone, Code-named ‘Buffy’
On Monday, AllThingsD said it has learned that Facebook is working closely with HTC on a new phone currently codenamed “Buffy.” The device will supposedly run a modified version of Android that, obviously, will put Facebook’s services smack in the faces of its users.
BGR

Apple on Track to Be the World’s No. 1 PC Vendor Next Year
Apple‘s long climb back from the margins of the PC industry will culminate in world domination next year, according to one researcher — but only if you consider the iPad a PC. Canalys is projecting that Apple will overtake Hewlett-Packard as the leading global PC vendor sometime before the second half of 2012.
Mashable

Virgin Launches New Incoming 35 Plan, RIM is Committed to the Keyboard & Nokia`s Planning a High-End Lumia

Virgin Launches New Incoming 35 Plan, Gives Unlimited Incoming Calls
The best feature of the new Virgin “Incoming 35 plan is that it gives you Unlimited incoming calls. In addition, included is 200 anytime minutes, evenings starting at 5pm, unlimited weekends, Unlimited Canada, U.S. and International text and picture messaging.
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RIM: ‘We’re Committed to the Keyboard’
In spite of all the gossip about BBX screens becoming more tablet-like and the rumored BlackBerry ‘London’ being QWERTY-less, RIM will “maintain choice within its product portfolio” and is “absolutely committed to building more great keyboard-based smartphones.”
Engadget

Google Voice for Android Updated With Group Text Support
Google updated its Google Voice client for Android smartphones on Tuesday with support for group texting. In addition, the client now supports the ability to prefetch voicemails so that you can listen to them when you’re outside data coverage.
BGR

Nokia Planning a Windows 8 Tablet and a High-End Lumia
“(Lumia 800) is just the equivalent of the BMW 5 Series. We will soon have a full range with a Series 7 and Series 3,” said Amsellem in an interview with French newspaper LesEchos.
Mashable