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TELUS Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 4G launching May 12th (Video)

By on April 28, 2011 at 10:37am in Featured, Mobile News, Telus Mobility News


The TELUS Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 4G is “Canada’s first 4G” device and we’ve confirmed this will be launching on May 12th. We are still waiting on pricing but got hold of the Android 2.2 device and will follow up with a full review.

Specs wise, the Fascinate 4G can reach peak download speeds of 21 Mbps (the Fascinate 3G topped up at 7.2 Mbps), OS 2.2 but will be upgraded to 2.3 Gingerbread sometime later this year, 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1 GHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera that records 720p HD videos, VGA front-facing camera, GPS, Wi-Fi and can create a Wi-Fi hotspot, 1650mAh battery and weighs in at only 118 grams. Something that is different for TELUS since becoming a “4G” network is the boot-up animation on the device. On the Fascinate 4G is proudly shows the new 4G logo and this will mostly likely carry on to other devices.

We were given a quick overview of the Galaxy S Fascinate 4G when it was announced a couple months ago (video here). In addition, check out the quick video below that shows the new 4G device in action.

Related posts:

  1. Video: TELUS Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 4G Overview
  2. Samsung goes live with TELUS Galaxy S Fascinate 4G sign up page
  3. Looks like an April release for the TELUS Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 4G
  4. TELUS Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate launching November 10th

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30 comments for “TELUS Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 4G launching May 12th (Video)”

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    Posted by Dan J | April 28, 2011, 10:38 am
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  2. *Insert obligatory “Who Cares?” comment here*

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    Posted by Dan J | April 28, 2011, 10:39 am
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  3. So Canada is also having the scam from US. 21Mbps is not 4G.. LOL

    Why do they have to do those false advertising?

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    Posted by Henry | April 28, 2011, 10:41 am
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    • And they’re already advertising their actual 4G network to come later this year as 4G+.

      Advertising their current network as 3G+ would be much more accurate and a lot less misleading.

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      Posted by Zomby | April 28, 2011, 10:47 am

    • Don’t blame the carriers. Blame the International governing body that changed the requirements. They wussed out and lowered the requirements due to pressure from US carriers claiming 4G on barely 3G networks (.
      If the companies didn’t claim 4G now, marketing wise they would be shooting themselves in the foot.

      Still I agree, it really isn’t fourth generation tech. It makes me angry to call it 4G.

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      Posted by OMG Ponies! | April 28, 2011, 12:03 pm

    • I agree 100% the only true 4g is LTE but according to the CRTC anything with a marked upgrade in speed from 3G is considered 4G that is crap. I want my LTE.

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      Posted by andrew | May 2, 2011, 7:54 pm

  4. Should have used this in the promo material:
    “It’s kind of like having a time machine and going back a year ago and getting a new phone. It’s just magical!”

    Wonder if the soon to be released Galaxy S II will be crippled for a a year and then get “new” features

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    Posted by Rory | April 28, 2011, 10:46 am
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  5. They should really be advertising it as a Theoretical 21 mbps!!! Like that speed would actually ever really happen unless you were the only person on the network. According to GSMArena (http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_milestone-3001.php), my Milestone is supposed to go up to 10.2 mbps on an hspda network which I believe Telus is, and the most I have ever gotten out of it around 3mbps according to the SpeedTest app.

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    Posted by monsterduc1000 | April 28, 2011, 11:14 am
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    Posted by Birthday Boy | April 28, 2011, 11:21 am
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  7. Now that Telus is releasing the Samsung Galaxy Fascinate 4G, hope they get the Samsung Galaxy S2 also. I read somewhere that Telus won’t get the SGS2 as they have the Fascinate released and they won’t do 2 new Samsung phones back to back. Hope it’s not true and just rumours as I really want to get the SGS2 and I’m with Telus. I might just have to jump ship to another provider who does get the SGS2 or I might just settle with the Nexus S.

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    Posted by Mike | April 28, 2011, 11:59 am
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    • I wouldn’t be surprised if Telus gets the SGS2. It’s looking like a Q3 launch according to all speculation online, and they are not going to want to miss that boat. I believe Samsung liked their previous distribution of the SGS to pretty much all carriers (14 million sold I believe), so I hope it continues.

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      Posted by OMG Ponies! | April 28, 2011, 12:05 pm

  8. I have The samsung galaxy s fascinate 3G and i was wondering whats the difference between the two phones besides the higher download speed and front facing camera…?

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    Posted by Cody | April 28, 2011, 12:49 pm
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    • 1650 mAh battery, FFC and 21mbps download. Oh and shiny “chrome” trim and a gray backing instead of black so fingerprints don’t show. TA-DA!
      now save your money for something better.

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      Posted by OMG Ponies! | April 29, 2011, 3:51 pm

  9. Galaxy 4g? Samsung already Gaalaxy S2 in Korea.

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    Posted by kk | April 28, 2011, 12:52 pm
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  10. That’s nice and all… but I’d really rather the Galaxy S II show up on Telus’ website…

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    Posted by floobie | April 28, 2011, 1:21 pm
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  11. Oh great, so now you can stream video smoothly…wait, I could do that on 7.2Mbps. So, I can now download stuff faster…wait, I don’t have unlimited data. So what is the practical upside of this? I know we live in a society where faster is better, but how will this actually benefit the end user? I have 7Mbps at home, and everything still works fine (except for my *cough* downloading, which is a bit slower). I’m really just wondering if anyone will actually notice a difference. Rogers as the Acer Liquid MT at 14Mbps, and I do not notice a speed difference.

    And yes…we all just want the Galaxy S2 please.

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    Posted by smitty_leafs | April 28, 2011, 1:54 pm
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  12. They should really be advertising it as a Theoretical 21 mbps!!! Like that speed would actually ever really happen unless you were the only person on the network. According to GSMArena, my Milestone is supposed to go up to 10.2 mbps on an hspda network which I believe Telus is, and the most I have ever gotten out of it is around 3-4mbps on a great day according to the SpeedTest app. Mostly between 1.5-2.5mbps on avg.

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    Posted by monsterduc1000 | April 28, 2011, 2:15 pm
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    • any company would post in theoretical speed. Basically any network hardware company always posts theoretical transfer rate using optimum conditions. if a router says 54Mbps, it can only actually get about 6MBps maximum, and that’s assuming the data source can send the information that fast, you usually even get less than that. think about it, if telus said (to dumb it down) “our network is 21Mbps” and rogers said “our network is 2.5MegaBYTES per second”, don’t you think all the r*****s would go to telus just because it’s a higher number? I once saw someone buy a Radeon HD video card over an Nvidia because it was “HD”…

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      Posted by Anon | May 12, 2011, 10:57 am

  13. I wonder if they could be sued for incorrect marketing cause technically 4G is 100Mbit/s + and minimum

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    Posted by anon | April 28, 2011, 3:31 pm
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  14. Atlantic Canada will be getting its first 4G phone on the telus network ,now all we need down here is the actual 4G network towers to go along with the phone. Hmmmm. cart before the horse on this one?

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    Posted by todd | April 28, 2011, 4:02 pm
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  15. I’m on Telus and am so sick of the slow launches. Almost everything for Telus is a year behind.

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    Posted by Dilkatron | April 28, 2011, 10:57 pm
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  16. Shut up, Telus.

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    Posted by Polaris | April 29, 2011, 12:08 am
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  17. [...] Telus’ Samsung Fascinate 4G will be out May 8th. [...]

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    Posted by Android Overload: Samsung Goes Big Against Apple, Atrix 4G Laptop Dock on Dale, and More | Focus News Mobile | April 30, 2011, 1:21 pm
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  18. I would like to see Telus launch the best smartphone in the world.

    The HTC Sensation is HTC’s first ever dual core processor device and features a completely revamped HTC Sense UI (Version 3.0).

    Running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread and powered by a dual-core Qualcomm 1.2 GHz processor, the Sensation boasts a 4.3 inch SLCD touchcreen with 540 x 960 pixels. The connectivity includes HSPA/ WCDMA, 802.11 b./g/n for Wi-Fi and 3.0 for Bluetooth. The camera of HTC Sensation has 8 megapixels with dual-LED flash, autofocus, capable to record videos at 1080p

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    Posted by John | May 1, 2011, 11:29 pm
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    Posted by BL | May 2, 2011, 10:20 am
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    • Ummm…. BL, if android sucks, why don’t you buy an iPhone? You will like it, it is easy to use, simple to figure out and all the cool kids have one…

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      Posted by gk | July 6, 2011, 2:31 am

    • Telus does carry iPhone and Blackberry in case you didn’t notice. My experience of BB is that it sucks and iPhone you have to send away to apple to replace the battery should it ever die… they are THAT controlling of how people use their products.

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      Posted by CR | July 21, 2011, 10:41 pm

  20. Does Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate 4G is better than Motorola Atrix ? I’m about to change and want to know if processors are the same? Dual core ?

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    Posted by JmCourir | May 5, 2011, 1:10 pm
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  21. Wow, half these posts are people whining about telus not being a good service provider and the other half can’t spell or make a sentence.
    “Galaxy 4g? Samsung already Gaalaxy S2 in Korea.”
    I understand what you’re saying, but you just need to drop a “has” in there and spell Galaxy right BOTH times, and yeah, canada isn’t the leader in new phones, big surprise, move to korea

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    Posted by Anon | May 12, 2011, 10:49 am
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  22. Doubters. Telus provides 4G coverage in BC, Alberta, and Ontario and pockets in Quebec. 3G or 3G+ everywhere else.

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    Posted by Reagan | May 16, 2011, 3:24 pm
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