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Ian Hardy

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Rogers and Fido Galaxy Nexus dropping to $50 on a 3-year this week

Over the past few weeks the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has seen a slight price drop from $159.99 to $99.99 on a 3-year term at Best Buy, this was for all carriers (Rogers, Fido, Bell and TELUS). However, now that the device has been out for a few weeks we’ll see the price continue to fall [...]

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LG shows off the 5-inch Optimus Vu (Video)

LG has uploaded a video to their YouTube channel of a device called the “Optimus Vu”. It’s a beast running OS 2.3 Gingerbread (hopefully upgradable to OS 4.0), massive 5-inch display with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Going through the vid shows it to be incredibly thin, but no word on how many millimeters it is. [...]

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Galaxy Nexus now available at Videotron

Look at all those happy Android robots above! Quebec-based Videotron has added the Galaxy Nexus to their lineup, it’s their first Android OS 4.0 powered device. As for the prices: $159.95 on a “reduced price” (new activation with a $40/month plan or more), or $599.95 outright. Make sure you check out our full review here [...]

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Good Cause: Bell Let’s Talk Day is today

Bell’s “Let’s Talk Day” is happening today. It’s a day in which they hope to raise awareness and also raise funds to support mental health. For every text, long distance call made today by Bell customers (Bell and Bell Aliant only), Bell will donate 5¢ to mental health programs. The goal is to beat last [...]

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Public Mobile has 199,000 subscribers

Public Mobile launched their wireless service in 2010 and majority of people, including myself, who follow the Canadian wireless industry were hammering down on the new entrant. They had invested over $50 million into G Band spectrum that nobody ever touched, wanted or thought would work. Public Mobile’s CEO Alek Krstajic has always stood by [...]

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TELUS’ first LTE device will be the LG Optimus LTE

If you think the first device to rock TELUS’ LTE network will be the Galaxy Note, think again. The Note will be coming out on the 14th of February, but it’s the LG Optimus LTE that will claim to be the carriers first LTE-enabled smartphone. We’re hearing mixed pricing and launch dates, but dummy devices [...]

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Grampa Gibson’s grandchildren stream 3 movies while on vacation, racks up $10,668.38 roaming bill

There’s been no shortage of wireless customers getting nailed with high cellphone bills while roaming. The lastest is from Grampa Gibson who let his grandchildren, Jayden and Sawyer, use his computer and data stick to watch Netflix while vacationing. The chosen movies were Spiderman, Curious George and Shrek. At $6/MB the three films gobbled up [...]

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WIND Mobile to release the HTC Radar (Windows Phone)

Late last week it was revealed that Videotron and SaskTel would be releasing the Windows Phone HTC Radar, now WIND Mobile has officially announced that the device is “coming soon” – it’ll be their first WP7 device. Specs have the Radar coming with a 3.8-inch display (resolution of 480 x 800), 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel [...]

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Rogers employees start training on the Samsung Galaxy Note

1-week from today the Samsung Galaxy Note will be available to Canadians. We’ve known that the 3-year contract price will be between $199 and $299, with Rogers being at the high-end. As for the no-contract price point, you can expect it to be around the $700 range. A sign of slight progress as Rogers employees [...]

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Image of the LG “Miracle” surfaces online (Windows Phone)

Another image of an unannounced handset has leaked online. This time it’s a mid-range LG Windows Phone device that currently has the codename of “Miracle”. The release date is expected to be sometime in the Spring and no word of what carriers will get this, or if it’ll be coming to Canada. As for specs, [...]