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Ian Hardy

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Sony Ericsson reports Q2 2010 results: Sales up 25% and “we are now well positioned for long term growth”

Sony Ericsson has been through the ringers over the past year or so, mild sales, cutbacks and restructuring. However, things seem they are changing as they have just reported their Q2 results. Sales for the quarter increased by 25% over Q2 2009 to €1,757 million, they shipped 11 million devices (5% increase) and their market [...]

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Wind expands GTA distribution and partners with Value Mobile

Wind Mobile will be announcing today a retail distribution agreement with Value Mobile locations in the GTA. There will be 4 locations in total that are specifically targeting “newcomer communities”: – York Gate Mall, Etobicoke – 1 Yorkgate Blvd – Malvern – 31 Tapscott Rd, Unit T41B – East York – 45 Overlea Blvd, Unit [...]

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Limited Edition Team Canada BlackBerry Bold 9700 hits eBay

If you’ve ever wanted a unique looking BlackBerry then here’s your opportunity! A few months back a Limited Edition Team Canada BlackBerry Bold 9700 was created to celebrate Canada winning some shiny Olympic Gold medals. It looked really cool and there was only 20 of them around. Well one of them has popped up on [...]

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Update: “Chatr” full lineup of devices… plus launch date is apparently set for July 21st

Well look what we’ve got here! A lovely first look at the upcoming packaging of the new Rogers discount brand called “Chatr”. You can see by this image that one of the devices they’ll be carrying is the Nokia 2680. We let you know last week from the leaked slide presentation that also has been [...]

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Public Mobile introduces Overseas Long Distance & International Texting

Public Mobile now operates in both Toronto and Montreal and has a couple monthly rate plans to choose from. Today they have announced Overseas Long Distance and International Texting is available. Here’s the deal when it comes to these offerings:

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webOS 1.4.5 now available for download on the Bell Palm Pre

An update for all the Bell Palm Pre users in Canada… webOS 1.4.5 is now available and Palm states in the release notes that the changes are as follows:

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WIND $150 port over credit is back

During the first few months of their service WIND created a “Port over offer” that gave customers $150 credit “to help offset the sting” of the Early Cancellation Fee to those who port over from another carrier. Well.. it’s back. This time Wind has announced that it’s only for new customers who sign up for [...]

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Rogers lowers the 3-year prices of various Android devices… and the Samsung Wave

The prices are coming down… but only on the 3-year contract prices. Some people like a contract and other don’t. If you do then you might want to consider hopping over the the Rogers Android revolution as they have dropped the prices of a few of their Android-powered devices and the recently released Bada-powered Samsung [...]

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Do the incumbents have “embedded spies with the new entrants”?

There’s many rumours of how many subscribers the new entrants Wind Mobile, Mobilicity and Public Mobile have actually taken away from the incumbents: 30,000, 100,000, 140,000 – there are no official numbers released and probably won’t be for a while. The Big 3 and their flanker brands have all stepped up their game offering Unlimited [...]

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TELUS becomes the official wireless provider of the CFL

Even though they didn’t secure the naming rights for the Vancouver Canucks home arena, TELUS has finalized a 2-year partnership to become the official wireless provider of the CFL. As part of the deal fans will be able to download a free app that will give them the ability to watch live games, check real [...]