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LG Pop arrives at Rogers for a low $19.99 on 3-year

By John Connors ⋅ February 9, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

The LG Pop (GD510) has just been released as one of Rogers new “Touchphones”. This is one tiny touchscreen! Overall dimensions are 95.3 x 49.6 x 11.2 mm and weighs a measly 89 grams. The Pop has a 3-inch touchscreen WQVGA display (resolution of 240×400), Bluetooth, music player, 3 megapixel camera with 2x zoom [...]

Public Mobile can’t be happy with this: Gov’t says Globalive documents are confidential and “cannot be disclosed”

By John Connors ⋅ February 8, 2010 ⋅ 12 comments

Public Mobile is one of the new wireless entrants and will be launching their service by mid-2010. CEO Alek Krstajic has been outspoken about his viewpoints on the recent Globalive decision where Industry Minister Tony Clement overturned the CRTC and allowed Globalive to launch their Wind Mobile brand.
Krstajic believes “if you’re going to have one [...]

Feb. 18th Milestone availability removed by Best Buy

By John Connors ⋅ February 8, 2010 ⋅ 9 comments

Oh no… what do we have here?? Looking at Best Buy this morning it seems that the lovely release date of Thursday, February 18th for the anticipated Motorola Milestone has been removed! One of two things could have happened here:
1. TELUS dropped the hammer on Best Buy for releasing the launch date and kindly [...]

Best Buy confirms Milestone launching February 18th!

By John Connors ⋅ February 5, 2010 ⋅ 15 comments

Last week we posted that the rumoured launch of the TELUS Motorola Milestone will be Thursday, February 18th and thanks to Best Buy we have a bit more confirmation today!
Our tipster informed us that the “Milestone will be launching February 18th” and that Best Buy will start taking deposits for the phone on February [...]

Bell introduces “2010 Winter Games Plans”

By John Connors ⋅ February 5, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

Finally some simple price plans and it only took the Olympics to get here. Bell is a major sponsor of the upcoming Vancouver Olympics next week and to celebrate they have released a 3-tiered set of plans called the “2010 Winter Games Plans”: Bronze, Silver and Gold. The offer is valid until February 28th, 2010 [...]

Rogers gearing up for Olympics… releases SIM card “Visitor Pack”

By John Connors ⋅ February 4, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

The 2010 Vancouver Olympics are coming up fast, opening ceremonies are on February 12th and the Games will last until the 28th. Rogers is looking to accommodate the millions of people who will be flocking to the area and have decided to release a SIM card “Visitor Pack” that’s only available in the Vancouver area.
The [...]

Slacker Radio mobile app now available for the Palm Pre

By John Connors ⋅ February 4, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Slacker Radio has announced the availability of their free mobile app for Palm Pre – I could not find it in the App Catalog yet but Slacker does state it may take longer for the app to show up there. Slacker allows you to listen to music and customize your own radio station (they have [...]

TELUS: “Milestone is not available in Manitoba or Saskatchewan”

By John Connors ⋅ February 3, 2010 ⋅ 9 comments

Remember when TELUS launched the iPhone back in November, all were incredibly excited that another carrier was getting the beloved device… all those except the people located in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The reason for the delay for those clients is because their HSPA network was still being built-out.
It seems as though the same will go [...]

Huh? Bold 9000 is made by BlackBerry and not RIM?

By John Connors ⋅ February 3, 2010 ⋅ 8 comments

Here’s a funny video. Anyone who is Canadian, loves mobile phones or even the slightest interested in Smartphones has heard of Waterloo-based Research In Motion and their BlackBerry devices. In every organization around the world they are used on a daily basis… heck even President Obama got to keep his when he took office.
Last night [...]

LG to upgrade Eve to Android 1.6 “this Spring”

By John Connors ⋅ February 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

LG has posted on their Twitter page that owners who have the Eve will be getting an OS update this Spring. The tweet “LG will release an upgrade to Android 1.6 OS for the LG Eve this Spring, for Rogers customers.(Available for download on Rogers/LG websites)”

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