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John Connors

John Connors has written 1265 posts for MobileSyrup.com
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Video: Upcoming BlackBerry 9300, 9670 and 9800

Here’s a great way to start today off! How about a good rundown of some upcoming BlackBerry devices. Salomondrin has got his hands on 3 of the unreleased devices: 9300, 9670 and 9800. The 9300 is the updated 8520/8530 with 3G. The 9670 is the Clamshell that we’ve seen before in videos… and finally the [...]

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OS 2.1 upgrade for Rogers HTC Magic currently in testing… “anticipate end of Aug” release

The Rogers HTC Magic was one of the first Android-powered devices to come to Canada and has had a fair share of troubles. It was briefly pulled off the shelves for an urgent 911 fix and then renamed the Magic+. Now there’s some good news for owners as an upgrade to 2.1 is in the [...]

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SaskTel to go live with 3G+ network August 16th, 2010

SaskTel has just announced that they’ll be launching the “first phase” of their 3G+ network as a “technical trial” for select employees. This trial will last for 6 weeks and will “resolve any technical issues prior to a commercial launch”. For the rest of us we’ll have to wait until August 16th, 2010 as this [...]

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Bell delivers the CFL live to your mobile phone

Bell announced that they’ll stream live CFL games to your smartphone. The partnership is with TSN and includes all 2010 regular season and playoff games produced by TSN and RDS. Of course this is not a free service and Bell customers will have to pay $8 per month plus data charges for Mobile TV access. [...]

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HTC reports Q2 results… on track to ship 20 million handsets?

HTC is continuing to gain traction when it comes to the handset market share. They reported their Q2 results and it’s another record… $268 million in unedited profit (up 33% from last year), shipped 50% more devices than last year at 4.5 million units and analyst Bonnie Chang of Yuanta Securities believes that HTC will [...]

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SaskTel making 3G+ announcement tomorrow

For all those located in Saskatchewan and are waiting for SaskTel to give an update about thier anticipated 3G+ launch… it’s coming in a few short hours. SaskTel stated on Twitter that “3G+ announcement is coming tomorrow morning.” We’ve been hearing that it’s still in a soft launch scenario but they will be announcing their [...]

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Do you think a 3 wireless brand strategy will work?

There has been wireless in Canada for over 25 years now and over 23 million Canadians have a wireless device. By 2014 the number is expected to increase to 30.1 million subscribers. During the wireless spectrum auction a few years ago the Industry Minister said that “Our government’s intentions are clear: to achieve lower prices, [...]

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Public Mobile having Montreal coverage issues… extends “remorse return period until July 13th”

It seems that the anticipated launch of Public Mobile’s Montreal network is having a fair share of challenges. We’ve been following their blog post to customers who have been experiencing coverage issues. Public stated on June 25th (the day they launched Montreal) that customers where having problems “setting up their Public Mobile phones”. Then on [...]

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Perfect for a Canadian release… iPhone 4 reception/signal bar fix coming “within a few weeks”

Apple has sent out a “letter” to all the iPhone 4 owners who are complaining of getting a bad reception. It states that gripping any phone will reduce reception but some people with the “iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the [...]

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Bell iPhone 3GS 32GB in Black almost available for $0.00

If only pricing errors on websites actually meant something. If you check out the Bell website it shows listed the Black iPhone 3GS 32GB model available for the stellar price of $0.00. Probably the best deal around these days… unfortunately when you check out it goes back to the price of $149.96 on a 3-year. [...]