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RIM fights back: “Apple’s self-made debacle is unacceptable”
Apple held their iPhone 4 antenna press conference and stated that other manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, HTC and RIM devices have the same “Antennagate” problem where the signal slowly disappears. Apple went as far as showing examples of each. Well our homegrown Waterloo-based Research in Motion is fighting back! Thanks to Kevin over at [...]
Bell confirms iPhone 4 is launching July 30th
Looks like Bell is first out of the gate by updating their site with the actual launch date of the iPhone 4. It’s coming July 30th… No word on official pricing yet. When do you think people will start to lineup for it? Tweet
iPhone 4 Press conference now on: “Okay – we’ll give you a free case.”
Apple is holding a press conference right now about the iPhone 4 and its antenna issues. Jobs is on stage now and stated that “The iPhone 4 is perhaps the best product we’ve ever made at Apple. We’ve sold well over 3 million since we launched it 3 weeks ago. It’s been judged the number [...]
WIND to launch 1 or 2 Android devices. Plus HTC, BlackBerry, Nokia, & Samsung before the end of the year
There are a number of rumours out there about how many customers have signed up with WIND: 75,000, 90,000 and 100,000. Yesterday I caught up with Chairman of Wind Mobile Tony Lacavera and he avoided giving me exact numbers but did state an official announcement will be made within 30-60 days. In addition, Wind will [...]
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 [...]
Molson Canadian releases the “Seize the Summer” App
Didn’t know about this app that Molson Canadian created. It’s called the “Seize the Summer App” and you earn “virtual badges” every time you do something. You’ll have to first join their Facebook group here and then download the app but basically when you do something this summer such as catch a fish, go on [...]
Update: Virgin increasing pay-per-use web browsing now on August 20th
It seems like Virgin is increasing prices, not dropping them (see here, here and here). It’s not the biggest deal but it’s an increase when the only thing customers/members want are price drops. Virgin states in their customer updates that “Beginning on August 16, 2010, the charges for pay-per-use web browsing are changing from 5¢/page [...]
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: Tweet
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: Tweet
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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