The good weather is coming up fast and here’s a giveaway that might help you get fit or stay fit. Up for grabs is the Android-powered Motorola MOTOACTV – a fitness tracker, health monitor and MP3 player that also gives you the ability to pair with your smartphone to answer calls, receive text messages and [...]
Rogers and HTC are getting ready to launch the HTC One X – a dual-core Android 4.0 device that will be “Canada’s first LTE smartphone with Beats Audio Integration.” Pre-ordering for the One X went live last week and it’s been revealed that it’ll cost $169.99 on a 3-year. All that’s known is that the [...]
The Sony Xperia S was officially announced at CES this year and now it’s landing in Canada. This newest Android device by Sony seems to be taking a different route to get into customers hands. In the press release Sony said that their will be “a limited number of Xperia S smartphones will be available [...]
Alex Saunders, RIM’s VP of Developer Relations, stated on Twitter that they will be ending the ability to sideload PlayBook apps and future BlackBerry 10 devices. Saunders said that “we don’t want to duplicate the chaotic cesspool of Android market.” However, as the interweb goes, his words were apparently taken a bit out of context. Saunders [...]
Facebook has just announced it will acquire Instagram for $1 billion in cash and shares. And while most of us Facebook on a regular basis, there are inevitably going to be some misgivings about the services joining forces, especially when it comes to privacy, advertising and, well, the future of the service in general. Though [...]
A Montreal walk-in clinic is doing something pretty cool and hopefully the idea gets picked up by hospitals across the country. Sitting and waiting for hours to be diagnosed by a doctor can be a long haul, up to several hours, mainly caused by lack of funding and staff. Once you check in you then [...]
The upgrade to Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is coming soon for the Samsung Galaxy Note. Bell’s internal doc showed we’ll have this hitting Canada sometime this month, but there was a couple key words in the doc: “estimated release.” Perhaps it’s the ICS release with its Premium Suite of S Pen apps, but [...]
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), TELUS and Rogers all recently submitted requests to the CRTC to develop and implement a “National Wireless Services Consumer Code”. This would streamline the terms and conditions in wireless contracts and bring regulation to the industry in every province. This so-called code would be based on what Quebec enforced [...]
Rogers went live with Nokia Lumia 900 LTE pre-orders a couple weeks back, promising it’s arrival “early April”. The confirmed 3-year term is priced at $99.99 but there’s much speculation to what the no-term contract price will be. The terms and conditions in a Rogers contest hinted that the Windows Phone could fall in somewhere [...]
Fresh, pristine, pure… the “new category of device” is coming to Canada in white. TELUS will be making the Galaxy Note and all its S Pen and 5.3-inch display goodness available in White on April 4th. According to the internal doc we received it says this LTE device will be priced the same at $199.99 [...]