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Bell’s LTE network now reaches 19 million Canadians, coverage expanded in BC and Alberta
Bell launched their LTE network a year ago with six locations. Since then they’ve expanded coast-to-coast into 30 different cities, now reaching 19 million Canadians and giving them average speeds of 12-25 Mbps. According to an internal doc we received it shows that their LTE service is now live in the following locations: – Drayton Valley, [...]
Motorola ATRIX looks like it’s staying on Android 2.3, no official upgrade to ICS in sight
Bell released the Motorola ATRIX – one of their first “Superphones” – back in March of 2011. The device came with Android OS 2.2, but was eventually upgraded to 2.3. Now many months later and a couple of new versions of Android – Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean – it seems that the first [...]
LG Optimus G coming to Bell, TELUS and Rogers “early November”
LG held a few media events today, one in New York City and one in Toronto. You can check out our full hands-on of the 4.7-inch quad-core LTE device here. The Optimus G runs Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but LG promises to bring an upgrade to OS 4.1 Jelly Bean “in early Q2 [...]
iPhone 5 stock starts arriving at Bell locations
iPhone 5 stock has started to arrive at Bell locations – which is certainly great news for those who pre-ordered in-store. The iPhone 5 is officially launching on Friday, September 21st. Excited? For those who didn’t pre-order are you lining up? (Thanks tipster!)
Bell launches new Trade-in program
Perhaps the phone you purchased a few months ago is looking tired and outdated. There’s plenty of options available to recycle your old device for simply goodwill, or potentially a bit of dough. Rogers, Fido, TELUS, big box stores, and the CWTA all have programs in place, and now Bell has re-imagined their trade-in program [...]
Canadian carriers on iPhone 5 pre-orders: Great, Strong, and “one of the best releases to date”
Apple opened up pre-orders last Friday at 12:01 PST and in 24-short hours they crossed the 2 million milestone mark. Canada is among the initial countries that will launch the new iPhone on September 21st, along with the US, Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK. Unfortunately Apple didn’t give any specific [...]
Bell and Virgin stop iPhone 5 pre-orders due to “overwhelming success”
The iPhone 5 pre-orders are chugging along in Canada. Officially kicking off on Friday, September 19th at 3:01 EST on Apple.ca, and later on Rogers, Bell, TELUS, Virgin, and Fido. We’ve received word that Bell and Virgin have sold out of their pre-order stock. According to an internal doc we received it states that “Due [...]
Bell planning to launch two Windows Phone 8 devices, Lumia 920 is not one of them
Microsoft’s plethora of new Windows Phone 8 devices are slowly being announced. So far we’ve heard from Nokia with the Lumia 820 and the Lumia 920, plus Samsung unveiled the ATIV S. Both manufacturers have stated plans to bring them to Canada “in the coming months.” In addition, a few HTC devices have reportedly leaked [...]
Bell Sonim XP5520 Bolt software update is now available (version 11.0.1-42.39-2)
When Bell launched their Push-to-talk network they released the Sonim XP5520 Bolt. This is a rugged device that can handle being chucked, dropped, and dumped into water. We’re not sure how many of these devices have been sold, but for the limited number of you there’s a software update available. Bell recommends that customers update [...]
Bell and Virgin to release the Motorola MOTOLUXE in White on September 17th
The Motorola MOTOLUXE is an entry-level Android that’s available on Bell and Virgin. This runs OS 2.3 and there’s no word on if it’ll be receiving an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, nor Jelly Bean, but there’s one thing that’s certain is that it’ll be available in a new pristine colour of White. We originally [...]
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