The upcoming week will bring a plethora of new smartphones. A few Android and a few Windows Phone 8 devices. Last week Rogers locations started to receive their display models and now it’s Bell’s turn. The Windows Phone HTC 8X, LG Optimus G and the Sony Xperia T dummy devices have arrived. As we reported [...]
Update: This contest is now over. We’re happy to announce that the winner of the Bond Phone is Twitter follower Eric Gervais. Of course, we are gearing up for our big December contest, but for now you can enter our Note II (here) or Nexus 4 (here) giveaways. Like Bond? Love Sony? Here’s a contest [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Ace II x was originally expected to arrive on November 15th, but due to “global product delays” the mid-range Android has been delayed. The good news is that it’s not that long until it lands on Canadian soil. According to the internal doc we received it stated that the black version will [...]
Interesting turn of events. We’ve seen Rogers come out with their new unlimited talk, text and internet offerings. Now it’s Bell who’s declared that they’ll offer up four new “unlimited talk and text plans” this coming Friday. According to the internal doc we received it states that the plans start at $55 and offer “unlimited [...]
To coincide with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Rugby LTE, Bell’s first PTT Android, the app has been slightly updated. According to the change log those Push-to-Talk clients with the Rugby LTE and Samsung Galaxy S II will get a variety of unknown “application fixes and performance enhancements.” Clearly note the biggest changes, but [...]
If the onslaught of Android devices doesn’t excited you – such as the Nexus 4, Note II, Optimus G – then you might want to give a new Windows Phone 8 smartphone a go. A limited supply of Nokia Lumia 920 already launched earlier this week, plus the Samsung ATIV S will be coming in [...]
Another Galaxy device is heading to Canadian soil soon. We first let you know that the Samsung Galaxy Ace II would land on Virgin Mobile, but it seems that it’ll also hit other carriers. According to the internal doc we received it shows Bell will release this Android-powered Ice Cream Sandwich device on Thursday, November [...]
As expected, Bell has added the Samsung Galaxy Rugby LTE to their lineup. This, like TELUS’ version, is a rugged device that can handle a ridiculous amount of bruises. Quick rundown of specs of the Rugby LTE have it running Android OS Ice Cream Sandwich, a 3.97-inch display (resolution of 480 x 800), a 1.5GHz [...]
The Sony Xperia T and all it’s James Bond flavoured enhancements will be available via Bell, Mobilicity, MTS, Rogers and Videotron. Sony stated in a press release that we can expect this November, but we can now confirm, at least for Bell, that this will be available on November 14th. The price is representative of [...]
Bell announced their Q3 2012 results today and specifically for wireless they saw revenues jump 7.1% to $1,434 million. Their subscriber base increased 2.8% over last year to hit 7,576,027. Postpaid net activations rose 148,502 (17.1%) from Q3 2011, while prepaid net customers continued the trend in Canadian wireless and dropped to 18,738 in Q3 [...]