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Mobilicity HTC Panache Review

The HTC Panache doesn’t try to be anything it’s not. It is aware of the fact that it’s a re-tooled Glacier, the device that would, in October 2010, become T-Mobile’s myTouch 4G. In fact, Mobilicity has taken a great many cues from T-Mobile since its launch, and for good reason: both companies are fighting their [...]

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Receive AMBER Alerts on your Mobilicity phone

A few weeks back the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) noted that 25,000 Canadians have signed up to receive free AMBER Alert texts messages. It’s a great cause to be part of and majority of the Canadian carriers made the list, but Mobilicity and Public Mobile were absent. However, this morning Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin [...]

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Mobilicity terminates 3 of their top executives

Here’s some unfortunate news for Friday. After recently celebrating their first year in business we’ve learned that Mobilicity has let go some of their management team and a number of Senior Directors. What we know for sure is that Doug Perry (Vice President of Sales), Sara Moore (Vice President of Marketing) and Sharyn Gravelle (Vice [...]

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Mobilicity backs MPP David Orazietti’s Bill 133

MPP David Orazietti’s Bill 133, the “Wireless Phone, Smart Phone and Data Service Transparency Act”, recently passed Second reading. The goal of the bill is to make wireless contracts easier to read, reduce cancellation fees, make contracts easier to understand, remove the expiry dates on prepaid phone cards and have the carriers to “unlock” devices [...]

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Mobilicity officially releases the HTC Panache

It’s been a year since Mobilicity has been in market and we think the “new entrant” label can officially come off. Today, the Android-powered HTC Panache is available and can be yours for $499.99 no-contract. We’ll have a review up shortly but as stated before this comes with OS 2.3 Gingerbread with HTC Sense, a [...]

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Mobilicity HTC Panache launching May 18th

As expected Mobilicity will be releasing the HTC Panache 4G this week, actually it’ll be available tomorrow (May 18th). The price is $499.99 and it has OS 2.3 Gingerbread, 3.8-inch touchscreen display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, VGA front-facing camera, 5 megapixel flash camera that records HD videos and the ability to create a Wi-Fi hotspot. An [...]

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HTC Panache pre-order now available at Mobilicity

Mobilicity has a great deal happening these days. They just sent our yet another notice of being in market for 1-year and did release a vague stat that they’ve “saved Canadian wireless consumers millions of dollars over the past year and we’ll save them millions more in the years to come”. There’s no official word [...]

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Mobilicity: 41% of Calgarians say there’s no network differences between them and Rogers, Bell, TELUS

When Mobilicity launched their Calgary service a few weeks back they also created the “Network Challenge”. It’s something like the old Coke vs. Pepsi challenge but for carrier network quality. Mobilicity said this “Network Challenge” will be making a trip across the country but will make a pit stop in Toronto this weekend. Some interesting [...]

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Mobilicity HTC “Panache” to retail for $499.99, launch imminent

Right on schedule is Mobilicity prepping to release yet another Android-powered device. A few weeks back Mobilicity held an internal challenge with their employees to potentially re-name the HTC Emerald… the go-to-market name of this OS 2.3 device is now called the “Panache”. Sounds like a good name and Wikipedia defines Panache as someone with [...]

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Mobilicity raises $215 million “to further strengthen its customer experience across Canada”

New entrant Mobilicity just announced a massive injection of cash. During the 2008 Spectrum Auction they invested $243.1-million for 10 licenses in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa. All the cities are now operational but the only missing piece of the puzzle is how many subscribers they have brought on. Since they are a private [...]