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“Nokia Belle not available” in Canada

Possibly some unfortunate news for those Nokia users who’ve been waiting for the big OS upgrade to Belle, formally Symbian Belle. Nokia promised a February 2012 rollout and today they started to push it out to Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia C7 users. However, us Canadians might be [...]

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Nokia Lumia 710 suffering from call disconnect bug, company “close to a fix”

The newly-released Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 710 has only been available on Rogers for a week, but elsewhere in the world it has been out for months. The company is now dealing with a backlash from users complaining that phone calls are not “hanging up” but are staying on the “call connected” screen even after [...]

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LG P880 “X3″ and P700 leaked with specs, to launch at MWC

The LG “X3” now has an official model number, the P880, and with it some real specs. The 4.7-inch 1280×720 slab should come with a Tegra 3 processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, a 8MP back camera, all under 9mm thick. It should also have a 21Mbps HSPA+ baseband, NFC and low-powered Bluetooth 4.0. Another more odd-shaped device, [...]

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Rogers officially takes its “One Number” service out of beta, now available to all Postpaid customers

Rogers has officially taken their “One Number” service out of beta. Internally called “RON”, One Number is free for Rogers customers and allows you to manage all your communications through your wireless number, via your computer. It’s actually a very interesting strategy for Rogers to deploy this service, perhaps it’s part of their overall machine-to-machine [...]

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RIM: BlackBerry apps generate 40% more profit than Android apps, App World is the 2nd most profitable app store

Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, took the stage at BlackBerry DevCon Europe this morning to declare some stats and set the record straight on some myths, kinda rubbing it in to the doubters: Myth #1: The BlackBerry Market is shrinking Myth busted: There are 75 million BlackBerry users around the world, up 20 million [...]

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Is Instagram for Android release imminent?

According to a screenshot captured from a promotional notification on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Instagram for Android may only be days away from its much-awaited debut. The app, which has been confirmed in development for several months, has come to symbolize the app quality divide between iOS and Android, and has in many ways [...]

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The tragic tale of Tetris for Android while roaming

Tetris is my game. It’s my wind-down, end-of-day, got-a-minute-on-the-subway game. And, since I use a Galaxy Nexus as my daily driver device, I’m often happily playing it on Android. Last week I took a few days off and went off the grid — somewhere with no 3G or WiFi. It was, dare I say it, [...]

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Hands-on with the LG Optimus 3D Gingerbread update

The LG Optimus 3D was, and still is, a formidable device to see and to hold. But its considerable weight and ample specs were hampered by a relatively half-baked and poorly-performing operating system running on Android 2.2 Froyo. Nearly six months after our initial review, the device has been updated to Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with [...]

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Samsung Canada giving away 5 Galaxy Notes

Samsung is gearing up for the big Canadian Galaxy Note launch on February 14th – the beast of a phone/tablet will be available from TELUS, Bell and Rogers. To celebrate this momentous occasion Samsung has decided to throw a contest together and giveaway 5 Notes. All you have to do is give over all your [...]

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Results: HTC weathers hard Q4, hopes to “normalize” after “short-term difficulties”

The venerable Taiwanese stalwart HTC has released its Q4 ’11 results and they’re not pretty. Quarterly revenue was down 2.5% year-on-year at approximately $101.42 billion Taiwanese dollars ($3.5 billion US) while gross profits shrank 28% from the previous quarter to $27.5 billion TWD ($933 million US). While overall revenue for 2011 was up 67% in [...]