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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WIND Mobile has 425,000 subscribers
At last count the WIND Mobile subscriber base was up to 358,000. This number was from Q3 2011 and as we patiently wait for the Q4 and the complete 2011 numbers to roll in, Anthony Lacavera, WIND Mobile’s CEO, has stated to the Windsor Star that their total subs are now sitting around 425,000… which [...]
HTC Ville shows its lithe self once again on camera
The HTC Ville is pretty well a shoe-in for a MWC debut. Last week we showed you a video walkthrough of the phone, and now all we need to figure out now is what really sets it apart from the previous crop of HTC devices released in 2011. From the get-go we have a slim 8.9mm [...]
Rogers launching 2 new “Small Business SmartTeam Unlimited” plans
Rogers just announced a couple new family plans, so let us now introduce you to their new “Small Business SmartTeam Unlimited” plans. From what I can tell the plans now include Unlimited local Talk and includes 2 lines. Here are all the details of the Unlimited Voice/Messaging and the Unlimited Voice and Data that only [...]
Rogers says “Customers can truly say goodbye to those other cellphone providers”, rolls out new “Ultimate Unlimited Family Plans”
Effective tomorrow Rogers will be rolling out their new Ultimate Unlimited Family plans. From the looks of it there are now 2 of them, both come with unlimited local talk and the “extreme” text messaging. Here are the pricing and features for both: Voice & Messaging: – Unlimited Local Talk – Unlimited Extreme Text Messaging [...]
Hands-on with the BlackBerry Music Store
RIM has released version 1.1 of its BlackBerry Music Store and I was very interested in taking a look. Officially, the store is powered by 7Digital, which also powers the Playbook’s music portal, so it should be no surprise that they look and work fairly similarly. The features are: – The Music Store powered by [...]
Video: Here’s how RIM tests the durability of your BlackBerry smartphone
We’ve been inside Nokia’s testing lab to see the punishment their devices go through. Now RIM has released a few new videos that showcases the durability of their BlackBerry devices. RIM says they put devices through these tests to “help ensure it lives up to the high standards that BlackBerry is known for”. Ryan P [...]
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