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Bell Samsung Galaxy Note will be $729.95 outright

According to Best Buy Bell has the lowest 3-year contract price for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note at $199.99. TELUS is priced at $249.99 and Rogers hits a high with $299.99. One of the major questions surrounding this new category of phone/tablet is what the no-contract price will be. Well, special thanks goes out to [...]

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Sony files trademark for the “Xperia Sola”

A new Sony trademark filing has shown up at the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Xperia Sola. This could be a brand new device that Sony has on tap to release, possibly being an new unannounced Xperia handset. However, Sola could just be the name that Sony is trademarking for the Xperia S. The [...]

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Contest: Win a BlackBerry PlayBook!

RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook has seen it fair share of kicks. Some say the product was rushed to market and missed important features, such as a native email, contacts and calendar app. The price of this tablet has been slashed month after month… but it doesn’t mean that it’s a bad product. We actually think it’s [...]

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TELUS LG Optimus LTE is now “Coming Soon”

Well this just about clears up the lingering questions from yesterday. The LG Optimus LTE is officially “coming soon” to TELUS’ LTE lineup. No pricing or launch date is listed, but proudly says that you’ll be able to “Stream HD videos without lag when LTE network is available”. We’ll have more info shortly. (Thanks tipsters!) [...]

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A colourful chart that shows the manufacturers Q4 shipments and average handset price

After all these years and a dismal 2011, Nokia still the leads the world in device shipments. They ended 2011 just over 417.1 million units shipped, edging out 2nd place Samsung by approximately 90 million units (327.4 million units shipped). Coming in 3rd spot was Apple with 93 million iPhones shipped. An interesting graph has [...]

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Sony teases that we’ll see “what’s new and what’s next” for Xperia at MWC

Mobile World Congress is happening in Barcelona at the end of the month and the media invitations have started to go out. Sony Mobile Communicaitons*, the new name for the Sony Ericsson brand, is the latest and they’ve continued to tease us that we’ll see “what’s new and what’s next” for the Xperia lineup. That [...]

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TELUS: “all 3 PlayBooks are End of Life”

Yesterday we posted that the 16GB and 32GB BlackBerry PlayBook was price dropped yet again, now hitting a low $149.99 outright. Reading over the doc again gave a bit more insight, specifically noting that “all 3 PlayBooks are End of Life”. This is the first time we’ve seen it so definitive and could mean that [...]

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Now available at WIND: Galaxy Nexus, BlackBerry Bold 9790 and White Curve 9360

Just as the title says, the Galaxy Nexus, Bold 9790 and white Curve 9360 are all available now from WIND Mobile. Here are the prices: Samsung Galaxy Nexus: $599 outright, $449 on the WindTab, or $249 on the WINDTab+ BlackBerry Bold 9790: $399 outright or $49 on WINDtab+ BlackBerry Curve 9360 in White: $299 outright, [...]

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Official BlackBerry Music Store app for smartphones now available

If you have the BlackBerry PlayBook and listen to music on it you’ve probably noticed that it’s powered by 7Digital. The app itself is incredibly robust and gives you several options to listen, purchase and share music. Now the app has left beta and is available on various BlackBerry smartphone, but looks to be renamed [...]

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Facebook for Android app updated to v1.8.2, brings “better memory management”

Facebook for Android app has been updated to version 1.8.2 and is now available to the masses. This brings the usual unknown bug fixes and will also give you better memory management. Reading over the comments on Facebook itself, users are also reporting that the “Photo upload works again”, “Awful performance, it now takes even [...]