Update: HTC Canada has released an official statement on the matter: ”HTC is aware of some questions in the enthusiast community about how the HTC One X handles multitasking and memory management for background apps. We value the community’s input and are always looking for ways to enhance customers’ experience with our devices. That said, [...]
Samsung has been on a tear recently of trademarking various Galaxy names. Perhaps they are protecting themselves from the eager patent trolls, but some of the names are certainly exciting: Axiom, Awaken, Heir, Rite, Emerge, Stellar, Halo, Grand, Premier, Next, Metrix, Velvet and Legend. Now we can add six more to buffet. Samsung filed trademark [...]
Today Canadians can officially grab the HTC One S from various carriers. As stated before, pricing will vary, but the specs will be the same. We know that Bell, Virgin, Fido and TELUS will go live today, perhaps SaskTel too. You can expect the no-term to be between $569.99 (TELUS) upward to $599.99 (Virgin, Bell [...]
Bell has been working hard on transforming the Muskoka landscape by disguising the standard and hideous looking cellphone towers as beautiful trees. What they haven’t been communicating is that they’ve been actively testing their LTE network in the area. Effective May 17th, Bell will once again expand their HSPA+ and LTE coverage, this time taking care [...]
Well the recently launched HTC Radar won’t be their only Windows Phone powered device. They too will make the uber affordable Nokia Lumia 710 available. This device was once a Rogers exclusive and eventually made its way to Wind Mobile and Mobilicity. There’s no word yet on the launch date, nor the pricing, but you [...]
The HTC One S will be officially available tomorrow from several Canadian carriers. We’ve already seen TELUS’ pricing of this Android OS 4.0 device (ranges from $99.99 to $569.99) and now we can confirm the pricing that Bell will launch with. We happened upon a Source store who was willing to sell us the device a [...]
Rogers has launched a follow-up to its successful ‘Next is Now‘ video from 2010 titled ‘Next is Now…More than Ever’. The idea is to highlight the many ways in which the internet, especially on our smartphones, has changed the world we live in for the better. To do so, Rogers got together with production company Thornley [...]
Google’s never been one to shy away from cute, whimsical stories — see this Rube Goldberg ad for Chrome as an example — and its latest creation is called “The Story of Send.” The interactive web page, created in HTML5, traces the trajectory of an email from your Gmail account through their back-end routers all [...]
Yesterday WIND Mobile Q1 2012 results were reported and at the of March their subscriber base reached 415,364. Today, in a press release promoting a new offer revealed the last 6 weeks WIND has managed tally up a few new subs to “well over 430,000 active customers.” No word on their ARPU (Average Revenue Per [...]
It’s no secret that Flixel is one of my newest obsessions on the iPhone. Unlike Instagram, which recently moved over to Android and became a billion dollar Facebook plugin, Flixel is iPhone-only right now and reason enough for me to keep one on hand at all times. The idea is simple enough: capture two seconds [...]