Here’s something cool to start February off with. If you’re thinking about joining or upgrading to a Virgin Mobile smartphone you might have the chance to win a pre-screening of the upcoming flick John Carter. It’s not just any pre-screening – Virgin will hand over the entire theatre to you and your buddies, plus also [...]
Almost a year to the date WIND Mobile implemented HD Voice to their customers, this reportedly brought a “better quality, clearer voice service experience”. Today, both Bell and Virgin have rolled out HD Voice to their HSPA+ customers – this is available for free on select handsets. For Bell, currently the HD Voice compatible phones [...]
Virgin has upped the amount of ‘buddies’ on their $35/month talk and text plan. Starting today the plan will see unlimited Canada-Wide Calling to 10 Buddies, up from 5. As the doc states above, this is in place “until further notice”. Here are the plan details: – 10 unlimited buddies, – Unlimited text (international text [...]
Virgin is focussing their attention on wooing those customers who just want to purchase a SIM card, or as Virgin puts it “BYOP” – Bring You Own Phone. You could save a bit of dough, upwards of $120/year, but depends if you purchase a talk and text plan, or a smartphone plan. The promo goes [...]
Last week if was the free long distance promo that made the rounds at the carriers, but this week the latest trend is to offer customers 1 month of service for free. Rogers, Fido, Public, Bell and now Virgin is giving customers 1 month free when they sign up on any talk and text plan. [...]
Bell and Virgin have released the entry level Android 2.3.4 LG Eclypse. Both companies have this at the no-term price of $250, but the 3-year contract price differs. Bell has this available for $0, while Virgin has this slide-out QWERTY for $49.99. The Eclypse has a 3.5-inch touchscreen display (320 x 480), Wi-Fi hotspot, and [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is officially, now widely, available across Canada! Similar to other high-end devices, like the LG Optimus LTE, has reached Canadian soil yet again before other major countries. If you’re looking to score this Android OS 4.0 powered device you can go forth over at Bell and Virgin – Rogers and TELUS [...]
Update: This contest is now closed and we’re happy to announce that Forum member Forum member “Flagg” has won the Galaxy Nexus!! [More here] ______ How’s this for a contest? The glorious Samsung Galaxy Nexus is up for grabs! This is hooked onto Virgin Mobile and is filled with Ice Cream Sandwich goodness! This latest [...]
The Bell LG Eclypse was supposed to be available on December 2nd, some sort of delay happened. This slider Android will retail for $49.95 on a 3-year and $249.95 outright. The dummy devices have started to arrive in store and a new launch date has been set for December 12th. This device will also be [...]
This is a beautiful sign, something that will bring severe joy to Canadians. Virgin Mobile customers have started to receive notice from Purolator that the Galaxy Nexus, aka the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 dream, will within arrive 3-5 business days. The official launch of the Galaxy Nexus is on December 8th, but Samsung, Virgin and [...]