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Rogers to bring BlackBerry Pearl 8220 Flip in Pink, and for $49.99?
There has been an image flying around that shows the upcoming BlackBerry Pearl 8220 Flip to be available from Rogers Wireless in Pink, and for $49.99. The ad looks like it will be a holiday season special. If this is true, then the original price tag of $149.99 will be heavily discounted shortly after its [...]
LG Dare coming to TELUS for $99.99?
If this leaked screenshot is true, then the LG Dare is coming to Canada exclusively from TELUS. The future ad says “A sleek new touchscreen on the web browsing scene”. No release date is mentioned, but it looks like the Dare will be available for $99.99 with a 3-year plan. The flyer also says “Add [...]
TELUS exclusively launches MotoRAZR VE20
Over the next few days we will start seeing more and more phones coming out. TELUS has exclusively released the MOTORAZR VE20 and is available for $99.99 on a 3-year contract, $149.99 on a 2-year contract, $249.99 on a 1-year contract or $299.99 without a contract.
Yes - another RAZR hits the Canadian market and [...]
Telus officially launches HTC Touch Dual
From the early Best Buy advertising last week we knew the HTC Touch Dual was coming to Telus… it looks as though Telus has officially launched this now as it’s showing up on their site. The price plans are as follows: No contract for $399.99, 1-year for $349.99, 2-year plan for 249.99 and $99.99 on [...]
Bell to interfere with GPS on select BlackBerry devices?
First came the introduction of the new Bell brand with “er” attached to everything. Then the tagline with stating how things are “better” at Bell… Not the case now if you are a Bell customer, have a BlackBerry and use the GPS… According to a internal document (not yet online) it looks like Bell will [...]
New wireless entrants might find it tought to get financing dollars
Globalive is looking to hopefully enter the Canadian wireless market during the second half of 2009, however, even with the estimated $700 million worth of support from Orascom they still might find a challenge coming up with the rest of the necessary funding. “Given the broader financing challenges, it is possible that new entrant [...]
LG KEYBO at Future Shop for $19.99
It was not that long ago that Telus launched the LG KEYBO and had Canada buzzing, mainly for how easy it is to use the phone. It’s a texting god (Our review of the KEYBO is here). We have a routine to check out retail locations and found that Future Shop again has a stellar [...]
Samsung Instinct Video Review
With all the hype with touchscreens these days we recently played around with the Samsung Instinct (aka the “Apple Eater” or “iPhone Killer”).
This is a light device, only at 4.4 ounces and comes loaded with many great features such as a 2.0 mega pixel camera that has video recording capabilities, 3G connectivity to the web, [...]
iPhone, Instinct, Bold showdown (Part 1)
The past couple months have been monumental for the Canadian mobile industry. Not only have we finished a massive wireless auction that generated over $4.25 billion, we have seen great devices come our way such as the “finally arrived in Canada” Apple iPhone, the “iPhone Killer” Samsung Instinct and RIM’s much improved “upscale” BlackBerry Bold.
Part [...]
BlackBerry Bold Review (Part 1 - Multimedia Features)
In one of our first video reviews of the newest smartphone to hit the RIM family, the BlackBerry Bold, we decided to take a peek into the multimedia capabilities.
This has a 2 megapixel camera with 3x zoom (iPhone has a 2 megapixel and no zoom), WiFi and 3G for surfing the web, a video recorder [...]
