The Sonim Bolt is no ordinary cell phone. While it can’t be defined as a smartphone it makes up for it by being a strongphone, uncharacteristically robust in a market that often favours form over function. Bell is launching the Bolt as its flagship push-to-talk device alongside the retrofitted Samsung Galaxy S II and BlackBerry [...]
Today is the big day for TELUS’ Q1 2012 results and they’re nothing short of impressive! The senior management team will be hosting their general meeting from Edmonton at 10:00am MST and analyst call at 4:30pm EST. Overall revenue for the green giant is up 4% year over year totaling $2.6 billion. Net Income and [...]
The prepaid market is one that we don’t really broach too often, but it’s an essential component of everyday life for millions of Canadians. While the penetration rate for smartphones is nearly 40%, it’s still much more common to see someone with a cheap flip phone or aging candybar walking down the street. Smartphones are [...]
It’s been nearly a year since the Motorola Atrix was announced at CES, and ten months since it was released in Canada. At the time it was running Motoblur on top of Android 2.2 Froyo, and while the hardware blew us away, the software definitely did not. Since then, three things have happened: 1) It [...]
The high-end HTC Amaze has been available for a few days at WIND and Mobilicity, and now Videotron is getting in on the action. Available for $599.95 outright our $129.95 bundled with a $40 monthly fee, it is definitely the highest-end device on the burgeoning Quebec network. Even though the phone is capable of doing [...]
Another day, another inexpensive Android QWERTY device. Last week we took a look at the slightly more expensive Motorola Pro+, and today we have the smaller, slower and significantly cheaper in price Huawei U8350 from WIND Mobile. The device retails for $135 outright, or for free on the WIND’s Tab+, but either way you slice [...]
There is no masking the truth: lower-end Android phones tend come with lacklustre specs. So when a company releases an affordable, well-made Android phone that has decent specs, people tend to sit up and listen. The LG Optimus One was the first such device, and its follow-up, the LG Optimus Net, continues that tradition. At [...]
The market for BlackBerry clones isn’t as brisk as it once was. Companies like Samsung, Motorola and HTC have, over the years, dabbled in the portrait QWERTY space, outfitting Android with various incarnations of keyboard-specific support. It is no wonder, then, that as BlackBerry releases their own hardware and software update, culminating in the Bold [...]
There is something wonderful about a company breaking new ground. Of the myriad Android reviews over the past few weeks, the LG Optimus LTE is probably the biggest wildcard. On paper the phone has everything: a dual-core processor, HD screen, LTE connectivity. In fact it’s the only device outside the US to have both a 720p screen [...]
Let’s start from the beginning. Take the phone out of your pocket. It’s clean, black, unassuming. A soft white LED pulses at you. You grip the phone firmly in your right hand — it is comfortable, secure. Slide your thumb to the power button, its tension satisfying, just the right amount of feedback. The black screen [...]