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HP/Palm creates “Super Device Countdown” app in anticipation of February 9th event

HP/Palm will be holding their “Think Big. Think Small. Think Beyond” event on February 9th. Some details have already leaked such as a couple upcoming tablets (Rogers and Bell will be releasing the “Opal” in September). In the meantime a free app called “Super Device Countdown” has been created to pass the time. It’s basic [...]

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“New members of the Xperia family” to be introduced next month

If you’re a Sony Ericsson fan then you will love next month! Invites have gone out to their February 13th press event at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. Not many details are given but the invite states they’ll be announcing the “New members of the Xperia family”. Hopefully this is when they will [...]

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Video: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc hands on

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc was announced last week at CES. Today I dropped by the Sony Ericsson Canadian office and had a quick conversation with Neil Dutton. In his hand was the Arc and although he wouldn’t give me an exact availability he did state this is launching globally in Q1 (My guess is [...]

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LG Optimus 2X and Optimus Black are “currently being reviewed by Canadian carriers”

There is an abundance of news coming out of CES 2011. Specifically when it comes to mobile devices majority of the announcements are for the United States, Europe and overseas. Rarely is there a major Canadian announcement. So far Bell is the only carrier that has officially announced plans to release the Motorola Atrix “in [...]

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Wi-Fi only Samsung Galaxy Tab coming to Canada “late Q1 early Q2″

Now that Bell and Rogers have rocking the Samsung Galaxy Tab for about a couple months… it’s time for a little more news about this tablet. Yesterday it was announced at CES that a WiFi-only Tab will be available in the U.S. sometime during Q1 2011. Good news for us Canadians as this Wi-Fi only [...]

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Motorola splitting into two companies January 4th (Mobility & Solutions)

Effective January 4th, 2011 Motorola will officially split into 2 separate businesses: Motorola Mobility & Motorola Solutions. According to Motorola Canada website, the official descriptions of both businesses are: Motorola Mobility focuses on cellphones and set-top-box “delivers personalised information to meet the needs of consumers both in the home and on the go” while Motorola [...]

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Review: Samsung Rugby II

With much focus nowadays on smartphones, Wi-Fi, Facebook and any other top of the line frills, many have forgotten the trusted and durable flip phone. Samsung has recently released the Rugby II, the sequel to their original rugged flip phone, which is advertised as “military grade”, as it reportedly meets US Army standards for shock, [...]

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Review: BlackBerry Style 9670

In the hopes of expanding their well-known success from the business sector, RIM has revisited the clamshell design and combined it with their latest software offering, OS6, in order to release their newest CDMA device, the Blackberry Style 9670. Unlike RIM’s initial attempt at a Blackberry flip phone (Pearl Flip), the Style has a full, [...]

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Contest: Win a Rogers Palm Pre 2 Prize Pack

The Palm Pre 2 launched today on Rogers and let’s give one away! This little beast comes packed with a 1 GHz processor, runs of the incredibly smooth webOS 2.0 (now with “Just Search”, “Stacks”, “HP Synergy” and the new “Exhibition” feature), 3.1-inch touchscreen display with a full physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 16GB of storage, [...]

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RIM Q3 Results: Record 14.2 BlackBerry Smartphones shipped

Who says BlackBerry is dying? Waterloo-based Research in Motion has reported “record third quarter results” and from their press release here are the key points: – Record 14.2 BlackBerry smartphones shipped (up over 40% from the same quarter last year) – Revenue breakdown for Q3: 82% for devices, 15% for service, and 3% for software [...]