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Motorola launches “Summer’s A Blur” Contest

Motorola Canada is going to be launching daily contests this Summer conveniently titled “Summer’s A Blur”. They recently launched the Quench, Backflip and Dext and wherever these contests are you can expect to see these devices there too. It seems the contests are only on Facebook and they start today. Looks like the first one [...]

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Rogers promo lowers US & Int’l text message package

A couple months ago Rogers increased the price for the U.S. & International Text Messaging Travel Packs by a couple bucks. But now a new promo has been announced that sees a price drop for a few months. The promo starts today and goes until October 31st and sees the price of the 25 text [...]

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Do you think a 3 wireless brand strategy will work?

There has been wireless in Canada for over 25 years now and over 23 million Canadians have a wireless device. By 2014 the number is expected to increase to 30.1 million subscribers. During the wireless spectrum auction a few years ago the Industry Minister said that “Our government’s intentions are clear: to achieve lower prices, [...]

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Apple iPhone 3GS 8GB arrives at Fido

If you’re looking to get an iPhone 3GS through Fido and want the 8GB model… it’s just arrived. This is available for $99 on a 3-year contract and $549 no-contract. If you’re going to get this on a contract you might as well go for the 16GB model as it’s the same price. The no-contract [...]

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Free Slurpee: Are you rushing to get on this deal from SpeakOut Wireless?

There’s been some amazing promotions in the past by carriers to get customers to sign up. Like offering phones at $0.00 or giving 50% off rate plans. However, this latest one by SpeakOut Wireless takes the cake for the oddest promo we’ve ever seen. They have a deal going on until August 15th that when [...]

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Nokia touring Canada with RV to promote N97 mini

You just might find a blue RV make its way through your city as Nokia Canada has started their cross-Canada tour to promote the N97 mini. Nokia will be putting live updates, photos and videos of the experience. Plus Nokia says you can “track our progress as we share our location on Nokia’s Ovi Maps”. [...]

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Samsung Wave dummy phones arrive at Rogers

Good news for those wanting to get Samsung’s new Bada platform as the Wave dummy phones have started to roll into Rogers locations. This will be launching within soon and we’ll follow up with a firm date and confirmed pricing. Bell will also be releasing the Wave on July 8th Quick specs of the Wave [...]

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Public Mobile having Montreal coverage issues… extends “remorse return period until July 13th”

It seems that the anticipated launch of Public Mobile’s Montreal network is having a fair share of challenges. We’ve been following their blog post to customers who have been experiencing coverage issues. Public stated on June 25th (the day they launched Montreal) that customers where having problems “setting up their Public Mobile phones”. Then on [...]

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WIND extends 50% off plans for first 6 months promo until July 10th

Wind Mobile has extended their promotion of getting 50% their plan for the first 6 months until July 10th (the promo was supposed to end on June 30th). In a blog post on their site it states that “Hi guys – great news! New customers have got a few extra days to get 50% off [...]

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Perfect for a Canadian release… iPhone 4 reception/signal bar fix coming “within a few weeks”

Apple has sent out a “letter” to all the iPhone 4 owners who are complaining of getting a bad reception. It states that gripping any phone will reduce reception but some people with the “iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the [...]