One of the highlights of the past week was the official announcement of RIM’s 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook. In addition, this week saw a bunch on new device announcements and price plans from Fido, WIND, Mobilicity, Virgin. Below are the top Canadian mobile stories from the past 7 days, plus notable news from around the web.
– 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook launching in Canada August 9th [Read here]
– TELUS Q2 2012 results: Subscriber base now at 7,447,000 [Read here]
– Ice Cream Sandwich now powers 15.9% of Android devices [Read here]
– Koodo to release the Samsung Galaxy S II X [Read here]
– WIND Mobile goes live in Kingston [Read here]
– 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook surfaces online [Read here]
– Thorsten Heins admits that RIM may be forced to license BlackBerry 10 [Read here]
– Fido to release new “Smart” and “Max” plans on August 8th [Read here]
– TELUS “My Account” iPhone, Android and BlackBerry app now available [Read here]
– RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Jam session coming to Waterloo and Vancouver [Read here]
– LG Optimus 4X HD launching in Canada “this fall” [Read here]
– WIND and Mobilicity Back-to-School promos [Read here]
– Android had 68.1% of the global smartphone OS market share in Q2 [Read here]
– RIM rumoured to layoff 3,000 on August 13th [Read here]
– Bell’s Manitoba HSPA network now live [Read here]
– Update available for Rogers HTC One X users, fixes Wi-Fi issues [Read here]
– Nokia Lumia 710 now available at MTS [Read here]
– Samsung confirms Galaxy Note 2 will be introduced August 29th [Read here]
– Complete pricing of Rogers 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook [Read here]
– Bell releases the Motorola RAZR V [Read here]
Around the web:
– Jelly Bean’s Face Unlock “Liveness Check” Circumvented With Simple Photo Editing [AndroidPolice]
– Ice Cream Sandwich comes to Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 and 7.0 Plus in the U.K. [PhoneArena]
– Early iPhone design talks sparked by a Samsung ‘fashionphone’ [TheVerge]
– AT&T plans to shut down entire 2G network by 2017 [Engadget]
