This past week was packed with mobile news. Mobile World Congress brought LOTS of new device announcements, some of them will be coming to Canada. Apple has planned a media event on March 7th to announce the “iPad 3”, plus the PlayBook was revived and become the top selling tablet a couple retailers. OS updates, LTE expansion plans… Canada was busy over the past 7 days. All the top stories are below, plus some notable news from around the world.
– Apple App Store crosses over the 25 billion app download mark [Read here]
– TELUS Nokia Lumia 800 now available [Read here]
– Koodo Mobile to release the LG Optimus Black [Read here]
– Rogers Nokia Lumia 900 launching in April [Read here]
– Rogers lights up St. John’s with LTE [Read here]
– Google now activating 850,000 Android devices per day [Read here]
– Hands on with the HTC One V [Read here]
– Hands-on with the HTC One S [Read here]
– Hands-on with the HTC One X [Read here]
– Samsung makes the Galaxy Note 10.1 official [Read here]
– TELUS investing a whopping $3 billion into B.C., expanding LTE coverage [Read here]
– WIND to release the Samsung Galaxy S 4G [Read here]
– OS 7.1 “coming soon” to TELUS BlackBerry 9810, 9860, 9360 and 9900 [Read here]
– Apple to officially announce iPad 3 on March 7th [Read here]
– Mobilicity creates cartoon, calls ROBELUS hoarders [Read here]
– Xperia arc S now available at Rogers [Read here]
– WIND launches new $25 and $40 monthly plans [Read here]
– Galaxy S III launching in April? [Read here]
– OPP issues warning on Sexting [Read here]
– Total estimated Canadian wireless subscribers reaches 26,383,417 [Read here]
– Galaxy Nexus updated to OS 4.0.2 [Read here]
– Toshiba Excite 10 LE tablet now available, “inventory ready to ship” [Read here]
– HTC Radar coming to Videotron March 7th [Read here]
– comScore: “Smartphone penetration has reached 45% of the Canadian mobile market” [Read here]
– Bell launches improved MobileTV app [Read here]
– PlayBook was the best selling tablet in Canada this past week [Read here]
Around the world:
– ITC to review its decision on Microsoft, Motorola patent case [Engadget]
– A Look Inside The Astonishing Tribe’s Headquarters [CrackBerry]
– Samsung Galaxy S III: First Benchmark? [PocketNow]
– Samsung confirms Windows Phone 8 coming by year’s end [Phone Arena]
– 7-inch Archos ChildPad with Android ICS costs just $129 [UnwiredView]
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