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Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders reach 9 million, Apple Dispute Halts Sales of HTC One X & Rogers Makes Changes To The Hardware Upgrade Program
Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders Reach 9 Million Worldwide, Says Source The Samsung Galaxy S III was unveiled in London at the beginning of this month but, just two weeks later, the long-awaited device is reported to have racked...
Videotron To Launch The Nokia Lumia 710, New iPhone Will Have a 4-Inch Screen & LG Debuts Optimus UI 3.0
Videotron To Launch The Nokia Lumia 710 Well the recently launched HTC Radar won’t be their only Windows Phone powered device. They too will make the uber affordable Nokia Lumia 710 available. This device was once a Rogers exclusive...
Galaxy S III SGH-T999V Sighted On Samsung Canada’s Support Page, Google Planning Stable Of Nexus Devices With Android 5.0 & HTC Desire C Unveiled
HTC Desire C Unveiled Featuring 3.5-Inch Display, Beats Audio, 5-Megapixel Camera And NFC Support Having already made the rounds under the guise of HTC Golf and Wildfire C, HTC has today confirmed the launch of the Desire C, a...
Samsung Galaxy Note ICS Update Begins Rolling Out, Mobile Usage Doubles & Facebook Announces Their “App Center”
Samsung Galaxy Note Ice Cream Sandwich Update Begins Rolling Out Now! Samsung has begun quietly rolling out the long-desired Android 4.0 update for the Galaxy Note. When it arrives, it'll add the latest edition of Google's OS...
HTC EVO 4G LTE To Launch On May 18, Angry Birds Catapults Itself To One Billion Downloads & Samsung And Apple Both Drop Patent Claims
HTC EVO 4G LTE To Launch On May 18 The highly-anticipated release of the HTC EVO 4G LTE is just around the corner, with Sprint announcing today that the phone will be available starting Friday, May 18. Pre-orders for the device,...
BlackBerry Curve 9320 Now Official, SaskTel Releases The Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE & The World is Not Quite Ready for Mobile Payments
BlackBerry Curve 9320 Now Official: BB OS 7.1, 2.44-Inch Display, BBM Button The 9320 has visited more countries during its short gestation than some phones get to see in their whole lives, but it's finally arrived. The specs...
Virgin To Roll Out New Smartphone And Prepaid Plans, HTC Droid Incredible 4G Announced & Samsung, Qualcomm Start Up Alliance
HTC Droid Incredible 4G Announced, Headed To Verizon HTC and Verizon announced the HTC Droid Incredible 4G on Monday, the third phone in the Droid Incredible line. The HTC Droid Incredible 4G has a 4-inch Super LCD display, and...
Samsung Looking To Acquire Mobile Companies, Nokia Drive, Transport Features Revealed & HTC One S Also Coming To Koodo Mobile?
HTC One S Also Coming To Koodo Mobile? This is solid news for those who are with, or wanting to be with, Koodo Mobile. They plan to release the HTC One V shortly – an Android 4.0 powered device with Beats Audio – and it looks...
Samsung Introduced The GALAXY S III, Motorola MOTOLUXE Coming To Bell “In May” & Apple Owns 73% Of Cell Phone Profits
Samsung Introduces The GALAXY S III, The Smartphone Designed For Humans And Inspired By Nature This sleek and innovative smartphone has the enhanced intelligence to make everyday life easier. With Samsung GALAXY S III, you can...
LG's Optimus L7 Brings ICS and 4.3-Inch Screen, BlackBerry Is Still the ‘Wait and See’ Platform & Ice Cream Sandwich Adoption Approaches 5%
LG's Optimus L7 Brings ICS, 4.3-Inch Screen To Market Starting Today The high end edition of LG's new L-Style Optimus line is ready to roll, as the company announced the Optimus L7 is available in various "major" European and...
Nokia 808 PureView To Launch In India And Russia, Facebook Helps Third-Party Mobile Apps Grow Today & Android And Apple Continue To Grow
Nokia 808 PureView To Launch In India And Russia From This Month Nokia has said that it will begin rolling out its Symbian-powered Nokia 808 PureView to “select markets” in May, initially launching the 41-megapixel handset in...
Motorola MOTOLUXE Launching in Canada, Nokia May Sell Its Luxury Brand Vertu & LG Launches LG Cloud
Motorola MOTOLUXE Launching in Canada Sometime “in Q2″ The Motorola MOTOLUXE is coming to Canada and will be available sometime “in Q2.” There’s no carrier listed in the press release, but we posted that this Android powered device...
BlackBerry Curve 9320 Press Shots Surface Online, Samsung Regains Global Smartphone Sales Top Spot & Twitter App Update Brings Improved Features
Unannounced, But Heavily Leaked, BlackBerry Curve 9320 Press Shots Surface Online This entry-level Berry has been leaked online a few times – now looking poised for a RIM announcement next week at BlackBerry World. This Curve...
Nokia N9 Wins D&AD Yellow Pencil Design Award, Huawei Looks to Ship 60 Million Smartphones & Microsoft Making More Money From Android
Nokia N9 Wins D&AD Yellow Pencil Design Award We always thought that the Nokia N9 was a gorgeous piece of hardware and it seems the jury of the prestigious D&AD Yellow Pencil design awards agree with us. The Nokia N9 has won the...
Google to Sell HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus Through Google Play, Oppo Teases 6.65mm-thick Smartphone & What Apple's Spectacular Earnings Mean For Phone Carriers
Google to Sell HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus Through Google Play in the U.S. for $399 Google announced today that it is bringing back its straight-to-consumer sales channel for the Galaxy Nexus. The first Nexus, the Nexus One, was sold for...
WIND to Release the Huawei Astro, Android & iOS Eat Away At RIM’s Share & Why Mobile Business Apps are Attractive to Venture Capitalists
WIND to Release the Huawei Astro April 26th The Lumia 710 has officially been given the “coming soon” stamp and you can now “pre-register.” As for the Huawei Astro, you can bank on this hitting WIND stores this coming Thursday...
Bell HTC One V launching May 3rd, HTC Wants to Develop its Own Processors & Andreessen Horowitz Made $78M
Bell HTC One V launching May 3rd HTC is bringing several devices to Canada, hitting all consumers price points from high-end to entry level. The HTC One X launched earlier this week via Rogers and coming soon will be the One S...
Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE Launching May 3rd, Latest Rumors Peg An LTE iPhone For An October Release & Instagram Has ‘Jumped the Shark’
Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE Launching May 3rd Just yesterday Bell announced that the Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE would be coming to Canada “in coming weeks,” but we’ve got a bit more info for you today. This is another LTE device...
Gemini Devices offers JoyTAB ICS tablets on the cheap
While the world enjoys high-end tablets like the new iPad and the ASUS Transformer Prime, there’s an increasing number of cheaper tablets that manage to pack in decent specs for an affordable price. Gemini Devices is yet...
WIND Opens Up Pre-Registration for the Lumia 710, Pebble Watch Has $4.6 Million In Funding & Verizon Announces New Global Data Plans
WIND Mobile Opens Up Pre-Registration for the Lumia 710 WIND Mobile posted a small image of the Nokia Lumia 710 with the words “coming soon” on their site a couple nights ago. No details of when we could expect it to be available,...
Motorola Droid RAZR HD Specs Revealed, 4G Wireless Can Be Faster Than Wired Internet & Verizon’s 4G LTE Network Coming To 27 New Markets
Motorola Droid RAZR HD Specs Revealed The latest member of Motorola’s revitalised RAZR family looks set to get the High Definition treatment after an employee posted some specs on Picasa. The specs name the phone as the Motorola...
WIND Officially Says the Nokia Lumia 710 is “Coming Soon”, RIM May Be Hiring Bankers to Explore Options & FCC Fines Google $25,000
WIND Officially Says the Nokia Lumia 710 is “Coming Soon” A few weeks ago we let you know that WIND Mobile was going to be releasing a few new devices: Nokia Lumia 710, Samsung Gravity Touch 2, and Huawei Astro. These are all...
Boeing to Launch Super Secure Android Phone, Sony SmartWatch Officially Coming to Canada & Google Accepting Android Apps from Devs in More Countries
Boeing to Launch Super Secure Android Phone, Hopes It Takes Off You know what we've always wondered? Why doesn't Boeing just hurry up and release a phone? Joking aside, this is really happening. The news comes via National Defense...
LG Optimus 3D Max Wages Dual-Core War, Nokia Extending $100 Bill Credit to Rogers Customers & Samsung Announces Pricing and Availability for New Galaxy Lineup
LG Optimus 3D Max Wages Dual-Core War in Benchmark Tests A mere day has passed since we stumbled upon initial benchmarks for the Optimus 4X HD, and now, yet another LG smartphone has tossed its hat into the arena. In the Optimus...
Sony Xperia S Heading to Canada, Nokia Offers Fix for Lumia 900 & Why Mobile Ads in Emerging Markets are the Future
Starbucks Has Processed 42 Million Mobile Payments With stats like this, who needs NFC? I’m sure that’s what the executives at Starbucks are thinking as they announce the company has processed 42 million mobile payments since...
Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion, The Lumia 900 Becomes Amazon’s Best Selling Phone & Sony to Cut 10,000 Jobs
Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion Yesterday, Facebook released some of the most surprising news of the year so far, that the social network has purchased Instagram for $1 billion, or nearly £630 million. This comes just a...
TELUS Giving Customers $100 Off Any Device, Microsoft Discounts Xbox Live & More Smartphone Users Taking Pictures, Updating Statuses at Restaurants
Update: TELUS Giving Customers $100 Off Any Device, Special Thanks to a System Upgrade If you’re in the West Coast of Canada you might have noticed a challenge this weekend buying a TELUS device. The company is in the process...
HTC Granted Patent for Biometric Device Unlock, Samsung`s Still Not Into 3D Smartphones & U.S. Cellular Launches its First LTE Device
Sorry, Larry Page. Steve Jobs Really Wanted to Destroy Android Steve Jobs passed into legend a little more than six months ago. Now it seems the arguments over his intentions for Apple are just getting started. In the Jobs-approved...
Advertisers Unite to Get Around Apple's Device ID Policy, HTC The New EVO 4G LTE Officially Unveiled & Nokia Lumia 900 Teardown Reveals Mediocre Hardware
Advertisers Unite to Get Around Apple's Device ID Policy Apple's decision to deprecate the Unique Device ID (UDID) for iOS devices has sent the mobile advertising and analytics industry into panic mode. Analytics and tracking...
Apple Investigating Wi-Fi Issues in New iPad
An internal AppleCare document uncovered by 9to5Mac reveals that Apple is currently investigating numerous WiFi-related issues which affect its New iPad. The investigation comes on the heels of numerous user complaints which...
7.85-inch "iPad mini" being tested by Apple?
More "iPad mini" rumors have surfaced, this time suggesting that Apple is currently testing a 7.85-inch "iPad mini" in their Cupertino labs. In a recent episode of The Talk Show podcast, technology writer and podcast co-host...
iPhone 5 Coming In June, Rogers Offers HTC One X for Pre-Order & White Samsung Galaxy Note Heading to Bell
iPhone 5 Coming In June, Says Foxconn Employee According to a Foxconn recruiter, we’ll see a new iPhone in June of this year. The recruiter suggested the iPhone would be headed our way this summer in an interview with TV Tokyo’s...
Magazine Subscription App Launches with Netflix-Style Pricing
Five of the world's largest magazine publishers have joined forces to create a joint venture called Next Issue Media and today the company is launching its Android app (iPad to follow). The Next issue app hopes to address the...
Apple and Google’s OS Share Slides in March, 10 Million Samsung Galaxy S IIIs Already Pre-Ordered & Is This the LTE-Ready Sprint HTC Evo One?
New Carriers Estimated to Own 6.5% of Canadian Wireless Subscriber Base by the End of 2012 Based on some recent stats it’s estimated that the total wireless subscriber base in Canada is 26,383,417, this is up about 7% from last...
RIM Needs a Time Machine, TELUS’ Lower International Roaming Rates Promo Extended & Samsung Display Spinoff Officially Launches
RIM Doesn’t Need BlackBerry 10 — It Needs a Time Machine Research in Motion‘s latest quarter almost doesn’t need commentary. With revenues down 19% and posting its first loss in seven years, the company...
TELUS Launching the BlackBerry Curve 9300, RIM to Refocus on Enterprise & Apple and Foxconn Agree to Drastically Improve Working Conditions
RIM to Refocus on Enterprise, Will No Longer Try to Be ‘Everybody’s Darling’ It’s tough times for Research in Motion. That was the clear message from RIM’s newbie CEO, Thorsten Heins, during a call about quarterly company earnings...
Google plans its own tablet & the launch of an online tablet store
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Google has plans to sell tablet computers directly from its own online store. Citing anonymous sources, the WSJ writes that a Google store will offer devices from Google partners...
NVIDIA Hints of a $199 Android Tablet
In a recent discussion with the New York Times, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dropped hints of a $199 Tegra 3 tablet that "anyone can buy at a 7 Eleven". The tablet could be manufactured by ASUS and hit the market as early as this...
Lumia 800 Software Update Starts Rolling Out, Windows Phone Marketplace Now Available in 13 More Countries & Google Maps For Android Updated
How to Avoid the Common Pitfalls of Mobile App Development Mobile development has come a long way in the past few years. But as technology continues to introduce new and more innovating products at a rapid pace, there’s room for...
Amazon Releases Kindle Fire 6.3 Update
Kindle Fire owners take note. Amazon has put together an update for their Kindle Fire OS. Version 6.3 offers a variety of improvements including the ability to share notes from the books you're reading without leaving the book...