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Here’s the Complete Samsung Galaxy Note Pricing, Google Reportedly Prepping Free Dropbox Competitor & LinkedIn Will Introduce Ads To Mobile Apps
Here’s the Complete Samsung Galaxy Note Pricing for Rogers, Bell and TELUS The 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note will be arriving at Rogers, Bell and TELUS on February 14th – a lovely day for a new LTE-enabled device. TELUS’ no-contract...
Samsung Galaxy S II HD Coming to Canada, iPhone Resale Value 63% After One Year, Android 46% & Facebook Talks About Social Games and Mobile Apps
Vonage Brings Free Calling and Messaging to iPhone, Android Vonage on Wednesday unveiled a new mobile app for the iPhone and Android smartphones that affords free calling and messaging along with cheap international calling rates....
Public Mobile Has 199,000 Subscribers, Nokia Lumia 800 to Launch on February 14th & Mobile Web Usage Doubling Every Year
Public Mobile Has 199,000 Subscribers Public Mobile launched their wireless service in 2010. According to a report in Reuters, Public Mobile, who operates in 2 core cities, increased their Q4 subscriber base by a stunning 45,000...
Samsung Canada Giving Away 5 Galaxy Notes, iPhone 4S Launch Sent Apple Store Sales Skyrocketing & Nokia Accidentally Reveals White Lumia 900
Samsung Canada Giving Away 5 Galaxy Notes Samsung is gearing up for the big Canadian Galaxy Note launch on February 14th – the beast of a phone/tablet will be available from TELUS, Bell and Rogers. To celebrate this momentous...
Bell Adding 5 Hours of Mobile TV to the Fab 10, Corning and Samsung form Joint Venture & Motorola Wants 2.25 Percent of Apple’s iPhone Sales
Bell Adding 5 Hours of Mobile TV to the Fab 10 $60/Month Plan Effective tomorrow, Bell will be changing their Fab 10 $60/month rate plan around. It’ll still have the same 200 minutes, 1 GB data, Unlimited nationwide talk to 10...
Koodo Mobile to Increase Rate Plans, Qualcomm Performs the First Successful Voice-over-LTE Call & Google Announced Bouncer For Android
Koodo Mobile to Increase Rate Plans by $5/month, Will Now Include Call Display and Voicemail Koodo Mobile has decided to increase their rate plans by $5/month. The change will go live tomorrow, February 3rd, and the major difference...
Rogers Giving New and Existing Customers a Free 6-Month BBM Music, Kyocera DuraPlus Announced & LG Reports Second Straight Loss in Q4
Here's The Supposed Launch Date For iPhone 5 The iPhone 5 will launch at Apple's WWDC event, according to a report by Daiwa Securities cited by DigiTimes. WWDC is Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference, held in June each year....
WIND Launching $65/month “Sharing the Love” Plan, BlackBerry 10 Superphone Image Leaked & Why Don't Smart Phones Work Any More?
WIND Launching $65/month “Sharing the Love” Plan – Gives Two Unlimited Talk, Text & Data Plans, Plus Two Free Curve 9360s Along with the $40/month “Leap” plan that Wind will be releasing, the “Share the Love Combo” deal is cometh...
TELUS, Bell and Rogers Releasing the Galaxy Note February 14th, Samsung To Announce Its New Mystery Device & What`s The Future of Your Mobile Phone
The Future of Your Mobile Phone "The mobile operator community is conventional. 99.9 per cent of their turnover, up until about three years ago, was purely consumer handset driven. From a growth point of view, now, they’re lucky...
TELUS is Not Introducing a Premium 4G LTE-only Rate Plan, Google Tells Android Devs to Kick the Menu Button & Could a BBM App Save the BlackBerry?
TELUS is Not Introducing a Premium 4G LTE-only Rate Plan TELUS’ LTE network is coming soon, very soon. Employees have just begun training and from an internal doc we’ve received it states that “TELUS’ network evolution to 4G LTE...
TELUS Launching New SIM Cards February 1st, Motorola Announces Q4 2011 Earnings & Size Matters: Clever Website Compares Smartphone Proportions
iPad Owns 96% of Enterprise Market and iPhone Share Climbs to 53%, Study Finds Enterprise mobile vendor Good Technology published a new study on Thursday revealing iOS’s massive market share in the corporate world. The iPad accounted...
Nokia Announces 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Sold, Mobilicity Launching the Samsung Galaxy Nexus & iPhone 5 Will Launch in Summer?
Nokia Announces 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Sold Well, apparently a lady over in São Paulo, Brazil has today purchased the 1.5 billionth phone running the operating system in the form of the Nokia Asha 303. Nokia is calling it “one...
‘Disappointing’ iPhone 4S Leads Apple to Most Profitable Quarter, Bell and Virgin Mobile Rollout HD Voice & Do We Really Need LTE Right Now?
‘Disappointing’ iPhone 4S Leads Apple to Most Profitable Quarter in Tech History Apple on Wednesday reported record earnings for the December quarter, revealing a profit of $13.06 billion on revenue that surpassed $46 billion....
Apple Reportedly Looking to Adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi, Windows Phone Marketplace hits 60,000 Apps & Sony Xperia Ion Pricing Revealed?
Apple Reportedly Looking to Adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi This Year Apple may be looking to incorporate support for 802.11ac Wi-Fi specification into the company’s products this year, according to a report from AppleInsider....
CIBC’s Site is Optimized for All Smartphones, Windows Phone Will Beat The iPhone By 2015 & Why Apple is Manufacturing Its iPhone in China, Not the U.S.
CIBC’s New Mobile Site is Optimized for All Smartphones If you bank at CIBC and have a BlackBerry, iPhone or Android device you can download their app via the respected app stores. This gives you the usual features such as finding...
ZTE Pays Microsoft Around $27 for Each Windows Phone, TELUS HTC Desire HD Upgrade Available & Samsung Galaxy S II Sales Surpass 5 Million Units
ZTE Pays Microsoft Around $27 for Each Windows Phone Made Pegged at $27 per ZTE smartphone, TrustedReviews managed to get those licensing beans spilled at the glitzy London launch of the company's first Windows Phone, the ZTE...
Symbian Belle Coming Soon, Sony Ericsson Swallows $317 Million Pre-tax Loss & Official Wikipedia App Comes to Android
Symbian Belle Coming Soon It has been a long time in the making, but Nokia has finally confirmed the arrival of their latest and greatest OS in regards to Symbian. Nokia took to their twitter page and said “Nokia Belle will be...
HSBC Canada Mobile Banking App Now Available, ZTE Aims to Double Phone Shipments & Samsung Galaxy S III Caught on Camera?
HSBC Canada Mobile Banking App for iPhone Now Available Majority of our Canadian banks have a mobile banking app – CIBC, TD, RBC, ING – and now HSBC. If you bank with HSBC and have an iPhone you can download the app for free. MobileSyrup Samsung...
Steve Wozniak: Android Is Better Than the iPhone in Some Ways, Nearly 5% of Smartphone Shipments This Year with LTE & When You Can Get That New Device from CES?
Some Addicted Smartphone Users Hear “Phantom” Vibrations A new research report from the University of Worcester states that those who use a smartphone are more stressed than those who don’t. 100 volunteers participated in the...
OpenMedia Launches “Stop the Cell Phone Squeeze” Campaign, Skype Confirmed for Windows Phone & Droid RAZR MAXX To Launch On January 26th?
OpenMedia Launches “Stop the Cell Phone Squeeze” Campaign Earlier this week activist group OpenMedia started an online petition called “Stop the Cell Phone Squeeze”. This takes direct aim at the Big 3 and their attempt to “trick...
Google Introduces Android Design, CyanogenMod Passes 1 Million Downloads & 80% Say Social Networks Had No Influence On Holiday Shopping Decisions
80% Say Social Networks Had No Influence On Holiday Shopping Decisions Social networks could one day revolutionize how we get shopping recommendations, but not yet. Instead, tablets are causing the biggest shakeup in ecommerce....
Google Search for Android Updated, EmporiaCLICK and EmporiaSOLID Focus on the Senior Cell Phone Market & Facebook Comments Box Now On Mobile
Google Search for Android Updated for Devices Running Froyo or Gingerbread Quick app update here regarding the Google Search app for Android. If you have a device running OS 2.2 or OS 2.3 you should be getting a notification that...
Motorola and Intel Enter Into a Multi-year Agreement, Update to Google Maps Improves Battery Life & Motorola RAZR Officially Available at Fido
Motorola and Intel Enter Into a Multi-year, Multi-device Agreement for Intel-based Devices Motorola and Intel have entered into a multi-year, multi-device strategic partnership to incorporate Intel chips into Motorola’s Android...
Sony Ericsson Rebrands as Sony Mobile Communications, DROID 4 Touted as Thinnest, Most Powerful 4G Smartphone & Lumia 710 and 800 headed to Canada
Sony Ericsson Rebrands as Sony Mobile Communications Sony Ericsson will be rebranding its mobile division as Sony Mobile Communications. All devices released from now on will be launched under the Sony brand, as released by the...
CES 2012: What to Expect, Motorola Announces MOTOLUXE and DEFY MINI Android Phones & BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 to Be Shown at Official CES
CES 2012: What to Expect It’s turning out to be an odd year for the 40-plus-year-old trade show. Microsoft announced just weeks before the big event in Las Vegas that 2012 would be, essentially, its last CES. Mashable Motorola...
iPhones Account for 78% of Mobile Video Viewing, Sony Ericsson Teases Next Xperia Device & Android Market Is Poised To Pass Apple's App Store
With 400,000 Apps, The Android Market Is Poised To Pass Apple's App Store Apple's App Store still has a greater selection with more than 500,000 apps, but Distimo says the Android Market is closing the gap. Google had 300,000...
Apple iOS Dominates Mobile Browsing Market, Rogers and Fido Launching the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on January 10th & Nokia Lumia 900 Specs Trickle Out
Apple iOS Dominates Mobile Browsing Market in December According to statistics from NetApplications, Apple’s iOS platform made up over a majority (52%) of mobile web access last month, besting Android 16.2% mobile market share....
iOS Closes Out The Year With 52% Mobile Web Market Share, Canadians Downloaded 41 Million Apps Between Christmas and New Years Eve & Are Text Messages Declining Worldwide?
iOS Closes Out The Year With 52% Mobile Web Market Share According to end-of-the-month data from statistics provider NetMarketShare, iOS users ended up with a 52% market share of mobile web browsing in December 2011. More simply...
1 Million Galaxy Notes Shipped Worldwid, Samsung Galaxy S III to Be Announced in February & Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone?
1 Million Galaxy Notes Shipped Worldwide, US Fans Throw Money at Their Screens The Galaxy Note, Samsung's unconventional powerhouse, has managed to ship 1 million units in under two months. While eager US customers still wait...
Rogers Prepping New Cancellation Policies, 6.8 Million Android And iOS Devices Were Activated on Xmas Day & Apple to Launch Redesigned iPhone
Rogers Prepping to Rollout New Cancellation Policies January 2012, Will Bring “Bill 60″ Like Changes Across Canada Apparently Rogers will be putting a similar Bill 60 structure in place across Canada where those wireless customers...
5 Smartphones to Look Out for in 2012, LG Android OS 4.0 Upgrades Will Begin Q2 2012 & Apple Kicks Off 12 Days of iTunes
5 Smartphones to Look Out for in 2012 While 2011 brought some truly amazing innovations to the mobile industry from 4G LTE, to dual-core processors to phones that measure in the millimeters in terms of width, 2012 is poised to...
How to Practise Safe Boxing Day Shopping, Future Shop's Sale Starts on December 24 & Here Are Wind Mobile’s Boxing Day Specials
How to Practise Safe Boxing Day Shopping The point is that to get great deals on Boxing Day, you need a strategy. Just wandering over to the local mall at 11 a.m. could result in frayed nerves, too much money spent and buying...
LG Eclypse Now Available at SaskTel, Sony Ericsson ‘Super Phone’ Has a 13-Megapixel Camera and LTE & One Out Of Almost Every 7 Ads To be Mobile by 2016
One Out Of Almost Every 7 Ads To be Mobile by 2016 In 2016, one out of almost every seven digital ads will be served to a mobile device. Mobile advertising will account for 3.8% of all global ad spending on all media. According...
Say Goodbye to Symbian, Nexus S Update Has Been Paused & LTE Pricing May Drop as Much as 60% by 2016
Say Goodbye to Symbian, Say Hello to Nokia Belle Symbian is already on its last legs as a mobile OS, now Nokia is giving it a bit of a kick while its down by ditching the name it grew up with and rebranding the latest version...
Rogers and Fido Offer Customers Several Premium SMS Choices, Samsung Promises Android 4.0 Update for Galaxy Range & The AT&T T-Mobile Deal Is Officially Dead
Rogers and Fido Offer Customers Several Premium SMS Choices, Including a $40 Monthly Subscription Cap On their company blog Rogers and Fido noted they now “provide a $40 monthly subscription cap for premium SMS programs, so when...
Facebook App for iPhone Gains Timeline, Explosion at Apple Supplier Injures 57 Workers & Even Santa Loves Siri
7 New Apps Worth Downloading This Week With about 500,000 apps in the Apple App Store and an estimated 300,000 apps in the Android Market, finding the gems among the virtual haystack can be full-time job. Mashable Facebook App...
Apple Could Sell Almost 200 Million iPhones in 2012, Meet 7 Language Translation iPhone Apps & RIM Says BlackBerry 10 Phones Won't Arrive Until Late 2012
Apple Could Sell Almost 200 Million iPhones in 2012 Apple could sell as many as 190 million iPhones next year according to a survey conducted by AlphaWise for Morgan Stanley. The survey results also suggested Apple will sell 31-36...
Fido Giving First Month of Service for Free, Google Has Voice-Recognition Virtual Assistant & Verizon’s $300 Galaxy Nexus Price Tag Too High?
Fido Giving New Customers First Month of Service for Free Fido just launched the BlackBerry Curve 9360 and it seems they want to possibly entice a few more customers this holiday season. If you sign up with them you’ll be given...
No Calls in Cars, Android Leads US Market Share & Nokia Again Rumored to Sell Smartphone Business to Microsoft
Rogers Discontinuing Portable Internet Service March 1st, 2012, Now Only Option for Rural Customers is a 4G HSPA+ Device Bell and Rogers independently sell various internet products and the roll out has been slow, but certainly...
Rogers Opens up Online Reservations for the Galaxy Nexus, Google Wallet Leaves Sensitive Data Unencrypted and Accessible & Apple and Google Dominate Smartphone Space
Rogers Opens up Online Reservations (again) for the Galaxy Nexus Now that Bell and Virgin have launched the Nexus, Rogers has once again gone live with the online reservation system and those interested can drop down $40 to secure...