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Bell Re-launches the Early Hardware Upgrade Program, SkyDrive and Windows Phone Cozy Up & Samsung Claims 300 Million Phones Sold in 2011

Bell Re-launches the Early Hardware Upgrade Program Bell gave customers in a contract the option to upgrade early by their “Early Hardware Upgrade” Program (HUP). The associated costs would be $15 multiplied by the number of months...

Nokia Lumia 710 Now Shipping, Rogers Samsung Galaxy S Glide Drops to $0.01 & Which Smartphone Has the Best Camera?

Nokia Lumia 710 Now Shipping, Global Rollout Slated for 'Coming Weeks' It's been a few months coming, but today, Nokia announced that its Lumia 710 handset has finally hit store shelves in Taiwan, ahead of its broader international...

Nokia Rolls Out First Update for Lumia 800, Instagram Is Coming to Android and Galaxy Nexus Officially Available from Bell and Virgin Mobile

Nokia Rolls Out First Update for Lumia 800, Offers up New Features for Web-based 3D Maps on the Side Its 3D Maps, available in 25 cities, have been given new navigation functions, sharing and search options. You'll have to install...

Shaw Begins Trial of WiFi Network, Flipboard Launches on iPhone & BlackBerry 10 Is Now the Official Name of RIM’s Next Mobile OS

Shaw Begins Trial of WiFi Network in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver Shaw decided earlier this year not to pursue building a 3G network in Western Canada, likely due to prohibitively expensive upfront infrastructure costs. Instead,...

Rogers Galaxy SII LTE Price Drops Continue, Starbucks Does $110m in Mobile App Revenue & Teen Sexting Not as Common as Once Thought

How to Find Out if Carrier IQ is Installed on Your Phone in One Tap Carrier IQ software is installed by carriers in an effort to “collect enough information to understand the customer experience with devices on our network and...

iPhone 4S Deemed Best iPhone Yet by Owners, Galaxy Nexus Runs Impressive 4G LTE Speed Test & Public Mobile Introduces U.S. Roaming

iPhone 4S Deemed Best iPhone Yet by Owners A recent study carried out by ChangeWave Research found that 96% of iPhone 4S owners are satisfied with their smartphone, with 77% of survey respondents having said they were very satisfied...

Carrier IQ Tracking Scandal Spirals Out of Control, “Canadians Should Receive the Same Services Wherever They Live” & Android Smartphone Round-Up

Carrier IQ Tracking Scandal Spirals Out of Control In October, researcher Trevor Eckhart discovered that Carrier IQ is recording, among other things, your every keystroke and possibly sending it back to Carrier IQ’s servers. Carrier...

It’s Still A Feature Phone World, Samsung Galaxy Note Coming to Canada Q1 2012 & RIM Unveils BlackBerry Mobile Fusion for Enterprise

Samsung Galaxy Note Coming to Canada Q1 2012 The Samsung Galaxy Note, “a new category of product”, will be launching in Canada “early Q1 2012″. Carrier(s) are still being decided upon, but it will most likely end up being an exclusive. MobileSyrup Samsung...

Motorola Droid 4 Specs Leak Out, More LG Phones Will Receive Android 4 Upgrade & Apple Had A Better Black Friday Than It Expected

Quietly Brilliant Story of HTC Shows off Innovations Through the Years While HTC has often been overshadowed by its competition, and has recently been overtaken by Samsung for overall Android market share, it had its most successful...

Various Sales Happening This Weekend, Apple Leads in Loyalty & FlyScreen Launches an iOS 5-Like Lockscreen API for Android

Various Sales Happening This Weekend This is supposed to be the busiest shopping weekend of the year – Black Friday and Cyber Monday will both see huge discounts on various products. Apart from the carrier monthly rate plan discounts,...

Samsung Galaxy W Now Available at Bell, Nokia Siemens to Slash 17,000 Jobs & Has the Windows Phone Marketplace Reached Critical Mass?

Samsung Galaxy W Now Available at Bell Right on schedule is Bell releasing the Samsung Galaxy W, an affordable entry level Android that runs Android 2.3 and no word on an upgrade path to OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. MobileSyrup LG,...

11 Craziest Black Friday Deals at Best Buy, China Leapfrogs US to Become World's Top Smartphone Market & WIND Goes Live in Niagara

Strategy Analytics: China Leapfrogs US to Become World's Top Smartphone Market According to the latest Q3 figures from Strategy Analytics, China is now the world's largest smartphone market by volume, overtaking the US for the...

Lumia Line to Get Nokia Drive Update, 18% of Canadian Drivers Admit to Talking While Driving & HTC Tapped to Build Facebook Phone

Survey Finds That 18% of Canadian Drivers Admit to Talking/Texting While Driving A new survey has been released by insurance company Kanetix that reveals talking and texting while driving is still very prevalent. The survey was...

Ice Cream Sandwich Doesn’t Have Flash Support, Bell and Virgin Launching Galaxy Nexus & Quad-core Galaxy S III Coming in 2012?

Ice Cream Sandwich Doesn’t Have Flash Support (For Now) The latest version of Google’s mobile platform, Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich, lacks a Flash player, and there’s currently no option to download it from the Android Market. Mashable Asus...

The Best Android Phone Yet, Another Lumia Leaked & Wind says “It Was a Bad Idea” to Get Involved in Canada

Samsung Galaxy Nexus: the Best Android Phone We’ve Seen Yet A new era in the impressive story of Google‘s Android operating system has just begun with the release of the Nexus. Mashable Motorola Motokey Social set to Like Telus...

Public Mobile to Launch a New Unlimited Plan, Blackberry Bold 9790 Cleared for Landing in Canada & iPhone Now Top Dog in Workplace

Public Mobile to Launch a New $30/month Unlimited Talk, Text and Data Plan Promo The new Public Mobile plan will be officially announced over the next few days and for $45/month it’ll give you Unlimited talk, text and data – plus...

Virgin Launches New Incoming 35 Plan, RIM is Committed to the Keyboard & Nokia`s Planning a High-End Lumia

Virgin Launches New Incoming 35 Plan, Gives Unlimited Incoming Calls The best feature of the new Virgin “Incoming 35″ plan is that it gives you Unlimited incoming calls. In addition, included is 200 anytime minutes, evenings starting...

Huawei to Acquire Symantec’s 49% Stake, Rogers to Release the BlackBerry Bold 9790 & Mobilicity Drops Monthly Rate Plans by 50%

Huawei to Acquire Symantec’s 49% Stake in Huawei Symantec for $530 Million Huawei announced on Monday its intentions to purchase Symantec’s 49% stake in Huawei Symantec, a joint venture between the two companies that was originally...

Bell to Launch the Galaxy Nexus, Smartphone Dating Etiquette & Awaiting a Very Mobile Christmas

How Google, eBay, And PayPal Are Gearing Up For A Very Mobile Holiday Shopping Season All of the companies unanimously agreed that this would be the year of mobile for the holiday shopping season. Clearly, there’s plenty...

Today’s Mobile Brief: Apple Fixes iPhone Battery Issues & Has No Plans to Bring Siri to Older Devices, Public Mobile Launches New Download Store

Amazon Just Sliced About $200 off the Droid RAZR Motorola's Droid RAZR launches today for $299.99, but Amazon is selling it for just $111.11 on a new two-year contract. If you're in the market for the world's slimmest smartphone...

Today’s Mobile Brief: Premium Smartphones are Almost for Free, Nokia's got a Lumia 800 'Making-of' Documentary & the BlackBerry Brand Dominates?

11 Premium Smartphones That You Can Get For A Penny Or Less Not a big spender? No problem — Some of the best smartphones in the previous generation and some pretty potent current-generation smartphones are available for less than...