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Leaked: Nokia 700 “Zeta” Press Photos
Nokia has had one hell of a time keeping details surrounding the Symbian-powered Nokia 700 (or “Zeta”) under wraps. First, the name and specs leaked last week; just a day later, real world photos found their way online. Today,...
Fido And Evergreen Create The “Share Your Care” Campaign, Gives $100,000 To The Environment
Fido has become Canada’s green wireless carrier. They offer a few devices that are made of recycled products and have several programs that give back to the environment (planting trees, recycling old cellphones etc). Now Fido...
Ever Wondered How Badly You’re Getting Screwed By Your Carrier Over SMS, Because You Are
Texting has to be the biggest form of message sharing that we have today and the wireless carriers are laughing all the way to the bank with every one that is sent. Let’s suppose you text your friend the following: “Yo Joe, what’s...
App Development Services Market To Reach $100 Billion By 2015
The market for mobile application development services, which includes things like app creation, management, distribution and extension services, will grow to $100 billion by 2015, according to a new report from research2guidance....
Cellphones Are Dangerous / Not Dangerous: Cancer Experts Say 'What, Me Worry?'
If you haven't already gotten whiplash from the ongoing cellphone-cancer debate, a freshly released scientific review might just do the trick. In the paper, published Friday, a panel of experts from Britain, Sweden and the US...
Apple Becomes Latest ‘Anonymous’ Hacker Target
Notorious hacker collective “Anonymous Operations” on Sunday published data it claims to have obtained by breaching a server belonging to Apple. The data, which consisted of 27 usernames and passwords, was allegedly taken during...
Google+ For iOS Awaiting App Store Approval
Google+ is already available on Android and on the mobile web, but the search giant’s social network will soon make its debut on iPhone and iPad. Google+ is still in private beta and requires invites to access. Despite that restriction,...
Best Buy Starts Selling Unlocked Phones
There are many ways to get your device unlocked, the carriers are doing this now but it’ll cost you between $50 and $75. Then you can find one of the thousands of websites that charge anywhere from $5- $25 for an unlock code....
Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 25K Apps
Clearly the Android Market is growing rapidly, and there’s no reason to even mention the Apple App Store, which just breezed by the 100,000 iPad app marker. But we can’t leave the little guys out, especially when their growth...
This Is The iPhone 4's Biggest Threat Yet
There's still no release date. There's still no pricing announcement. There isn't even a finalized official name. But the Samsung Galaxy S II is all but ready for its U.S. launch. The real excitement is on the inside. The Galaxy...
Samsung Galaxy Z: Galaxy S II's 'Affordable Little Brother' Now Ready For Pre-order
Been lusting after the Galaxy S II, but aren't willing to break the bank? We hear you, and apparently Samsung does too. Up for pre-order today, on the Swedish arm of Three, is the Galaxy Z -- billed as a more affordable spawn...
Koodo INQ Cloud Touch Gets Released At Best Buy First
Koodo Mobile never formally announced they’ll be releasing the INQ Cloud Touch, it was parent-company TELUS that stated this Android will be “coming soon”. However, from an internal doc we knew this was hitting Koodo for $200...
Windows Phone To Grab 17% Of Smartphone Market Next Year, Analyst Predicts
According to Chang Chi, the deputy head of Taiwan-based Market Intelligence Center, Windows Phone will have a 17% grip on the smartphone market next year. Chi said that Android’s share of the market in 2011 is 38%, followed by...
Annual Mobile App Downloads To Jump To 182.7 Billion By 2015, IDC Says
According to a new report from research firm IDC, annual mobile app downloads are expected to jump from just 10.7 billion in 2010 to 182.7 billion in 2015. The company noted that that developers should keep a close eye on in-app...
Nokia Sells Off Branded Messaging Business To Synchronica
It’s not the rumoured Microsoft buyout of their mobile business division, but Nokia has announced the conditional sale of their messaging business unit to UK-based Synchronica. Pending both regulatory and shareholder approval...
Apps Fuelling Sharp Growth For Mobile Gambling Industry
There have been great expectations for mobile gambling ever since the days when it was one of the "three G's" expected to make big money for mobile operators from their 3G customers. The other two were games and girls (i.e. adult...
Unlocked, SIM-Free Nokia E6 Goes Live On Amazon’s Site For $439
The Nokia E6 saw a $7 price-cut as it became available today on Amazon’s site, listed at $439 instead of its pre-order price of $446. The unlocked, SIM-free phone is available and in-stock, and shipping is free from Amazon. The...
TELUS Tentatively Scores A $1 Billion Contract With The B.C. Government
TELUS and the B.C. government has tentatively signed a 10-year contract worth $100 million per year, so $1 billion! TELUS beat out other telecom players such as Bell, Rogers, Shaw and five others and will seem in almost part of...
Happy 4th Anniversary, iPhone [INFOGRAPHIC]
Four years ago today, Apple released the original iPhone. The hype that preceded the release of the so-called “Jesus Phone” was nothing short of staggering. In four years, the iPhone has utterly transformed the mobile industry....
Samsung Conquer 4G To Pack WiMax And Android 2.3
Samsung today published details about the D600 Conquer 4G, a new WiMax Android smartphone for Sprint. Based on the specs, the Conquer 4G appears to be a mid-range smartphone. It has a 3.5-inch HVGA display, 1GHz processor, and...
OnLive CEO Reveals 'Entirely New Approach' To Wireless, Credits Rearden For Toppling Shannon's Law
"In advance, yes -- you're right, it's impossible. But nonetheless, we have ten radios all working at the same frequency, all at the Shannon limit... and there's no interference." You may not fully grok the significance of that...
Angry Birds For Windows Phone 7 Now Available For $2.99
Microsoft originally said that Rovio’s hit game Angry Birds would make its debut in May, but that date was later pushed until June 29th. That day is finally here and, as promised, the game is now available in the Windows Phone...
Competition Bureau Fines Bell $10 Million For Misleading Advertising
The Competition Bureau have reached an agreement with Bell today that will see them fork over $10 million for misleading advertising. The Bureau said that Bell has been advertising prices for various services since 2007 that “were...
500,000 Android Devices Are Activated Every Day
Half a million Android devices are activated every day, a number that’s growing 4.4% each week, Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin revealed in a tweet. Android’s growth has been amazing in the past couple of months. In May, Google...
Windows Phone 7 gets its Kik, too
It would seem Kik, everybody's almost favorite free messaging service -- except those on a BlackBerry, perhaps -- has added Windows Phone 7 to its list of supported platforms. What's Kik you ask? Well, in case you've been hiding...
Rogers Employees Start LTE Training
Ottawa residents will be first to experience the new Rogers LTE network this Summer. There has been no official launch date announced but the Sierra Wireless Rocket Stick (AirCard 313U) has been deemed the inaugural device. Rogers...
iOS Vs. Android: Which Mobile OS Is More Secure?
A new independent study by security experts at Symantec attempted to measure how secure Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platform are, and also to determine how these mobile platforms stack up against desktop operating systems....
Users Spend More Time Using Mobile Apps Than The Internet, Study Finds
We now spend more time using mobile apps than on the Internet, according to a new research report from Flurry. The firm, which pulls its data from more than 85,000 applications, noted that in June 2011 the average person spent...
Apple To Samsung: If You Copy Us, We Won’t Let You Build Our Chips (So There!)
Just a couple months ago, Apple and Samsung were basically BFFs. Of course, they were still competitors, but their relationship was symbiotic. Samsung produced the A4 chips that run Apple’s iPhone 4 and the A5 chips found in the...
HTC Salsa Will Also Be Coming To Canada
The Salsa has now arrived on the HTCSense.com Canadian section. No word yet on which carrier will be picking this up but the major difference between the two devices is that the Salsa is a touchscreen device, while the ChaCha...
HTC myTouch 4G Slide Boasts 8 Megapixel Camera With Burst Shot And HDR
T-Mobile and HTC today announced the myTouch 4G Slide, a new Android device that features an 8 megapixel camera with an array of sophisticated capabilities. Aside from auto-focus and dual LED flash, the myTouch 4G Slide's camera...
Google’s First Ice Cream Sandwich Phone To Be Manufactured By Samsung, Possibly Dubbed ‘Nexus Prime’
This upcoming superphone will not have any carrier preloads or OEM customizations, which goes without saying for a Nexus phone or a reference/flagship Android offering. The current codename is “Prime”, and our source believes...
Survey Reveals 41% Of Canadians Have A Smartphone
A new survey has been released, this time by research firm TNS. Based on 34,000 global responses from 43 countries (only 1,000 from Canada) they are reporting that “Canadians are leaders when it comes to adapting latest technologies”....
Samsung Galaxy S II Set To Outsell Motorola DROID BIONIC, Study Finds
Data from 14,838 users across Facebook, Twitter and other social networking services shows that 68% of prospective buyers are interested in purchasing the Galaxy S II while 32% are interested in the DROID BIONIC. More specifically,...
Sharp SH8188U Is Run-of-the-mill 1GHz Android, Awaits (possible stateside) Introduction
Today we're given a view of the Sharp SH8188U, a Froyo-filled slate phone that sports a Qualcomm MSM8255 SoC. Like other handsets of this heritage -- including the Incredible S and myTouch 4G -- users can expect a familiar 1GHz...
HTC Evo 3D, Evo View 4G Hit Sprint Shelves Today
June 24 is upon us and that can only mean one thing: glasses free 3D is here, delivered straight from the highly anticipated HTC Evo 3D. The Evo 3D goes on sale today from Sprint alongside HTC’s Evo View 4G tablet. The HTC Evo...
Second Beta for iOS 5 Turns On Wi-Fi Syncing
Apple today released a second beta version of its iOS 5 system software for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. This updated software has activated wireless Wi-Fi syncing between iOS devices and Apple computers, as well as added...
Telus Makes It Simple To Terminate Contracts, Replace Your Feature Phone
Taking a page from its own playbook, Telus Mobility has extended its Clear and Simple Device Upgrade program to the logical conclusion of contract termination. Now, if a customer chooses to cancel their service, they must pay...
Rogers Releases Two Unlimited U.S. Text Message Plans
A couple weeks back Rogers posted a “coming soon” notice on their site regarding a new $10 Unlimited U.S. text message package. Today, this has been released along with a new $50 Unlimited offering. Here are the details: The $10...
ThinkGeek Now Selling The FastMac U-Socket, The USB Wallplug
Most gadgets charge off USB nowadays so it only makes sense to have a wall outlet with a couple of outlets. ThinkGeek has you covered with the FastMac U-Socket USB Wallplug. The standard 110 volt socket has two 5.0V 2100mA outlets...