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| Telus Begins Selling Motorola’s Backflip Smartphone
25/04/2010
Canadian wireless giant, Bell Mobility, has joined retail partner, WirelessWave, in offering Palm’s Pre smarphone for free.The Pre, which Palm had hoped would save its struggling smartphone business, was initially available for $199.95 on a three-year Bell contract. Initial sales were respectable, but quickly declined amid tough competition from smartphone industry giants such as Apple and... |
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| Bell Mobility Offers Free Palm Pre on Two-Year Contract
21/04/2010
American teenagers are texting more than ever, according to new data from the Pew Research Center, with 88% of cell phone users aged 12 to 17 sending text messages on a regular basis.Among those who text, half of users send upwards of 50 messages a day, while one in three sends more than 100.Pew’s results are based on a telephone survey conducted last year, as well as a nine focus groups... |
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| One-in-Three Teen Texters Sends 100+ Messages a Day
19/04/2010
Canadian cell phone operator, Bell Mobility, has started offering Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone for $0.00 on a three-year wireless contract.The Galaxy is a Google Android-based smartphone that works on Bell’s HSPA mobile broadband network. It features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, built-in Wi-Fi, and a 5-megapixel digital camera.Bell sells the Galaxy for $449.95 on a month-to-month... |
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| Bell Mobility Discounts Samsung Galaxy to $0.00
15/04/2010
Up-and-coming Canadian wireless operator, WIND Mobile, has announced plans to carry the Nokia 5230 smartphone.The 5230 features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, on-screen QWERTY keyboard, 2-megapixel digital camera, microSD memory slot, and pre-installed HTML web browser. It is the first Nokia product and second touchscreen smartphone to be offered by WIND.The Nokia 5230 is set to be available... |
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| Rogers Wireless Releases Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
13/04/2010
Foreign ownership rules for Canada’s telecommunications industry should be kept in place, but simplified and modernized, according to CRTC chairman, Konrad von Finckenstein, in an address to a Parliamentary committee today.Von Finckenstein said that foreigners should not be able to own more than 49% of telecom providers such as Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications, but that current rules... |
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| Toronto Suburbs to Get New Area Code in 2013
11/04/2010
Bell Canada and Shaw Communications broadcast parts of this weekend’s Masters golf tournament in 3-D, making them the first Canadian pay-TV operators to take advantage of the new technology.Very few subscribers were able to take advantage of the three-dimensional show, given that 3-D-enabled televisions have only been commercially available in Canada for about two weeks. Samsung was the... |
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| Bell and Shaw Offer 3-D Coverage of Masters Golf Tournament
06/04/2010
Canada’s leading cell phone operator, Rogers Wireless, has begun accepting pre-orders for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 smartphone.The Xperia X10, which features a 4-inch touchscreen display, 8-megapixel digital camera, and Google Android operating system, will be available in Rogers stores on April 15. It will cost $149.99 on a three-year voice and data contract.Users who order the X10... |
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| Rogers Wireless Begins Promoting Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
24/03/2010
Canada’s leading cell phone carrier, Rogers Wireless, has decided to make its free “data tethering” promotion permanent, allowing customers to use an Apple iPhone or other 3G device as a portable modem.The offer, which had been set to expire on May 3, is open to Rogers customers with a 1GB+ mobile broadband plan. Any data that is downloaded onto a laptop is deducted from the... |
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| Public Mobile Opens Retail Outlets in Toronto and Montreal
18/03/2010
Sprint Nextel has announced plans to offer Google’s Nexus One smartphone, making it the fourth U.S. carrier to do so.The Nexus One was initially launched in January by T-Mobile USA, which continues to sell the device for $179 on a two-year voice and data contract. More recently, AT&T has also started selling the device, although it does not offer a subsidy.So far, Google has only... |
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| Sprint Nextel to Offer Google Smartphone
15/03/2010
Vancouver-based cell phone operator, Telus Mobility, is aggressively marketing the new Motorola Milestone device with a $50 price cut after just one month of availability.Telus launched the long-awaited Android-based smartphone last month at a price of $199.99 on a three-year voice and data contract. It is now offering the phone for just $149.99, with the added benefit of a free car mount for... |
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