Windows Phone 7 handsets are not as popular as Microsoft thought they would be, or suggests that they are. They are certainly great devices but Redmond seems to still be playing catch-up when it comes to mobile operating systems as iOS and Android are well in the lead. To prove that we have a new Best Buy Canada sale for you which involves a WP7 smartphone, the Samsung Focus, which, according ... Read More
Palm Pre 2 smartphone now available from Rogers Wireless
Palm has announced that the Pre 2, the successor to its Pre smartphone, is now available in Canada with Rogers Wireless. The Pre 2 offers Palm's latest webOS 2.0 operating system, and a 3.1-inch glass touchscreen display with a slide-out keyboard similar to the original Pre, but also sports a speedy 1GHz processor under its hood. The Pre 2 also offers a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and video ... Read More
T-Mobile and AT&T might launch Acer Liquid Metal, Rogers launching it soon
Acer recently launched the Acer Liquid Metal, which is a successor to the Acer Liquid E. Acer Liquid Metal seems a good phone, and it will be hitting UK next month. During a Press Conference in New York earlier this week, an Acer Official said that AT&T and T-Mobile are considering launching the Acer Liquid Metal. These are two major GSM carriers in the USA, so maybe we will see this ... Read More
White BlackBerry Torch 9800 Now at Rogers
As expected, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now available in white on Rogers. That’ll pair up nicely with the white Bold 9780 that Rogers will be launching in good time. Bell will have a red 9800 if you’re not digging the white. There are no white Torches in Canada available outside of Rogers by the looks of it, but if you’re in the U.S., AT&T launched theirs a few weeks ... Read More
Rogers Starts Shipping Samsung Galaxy S Captivate
After about three months of waiting after the announcement, Rogers has finally started shipping the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate to retail locations. Apparently the delay was due to a shortage of Super AMOLED displays on Samsung’s end, but ain’t that always the story? The Captivate is still available for preorder online for $149.99 (on a three-year contract, of course) until this Sunday, after which it will go for $179.99 in ... Read More
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Goes Live on Rogers
After a lot of shuffling with dates, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now available on Rogers for $199 on a three-year contract, with Telus and Bell not too far behind. It seems like the Torch is only in the online store, and that the brick-and-mortar locations will still get it on September 30 as planned. The BlackBerry Torch is RIM’s top-of-the-line device, being their first slider, first with a 5 megapixel ... Read More
Rogers & Telus to Launch the BlackBerry Torch on September 24
The BlackBerry Torch is slowly moving towards Canadian consumers and it looks like both Rogers and Telus will launch RIM's latest smartphone on September 24. Rogers was initially said to sell the Torch 9800 on September 15 but it looks like you'll have to wait just a little longer to get it. Rogers is going to sell this BlackBerry for $199 with a new three-year contract and Telus will probably match ... Read More
Rogers BlackBerry Curve 9300 Now Available in ‘Smokey Violet’
If the original Rogers offering of the BlackBerry Curve 9300 in a silver/chrome finish didn’t do it for you… Perhaps the new model that has just been introduced will peak your interest. As we suspected, the boys and girls in red have launched another variant of the 9300, this time in ‘Smokey Violet’. Of course, the only thing different here is the color of the device, all of the new Curve ... Read More
Rogers LG Neon 2 Now Available from $19.99
Not that the Rogers LG Neon was a homerun or anything, but if you were among the first that embraced the side slider, I’ve got some quick news for you this afternoon. Rogers has just released the second-gen Neon on their network. Named the LG Neon 2 (duh), this latest edition packs a lot of new features and improvements in comparison to its older sibling. First off, there’s the expected full ... Read More
Telus to Launch BlackBerry Torch 9800 on September 16?
The BlackBerry Torch is, at least for now, the brand new flagship device of RIM. The smartphone has been just announced in the USA and will be available in AT&T stores starting with August 12, but the AT&T is not the only North American carrier to get it. Telus is now said to sell the BlackBerry Torch starting with September 16 and it's the first of the Big Three Canadian carriers ... Read More













