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Virgin HTC Legend review

August 3, 2010August 3, 2010 Doug Groves Android, Bell, canada, Eclair, Friend Stream, google, HTC, HTC Legend, HTC Sense, review, Sense, Sense UI, Virgin Canada3 Comments

HTC, once known as the go-to company for Windows Mobile devices made a wise business decision to embrace Google’s Android operating system from the very beginning, with the original G1. Since that time, they’ve put out an almost dizzying array of phones on the platform, many of them running HTCs custom Sense interface, which first appeared on the HTC Hero. The HTC Legend, currently available on Bell and Virgin in Canada, is very much an updated version of the Hero, with a more polished design and a more current version…

Win a Samsung Galaxy S on Bell, Video calling confirmed

August 3, 2010August 3, 2010 drsquid Android, Android 2.1, Bell, canada, contest, Galaxy S, google, Samsung, smartphone, superphone, Vibrant, video calling1 Comment

The new Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant ‘Superphone’ is coming to Bell soon, and to celebrate the phone’s launch Bell is giving one away each day until the phone’s release, expected to be this Friday, August 6th. Along with the phone giveaway, there is also a chance to win tickets to see Lady Gaga, and a Samsung 55” LED TV. The webpage advertising the contest also confirms that the Galaxy S will support video calling. While the model of the Galaxy S that Bell is carrying does have the front facing…

Indie Gaming Celebrated at Hand Eye Society Social

August 2, 2010August 2, 2010 Paul L Brandon Boyer, canada, Emilie McGinley, event, Hand Eye Society, indie games, indie gaming, interview, Jim McGinley, Jim Munroe, Messhof, Miguel Sternberg, Nidhogg, Offword, PC gaming, TOJam, Toronto4 Comments

The indie gaming scene in Toronto is exploding, and rgbFilter has covered one of local Hand Eye Society’s latest socials.

A Visual Guide To Real-Time Strategy

August 1, 2010 drsquid Blizzard, infographic, Kotaku, PC, PC gaming, RTS, visual guide7 Comments

Continuing their great series of infographics, Kotaku posted their latest visual guide to coincide with the launch of StarCraft II. The RTS, or Real-Time Strategy game, has long been a staple genre of PC gaming, and while there have been some console RTS’s, very few of them have been successful. The release of StarCraft II, and its success so far, both critically and commercially, reinforces the fact that the PC has never really gone away as a gaming platform, it’s just lain low for a while. It is only fitting…

Toronto After Dark Film Festival announces lineup

July 30, 2010 Doug Groves Bloor Cinema, Doghouse, festival, Film, horror, I Spit On Your Grave, Jake West, sci-fi, TADFF, The Last Lovecraft, Toronto After Dark Film Festival2 Comments

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival has opened its online box office and released their 2010 lineup. This is the 5th year for the TADFF, which runs from August 13th to 20th at the legendary Bloor Cinema. TADFF’s eclectic mix of horror, sci-fi and other genre pictures often includes a number of films that rarely get Canadian screening, and it’s good to see they’re keeping up with that tradition. Although the whole lineup is solid, like every year, there are a few films in particular that stand out. This time…

Gateway refreshes NV5 line for social networking mavens

July 30, 2010July 29, 2010 Doug Groves Acer, facebook, Flickr, Gateway, Laptop, NV5, social networking5 Comments

Along with the announcement of the ID Series notebooks, Gateway has updated their NV5 series laptops, and they’re aiming for those who like their social networking to be a single touch away. All NV5 laptops will sport a 15.6 inch 1366×768 LED backlit screen, and will come in a variety of AMD CPU and memory configurations up to 4GB (all expandable to 8GB), with pricing starting at $499.99 The interesting new feature is a new social networking button that calls up… an integrated “social networking” button that allows customers to…

Gateway launches new ID Series Notebook

July 30, 2010July 29, 2010 Doug Groves Acer, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Gateway, ID Series, ID49, ID59, ID79, Intel, notebook, Nvidia, Nvidia Optimus, silver3 Comments

Gateway has just announced the ID Series of notebooks, with silver shells and a funky blue touchpad that glows when touched. The silver casing actually appears to be quite understated in the provided photos. The 3 models all sport Ultrabright LED-backlit displays, and vary in size from 14 to 17.3 inches. The smaller ID49 (14 inch) and ID59 (15.6 inch) share very similar specs with Core i3 and Core i5 options, 4GB of memory (expandable to 8GB) and 1366×768 resolution displays. Some models will also include the Nvidia Optimus technology,…

iPhone 4 Canadian launch news round-up

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 drsquid Antennagate, Apple, Bell, canada, Fido, iOS 4, iPhone, iPhone 4, launch, Rogers, Telus, Virgin Mobile6 Comments

The day has finally come for Canadian iPhone fans, as the iPhone 4 is available in Canada. Are you picking one up today? After all the controversy surrounding ‘Antennagate‘ in the US, it will be interesting to see if the problems with iPhone 4 will affect sales in Canada. The die-hard Apple fanatics will still be lining up in front of stores to get their Precious, but with a lot more choices available in Canada for high-end smartphones now (the Samsung Galaxy S comes to mind), I can’t help but…

Too Good to be True or too True to be Good? Brainwave computing

July 29, 2010July 29, 2010 Pete Chapman Emotiv, mind machine, mind reading, TED, video1 Comment

Courtesy of TED, Tan Le demonstrates her take on the old Mind/Machine Interface trope. The Emotiv Systems’ EPOC headset uses 16 sensors to scan the brain and some very fancy algorithms to identify neural activity and translate this into control signals. Here are ten questions to keep in mind to the degree that the mind can keep anything. 1. Funny how this one seems to be as advanced as it is when speech recognition is still pretty clumsy. Will we jump into full mind/machine connectivity and bypass language altogether? (Just…

Halo: Reach – The Battle Begins trailer

July 29, 2010 Doug Groves Bungie, campaign, Halo, Halo: Reach, Limited Edition, trailer, video, Xbox 360, Xbox Live8 Comments

A new trailer was launched today for Halo: Reach, and this time around, it’s focusing more on the dramatic elements than the multiplayer gameplay. Although thoroughly impressed with the multiplayer beta that came out in the spring, it’s good to see some more focus on the single player story. Gamers have logged millions of hours of game time on the Xbox Live servers, but for me, the Halo series has always been about the epic space opera. There are few game franchises that manage to capture that sense of scale…

Rogers launches Chatr, Mobilicity pursuing legal action

July 29, 2010July 29, 2010 drsquid Bell, canada, Chat-r, Koodo, launch, Mobile, Mobilicity, Rogers, Solo, Star Wars, Telus, unlimited, Wind, Wireless6 Comments

Rogers officially launched their new discount mobile brand Chatr yesterday, after delaying the planned mid-July launch for unspecified reasons. Chatr, like the new Canadian wireless entrants (Mobilicity, Public Mobile and Wind Mobile), is a zone based unlimited cellphone service. The service will be available in in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver, and will be expanding to Montreal in the fall. Rogers originally announced Chatr on June 30th, as a new brand to cater to customers looking for unlimited plans, with no contracts — the very same market that the…

Acer’s new computer line up – all things great and small

July 28, 2010July 28, 2010 Doug Groves Acer, Acer Aspire, Acer Predator, Aspire, Athlon II, ATI, computer, Core i3, Core i5, desktop, Gaming, HTPC, M3, Nvidia, Predator, Radeon, X34 Comments

Acer, a company that’s grown from relative obscurity outside the DIY computer building community to the world’s number 2 computer maker in just a few short years, has announced three new desktop line ups for Canada, covering the spectrum from the small form factor X3 series to the monstrous Predator gaming rig. Playing the mama bear role, is the more traditional M3. The Acer Aspire M3 series is a standard desktop tower, and will come with AMD Athlon II or Intel Core i3 / Core i5 processors and ATI Radeon…