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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…

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…

Starcraft II is here, and you can win a copy

July 27, 2010August 2, 2010 drsquid Blizzard, canada, event, Future Shop, Gaming, launch, PC, RTA, RTS, Starcraft, Starcraft 2, Starcraft II, Toronto23 Comments

rgbFilter is celebrating the release of the game by giving away two copies of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, in conjunction with Future Shop. Just leave a comment after the break, and we will randomly pick the winners.The entries have been tallied! Congratulations to unokilo321 and heimp!

Samsung Galaxy S coming to Telus too?

July 26, 2010July 26, 2010 drsquid Android, Android 2.1, Bell, canada, event, Galaxy S, google, HSPA, launch, Mobilicity, Party, Rogers, Samsung, smartphone, superphone, Telus, Toronto, Wind1 Comment

UPDATE – According to MobileSyrup, the Telus Galaxy in question is actually going to be the mid-range Galaxy Apollo. Hopes dashed. When Samsung announced the launch in Canada of the Galaxy S ‘Superphone’, on Bell, they also said that “Canadian consumers can anticipate the release of additional Galaxy S smartphones throughout the rest of 2010.” Well, it looks like Telus might be the first carrier to have one of these ‘additional’ Galaxy S phones. On Howard Forums, one of the internet’s best discussion groups for phone geeks, the image above…

Reminder: Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 Launch Party Tonight!

July 19, 2010July 19, 2010 drsquid Beguiling, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hand Eye Society, launch, Oni Press, Party, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Toronto1 Comment

Just a REMINDER, be sure to attend tonight’s Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 Launch Party on Markham Street, in Toronto, tonight. More information about the party can be found in our earlier post here. We will be attending, so expect some awesome video footage in the coming days.

New slim Xbox 360 to hit Canada on Sunday

June 17, 2010June 17, 2010 Doug Groves Best Buy, Futureshop, launch, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Slim2 Comments

Announced at E3 earlier this week, the newly upgraded ‘whisper quiet’ version of the Xbox 360, which also more than doubles the hard drive capacity to 250GB, is slated to hit Canada’s two biggest electronics retailers Sunday June 20th, for $299.99. With the release coming so soon after the E3 announcement, I’m guessing the supply chain for the original design has been very much controlled for some time now, to minimize the number of orphaned original 360s. I have a few unused electronics gift cards sitting on my desk at…

Virgin Mobile launches their first Android phone, the HTC Legend

June 13, 2010June 22, 2010 drsquid Android, Android 2.1, Bell, event, google, HTC, HTC Legend, launch, Legend, Sense UI, smartphone, Virgin Mobile3 Comments

In a surprise move, Bell launched the HTC Legend Android smartphone this past Friday, on their Virgin Mobile MVNO. Up until last week it was thought that the flagship Android phone in Bell’s line-up would launch on the main brand. On Friday Best Buy’s website was even updated prematurely, to show to Legend as available on Bell. Later that day, however, it was Virgin Mobile who was the first carrier in North America to officially announce availability of the Legend. At an event on Friday, Virgin Group Chairman Sir Richard…

Xperia X10 Launch Event interviews, available now at Rogers

April 15, 2010April 16, 2010 Doug Groves Anderson Teixeira, Android, interview, launch, Raj Doshi, Rogers, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Windows Phone 7, Xperia, Xperia X101 Comment

Today Rogers launched the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android-packing phone, for $149.99 on a 3 year contract, $549 outright. It runs Android 1.6, with Sony Ericsson’s custom Timescape and Mediascape UI. It has 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4″ (480 x 854) screen and an 8.1 MP camera. Included in the box is a 16gb MicroSD card, charger and wired stereo headset, but sadly no carrying case. We should be getting an X10 to play with soon, and will post our in-depth hands-on review next week. You can buy phone today at…

Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Coverage, continued…

December 29, 2009December 29, 2009 drsquid Bell, Blackberry, cellphone, event, HTC, Huawei, launch, Mobile, Rogers, Samsung, Telus, Toronto, Wind Mobile9 Comments

Our continued coverage of the December 16th Wind Mobile launch in Toronto…in Part 2 Ken Campbell, CEO, and Chris Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, talk in more detail about Wind, the phones, and their initial plan offerings. Part 3 includes rest of the press conference, and their first customer getting his phone. Parts 4 & 5 conclude the coverage, with a Q&A session, some shots of their phones, their second customer, and a short interview with Chris from Wind, where he mentions Wind’s current lack of support for enterprise mail on…