TheCellularGuru’s Top 5 Hottest Phones for the Holidays

Rogers has finally opened the floodgates and begun selling the BlackBerry Torch 9800, online only, until tomorrow when it will be in stores as was previously announced. The phone will run you $199.99 on a 3-year, $499.99 on a 2-year and no-contract for $609.99. The specs have this touchscreen slider with RIM’s new BlackBerry 6 OS, [...]

TheCellularGuru.com and SeanWard.net have a creative relationship like no other: when we meet up, magic happens! What started over the summer with introducing both the site and the iPhone 4 to loyal Sean Ward viewers, has grown into a series of videos aimed at offering the people of our fair city a hands-on approach with [...]

The Acer Liquid E has arrived at Fido making it the first Android device to join Fido’s lineup. The device will cost $30 on select plans with a 3-year Fido Agreement and Data add-on. It will come with Android OS 2.1 (Éclair) pre-installed which will be upgradeable to Android 2.2 (Froyo) when it becomes available. In [...]

One of the most popular IM integration apps on the market has finally come out of Beta! BeeJive, which gained notoriety as a BlackBerry app (than iPhone shortly thereafter) for being a clean, smooth, and battery saving application to integrate all your instant messaging platforms into one easy to use space, has been finally [...]

At DevCon 2010 this morning, a RIM VP confirmed that the QNX OS is in the future for BlackBerry smartphones. This has been in heavy speculation since RIM acquired QNX back in April. I wrote on that subject last Tuesday, so take a look here if you missed it. Many of us bloggers and BlackBerry addicts were also [...]

After long last Telus has finally launched the Android 2.1 powered Galaxy Apollo. For a very reasonable $49.99 on a 3 year term or $249.99 outright you get the following specs. 3.2-inch display (resolution of 240×400) WiFi 3 megapixel camera with video capabilities GPS, FM radio, 3.5mm headset jack, Swype technology, and holds up to 16GB with [...]

The devices have finally started to reach retail outlets and are up internally, ready to be sold, but Rogers is being very strict on when retailers can start letting them go. It has become a no-questions-asked September 30th release date, in line with the announcement last week. Word has it, some retailers were selling the [...]

Update [November 9th, 2010]: I have been running a heavily modified version of Froyo on the Galaxy S for the past few weeks, and I have to say that the development community has done a great job of augementing All of Samsung’s various improvements into a single ROM. The GPS issue seems largely fixed, though [...]

This is pretty ironic. I was about to write a rant on how RIM has been pushing BBM so hard lately but has yet but has yet to add any game-changing features, but then I read that RIM announced the BBM Social Platform today at DevCon 2010. In layman’s terms, RIM is making tools available for 3rd [...]

Here is a quick glimpse of the just announced Playbook: [click here for mobile friendly viewing]