TheCellularGuru’s Top 5 Hottest Phones for the Holidays

Motorola’s strange-looking square Android device, the Flipout, is coming to Rogers in Q3! According to an internal document leaked to us, the 2.8″ device with a QWERTY keyboard will be available later this year. It has a 3MP camera and runs Android 2.1 with an updated version of MOTOBLUR. Price has not yet been released [...]

It has been the talk of the day and most of you know it already, but in case you were waiting for validation, you now have it. The document above was sent internally to Rogers employees stating official pricing for both newly activated lines and upgrades (Check Rogers Redboard for eligibility details). Also announced today was the decision [...]

Koodo’s second HSPA device is a doozy. UK-based manufacturer INQ has a very unique branding style that they hope will appeal to teens and young adults. Along with their new $40 Stay Social Combo, the company plans to counter Chatr, WIND and Mobilicity before they heavily penetrate the market. With unlimited text, incoming calls, 7pm [...]

If this isn’t a huge tease, I don’t know what is. On the eve of the much anticipated Canadian launch of the iPhone 4, as frantic consumers try in vain to source out a device for themselves from both Rogers and Apple stores alike, our Rogers connect has just sent us a few drool worthy [...]

Driphter was at it again this morning bringing us a video of the forthcoming 9780 running BlackBerry 6. They also have a comparison of the device next to the current 9700. This 9780 definitely looks nice and packs in a lot of cool new features. The video gives some more coverage on the webkit browser [...]

Need a Wifi Hotspot? Look no further, MyWi is here! Don’t you hate when you’re out for coffee and you want to get some work done, but the coffee shop you’re at doesn’t have a WiFi hotspot? You could try tethering, but it drains your notebook battery too quickly and who wants to deal with [...]

Wow. Seems like RIM hasn’t ruled out ‘BlackPad’ as the name for their tablet, even though it is very similar to the iPad. They could have just purchased the domain to redirect traffic to another site when their tablet launches, but its way too early to tell. RIM might not even be sure what they’re going to call their tablet [...]

File this as a rumor because of the amount of delays thus far, but one of our solid Rogers connects just informed us that Rogers is planning to release the 2.1 update for the Galaxy Spica within the next month. We will keep you posted as we know more.

This is ambitious, but when we talk about Google, we are often talking in astronomical numbers. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, refutes the claim that Google is a “one-trick pony,” responding that if they are a one-trick pony, “they picked the right pony,” he says. His goal is to monetize Android from advertising. $10 per [...]

The other day (July 26 2010) in San Fransisco the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) claimed victory over Apple and it’s proprietary lock on what it’s consumers could and couldn’t do with their iPhone / iPod / iPad. The victory came in the form of exemptions to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). After reading the [...]