When it was announced at Mobile World Congress this past May, the HTC Flyer stood out from a lot of its tablet peers for three reasons. The first and most obvious was that it featured support for HTC’s Scribe stylus. The second was that it did not have a dual-core processor. The third was that it [...]

A couple of rumours coming down the tubes today from Bloomberg, reporting that a PlayBook OS update bringing a native email client is scheduled for a September release, and that future QNX-based BlackBerry devices will have Android compatibility. Since the PlayBook’s launch, users wanting to access their mail on the tablet have needed to bridge [...]

Some interesting stats reported today on the amount that Canadians are using SMS to communicate. In 2010, Canadians collectively sent 56.4 billion text messages, and that number is steadily growing. With 18 billion text messages sent in Q1 of this year alone, we are well ahead of the curve to make this another year of [...]

Despite popular belief, growing up I was a huge clutz - literally rocking two left feet; so I’m kind of bitter that this device was never around in my day or I would have saved plenty-a-money when I dropped my phone in countless lakes, pools and puddles growing up. And though this isn’t anything ground [...]

For a deal of this magnitude to go un-leaked before an official press release is just amazing, so I will give total kudos to the legal team behind this acquisition on keeping it well under wraps - a job well done. Now for the juicy part, the acquisition, and it going a lil’ something like [...]

Upon its release in early-2010, the Motorola Milestone shook up the Canadian smartphone market and heralded the true beginning of the Android revolution. Now, more than one year later, the third-generation of the Milestone, the XT860, is looking for further shake things up. But in an environment where new super-charged smartphones are hitting store shelves [...]

It’s really no question that the new “it” topic of the mobile world is NFC, and how/when it will become a common occurrence in both devices and in retail stores. Slowly but surely manufacturers are hopping the bandwagon, implementing the technology into their new releases and forthcoming releases. As for the merchants who will handle the payment processing, [...]

As the years go by and the devices get more powerful, they also get much much thinner; now Bell is giving “thin” a whole new meaning with the all new Motorola XT860 4G. It’s being touted as the world’s thinnest full featured Android powered QWERTY device and to be honest device ain’t too shabby, coming [...]

Another week, another Android smartphone hits the Canadian market. This time up is the Samsung Galaxy S Infuse 4G from Rogers Wireless. We’ve spent the past week playing around with the mid-level smartphone, and today we’re ready to post our thoughts. Curious? Then click on through to read our review of the Samsung Galaxy S [...]

Although it started selling it in mid-May, we just couldn’t say no when Mobilicity reached out to us and asked if we’d take a look at the HTC Panache, an Android smartphone that is exclusive to the scrappy Canadian upstart. Is a combination of the handset and network enough to make Canadians flee the Big [...]