This seemed almost inevitable. In the wake of Best Buy beating them to the punch with Online preorder yesterday, Rogers has officially posted a preorder page of their own for the forthcoming device launch. To sweeten the deal, before April 15th, with every order on a 3-year voice and data term, Rogers is throwing in [...]

According to Admob, an online advertising research company, Canadians love their iPhones. In fact, 80% of mobile web usage in Canada is from the iPhone. Really? NO KIDDING! Compared to the US, which sits at 44% iPhone, 42% Android, this is unsurprising.

The day (week, actually) has finally come where Droid owners can stop flagellating themselves to screengrabs of Milestones with Android 2.1 updates. Motorola has issued a press release stating the updates will start rolling out today and continue unabated, if there are no problems, for the rest of the week. Read up for the official [...]

Android today is a strange animal: there is a lot going for it, but as many critics have said before, there is a fragmentation problem that threatens to affect the success of the whole platform. Brand new cellphones are coming loaded with a two-year-old version of the OS, while certain higher-profile phones, often with lower [...]

This week, there wasn’t a lot of Android rumours, but rather, Android Revelations, with word that this summer will bring the Sprint HTC EVO 4G and the Samsung Galaxy S. But there were a few things that came to light, and that includes various updates for various Android phones.

Someone threw the switch at Telus last night, and Milestone and Hero owners on the Telus network woke to the ability to pay for apps, a long-awaited (and recently-added-to-Rogers) feature. Now, the presence of paid apps in the Marketplace may not seem like a huge win, since most of the best Android apps are still [...]

I Eat $%@T Like You For Breakfast Who would have thought that after all this time, Samsung would break into the mobile phone platform in any sort of way? They have basically floundered over the years, bringing out mediocre device after mediocre device, relying on aged platforms (or none at all) and very little to [...]

First there were screen cracks, then there was the purple tint, and now, according to Luke Hutchison, PhD candidate at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, lower effective screen resolution than the 480×800 advertised. The Nexus One is a gorgeous phone, sure, but it’s had its fair share of issues since its debut in [...]

WIMAX! 10mbp/s downstream! 4.3 inch AMOLED screen! HD Video Recording! 1GB ROM! Snapdragon processor! Kick-stand? All these things were unveiled, and more, yesterday, at Sprint’s CTIA press conference. The Android world especially went wild at this news, as the phone unveiled is, by degrees, the best and most robust Android phone released to date. It’s [...]

Huh? Ok, so mostly everyone knows that the Motorola Droid update to 2.1 has been delayed, again, again. But good news for owners of the GSM equivalent east of the Atlantic, as the Milestone is now shipping with 2.1 in Germany and Spain, and many Italian owners, and those from Hong Kong, have reported successful [...]