When it comes to Canadian carriers, pricing seems to be one big game of “Follow the Leader”. Just yesterday, Telus dropped the price of a 16GB iPhone 4 to $99.99 on a three year commitment, and already Bell and Virgin have followed suit. While Rogers hasn’t announced any changes to their pricing yet, it stands [...]

We’re not sure what to make of this one, but according to MobileSyrup, Canadians will soon be able to buy the iPhone 4 at a reduced rate. According to the site’s tipsters, all carriers that currently offer the device will be cutting the 3-year contract price of the 16GB model from $169.99 to $99.99. The [...]

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 [...]

The Bold 9900 wasn’t the on BlackBerry to go on sale with Bell today, as the Torch 9810 is now also up for grabs. The successor to the original Torch 9800, the 9810 shares similar specs to the Bold 9900 — BlackBerry 7 OS, 5 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor and [...]

Get ready to break out your credit cards, Canada, because the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is now available for purchase online from Bell. Styled after the incredibly popular Bold 9000, the Bold 9900 is one of the first smartphones from RIM to feature BlackBerry 7 OS. Its key specs include a 2.8″ VGA touchscreen display, 5 megapixel [...]

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 [...]

Virgin Mobile is known for two very special things: their insanely risqué/catchy marketing campaigns and their knack for undercutting the competition. Now that everyone knows that the BlackBerry 7 devices are coming, all we await now - other than confirmed release dates - is termed and non-termed pricing. Thus far only the big 3 have [...]

  Fellow Canadians you can finally rejoice! All the big boys - and most of their respective HSPA+ sharing subsidiaries - have finally come forward to announce their plans to carry the full line of new BlackBerry 7 devices including: The BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Torch 2 9810, and BlackBerry Torch 9860 (supposed successor to [...]

Bell’s smartphone line-up received a huge shot in the arm today, as the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G went on sale. A true beast of “superphone”, the Galaxy S II’s specs include a 4.3″ qHD Super AMOLED Plus display, 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture, 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processor and 1GB of RAM. We’ve received [...]

If you happen to own a HTC Sensation 4G from Bell, you might want to dive into its settings and click on software update, as system upgrade 1.35.666.1 is now available to download OTA. Weighing in at 28.11MB, the minor update brings with it performance enhancements, fixes potential GPS lock issues, and throws in a new [...]