You would think Canadians would be used to this by now? A hot new device is released across all carriers and just like that (at most places before noon) the device is already sold out. You can imagine my surprise to wake up today to a full inbox of friends, followers and desperate consumers wondering [...]

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, [...]

Still sulking over the launch party you weren’t able to attend, or the American one you refused to pay full-pop for? Never fear upgrade ready people, seems as though the devices have begun to arrive at select Rogers locations around the GTA; no I won’t say where, nice try. Though exact availability is still up [...]

Despite recent rumors of OS issues causing delays for its Canadian launch, it seems that Rogers is still on track for a release of the Torch 9800 on Friday, September 24th. This picture was just sent to us of a dummy phone that arrived at a Rogers Plus retail location in the GTA. No word [...]

One thing I can say from experience is that BlackBerry knows how to throw down a fantastic party! Yes, TIFF just ended, and BlackBerry had proved themselves there as modern, capable sponsors, but this wasn’t TIFF (although with the amount of celebrities present, the average person was still starstruck), this was the official Canadian launch [...]

Talk about coincidence. Not 4 hours ago did we post about the training deck for the Rogers Torch 9800 launching online, but now confirmation has come in on the date of the official launch party! Monday Sept.20th, is the date at a secret venue in Toronto. Of course we will be there live bloggin’ the [...]

And the announcement has come, albeit over twitter. Virgin Mobile (a Bell subsidiary) will release their BlackBerry Torch 9800 on September 24th, right in line with everyone else. They didn’t give pricing details, but I doubt they will undercut their parent company in Bell, so expect it to be $199.99 on a 3 year term.

This should come as no surprise seeing as their competitors both officially gave the nods today, but Bell has finally come forward via Twitter to announce the pending release of the BlackBerry Torch 9800. The launch date across all carriers is now officially confirmed at Friday Sept 24th, 2010. No official pricing from Bell is [...]

What, you thought Telus wouldn’t respond today as well? Fresh off the heels of Rogers’ announcement this morning, Telus has issued a release that they too intend on launching the Torch on September 24th, as well. No official word on pricing, but expect it to match Rogers’ at $199.99 on a 3 year voice and [...]

Today is the day everyone has been drooling talking about. Both the Blackberry Torch 9800 and Motorola Droid 2, arguably the two most anticipated phones of the year have both finally officially been released by AT&T and Verizon, respectively, in the U.S., both at the same $199 (with or without rebate) price point on a [...]