It was only yesterday that it announced a deal with Walmart, but Mobilicty is back again today with news of another strategic partnership having signed a similar deal with Staples. Starting today, Canadians will be able to sign up for Mobilicity’s services at over 70 Staples locations in and around Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver. What [...]

Never one to let its big brother hog all of the new toys, Virgin Mobile Canada today announced that it too is selling both the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9810. Priced similarly to Bell, the Bold 9900 and Torch 9810 are both available on Virgin’s SuperTab for $169.99 and $149.99 respectively. The same prices also hold [...]

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 [...]

Mobilicity today announced that it has entered into a strategic distribution with retail giant Walmart. Under the terms of the agreement, Mobilicity will set up shop in some 50 Walmart’s located in and around Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver. Specifics about types of special deals Canadians can expect to get from the partnership were not [...]

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 [...]

The HP TouchPad. It’s pretty hard to go a day without hearing about it. Russell Brand is on TV hawking it, newspapers are filled with large ads for it, and they’re prominently displayed in just about every electronics store in the nation. Is HP spending the big ad dollars out of pride, or is it [...]

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 [...]

To celebrate the Canadian launch of the TouchPad, HP has announced it will embark upon summer-long campaign to raise money for charity. The campaign, known as “Gives Like Nothing Else”, is simple. Starting July 23rd and running until August 31st, HP will be holding a series of events in public places where consumers are invited to [...]