With what seems like a new flagship Android smartphone being launched every other week, it’s tough for consumers to keep up. Every manufacturer tries to differentiate their products by focusing on features that they feel potential customers will want badly enough to justify purchasing a new handset. The HTC Sensation 4G, the latest flagship Android handset to [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S II clearly isn’t a Bell exclusive, as both Virgin Mobile and SaskTel announced this morning they too would be carrying the critically acclaimed Android-powered smartphone in the coming weeks. While the exact dates of availability remain to be seen, we’re thankful that one carrier has stepped up and announced how much [...]

It wasn’t even close to being a well-guarded secret, but at least it’s now officially official, as today Bell announced it will soon carry the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G. Key features of the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” smartphone include a 4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus display, 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of [...]

In what is sure to bring a smile to plenty of Canadians’ faces, Canada’s Competition Bureau today announced that Bell has agreed to a settlement in a case involving misleading advertising. From December 2007 onwards, Bell was found guilty of enticing customers with low-cost plans that were not possible to purchase. Under the terms of the settlement, Bell [...]

[UPDATED] First and foremost, we want to thank all who entered, as this was one of the best received contests to date. We received a LOT of entries, which made picking a winner very, very difficult - but, we had to. The winner of the Windows Phone 7 powered HTC HD7 is…….Martin Hauck or @martinhauck_ca on Twitter. [...]

4G, we’ve spoken about it numerous times on this blog solely based on how excessively it’s used as a marketing term by carriers - both in Canada and the US respectively. Well it turns out Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from Palo Alto, Calif., and the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications and [...]

We have all heard the popular voice-overs done for GPS navigation systems of your favorite D-list celebrities like: David Hasselhoff, Snoop Dogg, Mr. T, etc. Instead of a cute sounding British girl controlling your whereabouts, it’s one of the aforementioned celebs talking to you as if they know where you are and where you are [...]

This has been long-awaited. When the HTC Desire Z was released late last year by Bell, tons of people wanted to know when Canada would get a taste of its larger, skinnier, more powerful older brother, the Desire HD. At 4.3″, the screen is almost big enough to be considered tablet-sized. The 2nd-gen 1Ghz Snapdragon [...]

The Canadian cellphone market is a strange one. Everyone says there is an oligopoly, where only three companies control the industry, and this is largely true. They say that prices are exorbitantly high and that three-year contracts are indicative of an industry without true regulation. All of these positions have been posited many times before, [...]

Today, the Ottawa Business Journal let out the news that the companies commonly referred to as the Big 3 of Canadian Cellular - Bell, Rogers, and Telus - signed deals with the Canadian Federal Government’s Public Works and Government Services to the tune of $196.4 million combined. The breakdown of the contracts (in alphabetical order): Bell $33.86 [...]