With a ship date of October 27th, Future Shop is now taking pre-orders for the new Lenovo Ideapad which runs Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). When Future Shop first announced the tablet it was rumoured to be $499, but has since been dropped to $350 (more competitive market pricing). The IdeaPad is a Wi-Fi only tablet with [...]

When I woke up yesterday morning, and checked my timeline, over half the tweets I read were frustrated curses regarding iPhone 4S pre-orders not going through. Sites were crashing due to traffic, and people who had gotten up at the ungodly hour of 3AM to get the first crack at the device were tired and [...]

Potential tablet buyers that have been keeping an eye on PlayBook pricing in the hopes of a reduction are in luck starting today, as Walmart, Best Buy, and Future Shop all weigh in with sales on RIM’s tablet. Wal-Mart is leading the pack, offering the 16GB model for only $249, fully half off the MSRP. [...]

If you’re itching to get your hands on a Bold 9900, but aren’t quite ready to shell out $149.99 worth of your hard earned dollars to get one from Rogers, Future Shop has just discounted the device to $99.99 on a three-year contract. If you’re shopping over at Best Buy, picking yourself a PlayBook while [...]

With HP’s abandonment of the WebOS platform, there was a ton of speculation as to what might happen with the surplus of Touchpads out on the market. Here’s your answer, in an apparent attempt to salvage whatever they can, HP has instructed retail outlets to get rid of them as quickly as possible, knocking hundreds [...]

Last week Bettiol posted regarding a rumor he caught on MobileSyrup that Canadians might be getting to enjoy a bit of a price cut on the iPhone 4, allegedly happening on the 18th. Today MobileSyrup posted the image above of a Future Shop flyer advertising the 16GB iPhone 4 on contract with Telus for just [...]

It’s been a long time coming, but webOS fanatics North of the 49th finally have the opportunity to get their hands on the HP TouchPad, which is now officially on sale. Running webOS 3.0, the TouchPad features a 9.7″ XGA display, 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, and Wi-Fi. The 16GB model retails [...]

We’ve all asked it umpteen times when doing an upgrade: “Can I trade back my old phone”? For the most part the retail person (myself formerly included) would scoff at the idea of taking back an old beat up phone, claiming insensitively “whadda I need that for”? Well, friends, Fido heard your cries, and have [...]

  There isn’t much that can REALLY excite me on a Monday morning, but news like this sure does the trick. Last week we reported that HP would be dropping the forthcoming TouchPad in Canada this summer, but other than that not much else was known about it - or the Pre 3 for that [...]

Nothing makes me happier than hearing news about this tablet and now that I know when to expect it, my day has been made a tad bit brighter. HP announced today via their blog that the webOS wonder we know as the TouchPad is set to launch this July in Canada, with a tentative date [...]