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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 [...]

For our first Birthday Giveaway, we’re happy to announce that Telus and INQ have given us a brand new INQ Chat 3G with $200 airtime. This is about the most feature-filled non-smartphone you can imagine, with native access to Twitter, Facebook and the web via Opera Mini. The QWERTY keyboard is clicky and lovely, and [...]

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, [...]

Reported in a BlackBerryCool post last night, TELUS has finally done it, they’ve flipped the on switch enabling the long awaited carrier billing in BlackBerry App World. They are now the first Canadian carrier to have support for the feature. What it means is that now, when you buy something from BlackBerry App World on your [...]

It was first reported that a partnership agreement was formed between Telus and Yellow Pages to have their app be pre-loaded onto select BlackBerry’s to beta test. Successful it was, as it spurred over 1.8 Million downloads from BlackBerry AppWorld when word got out. Well, it seems as though the App is now out of [...]

BlackBerry 6 has been talked to death. It’s better than OS5 but not good enough for people not to be leaving the platform in droves. It’s got a nice touch overlay, but it still runs very nicely with a trackpad. In fact, I’d argue it works better with the trackpad. The Style 9670 is a [...]

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 [...]

By now it’s a well-tread road. Microsoft makes good, releases brand new smooth-as-butter OS to manufacturers who aren’t allowed, unlike with their Android devices, to skin/tweak/bloat the software. So, how do they differentiate? They insert value-added apps that actually add value (who would have thought?) as well as kick up the hardware quality. The LG [...]

Telus didn’t release anything that was actually new today but they did make some significant changes to what they’re offering right now. First up is the HTC Desire which is available for free on a 3-year contract and $449.99 contract-free. That 3-year price is obviously extremely cheap for one of the best Android devices on [...]