[Click here for mobile friendly viewing] This past Wednesday, Samsung Mobile and Rogers co-hosted an event to provide media, bloggers and fans with a chance to play with two hotly-anticipated Android devices coming from the world’s largest handset maker in the next few weeks. Rogers, Bell and Telus have all announced it will carry the [...]

This was a surprising day for us Samsung Galaxy S owners! Someone on MoDaCo, a Windows Mobile/Android forum, discovered that Kies, the Samsung iTunes equivalent, was offering a new software build entitled JPC, when UK owners plugged in their phones to their PCs. So a few resourceful people decided to hack your Windows registry to [...]

Finally! After almost a month of turmoil, Canada’s “best” Android phone has finally been unlocked, and it isn’t through one of those expensive third-party providers. In fact, you can unlock the device yourself. All you need is root access, a tiny .exe file, and a little Command Prompt knowledge. See, the unlock code is in [...]

Now this won’t really be news to anyone except Canadians who want to unlock their newly-minted Bell Vibrant to be used on another provider, but it turns out that the device for whatever reason is not unlockable. There is a thread going on at Howardforums where the consensus seems to be that no company can [...]

Seriously? Ok, so we actually knew this was coming, but looking back at it, we didn’t realize how important this phone would be to the Canadian Android market once the iPhone 4 was released. And since Telus is wisely pricing this phone at a very cool $79.99 on a 3-year term, I have no doubt [...]

Verizon peeps have all the luck. According to a leak by IntoMobile, the Samsung Gem will be a lower-cost version of the Fascinate, running Android 2.1, when it is released sometime soon. The Gem looks not-so-vaguely like the newly-released bada phone, the Samsung Wave, on which the company installed their own awful software onto some [...]

This wasn’t unexpected, but the news is here, and it’s officially official. The Samsung Galaxy S variant that we’ve seen floating around the US in T-Mobile bands is now in Canada, and will be priced at a fairly expensive $149.95 on a 3-year term, $499.95 without one. While cheaper than the 16GB iPhone 4 by [...]

It’s been a rough week for Android with the largest (and saddest) story being that the famous Google Nexus One is no longer available for sale from Google. GuruDaniel wrote a heart-wrenching salute to the handset, explaining how the Nexus One helped push Android hardware into the next generation, and how it is the ultimate [...]

If the rumours are true, Bell will attempt to counter Telus’ HTC Desire with its own superphone at the beginning of August, with the Samsung Vibrant. The build is the same as that of the T-Mobile Vibrant, sans extra apps and Avatar, but the hardware still screams quality. Electronista is calling for August 6th, though [...]

It was kind of a slow week for the Android community with the iPhone signal issues and press conference stealing most of the spotlight. Still, we had two highly-anticipated device launches this week-the Motorola Droid X and the Samsung Vibrant. The Droid X and the Samsung Vibrant launched Thursday the 15th for Verizon and T-Mobile [...]