Well, it took them long enough! Virgin Mobile has just released the Android-based Samsung Galaxy 550 (also known as the I5500). This handset features a 2.8-inch touchscreen display, a 2MP camera, a 600MHz CPU, a microSD card slot, WiFi / Bluetooth support, and ships with Android 2.1. Check it out on Virgin Mobile right now [...]

The ink is barely dry on Rogers’ official launch of the Curve 3G last week, yet with each day comes another carrier with its own plans on launching this device. This shot of a new advertisement from Virgin just popped up showcasing the Curve 3G alongside the HTC Legend and Blackberry 9700. No release date [...]

Kudos to Virgin Mobile for thinking ahead of their competition in Canada. Not only are they the first discount brand (Bell being their parent company) to launch an Android powered smartphone, but they did it with one sexy machine and are the first carrier in North America to have it. The Legend comes loaded with [...]

Canadians seem to be on a roll with good Android phone releases. Sure, the US has the HTC Incredible and EVO 4G, but they’re CDMA devices and thus not transferable to other networks. GSM versions of their cousins, the HTC Legend and Desire, are being released in Canada in the near future, to much fanfare. [...]

Not too long ago we posted rumors of Bell getting exclusivity on the HTC Legend, one of the hottest Android powered devices to potentially hit the Canadian market. It did come as a shock to some, who expected Telus to be the carrier to make the announcement based on their known love of Android (Having [...]