In a major move this morning, new entrants WIND Mobile, Mobilicity, and Public Mobile have announced that they have all decided to withdraw from the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The CWTA is an advocacy group that represents major cellular carriers and other industry companies, and they call themselves “the authority on wireless issues, developments and [...]

As if losing their CEO wasn’t enough of a shake-up for WIND Mobile, The Globe and Mail reports that the relatively young Canadian carrier may be up for sale. According to Canaccord Genuity head of research Dvai Ghose, Amsterdam-based VimpelCom - the parent company of WIND Mobile - is seeking to offload the Canadian mobile carrier. The first [...]

Sony announced their flagship Xperia Z and Xperia ZL smartphones back at CES in January, and confirmed that the international Xperia ZL variant would be released in Canada. Today they’ve confirmed that the Xperia ZL will launch in Canada “beginning in April”, and will be offered by a number of carriers around the country, including [...]

After launching on Virgin Mobile in early December, HTC’s low-end Windows Phone 8S looks poised to debut on three more Canadian carriers in the coming weeks. According to HTC’s own website, the 8S will soon arrive on new entrants WIND Mobile and Mobilicity, as well as Telus subsidiary Koodo. None of these carriers have confirmed [...]

Image Credit: The Globe and Mail WIND Mobile Canada and Orascom Telecom have reached a joint agreement that will see WIND CEO Anthony Lacavera step down and transfer his shares of the wireless carrier to Egyptian-based Orascom. Lacavera’s AAL Corp. currently owns an indirect 66.7% voting share in Globalive Wireless Management Corp., which operates as WIND [...]

Since Facebook changed profiles over to Timeline, no app existed to create interesting cover photos that upload directly to Facebook. WIND Mobile has responded to fill this gap in the Android market by creating the “Cover Photo Maker”, which allows people to use their phones to create awesome cover photo designs. I have been using [...]

How expendable is your cell phone? WIND Mobile and Alliance have partnered to promote The Expendables 2 and are running a launch contest featuring a grand prize that entails a free trip to LA for the premiere screening, the highly anticipated Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone, and two free months of WIND Mobile service! At 7.69 [...]

Big news for WIND Mobile HTC Amaze owners, there is a surprise awaiting your downloading pleasure. To accept it, all you need to do is follow these steps: Menu Settings About phone System software updates Check now Voila, the update should prompt. Join the ICS fun and don’t worry, you can thank me later. [Twitter] [...]

Some big news from WIND Mobile for their customers today as they have officially gone live in London (see coverage below). “Our goal is for all Canadians to benefit from wireless change offered by WIND Mobile,” said Anthony Lacavera, Chairman and CEO of WIND Mobile. “Now Londoners can join the hundreds of thousands of Canadians [...]

Another carrier has decided to amaze you by launching the HTC Amaze 4G. Starting Friday WIND Mobile customers can get their hands on the Android 2.3 (4.0 upgradable), 4.3″, 1.5GHz dual-core device for $249 on the WINDTab+ or $569 outright. It also has a 8MP camera around back that can shoot 1080p video, has 16GB [...]