Best Buy’s Free Phone Fridays wraps up this week with quite the lineup. The following will all be available for free with a three-year contract this coming Friday at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile store locations: Samsung Nexus S (Telus & Fido) HTC Incredible S (Bell & SaskTel) Motorola ATRIX (Bell) Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY (Rogers) RIM BlackBerry Torch […]
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BlackBerry featured in this week’s Best Buy Free Phone Friday
If last week’s Android lineup was not your thing, Best Buy this week features a couple of BlackBerry smartphones for its Free Phone Fridays promotion. The BlackBerry Bold 9780 will be offered for CA$0.00 with a three-year contract from Bell, Rogers, TELUS, and Virgin on Friday May 20th. Additionally, TELUS (Ontario only) and Virgin will also offer the BlackBerry Torch […]
Bell to launch LTE in select markets in 2011
As part of its Q1 financial results announcement Bell yesterday revealed that it plans to launch its LTE market in “certain Canadian markets” this year. It had earlier indicated that its LTE launch would take place in 2012. Building on its mobile broadband network leadership, Bell today also announced it would deploy next-generation LTE wireless in certain Canadian markets in […]
Free Phone Fridays return to Best Buy Canada in May
Free Phone Fridays are returning to Best Buy in Canada. First offered in February, they will once again offer select smart phones for free with three-year in-store activations every Friday. Each week will offer at least one “one high-end, in-demand smart phone for free” (with aforementioned three-year activation). Best Buy will announce the free phones every Thursday via Facebook and […]
HTC Wildfire S headed to Bell and SaskTel?
MobileSyrup.com sources have revealed that the HTC Wildfire S is headed to both Bell Mobility and SaskTel fairly soon. Bell appears set to launch it on June 17th while SaskTel’s launch is set for a less specific ‘June’ time frame. The HTC Wildfire S was first announced at MWC 2011: Processor: 600MHz Qualcomm Operating system: Google Android 2.3.3 with HTC […]
Bell Mobility and MTS branding HSPA+ networks as 4G
Last month, TELUS Mobility announced plans to launch its HSPA+ network and that it would market it as a 4G network. Bell Mobility and MTS are now following in their footsteps. For example, Bell’s wireless coverage map lets you see both 4G (HSPA+ up to 42 Mbps) and 4G (HSPA+ up to 21 Mbps) zones. MTS has adopted a similar […]
Bell Mobility also announces bada-powered Samsung Wave
Right on Rogers Wireless’ heels, Bell Mobility also announced that it is offering the Samsung Wave. While they may have been beaten to the punch when it comes to who announced the Wave first, their pricing is much more attractive than Rogers’. Bell is offering the Samsung Wave for CA$29.95 with a three-year contract (CA$70 less than Rogers), CA$149.95 with […]
Rogers Wireless sues Bell Mobility over network speed claims
Only days after losing a lawsuit and being forced to remove claims of “the most reliable network”, Rogers is suing Bell Mobility over its new ad campaign that claims that “the largest, fastest, and most reliable network.” Rogers is accusing Bell of exactly what TELUS accused it of: “false or misleading advertising” Rogers wants Bell to stop using the terms […]