As expected, HTC today unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, billing it as “a bold step forward” rather than simply another specification bump. Along with it, HTC also introduced the latest version of HTC Sense. Called New Sense, it comes with a number of new features including HTC BlinkFeed which acts as a live homepage, HTC Zoe, a camera app, and […]
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Rogers President and CEO to retire in January 2014
There is some surprising news from Rogers this morning. Rogers Communications today announced that Nadir Mohamed, the company’s President and CEO, will retire in January 2014. Mohamed will continue to lead the company until then and will work with the board on transition activities. “Nadir is a highly regarded executive who has delivered strong results and substantial value for more […]
Sony Xperia ZL coming to Canadian carriers “this Spring”
Sony Mobile confirmed back at CES 2013 that the Xperia ZL would launch in Canada but gave no further details. It announced today that it will launch with a number of Canadian carriers this spring. Bell, Mobilicity, MTS, Rogers, Videotron and WIND Mobile will all begin launching the device starting in April. “With the highest screen to phone size ratio […]
Rogers to launch new U.S. data roaming plan this spring
Rogers on Friday announced that it will soon launch a new roaming rate for customers travelling to the United States. The CA$7.99 pay-per-use plan will give customers 50MB of data in a 24 hour period while they are travelling in the U.S. Rogers estimates that this is nearly twice the average customer’s daily domestic usage and should be enough for […]
BlackBerry Z10 launch described as “best day ever” for BlackBerry
BlackBerry appears to be quite pleased with yesterday’s BlackBerry Z10 launch. In short statement issued today, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins called yesterday the “best day ever” for the launch of a BlackBerry smartphone in Canada. Here is the full statement: “In Canada, yesterday was the best day ever for the first day of a launch of a new BlackBerry smartphone. […]
Canadian Motorola RAZR HD LTE Android 4.1 upgrade rolling out
Motorola Canada yesterday announced that it has begun to roll out the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade for the Motorola RAZR HD LTE which is carried by Rogers and Fido. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) is the latest Android operating system. It’s packed with new features and apps to help you tackle your busy day, like Google Now, Voice Search and […]
BlackBerry Z10 goes on sale in Canada today
Just in case you did not already have this date booked in your calendar, the BlackBerry Z10, the first BlackBerry 10 device, goes on sale today. Here is a list of carriers offering it today: Bell: CA$149.95 with a three-year contract Fido: From CA$350 with a two-year contract to CA$600 outright Koodo: From CA$400 with CA$150 Tab to CA$550 outright […]
Canadian Samsung Galaxy Note II Jelly Bean upgrade rollout begins Wednesday
There was good news from Samsung Canada yesterday among all the tweets about the Super Bowl and The Next Big Thing. The Canadian arm of the manufacturer announced that the Jelly Bean upgrade for the Galaxy Note II would begin rolling out on Wednesday, February 6th: As you can see from the tweet, it will include Samsung’s Multi Window function […]