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 […]
LG Optimus Pad now available exclusively from Rogers Wireless
LG Canada and Rogers Wireless yesterday announced the availability of the LG Optimus Pad, “the world’s first tablet with a 3D camera.” “We are thrilled to set a new standard for tablets in the Canadian market with the launch of the Optimus Pad,” said Frank Lee, Senior Marketing Manager, LG Electronics Canada. “Canadians are looking for exciting innovation with versatility […]
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 […]
Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and Xperia PLAY now available from Rogers
As expected, Rogers Wireless today launched the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and Xperia PLAY Android 2.3 smartphones. The Xperia arc is a very thin (8.4mm at its thinnest) smartphone with a display powered by the Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine and a 8.1MP camera with a Sony Exmor R for mobile sensor. The Xperia PLAY is the first PlayStation Certified smartphone […]
Rogers to launch LTE in 4 Canadian cities in 2011
Rogers announced today that it will launch its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver later this year. LTE is the gold standard of wireless technology and the future of mobile experience. Rogers LTE will fundamentally change our concept of entertainment, communications and productivity, delivering a true high-speed Internet experience through handsets, tablets and Rocket Sticks: […]
Rogers Wireless tops 9 million subscribers
Rogers Communications yesterday announced its first quarter 2011 financial results. Overall revenues topped CA$2.9 billion with wireless contributing over CA$1.7 billion. “The first quarter results represent a healthy start to 2011 for Rogers,” said Nadir Mohamed, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. “We’ve maintained solid top line growth rates as a result of continued investments in our […]
At the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY and arc launch
Sony Ericsson Canada officially launched the Xperia PLAY and Xperia arc with Rogers Wireless with a well-attended party last night. As you can imagine, both devices were in high demand but I had the chance to play with both (if only for a short time). First a few pics: Sony Ericsson keychainAndroid lollipopI found the dummy phones before the real […]