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HTC Raider LTE phone hits Bell and Rogers

October 28, 2011 Doug Groves 4G, Android, Bell, HTC, HTC Raider, LTE, Raider, Rogers1 Comment

If you’re going to be surfing on the new high speed LTE networks from Bell or Rogers, you’re going to want a phone that can handle it. That’s where the HTC Raider comes in. The company has announced that the Raider, HTC’s first LTE phone in Canada, will be coming to both Bell and Rogers next month. The phone checks all the other boxes for a high end smartphone as well, with a 4.5″ qHD screen, 1.2GHz dual core processor and an 8 megapixel camera with f/2.2 aperture for better low light performance and 108op video recording.

Best Buy Canada’s Free Phone Fridays – more killer (on contract) deals including the Xperia PLAY

May 27, 2011 drsquid Android, Atrix, Bell, Best Buy, Blackberry, canada, Free, Gaming, google, HTC, Incredible S, Mobile, Motorola, Nexus S, PLAY, Rogers, Samsung, smartphone, Sony, Sony Ericsson, superphone, Telus, Torch, Virgin Mobile, Xperia1 Comment

Best Buy Canada’s Free Phone Fridays returns with some killer deals – if you sign a new 3yr contact. This week’s deals include the Nexus S, ATRIX & Xperia PLAY for $0. With the announcement that the mobile version Minecraft is coming exclusively (at first) to the PLAY perhaps it’s time to consider getting a 2nd phone? Also if you are on the fence about the PLAY we should have some videos posted later today of it in action – it is, IMO, hands-down the best mobile gaming experience you…

Best Buy’s Free Phone Fridays – this week’s Android deals

May 13, 2011May 15, 2011 drsquid Android, Atrix, Bell, Best Buy, canada, contract, Desire HD, Fido, Free Phone Fridays, Galaxy S, HTC, Incredible S, Motorola, Nexus S, Optimus One, Promotion, Rogers, Samsung, smartphone, superphone, Telus4 Comments

Best Buy Canada has followed the Best Buy US lead and is offering a selection of ‘free’ phones every Friday. Of course there is a catch – they are only free if you buy the phone on a 3-year term, as a new activation. While this means that not everybody can take advantage of these deals, if you are no longer in a contract or looking to switch carriers, you can pick up one of the latest Android phones by just signing a piece of paper! The phones included (and…

Virgin Mobile HTC Incredible S hands-on video including Bell Mobile TV app

May 12, 2011May 14, 2011 drsquid Android, Android 2.2, Bell, Best Buy, canada, google, hands-on, HTC, HTC Sense, launch, Sense UI, smartphone, superphone, video, Virgin Mobile8 Comments

At the beginning of April both Virgin Mobile and Bell Mobility released the HTC Incredible S Android smartphone, and HTC was kind enough to send us the Virgin version to review. You can check out our in-depth video look at the phone below.

Bell and Virgin Mobile release the HTC Incredible S and Bell updates Mobile TV

April 4, 2011April 5, 2011 drsquid Android, Android 2.2, Android 2.3, Bell, canada, Gingerbread, hands-on, HTC, launch, Sense UI, smartphone, superphone, video, Virgin Mobile2 Comments

The HTC Incredible S is now available on both Bell and Virgin Mobile. This Android smartphone, the latest from HTC, was first shown at this year’s Mobile World Conference, on Feb 15th. It is incredible, then, that it came out in Canada so quickly. We usually have to wait at least 2 to 3 months for the latest phones to get here from the US and Europe.

The Bell Motorola ATRIX, coming March 17th: Revolutionary, but at what cost?

March 8, 2011September 26, 2012 drsquid Android, Android 2.2, Atrix, Bell, canada, Froyo, Gaming, Lapdock, Motoblur, Motorola, smartphone, superphone9 Comments

When Motorola announced the ATRIX at CES, I was very excited – even more so when they followed up that announcement with news that it was coming to Canada on Bell. Up to that point, as a long-time Milestone (Droid to our US readers) user, though, I had been a little disappointed in Motorola. They had seemed to have forgotten about Canada. Both the Droid X and Droid 2 were released in the US last year, but they never came up north. By year’s end, it was almost like Motorola…

HTC HD7 now available on Bell

February 10, 2011February 14, 2011 Doug Groves Bell, HTC HD7, Microsoft, The Source, Windows Phone 7, Xbox Live1 Comment

While first announced a couple of months back, Bell has now launched the HTC HD7, including availabilty at The Source outlets, or at least the one I passed by when grabbing lunch. With the number of quality games that have already been released for the platform, the larger screen real estate makes for a great mobile gaming phone. The phone also comes bundled with Bell’s TV Remote PVR app, which allows Bell TV subscribers to manage their PVR away from home. Freatures include show search, schedule recording and remote control…

Bell admits to overstating customer data usage

February 9, 2011February 10, 2011 Doug Groves Bell, CRTC, UBB, Usage Based Billing1 Comment

In a case of extremely bad timing, The Star’s Moneyville site is reporting that Bell has been overestimating the data usage of some customers and charging them with data overage fees. This has forced Bell to take the data tracker offline for the time being.

Usage based billing debates are wrong… and here’s why

February 3, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Bell, CRTC, Jean-François Mezei, legal, net neutrality, Primus, Tony Clement, UBB, Usage Based Billing8 Comments

[Ed Note: this article was updated with new information] The Canadian government has once again promised to overturn a CRTC decision if the CRTC doesn’t do so itself. This time around, it’s the the contentious Usage Based Billing ruling that would have crippled 3rd party ISPs from differentiating themselves in the marketplace. It’s rare for the government to step into CRTC affairs, but with the UBB issue growing in public awareness and a deadline looming less than a month away, they’ve pulled out the big guns. After all, it was…

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Toronto Rally to “Stop the Meter”

January 31, 2011February 5, 2011 Pete Chapman Bell, CRTC, MP, Stop The Meter, throttling, UBB6 Comments

Tired of having nothing to be politically passionate about like your Egyptian and Tunisian friends? Tired of worrying about Seasonal Affective Disorder during the height of Seasonal Affective Disorder season? Tired of being pushed around by Big Telco Money and Small Minded Lapdog Bureaucrats at the CRTC? Tired of rhetorical questions starting with the word “Tired” and using caps to make Tired Cliches look like Big Concepts? Of course you are and so am I. Together we can go to the next paragraph.

Windows Phone 7 sputters into Canada

November 8, 2010November 15, 2010 Doug Groves Bell, hands-on, HTC Surround, launch, LG, LG Optimus 7, LG Optimus Quantum, Microsoft, Rogers, Samsung, Samsung Focus, Telus, Windows Phone 7, WP710 Comments

Though the title seems damning, it isn’t a judgement on the OS itself, but of the seeming lack of availability of Windows Phone 7 handsets on it’s North American launch day. Last week we reported Telus being the first to pull the trigger on pricing for Windows Phone 7 devices, and with launch day coming to a close, it appears they’re the carrier that made the biggest deal of the launch.he first 100 people to the Telus store in Toronto’s Eaton Centre also got a free Xbox 360 Slim 4GB…

Telus the first to blink, announces Canadian Windows Phone 7 pricing

November 4, 2010November 12, 2010 drsquid Bell, canada, HTC, launch, LG, Microsoft, Optik, Optimus, Optimus 7, Optimus Quantum, Rogers, Surround, Telus, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 75 Comments

Usually Telus likes to play their cards close to their chest, so I was a little surprised that Telus was the first Canadian carrier to officially announce pricing for Windows Phone 7 handsets. The North American launch is next Monday, and in the US the price for all the models is going to be $199 on a 2-year term. Since Canadians have long been used to getting the short end of the stick, I assumed that the Canadian price would be the same, just on a 3-year term. While we…