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Telus LG Shine Plus – sneak peak video

By Doug Groves | Published: September 8, 2010
A little while back, we got a chance to take a look at the Telus version of the LG Shine Plus, aka the LG Ally in the US.  This model of the Shine Plus is unique to Telus, and can now be found on their website.   The new smartphone sports a landscape slide out QWERTY [...]
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Telus and Bell also releasing the Torch on the 24th

By drsquid | Published: September 2, 2010
Telus and Bell have joined the Blackberry Torch party and also announced that they will be releasing the Blackberry 9800 Torch on September 24th. No official price has been announced by Telus, and Bell has said it will be $199 on a 3-year contract.  I think it’s safe to predict the Telus price to be [...]
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Canadian telcos to share high speed networks with 3rd party providers

By Doug Groves | Published: September 1, 2010
Back in 2008, the CRTC ruled that internet wholesalers should have fair access to higher speed data networks controlled by incumbents such as Bell and Telus.   Partly due to growth in high speed cable internet, the incumbent telcos haves have been resisting providing the high speed access to 3rd party wholesalers, to maintain a competitive [...]
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iPhone 4 Toronto launch report with video and pictures

By drsquid | Published: August 8, 2010
RGB Filter was at the Toronto launch of the iPhone 4 on Friday, July 30th. However not being a die-hard Apple fanatic I wasn’t lining up for the phone myself, so I slept in and missed the 7 AM early opening at the Apple Store. When I got to the Eaton Centre, at about 7.30 [...]
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iPhone 4 Canadian launch news round-up

By drsquid | Published: July 30, 2010
The day has finally come for Canadian iPhone fans, as the iPhone 4 is available in Canada. Are you picking one up today? After all the controversy surrounding ‘Antennagate‘ in the US, it will be interesting to see if the problems with iPhone 4 will affect sales in Canada. The die-hard Apple fanatics will still be [...]
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Rogers launches Chatr, Mobilicity pursuing legal action

By drsquid | Published: July 29, 2010
Rogers officially launched their new discount mobile brand Chatr yesterday, after delaying the planned mid-July launch for unspecified reasons. Chatr, like the new Canadian wireless entrants (Mobilicity, Public Mobile and Wind Mobile), is a zone based unlimited cellphone service. The service will be available in in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver, and will be [...]
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Samsung Galaxy S coming to Telus too?

By drsquid | Published: July 26, 2010
UPDATE – According to MobileSyrup, the Telus Galaxy in question is actually going to be the mid-range Galaxy Apollo. Hopes dashed. When Samsung announced the launch in Canada of the Galaxy S ‘Superphone’, on Bell, they also said that “Canadian consumers can anticipate the release of additional Galaxy S smartphones throughout the rest of 2010.” Well, it looks [...]
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Telus officially announces the HTC Desire Android smartphone

By drsquid | Published: July 19, 2010
Though Canada often seems a step or two behind in getting the latest and greatest smart phones, we’ve recently seen what could be called Superphones (you know, large high-res screens and 1GHz + processors) hitting our shores. Rogers is already carrying the X10 Bell has announced the Galaxy S.  Beyond Android, the iPhone 4 [...]
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iPhone 4 to hit Canada (and elsewhere) July 30th

By Doug Groves | Published: July 16, 2010
In the iPhone 4 press conference, originally intended to address the Death Grip antenna issue some users are experiencing in the US, Apple also announced that the iPhone 4 will be coming to Canada on July 30th.  We can only guess that Bell, Rogers and Telus will all have it launch day, unless Rogers is [...]
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Motorola BACKFLIP on Telus & QUENCH on Rogers

By Doug Groves | Published: July 11, 2010
Unlike a good scotch, phone operating systems  don’t age well, so writing a review for smartphones running Android 1.5 is a tough sell.  This problem is exasperated when said phones are from the same manufacturer, have the same internals, same UI and same overall performance. That’s exactly the predicament in trying to discuss the Android based [...]
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iPhone 4 announced, coming to Canada ‘in the coming weeks’

By drsquid | Published: June 8, 2010
Yesterday was Apple’s annual WWDC, where they have announced each new iPhone model since 2008. This year the worst kept secret in recent memory, the iPhone 4, was detailed in Steve Job’s keynote speech, and, unlike previous years, there weren’t that many surprises. Everything lined up with the leaked images and specs, and rather than [...]
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Telus finally confirms their iPad plans, NOT offering unlimited data as originally thought

By drsquid | Published: May 31, 2010
The image above, created earlier today, was based on some assumptions taken from Telus’ weekend announcement of their iPad plan. After some speculation on Friday, a press release was sent out on Saturday detailing their offering – a single plan of 500MB for $20, which at the low-end is a much better deal that what [...]
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