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Rogers launches Chatr, Mobilicity pursuing legal action

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 expanding to Montreal in the fall. Rogers originally announced Chatr on June 30th, as a new brand to cater to customers looking for unlimited plans, with no contracts — the very same market that the…

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Samsung Galaxy S coming to Telus too?

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 like Telus might be the first carrier to have one of these ‘additional’ Galaxy S phones. On Howard Forums, one of the internet’s best discussion groups for phone geeks, the image above…

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Belated Holiday Greetings…

Hopefully you got a cool gadget this Christmas, and found some deals this weekend at one of the many Boxing Day sales (boy have LCD TV’s dropped in price!). Since we were away for the holidays we wish you belated season’s greetings…and now we are back with some great updates to look forward to… Coming up this week will be more Wind news, with rest of the launch day coverage video, and an in depth discussion about Wind with Doug and Alex. In the almost 2 weeks since their lauch…

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Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Video, Part 1

On December 16th Wind Mobile launched in Toronto, with a Grand Opening ceremony at their Queen’s Quay location. rgbFilter was there, and captured it all on video. Part 1 covers the ceremony outside with two wind executives, Tony Lacavera, Chairman, and Ken Campbell, CEO. Stay tuned for part 2, which includes the press conference with more details about their offerings,and a Q&A session. I will also be posting some detailed thoughts about Wind mobile, and their current offerings…so far I have come to the conclusion that currently Wind is definitely…

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