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Motorola finally releases the Telus Milestone Android 2.1 update

By drsquid | Published: April 21, 2010
While there has been no official anouncement from either Motorola or Telus, a post on the Alldroid.org forums tonight said that the Android 2.1 update was finally released yesterday. At the moment it seems the update must be done with the Motorola software updater tool, found here – there have been no reports of an [...]
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HTC HD2 review

By Doug Groves | Published: April 13, 2010
When the HTC HD2 was released overseas last fall, it quickly gained a lot of fans. They couldn’t help but appreciate the bright, massive screen and the design of the phone itself. This included reviewers generally down on Windows Mobile 6.5. Now that the phone has officially hit North American shores via T-Mobile [...]
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Wind Mobile One Month In

By Doug Groves | Published: January 18, 2010
In December, Wind Mobile’s launch promised to bring change to Canada’s mobile landscape.  Second in line for that change was Kevin, who has also been vocal about the new carrier at his site angrychinesedriver.com .  At the recording of the latest episode, he dropped by for a chat with Alex about Wind, where it stands [...]
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Nexus One is the HTC Passion, Wind compatible, $530 unlocked, coming in January

By drsquid | Published: December 30, 2009
Today documents and screenshots leaked out to Gizmodo and Engadget showing some Google pages, and HTC training materials, for the Nexus One Google phone. The HTC documents are also clearly labelled as for the HTC Passion, so these phones are one and the same. The HTC documents show that the Passion is HTC internal name for [...]
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Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Coverage, continued…

By drsquid | Published: December 29, 2009
Our continued coverage of the December 16th Wind Mobile launch in Toronto…in Part 2 Ken Campbell, CEO, and Chris Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, talk in more detail about Wind, the phones, and their initial plan offerings. Part 3 includes rest of the press conference, and their first customer getting his phone. Parts 4 & 5 conclude the [...]
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Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Video, Part 1

By drsquid | Published: December 19, 2009
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 [...]
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Wind Mobile blows through town

By Doug Groves | Published: December 17, 2009
Yesterday, the newly minted Wind Mobile officially launched in Toronto, bringing with it a bit of a shake up in the Canadian wireless carrier space.  They’ll also be launching in Calgary tomorrow.  A few of the key differences between them and the incumbents: No contracts – you buy your device outright, and you’re not locked in.  [...]
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Communications Union want to stop Wind Mobile

By Doug Groves | Published: December 14, 2009
Last week, Industry Minister Tony Clement stayed the CRTC decision preventing Globalive from launching Wind Mobile in Canada. As a mobile consumer, this is a good thing, even though it does raise the question of foreign ownership rule in the Canadian telecommunications industry. By making a special case for Globalive, Tony Clement was [...]
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CRTC overruled, Globalive given OK to launch Wind Mobile in Canada

By Doug Groves | Published: December 11, 2009
It’s been a while coming, especially if you’re a Wind Mobile employee, but Industry Canada has overruled a CRTC decision that prevented the new wireless carrier from launching in the country. After spending millions on spectrum, you’d think that they’d be in the clear, but due to CRTC foreign ownership rules, Globalive’s actual launch [...]
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Tony Clement hints at overturn of CRTC – Wind Mobile decision

By Doug Groves | Published: December 7, 2009
Late last week, Minister of Industry Tony Clement made some comments that could be considered disconcerting to the incumbent wireless carriers in Canada, regarding the CRTC’s recent decision to block Globalive’s Wind Mobile wireless from launching in Canada… “We do have the power through an order of council in cabinet to amend or vary the decision [...]
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Globalive launches Wind Mobile advertising in Canada

By Doug Groves | Published: November 30, 2009
Globalive, and their Wind Mobile branded wireless service may still be waiting on approval from the Canadian powers that be, but that hasn’t stopped the newcomer from starting a national advertising campaign as of this past weekend.  The spots use the Candid Camera approach to reveal the egregious nature of the incumbent companies’ policies, and [...]
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Bell also magically makes the SAF dissappear

By drsquid | Published: November 17, 2009
With the consumer backlash against made up wireless fees growing, Bell is rumoured to be to joining Rogers and Telus, and getting rid of the hated $6.95 ‘System Access Fee’. According to an internal document, leaked on The Mobile Ninjas here, on Nov 20th Bell “will no longer be charging” the SAF Effective November 20th, 2009 Bell [...]
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