WIND Mobile, one of the newest wireless carriers in Canada, has been promoting both low prices and no contracts. However the one missing feature of WIND is a killer device.

Well WIND may be getting the killer device they need and it comes in the form of Android! During a “Twitterview” that WIND hosted, the company indicated that they were testing an Android device at the time.

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Over the last few months, Telus, Rogers, and Bell each launched one of Motorola’s new Android-powered devices. Telus launched the Backflip, Rogers launched the Quench, and Bell launched the Dext.

Aside from having MOTOBLUR in common, each device also had Android 1.5. As many know, Android 1.5 severely limits a device’s potential and is already an obsolete operating system. Well, there is some good news from Motorola on the OS front.

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When the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 launched, it launched with Android OS 1.6 with prospects of updating to OS 2.1.

At the beginning of May 2010, a Sony Ericsson representative clarified that even though the Xperia X10 will launch with Android 1.6, it will be upgradable:

What I hope to get across to you all, is that there will be a software … Read More

Reports this week point to Google putting an end to custom Android interfaces with the next major release of Android, version 3.0, also known as “Gingerbread”.

The upcoming update is said to focus on the user experience and aims to reduce the need to use interfaces such as HTC’s SenseUI and Motorola’s MOTOBLUR. No feature details of Android 3.0 were revealed, but it is likely to bring new widgets, apps, and … Read More

On June 11, Virgin Mobile launched the HTC Legend. The device marked their first Android handset but Virgin was also the first in the North America to launch the Legend. Today, Bell has also released the HTC Legend.

The Legend marks Bell’s first Android device with Android OS 2.1 and will likely be the company’s next flagship device. Bell’s current Android devices, the Motorola Dext … Read More

Earlier last week, Rogers went on record and announced that they have more Android devices coming. On the topic of more Android, at the end of April 2010, there were rumors floating around pointing to the summer release of two Sony Ericsson devices, the Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro.

The Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro are both Android-based devices but are scaled down in features, … Read More

In the middle of May 2010, rumors pointed to Bell exclusively launching the HTC Legend, which would mark the company’s next flagship device after the Palm Pre.

The HTC Legend also marks Bell’s first Android device that will launch with Android OS 2.1. Bell’s current Android devices, the Motorola Dext and Samsung Galaxy, both feature Android OS 1.5, which … Read More

This week, Google announced the availability of its Google Maps Navigation app (version 4.2) in more countries worldwide, including Canada.

Today we’re launching Google Maps Navigation version 4.2 in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland for Android devices 1.6 and higher.

Google Maps Navigation is an Internet-connected GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice directions as a free feature of Google … Read More