Android in Canada Blog

By Tom Gray on October 31st, 2011

I ventured out in to Vancouver saturday afternoon to give Rogers LTE network a true test. Rogers sent me the LTE enabled HTC Raider, so I finally had the equipment to put the LTE to good use. Traveling out from Surrey, which is about 30 minutes outside of Vancouver. Surrey is listed under the “Coming…

By Tom Gray on October 28th, 2011

Samsung has had great success with their Galaxy line of phones, and today Telus releases the latest and greatest for their network. Telus is offering the Samsung Galaxy S II X for $599.99 or $99.99 on a 3-year term. This latest edition of the Galaxy S series comes packed with: 4.5″ Super Amoled+ screen (800 x…

By Tom Gray on October 28th, 2011

Welcome to the 21st edition of Funny Friday. The once a week event created to remind people to smile in these often dark times. Last week I held a simple contest on who could tell the best joke, you can find that ( LINK HERE ) To avoid any bias choice on my behalf, my wife…

By Tom Gray on October 27th, 2011

UPDATE: I was contacted by Melanie from Rogers Communications Inc. She was kind enough to confirm this story for us: Saw that Android in Canada wrote about this yesterday but wanted to confirm that the rumour was right and give you the official word. We now have another smartphone to add to our growing LTE device…

By Tom Gray on October 26th, 2011

I was on the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE road for a while, but recently cancelled my pre-order due to lack of coverage and price hikes. If you havent already sold your heart to the upcoming Galaxy Nexus, this may come as great news for you. As of a couple days ago, Rogers has been…

By Tom Gray on October 26th, 2011

Yes, that’s right… more Ice Cream Sandwich news. It seems that’s all the Android news is full of these days, and I shall not disappoint! lol Word on the street is that the Samsung Nexus S will be getting the ICS update within weeks. My guess is that we will see the Nexus S updated days…

By Tom Gray on October 24th, 2011

Crazy news today. Expansys.ca is offering pre-orders for the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Offering both the 16GB and 32GB unlocked models. (Link) At first glace, it shows up at $794.99 for the 16GB model, but when dropping it in to your shopping cart, it magically turns in to $757.13 (perhaps USD?)        …

By Tom Gray on October 24th, 2011

Last week I touched on the possibility of the Motorola XOOM being the first tablet to get Ice Cream Sandwich ( LINK HERE ) Great news comes today, as Motorola announces that the new Motorola RAZR and XOOM will get ICS just 6 weeks after Google’s official release. We can hope to see ICS on other dual core…