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Get 100 Local Minutes For Free From Bell
by Billy on January 13, 2010

Beginning February 1, 2010, and ending on February 14, 2010, Bell is running a promotion that gives post-paid customers (monthly/contract paying customers) 100 local minutes for free.

The offer does not require any plan add-ons or contract renewal, but does require post-paid customers to visit a Bell store, where the promotion will be honored.

See the information from Bell below:

Offer ends February 14, 2010. Available with compatible devices within network coverage … Read More

Telus Motorola Milestone Will Not Launch In January

Earlier this week, rumours were floating around regarding a possible late-January 2010 launch of the Motorola Milestone on Telus. But it would now seem that the rumours were ahead of their time.

MobileSyrup seems to have received confirmation from Telus that the Milestone will not launch in January 2010. Instead, the device is still scheduled to launch in “early 2010″.

It is too bad that the Milestone will not be … Read More

Rogers To Allow HTC Dream Owners To Upgrade To HTC Magic For Free
by Billy on January 12, 2010

Late last week, Rogers went on record and indicated that it had some kind of plan in the works to allow HTC Dream owners to upgrade to the HTC Magic so that Magic owners may take part in the Android OS update that Rogers/HTC decided to finally provide.

If you were not keeping up with the Rogers/customer/HTC drama, I will summarize it here:

What originally happened was both HTC and … Read More

Google Nexus One Comes With Google and Carrier Cancellation Fee

Canadians eager to get their hands on the Google Nexus One, whether officially when it hits Canadian shores or unofficially, may want to check this out.

According to a report at Phandroid.com, buyers of Google’s Nexus One (with a wireless contract) pay two types of cancellation fees when the device is purchased with a wireless carrier. The first fee is the carrier cancellation fee if the device was bought … Read More

Telus To Launch Motorola Milestone On January 26th?
by Billy on January 11, 2010

In early November 2009, it was reported that the Motorola Milestone was to be released on Telus sometime in early January 2010.

Earlier this week, MobileSyrup received a tip that Telus was to launch the Milestone on January 26 2010. The tipster said that the Milestone is scheduled for the 26th so long that everything is “on time”.

However, anonymous tips aside, an official comment from Telus indicated that the … Read More

Google.com “Near Me Now” Now Available for Android
by Android Fan on January 8, 2010

Looks like the Google Mobile team is at it again. This time around they’ve come up with a new feature called “Near Me Now” that will take advantage of your location when you enable it via Google.com. Once it’s enabled, you can then easily find places near you, such as restaurants, coffee shops, shops, etc. You can even go “Explore Right Here” to make things interesting.

“Near me now” is … Read More

Google To Lift Android Device App Storage Limit
by Billy on January 6, 2010

During Google’s Nexus One event held yesterday in California, Android lead Andy Rubin indicated that a future Android software update will allow developers and users to store a large number of apps on Android devices, such as seen on the iPhone.

Currently Android users and developers can only store a very small amout of apps on an Android device as apps are stored to the ROM. The future update … Read More

Google Officially Launches The Nexus One
by Billy on January 5, 2010

Today, Google held an Android Press Event at its California HQ which debuted the new Nexus One.

The Nexus One is the newest Android-powered mobile device running Android 2.1. As expected, the device comes will all of the great Google Mobile apps such as Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube and Google Talk, Maps Navigation and Google Voice!

Under the hood, The Nexus One delivers a fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, … Read More

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