WIND mobile, the latest carrier to begin wireless service in Canada, has a lot of good rate plans but not a lot of device choices. While WIND is always looking to give customers more choice, customers may be getting one more choice, an HTC Magic+.

According to a current WIND subscriber, upon logging into his account, he found an image of a new wireless device. That image was an HTC Magic+.

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We are all too familiar with the social media team at Rogers. Sometimes they post a lot of good information and provide some useful answers, but a lot of the time they dance around the question.

Well, in a bold move, Rogers has launched a new social media venue called the “Rogers Redboard“. Keith McArthur, Senior Director of Social Media at Rogers (and a member of the Rogers social … Read More

Want to win a free Motorola Milestone? Get on Twitter and follow @TELUS!

Telus is holding a Twitter based contest in which they are giving away three new Motorola Milestone devices with a car mount accessory. The contest runs from March 1 to March 5 and then again from March 8 to March 12, 2010.

To enter, get on Twitter, follow @TELUS, and re-tweet one of their daily contest messages.

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Rumors from the Rogers front point to a soon to be released Samsung Galaxy variant called the “Galaxy Spica”.

Bell customers will be familiar with the current Samsung Galaxy, available for $49.95 on a 3-year agreement, released late last year. There is no Rogers pricing yet for the Spica variant, but $49.99 or $99.99 on a 3-year agreement is likely.

Some of the Galaxy Spica specs are as follows:

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Effective this week, and expiring on March 31, 2010, Rogers released a new $25 student plan that targets individuals who do much more text messaging than calling.

The new plan primarily features unlimited text messaging (not video or photo) and evenings start at 6PM for free (usually $7).

New $25 Student Plan:

Daytime: 50 minutes
Evenings & Weekends: Unlimited at 6PM
Features included: Unlimited Text Messages, Call Waiting, Group Calling, Call Forwarding, Who Called, Call … Read More

With the launch of Android devices across many of the Canadian wireless carriers, many Canadians have adopted an Android device.

Over the last year, there have been a lot of positive and negative experiences regarding Android devices in Canada. Some of the positives are a simple, open source OS and that the Android OS has been picked up by many mobile manufacturers such as Motorola, LG, Samsung, and of course HTC.

Some … Read More

In the beginning of February, Rogers released a series of new price plans for both existing and new customers. Today, the company has modified some of those new plans to include newer and better features.

One of the largest changes made at the beginning of February was made to the $50 Voice and Data combo plan. At that time, the $50 combo plan lost its 50 bonus minutes and … Read More

Gmail users should notice a few changes that have been made recently. Google has removed some Gmail features but also added new standard features that were previously Labs experiments.

Overall, Gmail has received six new features and lost five previously available ones. Listed below is a summary of changes:

New Features

Search Autocomplete:

When users begin typing in the Gmail search box, a list of suggestions appears which is similar to what occurs when … Read More