Until February 8, 2010, Rogers has extended their free 6PM early evening discount for students.

The bonus is available on the following 3-year term in-market plans:

Mega Value Plans
Mega Value Combo
Smartphone & Rocket Stick plan
Couples & Family Share Plans

All new activations that have a student code attached will have a 6PM Early Evening Calling bonus automatically added to the account.

Insider Tip: You do not actually have to be a student for this, … Read More

Point Inside, a very popular and successful application that made its debut on the iPhone platform, is now available for Android!

Point Inside is an application that displays shopping mall maps on your Android device. The app includes an extensive 100,000+ stores, kiosks and other mall related amenities. While the app does not include every mall in North America, it does have support for all the major malls across the USA … Read More

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

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

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

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

Android users running 2.0.1 or prospective Milestone (Droid) owners should be aware of a security flaw recently identified with Android OS 2.0.1.

Currently affecting the Motorola Droid (or any up to date Android), and likely the Milestone when it launches, is a security flaw that bypasses the lock screen and allows unauthorized access to the device home screen.

Under normal circumstances, the flaw is very unlikely to be an issue as … Read More

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