The Nokia N900 is coming to Wind. Unlike all the other Nokia smartphones currently in the Canadian market the N900 is powered by Maemo which is Nokia’s Linux powered platform.
It’s got a 3.5″ 800×480 display, QWERTY keyboard, 600Mhz processor, 5MP camera with a browser that supports AJAX and Flash.
4 comments January 5, 2010
T-Mobile has just upgraded their entire HSPA network to 7.2Mbps.
The 7.2Mbps service is backwards compatible with existing 1.8Mbps and 3.6Mbps HSPA phones.
Add comment January 5, 2010
The Android powered Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is coming to Rogers sometime this quarter. No word on pricing (But based on the specs it won’t be free on a 3 year anytime soon).
It features Sony Ericsson’s UX user interface which sits on top of Android. It’s powered by a 1Ghz snapdragon processor and has a 4″ 854×480 pixel capacitive touch screen made of mineral glass. It has a 8.1megapixel camera and 1GB of built in memory (expandable using SDHC cards).
It features 2 signature applications: Timescape and Mediascape. Timescape lets you manage communication across Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Email and SMS. Mediascape is a picture and video manager that also works with YouTube.
2 comments January 5, 2010
Here’s the LG New Chocolate BL40. It’s an HSPA phone on TELUS. On paper the BL40 is decent; 5 megapixel camera, 4.0″ 800×354 touch screen with multi touch support, WiFi/BT, HTML browser, exchange support, etc. The front has a striking buttonless design and the overall phone is very long and thin unlike most phones – it’s form factor is almost chocolate-like.
Add comment January 4, 2010
Where I live the only choice for broadband internet is Rogers cable. When I first moved in you could choose to get DSL via FCI broadband or cable via ACI. Then Rogers bought out FCI followed by ACI and Rogers-ized them. After, they disconnected my house’s demarcation point so I can’t get DSL anymore so my only choice is cable.
Now as far as cellular service goes I get strong Rogers GSM/HSPA and TELUS CDMA service in my house. TELUS HSPA, BELL CDMA/HSPA signal are extremely weak in my house (to the point that phones with poor RF performance get no signal in my house while strong phones with strong RF work intermittently). Wind cuts out just before my house according to their coverage map. So my choices are TELUS CDMA or Rogers.
3 comments January 2, 2010
Here’s the Samsung Galaxy, Bell’s first Android powered smartphone. Here are the relevant specs: Android 1.5, 3.2″ 480×320 OLED display, 8GB of built in storage, BT,WiFi and a 5 megapixel camera.
Click the video for the tour of the Galaxy.
The screen looks fantastic. One of the advantages of OLED displays is that they have extremely deep blacks – vibrant colours and amazing viewing angles. This makes them great for showing off pictures. The OLED display on the Galaxy does have one problem; it’s horrible outdoors so if you use your phone a lot in the sun you can stop reading here.
1 comment December 30, 2009
Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you all got the phone you wanted for Christmas.
I reviewed the LG Eve last week. While I wasn’t crazy about it LG asked me to take a look at the built in video editor. Check it out:
While the the quality of the Eve’s recordings aren’t good I was pretty impressed with the video editor. Here’s the video I shot AND editing using the Eve:
1 comment December 25, 2009
I was very excited when I first saw the LG Eve and IQ. They represent LG’s first really attempts at Smartphones. As a person who loves phones I hoped that the Eve and IQ would be competitve entries in the marketplace.
While I liked aspects of the Eve ultimately I found it came up short. Here’s the IQ, let’s see how I like it.
13 comments December 23, 2009
I just got off the phone with Anthony Lacavera. Now that Wind has officially launched I got some of his thoughts.
Before I start one funny thing happened during our phone intereview – the call dropped. If you remember my video interview a while back Anthony was using a Bold 9000 on Rogers. Well today is his last day using the 9000 – he’s waiting for his BES to switch over to a 9700 on Wind.
First off I asked him what he was doing when he heard that Tony Clement was overturning the CRTC’s decision. Turns out he was watching BNN when he heard an announcement was going to be made.
I also asked him what Globalive/Wind was up to during the time from when the CRTC said ‘no go’ to Wind to when they were over ruled. Turns out they were working on increasing their existing coverage .
Now that Wind has launched next on are launches in Ottawa, Edmonton and Vancouver – sometime in Q1. With new cities should also come with new handset launches.
Along with those cities Wind will be increasing their existing coverage East, West, North, South. For example in Ontario Wind should be available in Kitchner, Waterloo, Guelph, Chatham and then joining the coverage from those areas with the Toronto coverage.
If you’ve noticed Wind’s data service has a provision where they may throttle your speed if you go over 5GB a month. I mentioned that the moment I get to try a modem I will be downloading non stop till I hit 5GB to see what happens. Apparently throttling will depend on network load and may not necessarily be automatic. So if no one else is using their Wind phone in your area you might not get throttled.
We should expect more announcements in January.
Now Wind doesn’t have a lot of choices for data. If you get the Blackberry Bold 9700 you can get a $10 or a $35 plan while the Maple just has a $35 plan. The reason why is because Wind wants to stay away from buckets.
We should expect a Wind Mobile aimed more at the prepaid-y type customer. They’re still figuring out what to call the service. Yak Mobile anyone?
You can’t buy individual SIM cards yet but you will be able to eventually – you can use unlocked AWS phones (like T-Mobile ones) with Wind.
He stressed that Wind wants your feedback. They need to know when calls are dropping, how they can improve service. The existing carriers have a 20 year head start so Wind is catching up as fast as they can.
If you have comments on Wind make sure you check out our Wind Section at HowardForums.
5 comments December 18, 2009
Here’s the LG Eve, their first Android powered phone. It has an amazing 5 row QWERTY keyboard, Android 1.5, 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, micro SDHC card slot. On paper it’s a solid device. Let’s check it out.
50 comments December 18, 2009
