HTC Desire HD for Telus in the wild?
Certainly seems like Canadian carriers are a good deal more friendly toward launching European handsets than American carriers are, doesn't it? Motorola's Milestone and HTC's Desire Z are both prime examples -- and now it looks like another hot HTC, the Desire HD , is on its way
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: carriers, cousin, engadget-mobile, entry, gingerbread, indiscretion, milestone, telus
Rogers, Telus already selling BlackBerry Bold 9780
Look, T-Mobile, don't feel bad -- Americans usually get scooped on new BlackBerry launches by their friendly neighbors to the north! RIM's a Canadian company, after all -- and as is frequently the case, the new Bold 9780 is seeing launches on both Rogers and Telus several days ahead of T-Mobile's retail go-live in the States.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: 9780, berry-bold, black, bold9780, friendly, north, result, rogers, scooped-on-new, telus
HTC 7 Surround graces AT&T with a slideout speaker, Windows Phone 7 credentials
Need a break ? No chance, there are still so many more phones to look at! HTC's sole Windows Phone 7 launch device for AT&T has just been revealed as the HTC 7 Surround. You'll remember this as the sexily titled T8788 , which made us gape back in August with its unusual design that incorporates a slideout speaker
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 7 surround, 7surround, announced, breaking-news, htc, launch, slideoutspeaker, slider, telus, unusual-design, windows
Samsung Galaxy Apollo coming to Telus ‘soon’
Don't get your hopes up for a Galaxy S -style blockbuster, but Telus is looking to add one of Sammy's lower-end Android sets from recent memory -- and as long as the price is right, we're sure they'll manage to sell a couple. The Galaxy Apollo features a 3.2-inch HVGA display -- TFT LCD, not Super AMOLED -- paired up with a 3 megapixel cam, HSPA, and 150MB of onboard storage bundled with a 2GB microSD card. So yeah, like we said, not exactly a Desire HD killer..
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apollo, blockbuster, galaxyapollo, memory, recent-memory, samsung-galaxy, sun, superamoled, telus
BlackBerry Torch headed to Telus (update: and Rogers and Bell)
There had been some rumors floating around that the BlackBerry 9800 might be a Rogers exclusive, but it looks like that's won't be the case -- The Globe and Mail is reporting that phone, now known as the Torch , will be headed to Telus. Still no word on when that will happen, nor is there any word on any other carriers that will be picking up the device -- though there's no indication that it's a Telus-exclusive. Update: The Globe and Mail is now saying that the big three Canadian carriers (Rogers, Bell and Telus) have each confirmed they'll be getting the Torch
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, carriers, launch, rim, rogers, telus, torch, torch-still
SLCD-equipped HTC Desire ‘coming soon’ to Telus
We'd already seen an HTC Desire with North American 3G hit the FCC , and it looks like we now know exactly where it's headed -- Telus has just announced that the phone is "coming soon" to its network. What's more, the carrier has also confirmed that the phone will be equipped with a 3.7-inch Sony Super LCD screen instead of the regular AMOLED display that's in short supply . Otherwise, the phone is the same Android 2.1-powered, Snapdragon-based, Sense-skinned device we've seen all along, which is hardly a bad thing -- unless you're waiting for a Desire HD , that is
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, coming-soon, desire, engadget, fcc, htc, lcd, north, result, screen, screen-instead, slcd, super lcd, telus
China Telecom mulling huge EV-DO Rev. B rollout?
You might think that the EV-DO technology path has seen better days, what with carriers like Bell and Telus defecting for HSPA and others prepping to pull the plug altogether -- but really, it might take nothing more than one massive, eight-figure subscriber deployment of a next-gen EV-DO network to get things up and running again. Indeed, EV-DO Rev. B is still very much alive and well , and a rumored deployment by China's number three carrier China Telecom -- which counts over 70 million mobile users to its name -- could definitely light some fires
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, ev-dorev.b, interim-ultra, million-mobile, mobile, rollout, Roots, speed, telus
Telecom New Zealand pulling plug on its CDMA network in 2012
It's a bit early to sound CDMA's death knell, but this is definitely an interesting development: New Zealand's Telecom NZ is getting ready to switch off its legacy CDMA network just a year after turning on its HSPA-based one . It gets even crazier, though, because although CDMA will go dark in 2012, EV-DO service will actually be turned off before that on November 30 of this year . That's an extremely rapid transition that's presumably being egged on by the carrier's desire to free up spectrum for next-gen services, but we can't even imagine the kind of chaos you'd see if Verizon or Sprint did that -- or Canada's Bell or Telus, for that matter, both of which actually have recently added HSPA networks to their footprints.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bell, Carrier, death, desire, knell, mobile, spectrum, sprint, telus, turning-on-its
HTC Desire with North American 3G graces FCC with its presence
Rumors of a June 8 launch of Telus' HTC Triumph -- a rebranded version of the Desire , seemingly -- came and went without a trace, but now, we've got another reason to think that the model's launch might be just around the corner.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: captivate, desire, entry, fcc, make-it-fit, model, north, pb991x0, pb99220, result, rogers, telus, triumph
WIND Mobile: there can be only one (and we’re it)
It seems unlikely that Canada -- a country with a population a little over one-tenth of the US' -- could realistically support six national carriers over the long term, and WIND Mobile's parent company agrees. Speaking with an Ottawa newspaper, Globalive's chairman didn't pull any punches, saying that "there is room for only one more national operator in [his] opinion" and that he intends to be that operator, acquiring others along the way if need be. WIND is going up against fellow newcomers Mobilicity and Public Mobile in a bid to compete against the big trio of Rogers, Bell, and Telus, and it stands to reason that a merger or joint venture would probably help the little guys in their quest
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: against-the-big, along-the-way, engadget, engadget-mobile, globalive, guys, joint, merger, mobile, national, newcomers, operator, telus, windowsmobile