Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

Did you ever want to remotely unlock your doors or call your keys? With iPhone and Lockitron, that's a realty! Lockitron enables you to use your phone (iPhone) to unlock home, business or rental doors from anywhere in the world and even share virtual keys with family, friends and guests! This is done via an...

Backdating to May 3, 2011, Rogers has extended their free 6PM early evening add-on for all new activations and existing customers. The 6PM early evenings calling bonus is available on the following 2 and 3-year term in-market plans: Unlimited Voice plans Unlimited Voice and Data plans Student plans Family plans All new activations will automatically...

If you're looking to start up cellular service with an iPhone on Telus, the company is now offering $100 off select smartphones and iPhones! The offer is applicable to new 3-year contract activations on plans $50 and higher until June 3, 2011. To get the $100, follow the three steps below: 1.) Sign in to...

This week Bell has posted on their website that the carrier plans to increase domestic pay-per-use (sent and received) text message rates from $0.15 to $0.20/message. Bell has also detailed other various message rate increases. The changes are effective August 1, 2011. Sent and received text messages (including messages sent to the U.S.) will be...

I have been a fan of game developer Bungie since the 'Marathon' days. So when I heard the studio who brought the world 'Halo' was possibly creating an iOS game, I was naturally thrilled! TouchArcade and GameInformer report that Bungie has started working on a mobile game under the company "Bungie Aerospace". The new company...

According to posts on Apple's support forums, many users are reportedly having trouble connecting to Wi-Fi hotspots. Apparently after updating to iOS 4.3.3, an iOS device may start spontaneously dropping connections, repeatedly disconnecting and reconnecting, or failing to connect. Other experiences point to the WiFi status as being misreported by showing a WiFi connection but...

In Bell’s Q1 2011 results posted this morning, the Canadian wireless company reaffirmed its position on wireless LTE that they will be launching in 2011: Building on its mobile broadband network leadership, Bell today also announced it would deploy next-generation LTE wireless in certain Canadian markets in 2011, with full national deployment contingent on the...

After recently updating my (non-jailbroken) iPhone 4 to iOS 4.3.3, I immediately noticed that my Fido signal drops out completely and then resets itself immediately about twice every 24 hours. For example, the Fido signal will do something like this: 5 Bars > 4 Bars > 3 Bars > 2 Bars > 1 Bar >...

There are many retailers and online stores that offer cases for your iPhone, however if you're looking for a good quality, low cost case for your device, check out the large online selection from iThrough.com. iThrough.com Accessories I was recently contacted by the folks at iThrough.com who provide an online store that offers accesssories for...

Today Fido officially announced the launch of its new customer-focused service called FidoANSWERS. The new service, which has actually been active for a few weeks now, is a major overhaul of Fido's customer care call centre process where customers will now not have to wait on long holds and go through complex voice-activated navigation menus....

For those having trouble locating an unlocked white iPhone 4, or if you don't live near an Apple Store, the shipping times for the white iPhone 4 have dropped to 1-2 days on the Apple Canada Online Store. Available for $659/$779 for the 16/32 GB, iPhones purchased through the Apple Online Store are sold unlocked...

Track where you are, where you've been and create location-based datasets for fitness or travel with Locational for iPhone. If you need, or have been looking for, a location/GPS manager app for your iPhone, Locational provides a fantastic user interface and very simple controls. The app provides three sets of data for users through three...