Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

This week, to compete with Fido's new $35 Unlimited Plan, Virgin Mobile has released a new unlimited calling plan that is available on a 3-year contract for an iPhone. The plan is available to new and existing customers. With the plan and a minimum $25 data plan on a 3-year contract, customers receive promotional pricing...

Reports today point to Apple doing some research into development techniques to maximize lithium batteries by ensuring they run longer without making the batteries physically larger. Such batteries are found in Apple's MacBook line of computers and iDevices. AppleInsider reports on an Apple patent filing called "Increasing Energy Density in Rechargeable Lithium Battery Cells". The technique...

Previously available only on the Blackberry and Android platforms, the UPS app for iPhone is now available in Canada. If you've been using the UPS app on a Blackberry or Android device, the iPhone version has the same functions, such as calculating shipping rates, creating and tracking shipments, finding the closest UPS location, and much more!...

This week, reports indicate that Apple may be looking, via sent job listings, to use OLED display technology in future products. Apple reportedly sent out similar job listings in mid-2008 during their focus on AMLCD displays for future iPhone and iPad products. Now Apple is looking for flat panel display engineers that specialize in OLED...

Update 1: A fix is now in Cydia, called "iBooks Fix". Click here to find out how to install it. This week, Social Apples reports that a change made in the reent Apple iBooks app detects whether an iDevice has been jailbroken, and if so, refused to open content purchased from the iBookstore! Since using...

In the beginning of February, Telus was preparing for a soft launch of HSPA+ (or what Telus calls 4G) in Manitoba. The soft launch was scheduled for today, and today Telus has launched the network. This new network means that for residents in the Winnipeg area, you will be able to use the many Telus...

This week, in response to Telus, Rogers has launched a new $60 Voice & Data plan. The plan is very comparable to the existing $60 Promotional Voice & Data plan from Telus, with the only exception being that Telus offers Voicemail 3 for free. Aside from that, the plan requires a 3-year new activation or...

This week, Virgin Mobile has launched a new $35 Unlimited Incoming Plus plan to compete with Koodo. Virgin's new $35 Unlimited Incoming Plus plan is almost identical to their previous $30 Unlimited Incoming plan, except that the new plan has 5pm evenings vs. 7pm and caller display. This new plan from Virgin is available on...

Today, Fido released another bombshell plan with their new $35 Unlimited City Fido plan. Some of you may remember when Fido launched a similar unlimited calling plan for $50 back in December 2010, but that plan was not available to any smartphone customers. This new $35 Unlimited CityFido Plan also temporarily replaces the existing $35...

Today, Apple announced the official release of subscriptions for the App Store. App Store subscriptions now allow developers to offer a wide range of content, including magazines, newspapers, music, and video, that may be used on a recurring billing system. Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the same App Store...

Today, The Loop issued some thoughts on the recently rumored MobileMe overhaul. The opinion is that instead of using a cloud-based strategy to share and access files via MobileMe, Apple may instead opt to use MobileMe as the “brains” of a service that accesses the user's computer for hosting media and content. Instead of trying...

If you recently jailbroke your iDevice following our guide, you may have noticed that your boot logo has turned from the standard Apple logo into an animated Greenpois0n logo. If you are looking to remove or change that logo, read on! Read Me Before Continuing: This guide applies to users on iOS 4.2.1 who jailbroke...