Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

This week, it looks like Fido has started sending out emails to ‘loyal’ customers that give them free Canadian Long Distance calling on February 14, 2011. A portion of the Fido email states, “Let them know love has no boundaries… It’s almost Valentine’s Day and Fido wants to reward your loyalty”. I cannot even begin...

This morning, MTS announced its plans to launch the iPhone 4. On the back of that, SaskTel has now revealed that the iPhone 4 is coming soon to their network! Checking out the SaskTel homepage reveals an iPhone 4 banner with the text “coming soon”. As SaskTel continues to develop it's 3G+ network, the prospects...

Customers using MTS service in Canada may be surprised to hear that the company is planning to launch the iPhone 4 soon. MTS has already publicly announced that their HSPA+ network is going live on March 31, 2011. This network is the required infrastructure to support the iPhone 4. “MTS will launch iPhone 4 in...

This week, Fido announced that the wireless company will be reducing its CityFido Prepaid plan by $5.00 as of March 6, 2011. The plan is also receiving a bump in anytime minutes to 2,000 minutes, from the existing 1,000 minutes. While Fido does offer two postpaid CityFido plans, the company only offers one prepaid CityFido...

Today, citing recent competitive activity, Rogers has extended (again) their $35 Canadawide My10 plan. The plan, originally expiring on December 31, 2010, was relaunched on January 10, 2011 and then expired again on February 7, 2011. The offer has now been extended "until further notice". $35 My10 Canada-wide Plan This extended plan from Rogers is available...

In December 2010, Telus announced they will be launching HSPA+ Dual Cell technology. This technology doubled the Telus data network speeds from up to 21Mbps to up to 42 Mbps, with a roadmap for true LTE in the near future. This week, the Canadian wireless company announced the launch of their 42 Mbps 4G network...

A local Vancouver husband and wife team, known as Dingo Games, have released their first game for iPhone and iPod touch called “Tasty Planet”. The game allows players to control a small ball of goo which eats objects around it so long as those objects are smaller than itself. The more that is eaten, the...

With Fido launching their new $30 Unlimited Incoming plan, and retiring their existing $35 Unlimited Incoming plan, Virgin Mobile has now done the same. Virgin's new $30 Unlimited Incoming plan is almost identical to the new Fido offer, except that the Fido plan has unlimited text messaging instead of a 50 message cap from Virgin....

Effective today, Fido has launched a new $30 Unlimited Incoming plan. The stated expiration date for the promotion is May 2, 2011. You might notice that this plan is almost identical to the recently expired $35 Unlimited Incoming plan. While the new plan is $5 less per month, it does not have Caller Display or...

We all know Steve Jobs/Apple are not big fans of the physical CD. The preferred method, of course, is iTunes digital media. But even with iTunes and many other digital media services, the CD still survives...until today! On the latest episode of Seth Green's stop-motion show Robot Chicken, a Steve Jobs parody shows Jobs becoming the...

Today, Rogers launched a new data sharing option for customers that have the 6GB data plan. It will cost $30 extra per month, per device to share your existing 6GB/$30 data plan with up to five devices. But first, some history. July 2010 With the launch of the iPhone 4, Rogers released their famous 6GB...

Today, Google released their Priority Inbox feature for mobile Safari on iDevices. The Gmail webapp for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad now has Priority Inbox support. Priority Inbox helps users in managing an overloaded email inbox by automatically identifying important messages so users can see them first. The feature has been available for the desktop...