Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

Today, Rogers and Fido released new plans and as compared to the last quarter plans, and even beyond that, the new Rogers plans especially are by far the worst they have ever done. New Rogers Plans 1.) $30, $35, $40, and $45 consumer plans received "unlimited mobile browsing" as an option add-on. (not compatible with...

The middle of December 2009 concluded what was expected to be the final round of Rogers/Fido local calling area reductions. Wrong. Effective March 15, 2010, Rogers/Fido are further reducing Local Calling Areas across Canada. What does this mean? Local Calling Areas (LCA) are invisible geographic boundaries that determine which calls are billed as local calls...

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics are just days away and we have another iPhone/iPod Touch app that users can share their national pride with! Vancouver Cheers by Absolunet Vancouver Cheers allows users to choose their country flag and share their national pride. The app flashes the chosen country flag and the word "GO" in a strobe...

I can definitely tell that the Olympics are close as the Olympic-Country pride apps are being released everywhere! iCheer - Country by Rocky Mountain Mobile Software Are you going to the Olympics in Vancouver? If so, or even not, iCheer - Country may be your cheering companion. The nice feature about this app is that...

Hey, everyone. Rorypiper, again. Got a great tutorial this week, that will show you how to change the names of your SMS tones. Typically, when you download new SMS tones from Cydia, and apply them in Winterboard, you still have the same stock names of the tones, when you go into Settings -> Sounds ->...

Effective February 9, 2010 , Rogers will no longer be offering "Freedom of Speech" (FOS) on any term plans. This means that any customers activating on any monthly, 1, 2 or 3-year term service agreement on or after February 9, 2010 will no longer receive one month of unlimited local calling. Prior to February 9,...

Today Apple seeded a new build of OS X 10.6.3, build 10D548. The last seed, build number 10D538, was just released on January 22, 2010. According to reports, today's build provides a number of enhancements for QuickTime X, 64-bit, OpenGL, and Logic. The first 10.6.3 build was seeded in early January and the builds seem...

Bell has launched three new price plans as a promotion during the 2010 Winter Games. The plans are available to new Bell customers on a 3-year term and also to existing Bell customers who renew on a 3-year term. The plans do not offer as much value has Bell's Smartphone/iPhone Combo plans and the 3-year...

ContactFlow made its iPhone/iPod Touch debut in Cydia. Since then, the app has now moved to the App Store and is available for free (see last paragraph) for all iPhone/iPod Touch owners! ContactFlow by Fabien FOULON Jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch users, and especially first gen iPhone owners, would have remembered ContactFlow. Maybe you're still using it?...

In November 2009, Apple introduced a new subtle feature to the iTunes ecosystem. It was called “iTunes Preview” and it was a web based preview for iTunes links that users clicked on websites to open music in iTunes. At the time, iTunes Preview only worked for music, but the functionality has now been expanded to...

SIM Cards, or Subscriber Identification Modules, are the small smart cards that sit inside our iPhones and give us our connection to the cellular network. SIM Cards also come free with a phone/device purchase. Normally SIM cards have a long life, usually in excess of five years, but sometimes they "burn out" or are defective....

CIBC has launched a mobile banking application where users can access their account, pay bills, find branches, and more. CIBC Mobile Banking by CIBC Customers of CIBC will be happy to know that CIBC now has a rather fantastic app for iPhone/iPod Touch users. The only requirement is CIBC customers must have online banking enabled...