Cell Canada

Here at Cell Canada, we are big fans of ’cheap’ and ‘free’ in all their forms - whether it be cheap cell long distance with Alligato Mobile, or cheap gadget toys at DealExtreme, or the focus of this article, free Apple iPhone Apps.  We have a well earned reputation for being tight with our pennies.
Thus we thought it might be [...]

[Read more →]

Blackberry Storm details are coming out fast and furious.  From early reviews, it seems to meet and beat most expectations.  It may certainly be the best corporate device ever built though I’m sure some will argue otherwise.  The keyboard, our big question in previous posts, is getting good reviews and RIM seems to have done [...]

[Read more →]

As we discussed in “Apple Opportunity #1 - An OS Inflection Point”?, there have been some highly publicized numbers coming out of Apple lately:
* Apple is expected to sell over 4 million 3G iPhones by the end of the September quarter.  Roughly 4x the totals from a similar post-launch period for the first iPhone.
* The iPhone App Store saw [...]

[Read more →]

OSX market share approaches 8% in July 2008.  Up 2% from a year earlier.
Apple is expected to sell over 4 million 3G iPhones by the end of the September quarter.  Roughly 4x the totals from a similar post-launch period for the first iPhone.
The iPhone App Store saw over 60 million downloads in its first month of [...]

[Read more →]

Yes this is a bit premature.  The Thunder is not out yet and at best we have rumours on design and specs and photoshopped images.  However I thought I’d touch on it given that, with all the buzz around competitive responses to the iPhone from the major mobile handset manufacturers, this is the one that I [...]

[Read more →]

The early reviews are in on the Blackberry Bold and comparisons with the iPhone are inevitable.  In summary, the comparisons highlight that these are two distinctly different phones with different strengths.  Perhaps the real RIM vs. Apple showdown will come when the Blackberry Thunder comes out later in the year with a large screen and [...]

[Read more →]

It has been an unprecedented few weeks in the Canadian cellular market. 
The iPhone has finally arrived in Canada with an array of plan options, Bell and Telus have just announced new incoming text message charges, and there will be three new carriers vying for cellular customers by 2010. 
Cell phones have become a fashion [...]

[Read more →]

The introduction of the iPhone in Canada heralds the beginning of a new era in mobile communications.
Though referred to as a phone, it is much more.  It is a networked portable computer with a revolutionary user interface.  It portends the mass market emergence of the mobile Internet – the Internet in your pocket.  As a [...]

[Read more →]

Here at Cell Canada, we’ve been engaged in an active debate about whether to go the Bell & Samsung Instinct route or the Rogers & iPhone route. 
Crunchgear ran a comparison on the two and summarized the features in this table:
 

Feature

iPhone

Instinct

Virtual QWERTY

x

x

Visual voicemail

x

x

Video recording
 

x

Camera

x

x

Web browser

x

x

Voice navigation
 

x

3G
 

x

WiFi

x

 

Bluetooth

x

x

Expandable memory
 

x

Streaming multimedia
 

x

Email

x

x

SMS

x

x

MMS
 

x

True GPS
 

x

Music

x

x

Maps

x

x

Mobile TV
 

x

YouTube

x

 

Live home view
 

x

 
The iPhone in the comparison was [...]

[Read more →]