Canada’s Telus considers government’s prospective Huawei ban an investment risk

Huawei provides an affordable option to other cellular network equipment vendors and carriers like Telus want that quite badly. But are strings attached?

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Android Oreo for Nexus 6P coming late, perhaps on September 11

Bell already has an update out for the Nexus 6P, but Rogers users will have to wait. This delay could be tied to compatibility issues with some US carriers.

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Bell had Google Pixel pictures out too soon

What is it with Canadian retailers these days not being able to keep their pictures tucked for their phones?This time around, it’s Bell and Google’s (and HTC’s) Pixel phones. Steve Hemmerstoffer pointed out that Bell had opened up business customer pre-orders for the Pixel. It also had the Pixel XL up for a bit.Introducing #PixelXL, Phone by ...

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Sony Xperia X Performance now free on contract at Bell Mobility

You could get the Sony Xperia X Performance for $699.99 from Bell Mobility in Canada. Or you can get it for free, stuck on a two-year contract with an $80 monthly plan. And you can get $100 off that “price” of free with a trade-in.Those who are looking for a little less intensity in their Xperia experience can get an Xperia XA for $349.99 or free on a two-year term with a $35 a month ...

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Off-beat: the first phone call in the world happened 140 years ago this week

Without Alexander Graham Bell, you would not be sitting at your computer or with your phone reading Pocketnow.com.It was 140 years ago yesterday that the Scottish luminary made the very first phone call from an office in downtown Boston, telling his assistant Thomas Watson:Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.But from the start, it took a community of wits, craft and a willing investor to pull it all together and make sounds like the one below possible.After moving to Canada for fear of the tuberculosis that killed his two brothers, Bell found a calling from his father, who taught ...

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Bell and Rogers have the BlackBerry Priv tucked in their systems

O, Canada! BlackBerry’s home and native land. And if there’s any support for the company’s devices, it’s got to be at the Canadian carriers. So, with the BlackBerry Priv being teased back and forth across the pond, it’s good to know that home will be where the heart is.After we just got done telling you that Bell is opening up to the

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Bell Mobility gets Sony Xperia Z5 on October 29

After some reprimands for some bad corporate behavior, Bell has some good news to share with us this week. It might seem a little topsy-turvy to what the Canadians’ counterparts to the south are used to: the US would get first dibs on new, neat things before they do. But as we’re expected to get the Xperia Z3+ down here — maybe ...

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Bell to pay $1.25 million for astroturfing app reviews

Back in 2009, Apple decided to block over a thousand apps from its App Store in one fell swoop. Most of them had previously been tracked by users and journalists as having been astroturfed — review pages painted with extremely positive, poorly written comments from accounts that only seemed to review a certain developer’s products.Mind you, we’ve covered Samsung’s positive and negative astroturfing campaigns ...

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