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TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:

Full news stories today include, expected Best Buy preorders for the HTC Thrill 4G, an OTA update for the HTC Inspire 4G, the Android 2.3 Huawei Vision, QNX BlackBerry Colt and Samsung Galaxy S II Hercules.

Here’s the news that’s too short to report:

• New Droid Bionic Photos – The Android paparazzi have photographed a candid shot of the Droid Bionic showing all the usually suspected features that came to light in yesterday’s FCC filing including a 4.3″ touchscreen, global connectivity and  HDMI mirroring. (Photo appears at end of this).
• Verizon Roots-Out Tethered Hotspotters - It has been reported by ReadWriteWeb that an employee with a jailbroken Droid X who was trying to use it as an unauthorized mobile hotspot and was automatically send to Verizon webpage asking the user to sign-up for a tethering plan.
• HTC Dev Website Live with SDK & Code – HTC has launched its developer website, that  gives developers access to kernel source code and will show the web tool for unlocking Android bootloaders.
• Virgin Gal in Red Takes on T-Mobile Pink Gal – A new commercial shows a Virgin Mobile gal in a hot red dress take on the T-Mobile spokesmodel in pink who is with that old AT&T nerd guy.  It shows the price advantage of Virgin Mobile. The video follows the Droid Bionic photo.

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Wind Mobile has plans to expand their coverage area in all their current markets, plus roll out to London by the end of this year, and enter Halifax and Winnipeg in 2012. In addition, Wind is going hard this quarter by releasing a number of new handsets and making their /month all-in talk, text and data plan available.

Orascom Telecom, the company who provided debt-financing to Wind Mobile Canada (Globalive), announced their Q3 2011 results today and as a company they now have 109 million customers, an increase of 12% when compared to last year. Where does Wind Mobile Canada fall into the mix? Well, the report states that “WIND Mobile subscribers increased 156% compared to 3Q 2010, showing a wide acceptance rate of customers across various segments”. At the end of Q3 2011 (September 30th) the total number of subscribers reached 358,000 – up 41,000 from Q2, and up 218,319 from 2009.

Other carrier Q3 results in Canada were as follows:
Rogers increased by 161,000 to total 9,288,000 subscribers
Bell also increased by 85,749 to reach 7,369,596
TELUS increased by 114,000 subs to now total 7.2 million

Source: Orascom
Via: WSJ

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This past week was almost as busy as the week when Google acquired Motorola Mobility. An incredible amount happened in mobile, everything from new device announcements, new OS (specifically Android 4.0), manufacturer apologies and historic sales numbers. The next few weeks will even get busier as the carriers will unload their new phones for the holiday season. Here’s a rundown of the top stories from this past week:

- Samsung and Google announce the Galaxy Nexus – yes, it’s coming to Canada! [more here]
- Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is demoed [more here]
- Motorola’s Android Motorola RAZR announced, pictured above & Rogers launching in November [more here]
- iPhone 4S sales pass 4 million [more here]
- RIM decides to give 0 worth of free app to customers for recent service outage [more here]
- Bell will release the LG Optimus LTE as the LG Eye [more here]
- Rogers releases the HTC Jetstream, Canada’s first LTE tablet [more here]
- Samsung confirms the Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE is coming to Canada [more here]
- 1 week with Siri, our iPhone 4S review [more here]
- Steve Jobs bio available Monday, he says that “I’m going to destroy Android” [more here]
- TELUS will release the Samsung Galaxy S II X on October 28th [more here]
- Our latest poll, “Which device are you most excited to get your hands on?”, currently has 60% saying the Galaxy Nexus [more here]

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Last night on TV, we noticed that new commercial for T-Mobile’s family voice with data plan, called the “Best Plan Ever.”  Surprisingly, the T-Mobile gal’s dress seems to be no longer a shade of pink but a combination of both pink and orange, which may have think that it may be a precursor to be AT&T T-Mobile merger.

In another commercial Virgin Mobile takes on the T-Mobile gal implies Virgin Mobile is better and cheaper.

Let’s compare the T-Mobile plan with the plans mentioned in Virgin Mobile’s latest commercial.

According to the commercial, the T-Mobile Best Plan Ever has unlimited data, talk and text for .99 for each line.  You have to read the fine print because each line includes up to 2GB of full speed data per month, then reduced speeds after that. On top of the .99 per line are taxes which could be close to 20%.

In the Virgin commercial the Virgin Mobile spokesmodel points out that T-Mobile will be taken over by AT&t who is last in customer satisfaction.  The plan, the commercial is advertising shows .00 for unlimited data and messaging which only includes 300 minutes of talk. The Virgin .00 a month plan includes 1200 talk minutes while the a month plan has unlimited talk. Virgin Mobile data use greater than 2.5GB per month will be throttled to 256kbps starting in October. It you start today, you will at least have a month or so of unlimited data without throttling.  Virgin Mobile plans include most taxes, however sales tax and some fees may be added.  Both plans in October will be very close in price.  Data speeds on Sprint’s 3G network are much slower than the T-Mobile 4G data network.

If you compare T-Mobile prepaid with Virgin Mobile prepaid as Virgin does in their own chart, Virgin Mobile is the cheaper plan. However the advertised plans are very close. 

To determine which is better for you, check coverage in your area.  Sprint has better coverage in some areas while T-Mobile has better coverage and other areas.  T-Mobile also has a greater selection of subsidized phones which are cheaper.

The easiest things to compare in the two commercials are the spokesmodels’ dresses the T-Mobile gal wears what looks to be a silk fluffy full frou-frou dress while the Virgin Mobile gals wears a tight-fitting red short red dress which is obviously more stylish.

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Terry Fox is deep into the hearts of Canadians and the annual Terry Fox Run is back on this year for the 31st time. Like always the goal is to generation donation to help fight Cancer but this time they are embracing mobile. The app is currently only available on iPhone and Android devices and there’s no word on a BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7 app in the future. Features include the ability to make mobile donations via PayPal, see your donation progress and share via Twitter and Facebook. The Terry Fox run is happening on September 18th.

Get the iPhone App here
Get the Android App here

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Quick app update here regarding the Cineplex Mobile App. This is available for free on BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone and select Android devices and the total number of combined downloads has reached 1.5 million, up 500.000 since April. The app already gives you the ability to find theatres, watch trailers and buy tickets, but now they’ve updated the features to include a database of over 40,000 movies, 8,000 actor bios and 200,000 images. In addition, you can now sign up for a SCENE membership within the app.

Source: Cineplex

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The low-cost, but good value, HTC Wildfire will be launched by Virgin Mobile on July 15th. It’ll be available in pristine white for 9.99 (we posted earlier that it might launch at 9.99). Specs of the Wildfire have it coming with a 3.2-inch touchscreen display (320 x 480), 600 MHz processor, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, auto-focus and video capabilities, Wi-Fi, GPS, hold up to 32 with a microSD card and only weighs 105 grams. In the meantime you can check out our full review of this Android here

(Thanks tipsters!)

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Most Read Top Wireless and Mobile News Stories this Week:

While we’ve seen many new sneak peaks at the next generation of Droid, HTC and LTE 4G smartphones from Verizon Wireless ,current Droid X owners are happy to know that there may be an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, soon.

This week has been charged with the Samsung Droid Charge with an unexpected appearance at Walmart online, connections for up to ten mobile hotspots. There was x-2-sy for the dual-core  Droid X2.
We’ve seen incredible new revelations about the Droid Incredible 2 world phone and a suspected April 28 release date.

Prices for next Droids were revealed.

While the HTC ThunderBolt was discounted, its extended battery was tested to have almost 7 hours of battery lite. 

All readers still love our top Android an’ Droid phones now and later.

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Wind Mobile will be adding the Nokia C7 to their lineup – from what we hear it could be as early as tomorrow. We’ve received a number of various tips today. Apparently there is a contest going on with Ottawa’s Chez 106 that is giving away one one per over the next few days with [...]

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Nokia Corp. has done the unexpected. Never mind, the news already leaked. The world’s largest handset manufacturer has taken its search for a modern smart phone operating system outside its ranks and inked a wide-ranging deal with Microsoft Corp. to make Windows Phone the flagship platform for Nokia’s high-end devices going forward. … Read More »

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