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Over the past week there was a slew of hot mobile news – mostly revolving around takeovers, lawsuits and last minute shopping deals. Mobilicity was at the centre of Canadian news with WIND being “in talks” to buy them, plus RIM fielded trademark infringement accusations over their popular BBM use by BBM Canada. Below are some top Canadian stories, plus other notable news from around the web:

- Google planning on releasing a tablet within 6 months [Read here]
- ASUS Transformer Prime arrives in the hands of some lucky Canadians [Read here]
- Mobilicity rumoured to launch an IPO Q1 2012, looks to raise 0 million [Read here]
- Survey shows 23% of Canadians have the urge to use their phone in the bathroom [Read here]
- Fido launching the Motorola RAZR “in the next few days” [Read here]
- Angry Birds finally available for BlackBerry Playbook [Read here]
- BBM Canada hits RIM with trademark infringement over BBM use [Read here]
- Rogers changing DOA Policy to 15 days from purchase, effective February 1st, 2012 [Read here]
- Samsung bringing OS 4.0 to the Galaxy SII in Q1 2012, other devices “will soon follow” [Read here]
- UBC says “People more likely to lie when texting” [Read here]
- Hands-on with the Nexus S running Ice Cream Sandwich [Read here]
- Public Mobile finds a home in 48 Walmart stores [Read here]
- WIND “in talks to buy Mobilicity”, says Bloomberg [Read here]
- iMessage bug revealed after stolen iPhones still receiving texts to old number [Read here]
- Contest: Win a WIND Mobile HTC Amaze 4G [Read here]
- List of Boxing Day specials from various Canadian retailers [Read here]

Around the web:
- Steve Jobs to receive Grammy for transforming the music industry [TheVerge]
- Republic Wireless goes truly unlimited [Engadget]
- AT&T’s LTE Network Is Faster Than Verizon’s [Wired]
- Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 Release Date and Pricing [CrackBerry]
- Microsoft is finally planning to fix backup in Windows Phone [WMPU]

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Here’s a list of the top Canadian stories from the past week (lots of BlackBerry and Galaxy Nexus news). In addition, a bunch of other cool stuff from around the world.

- TELUS Samsung Galaxy S II X (Hercules) getting ICS update sometime in 2012 [Read here]
- Bell and Virgin officially launching Galaxy Nexus December 8th [Read here]
- Samsung commercial takes a shot at Apple [Read here]
- Bell to release the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE December 7th [Read here]
- Rogers destroys a birthday cake and an egg with a RAZR [Read here]
- Virgin Mobile to release the BlackBerry Bold 9790 [Read here]
- Galaxy Nexus will be available at Videotron next year [Read here]
- Rendering of the HTC Ville with more specs surface [Read here]
- Bell and TELUS release the all-touch BlackBerry Curve 9380 [Read here]
- BlackBerry Curve 9380 Review [Read here]
- Rogers Samsung Galaxy S II LTE Review [Read here]
- White BlackBerry Bold 9900 now available at Rogers [Read here]
- WIND to release the HTC Amaze for 9 [Read here]
- Bell releases the LG Optimus LTE [Read here]
- Rogers Sony Ericsson Xperia arc OS 2.3.4 now available to download [Read here]
- Bell LG Optimus 4G LTE Review [Read here]
- WIND expands into Niagara, coming to London in December [Read here]

Around the web:

- Motorola Droid 4 Specs Surface: LTE 4-Inch display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor [Droid Life]
- Sharp Aquos SH-01D Android has a 720p 3D display, 12.1-megapixel camera [The Verge]
- RIM and Telefonica enter in NFC payments trial [CrackBerry]
- Android OS 4.0 gets ported to original HTC Dream [XDA]
- HTC “re-evaluating” S3 Graphics purchase after ITC reversal [Apple Insider]
- LG Nitro HD event happening on December 1st in the United States [Engadget]

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Much of this past week circled around the excitement of the upcoming “pure Android” Galaxy Nexus. In addition, several carriers released new handsets and will be adding new devices shortly. Below is a list of the top stories from the past week, plus other notable news from around the web:

- WIND Mobile Q3 results bumps subscriber base to 358,000 [Read here]
- Bell and Virgin to exclusively launch the Galaxy Nexus first [Read here for Bell & Virgin]
- BlackBerry PlayBook drops to a low 9 [Read here]
- The BBX-powered BlackBerry “London” surfaces online [Read here]
- Rogers and TELUS will release the Galaxy Nexus January 2012 [Read here]
- TELUS and Rogers to release the Bold 9790 [Read here]
- Samsung becomes the global leader in smartphone shipments [Read here]
- Motorola RAZR review [Read here]
- Public Mobile launches releases Android devices, under 0 [Read here]
- Bell BlackBerry Curve 9380 available November 28th [Read here]
- HTC AMAZE coming to Videotron, probably WIND [Read here]
- Galaxy Nexus review Part 1 & Part 2
- Rogers Samsung Galaxy S Glide available [Read here]
- Mobilicity gets a new CEO, Dave Dobbin dismissed from role [Read here]
- Current poll has 78% of votes saying the 700MHz auction should have a set-aside [Read here]

Around the web:

- How to use Google Music from outside the States [Engadget]
- Twitter for Windows Phone updated to Mango [WMPoweruser]
- Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 Unboxed [CrackBerry]
- Steve Jobs biographer says he “wanted to reinvent” photography and textbooks [The Verge]
- Android malware up 472% since July [Phandroid]
- Motorola Droid Xyboard 8.2 tablet pictured [PocketNow]

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Apple WWDC 2011 conference is on right now and finally there is some talk about iOS and Scott Forstall is on stage. He stated that Apple has over 200 million iOS devices “and that makes iOS the #1 mobile operating system. With more than 44% of the market…” We’re guessing that is everything such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.

-In regards to iPad number: sold 25 million iPads in the first 14months.
- In total there are 425,000 apps available, 90,000 on the iPad
- 14 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store
- “iOS 5 is a major release”… 10 new features coming
- Notifications: “Notification Center”. Now you can get your notifications by simply swiping your finger down from the top of the iPhone (like the experience on Android)
- Twitter in iOS 5 is now fully integrated – in the apps our apps, within the camera and gallery and update the contact photos right from Twitter.
- Camera: They have added a lock screen shortcut feature plus editing pics from the iPhone
- Wireless syncing!! – Software updates are now over the air! (Finally!)
- “iMessage” (messaging client that supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch where you can send texts, photos, videos to your contacts contacts (kinda like BBM)
- iOS 5 is available today for devs but to the general public this fall. (iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2 and iPod Touch 3rd Gen)

Source: Thisismynext

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Koodo has released a touchscreen device – no it’s not an Android yet but that’s coming soon. Today they have released the LG Cookie Plus – specs have this coming with a 3-inch display (resolution of 240×400), 3-megapixel camera with video capabilities, social networking features such as quick access to Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, FM [...]

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The Corby Touch is now available at Rogers and has a 3-inch touchscreen (resolution of 240 x 320), 2 megapixel camera, music player, holds up to 32GB with a microSD card. Specs sound good and this can be yours for .99 on a 3-year or .99 on a 2year. If you’re thinking about getting this [...]

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Yesterday I finally signed up for apples MobileMe service. After successfully using it on my Mac and iPhone whole connected to wifi, I have been unable to upload a single image over 3G or EDGE data yet.

I have to chalk this up to poor AT&T data performance.

More AT&T fail.

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