Chatr, Rogers’ mobile phone & wireless company kills the competition

So in June (2010) Rogers decided to remind Wind Mobile and Mobilicity that it exists and they should not try to “mislead” clients (read Canadians). As you know, it did this by launching Chatr; a company they said is just a “new mobile phone brand to focus on the growing talk and text category”. But [...]

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Window Phone concept

The Window Phone is the genius concept of designer Seunghan Song. It’s the same size as most standard smart phones but it has a unique way of displaying the current weather. The phone is see through and has the ability to change its appearance to reflect the current weather! These weather predictions are made in real [...]

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Windows Phone 7 Series Features Video

Long but worthwhile video featuring Windows phone 7, or WP7 (for those who like abbreviations)  shows the UI in action! It’s supposed to be very diffrent than any Android or Iphone device. And could cause some trouble for apple’s all-mighty iPhone.  A “marketplace” would be windows version of the App Store… and the form factor is [...]

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Microsoft Zune Phone to be announced?

The phone is rumored to be announced this February at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress 2010. The Zune Phone will sport the Nvidia Tegra chip and run Windows mobile 7. It’s rumored to have 480 x 272 screen, HDMI video out, and weigh around 2.45 ounces.If the rumors turn out to be true this sounds like it [...]

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The Teen with the $21k Verizon Bill

We all should be familiar with those unreasonable cell phones bills we receive in the mail, and those accompanying fights with customer service to go with them . Now does anyone remember Piotr Staniaszek the Alberta man who was charged an $85,000 cell phone bill from Bell? Well it looks as though he isn’t the [...]

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