Going Hands on with Windows Phone 7

The other night Darren Humphries and I headed out to meet-up with Microsoft Canada and see what some local Canadian developers are working on for the Windows Phone 7 launch coming later this year. Not only is it fun to get together with Darren and talk phones for hours on end, but it was a [...]

Windows Phone 7 Goes Golden

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Last week, while Apple was making their iPod announcements, Microsoft let the word out that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing – basically, they’ve finalized their efforts and the code is now complete and passed off to the manufacturer to build into their devices. Many manufacturers have been working closely with Microsoft over [...]

Rant: Bell Sticking it to us with Roaming Charges?

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Recently I went down to the US and took a couple phones with me; one on Bell the other on Telus. When I entered the US I got a friendly SMS from both carriers to let me know how much they charge for roaming. Here is the message from Telus: “Free TELUS msg. Welcome to [...]

Samsung Makes the Galaxy Tab Official

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After last weeks pre-announcement that they plan to announce the Tab, Samsung followed through with their promise and announced the Galaxy Tab at IFA 2010. The Galaxy Tab is a 7 inch tablet running Android 2.2. It’s powered by a 1GHz processor, 4,000mAh battery that’s rated for 7 hours of movie playback, a 3.0 megapixel [...]