Wireless Roaming’s Terrible Twos

Wireless Roaming Charges are the fear of many while travelling.  We’ve all heard horror stories of people going on a relaxing vacation somewhere tropical, or perhaps a more scenic trip overseas to Europe only to come home to a cell phone bill racked up to hundreds to thousands of dollars.  For example, the famous Jason [...]

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Rogers One Rate Roaming Pack NOT as Advertised

As a follow up to our previous post on Rogers $10 Roaming Add-on, it seems as though we were mistaken.  After speaking to 2 representatives on the phone before our trip to Boston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, both informed us that the $10 add-on would provide the feature of a ’shared data plan’.  It [...]

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BlackBerry Storm 3 Prototype? For real?

After horrible reviews on the BlackBerry Storm 1, and then some mixed reviews on the Storm 2, from the looks of this, it looks like the Storm 3 will eventually be on its way.  The design genius’ of BlackBerry themes at Elecite have blogged about this beautiful prototype and have not strictly stated that this [...]

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Rogers Providing an Excellent Roaming Package for BlackBerry Users – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good:
Rogers has brought Canadian wireless users an excellent data roaming package which far exceeds any data roaming package we’ve seen from any of the US wireless carriers.  Initially they had launched this roaming package with the following rate plans.

$20 Personal Email on BB CDN/US
$35 Consumer/Small business BB (BIS) 500MB CDN/US Plan
$35 Consumer/Small business 500MB [...]

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Introducing MEP4 – Telus and Bell Blackberry Unlock Codes Get more Complicated

Through the eyes of a cell phone unlocker, it seems that RIM is always making an effort to tighten security on their new Blackberry devices.  This time it has gone beyond RIM, with Bell and soon, Telus adding new locks on their Blackberry phones.
We like to call them “MEP4″ locks instead the old MEP2 that [...]

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A Video Comparison and Review: Blackberry Bold 9000 vs. Blackberry Bold 9700

Last year, with much hype, the first 3G Blackberry was released, called the Blackberry Bold 9000.  With it’s super fast speeds compared to the older EDGE phones, amazing picture quality and much much more, RIM was able to set a new standard for their Blackberry devices.  Following came the Curve/Javelin 8900, Storm 9530, Storm [...]

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Blackberry Bold 9700 Unboxing – From Rogers Wireless

Here’s a quick overview on what exactly comes in the box for the Blackberry Bold 9700 from Rogers Wireless.  If you decide to purchase one of these phones off of a third party classifieds site like Craigslist, Kijiji or E-bay, make sure that all parts are inside to ensure you receive a new product.
What is [...]

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Part 1: 10 Reasons Why the Blackberry Bold 9700 is the Better Choice – Blackberry Bold 9000 vs. Blackberry Bold 2 9700 (Review)

Being an avid Blackberry user, I’ve used several devices including the 8700, 8100, 8300, 8320, 8800, 8900 and the 9000 within the past 5 years.
I’ve had the Bold 9000 for the past year and have the privilege to create a thorough video review on the Bold 9700 vs. the Bold 9000 with a temp model [...]

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