Sure you can grab the Motorola ROKR E8 through Best Buy in Canada, but that doesn’t stop the country’s leading mobile operator, Rogers Wireless, to officially announce the device. That’s exactly what they did, and now Canadians can grab the dual-mode ROKR E8 for CA$99 on an always-too-long 3-year plan. As for the device itself, we’ve [...]

Call it the BlackBerry Pearl 8220, call it the BlackBerry KickStart, call it whatever you want, but don’t call it expensive. The latest rumblings along the wireless grapevine seem to point towards Canada’s GSM wireless carrier, Rogers, pushing BlackBerry Pear 8220 (codename: KickStart) as a back-to-school promotion come September. The back-to-school shopping season is upon us. [...]

If the latest rumors filtering down the various intertubes prove to be on point, Canadian fans of the RIM’s push-emailing smartphones could see Rogers launching the heralded BlackBerry Bold 9000 on August 19th. The BlackBerry Bold 9000 has already gone live in Chile, Germany, and Austria, but North American releases are still rumored to be at [...]

BlackberryNews.com has recently commented on the Blackberry Bold release dates - and the keyword we are looking at here is staggered… to recap, here are the supposed dates: July 29 - Rogers business customers August 1 - Vodafone UK August 4 - T-Mobile Germany August 8 - Rogers for general availability September 1 or later - AT&T In September - O2 [...]

So, it’s the 25th day of July, and we’ve still not heard a peep regarding the Blackberry Bold 9000’s release. Previous reports indicating that July 25 was the date to look forward to for an official announcement of the BlackBerry Bold’s launch were obviously off the mark. Where does that leave BlackBerry fanatics chompin’ at the [...]

Virtually the whole world over has adopted, or is rumored to be adopting, unlimited data pricing structures in anticipation of the iPhone 3G launch. That is, except Canada. Well, not Canada, per se, but Canada's oft mis-guided and confusingly business un-savvy wireless carriers. Today's example of how NOT to do business in a competitive wireless industry [...]

It there's one thing you can count on in the Canadian wireless market, it's incredibly high wireless data costs. We should have known better than to get our hopes up on hearing speculation that Rogers and Fdio would be offering unlimited data plans with the iPhone 3G's luanch in July. Rogers has announced their official [...]

Who doesn't like a good party, especially if the drinks are free? Rogers Wireless has started to send out invites to its RIM BlackBerry 9000 Bold launch parties scheduled to kick off on July 8. The launch festivities will apparently get rolling on July 8 in Toronto, Canada. Montreal will apparently be Rogers' next stop on [...]

While we're waiting for the BlackBerry 9000 series, Rogers has discontinued the old BlackBerry 8800, only to replace it with the more powerful 8820 model. The newly launched device (at least on Rogers), builds on top of 8800's specs adding WiFi connectivity to the mix. The Blackberry 8820 is already available on the largest Canadian mobile [...]

It's all still rumors and hearsay until Canada's Rogers and FIDO officially announce their iPhone 3G pricing structure, but that doesn't mean this latest leak isn't on the reals. Howard Forums' prolific rumor-monger, i.Fido, has posted what could be an internal document detailing the pricing structure for the Canadian launch of the iPhone 3G on Rogers [...]