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The Lumia 830 has landed in Canada on carrier Fido. The Lumia 830 can be purchased for $80 with a Tab24 Smart Plan, and $200 with a Tab24 payment plan with a standard plan. If you want the Lumia 820 with no contract that’ll run you $400. The Lumia 830 runs on Windows Phone 8.1…
Canadian Samsung Galaxy S 3 owners will soon be receiving an update soon, which will bring their devices up to Android 4.1.2, version MVLDMF1. The update is now available for Galaxy S 3 owners who use Rogers, Bell, MTS, Koodo, Fido and TELUS services. Although the carriers have not revealed the exact contents of this…
WIND Mobile, Bell and TELUS have been offering HD Voice for quite some time and now Rogers Wireless and its youth-brand Fido are joining the trend. The carrier quietly rolled out new capability, providing its customers with a clearer call quality. Here’s what Rogers said in an email to MobileSyrup: Rogers Network is capable of…
Virgin Mobile Canada unveiled a new plan called “Awesome 40,” offering 150 Canada-wide minutes, 5 Canada-wide buddies, unlimited incoming calls, unlimited international text and picture messaging OR Voicemail + Call Display, and 100 MB of data OR Blackberry Unlimited Social for $40 per month. This is a limited time offer only available to postpaid customers.…
Yeah, we’ve told you it’s coming and voila – Fido issued a press release saying that it will launch its LTE network later in the summer. Major markets will be the first to get the coverage, with the list including cities and surrounding areas of Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal and St. Johns. The goal…
Rogers Wireless and its prepaid arm Fido have started accepting orders for the LG Optimus L7, which if you recall, is the best device from LG’s recently unveiled L series of phones. Rogers is asking a single cent for the phone as long as you put your signature on a new 3-year contract, while Fido…
Rogers, Fido and Motorola are pushing a software update for the Motorola RAZR that will bring the device from Android 2.3.5 to 2.3.6. As you can imagine, it’s a maintenance release that will fix some of the bugs while increasing the phone’s stability and performance. Here’s what’s included: New Smart Action triggers and actions Auto…
Canada’s Rogers Wireless said it has no plans to offer LTE services through its sub-brand Fido, though things could change or are changing as we speak. When Fido employees click on the screen to activate/upgrade a customer the option of “LTE Voice and Data Sharing Bundles” pops up. That, of course, doesn’t prove anything though…
Canada’s Fido will soon launch a new Internet Stick Data Flex plan, which will offer 150MB of data for $10. Naturally, more demanding will be able to upgrade to 5GB of mobile data for $35. Apparently the carrier planned to introduce this new plan back in the first quarter, but delayed the launch because of…
While Gingerbread update for the LG Optimus 2X has been around for quite some time now (though not for too long), it’s only now that we’re seeing it hitting the users of Canada’s Fido network. The drill is usual – before pushing the update to its users, mobile operators are thoroughly testing it to make…