Late this afternoon, Canada’s TELUS Mobility formally announced that it too has launched the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip. Starting at $49.99 on a three-year contract and going all the way up to $449.99 contract-free, TELUS is hoping the youth market in Canada will receive the clam shell smartph...

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know that I’m in Montreal to get some BlackBerrys unlocked. The city is only 2 hours away from BBCool headquarters in Ottawa, so I took the bus to meet some unlocking companies I found online. The first company I went to was run by a guy called...

Last week I had the pleasure of heading to Woodbridge, Ontario for Telus’ BlackBerry 8350i launch event at AIM Autosport. AIM is a customer on Telus’ Mike iDEN network, and they were kind enough to talk about how they use the push-to-talk Mike network and why they’re so juiced to b...

This one is somewhat dedicated to all of the Canadian men out there. Know how your wife/girlfriend/mother/daughter/sister is always giving you hard time because you shop at the last minute when stores are packed and everything worthwhile is sold out? Don’t worry, because your friends at Telus ...

Some friends at Telus just tipped us off that the Canadian carrier has received new shipments of the BlackBerry Storm 9530 that will hit stores today. We weren’t given any exact numbers, and it appears that only select Telus stores are receiving the delivery, but we were assured that ‘co...

It seems that the joke that has been the roll out of BlackBerry OS 4.5 is finally nearing an end. One of the last stalwarts of the older OSes, Canadian CDMA carrier Telus, has released OS 4.5 for the 8130 Pearl and the 8330 Curve (you 8830 users have been left in the lurch). Both devices are now abl...

Out on the glorious west-coast of Canada, Telus have revised and announced their 2009 targets. The new numbers reflect earnings per share to grow by up to 10% in 2009. Wirelesssales are also now forecast to increase 8 to 10% in 2009. In a statement, Telus CFO Robert McFarlane commented: We are terge...

In what appears to be an absolutely fantastic holiday deal, Best Buy is offering up some great devices with a little bonus. The deal goes like this. Purchase two Telus LG KeyBo devices for $49.99 on a 3-year plan, and Best Buy will throw in a free Xbox 360! Hmmmm, if this is for real, I think I migh...

While it goes without saying that the BlackBerry Storm is going to be one of the hottest handsets this holiday season in Canada, Telus wants everyone to know that if they’re planning on either giving or receiving a Telus Storm on Christmas Day that it must be ordered no later than December 17t...

This week we saw quite a lot of Nokia-related news cross our path. For instance, Nokia launched their E63 messaging device and we found out that AT&T was all set to release the Nokia 6650 this past Friday. Telus picked up the Samsung m540 in two very stylish colors: black and pink and Alltell is...