Canadian carrier TELUS will be the first North American carrier to offer Anam's SMART SMS messaging system, which can enable instant global money transfers to anybody in a user's address book.  The system also presents new opportunities for targeted advertising, embedding user-specific adverts within messages with special deals and/or offers, although TELUS is yet to indicate in which ways it ... continued »

TELUS have announced availability of the Motorola Q9c smartphone, although it seems they are only selling the sober 'licorice' version rather than vivid lime green handset offered by Alltel and US Cellular.  Running Windows Mobile 6 Standard, the Q9c has EV-DO, a 1.3-megapixel camera with fixed-focus and flash, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and GPS through TELUS Nagivator.  continued »

Anything Sprint can do, TELUS can do, well, if not better then at least the same.  The Canadian carrier has begun promoting the imminent arrival of BlackBerry's Curve 8330 to the network, with the same GPS and EV-DO but a "liquid silver" finish with chrome highlights.  The Curve 8330 is the smallest BlackBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard, measuring 107.1 x ... continued »

It's a day of BlackBerry news, which is normally enough to get me reaching for my meds, but since it's not entirely about minute variations of the Pearl I'll try to stay relatively sober.  First off, we've details of T-Mobile's upcoming 8820 and BlackBerry Pearl 8120, the former dropping into the upgrade programme by this coming Monday (March 24th) and select ... continued »

Things up in Canada are turning pink, and it's not just because of the cold weather.  Rogers Wireless have launched a pink version of the Sony Ericsson W580i, joining existing white and grey options and priced at $199.99, while TELUS have announced a pink BlackBerry Pearl 8130, $25 of every sale of which will go to the Rethink Breast Cancer ... continued »