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Wind Mobile has come to Vancouver, and while I was down at the event to take some pictures and talk to customers, I also had the chance to talk to some people from Wind, to ask them about their future plans for services and phones. I got to speak with Will Novosedlik, VP – Brand [...]

I made it down to the Wind Mobile launch day in Vancouver and spent some time talking with people in line waiting to get in the store, and also with some people from Wind. I managed to get quite a few questions answered. I showed up a little after the early birds as I wanted [...]

Wind mobile has just announced their Vancouver launch day: June 3rd. This will mean 5 cities in 5 months for the startup, and they’re offering 50% discounts off your first 6 months of service if you sign up by June 30th. I’ll hopefully have a chance to get down to the store and check it [...]

If there’s one thing that Wind Mobile has done consistently well, it’s take advantage of the web for communications between itself and its (potential) customers. And that continues today. In response to Mobilicity’s launch today, Globalive CEO Tony Lacavera made a post on the windmobile site. Most telling was this paragraph: With new competition emerging, [...]

Earlier today, Wind Mobile acknowledged via a twitter update and corresponding blog post response that they were aware of customer complaints that the “unlimited data” option for Wind phones was unlimited in the amount of data transferred, but not in the type of data transferred. Certain data ports were blocked, drastically limiting the applications which [...]

UPDATE: Issue fixed. For the past few days, a number of angry Wind Mobile customers have been complaining on the Wind website about how the unlimited data plan is restricted via port blocking. In a display of customer feedback response uncharacteristic of the Canadian wireless industry, Wind Mobile has responded in a timely fashion with [...]

Engadget has an exclusive hands-on preview of the new Google Nexus One phone up on their site. It’s definitely worth a read, with quite a few pictures and even a quick intro video to the phone in the initial article. They do promise a full review up soon. The most interesting part of the review [...]

Blogs, forums, people on the street, people on the Wind website. Generally they are all saying the same thing: The Wind plans are great, but the one complaint is the lack of a cheaper data plan. Right now if you want a data plan with Wind you have to go for the $35 unlimited data [...]

Well, Wind Mobile is here, and while people seem generally excited about their plans and service so far, the phone selection leaves a little bit to be desired. So what really is available, what is coming, and what about the iPhone?

Update: Be sure to vote in our Wind data plan poll. I decided to see just how Wind Mobile’s new offerings stacked up against the competition so I spent some time and did a rate comparison. I compared the 4 companies across two metrics: The power user who wants to really use their device, and [...]