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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 [...]

This year’s CTIA wireless conference promises many announcements on new products and technology for the wireless industry, and Samsung has stepped up to the plate early, announcing the Samsung Galaxy S. The Android-based smartphone boasts a 4″ AMOLED screen and 1 GHz processor, and a surprisingly iPhone-like themed display. It also appears to have an [...]

The CBC is carrying a story about a consortium of 24 international wireless carriers including giants AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefonica who have joined forces with hardware manufacturers Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson to provide an app store which will be ubiquitous across all carriers and platforms. Wind Mobile is Canada’s only participant. [...]

A big thanks to reader @ianmurchison for this tip. It seems as though the integration of gizmo5 into Google Voice is steadily progressing, taking one more step last week. The gizmo5.com domain was transferred to google on 18 January 2010, and now gizmo5.com redirects to google.com/gizmo5. Gizmo5 was a VOIP company which provided both software [...]

Nexus One tech specs: Cellular & Wireless UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900) HSDPA 7.2Mbps HSUPA 2Mbps GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR A2DP stereo Bluetooth