Review: LG Shine Touch KM555R on Rogers

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

As far as feature phones go, the LG KM555R Shine Touch is surprisingly feature packed for such a lightweight and compact unit.

Available exclusively from Rogers for $49.99 on select three-year plans (or $249 for the contract free price) The LG Shine Touch takes inspiration from some familiar touch enabled smartphones in the market today even if it is sufficiently smaller.

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Rogers: "add iPad to existing data plan for $20 option, was an error."

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Seems like Rogers might have reneged on the $20/month plan to "add iPad to existing data plan" option that we reported on earlier and has, once again, drawn the ire of current and potential customers. Apple's iPad, which is available for pre-order today, was announced to offer a 3G+Wi-Fi models that can ship with Rogers MicroSIM cards and would have the option of non-contract data subscription options above. The third option, for $20.00, would enable the iPad to be used with a customer's existing data plan. This option is now said to have been an error which has now been rectified on Apple's website.

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New Samsung Messenger targets text-happy teens

Updated on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 5:17PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Samsung's GT-B7330 Windows 6.5 smartphone  AKA the Omnia Pro is a well-built, poperly specced smartphone reminiscent of Palm’s Treo line  and RIM’s BlackBerry 9700. In terms of styling, it is conservative, a bit stodgy and clearly born and bred for the corporate world but is being pitched to text-happy tweeners and teenagers.

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Samsung B5310 CorbyPRO from Rogers

 

Itching for a touchscreen phone that’s also got a slide out keyboard? The Samsung B5310 Corby Pro sports a 2.8” inch display with 16 million colors resolution and a long list of notable features.

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