Wednesday
Jul032013

Rogers launches rewards program and lights up more locations with LTE service

Rogers has just revealed their First Rewards loyalty program. This enables customers to earn points on eligible purchases. These points can then be redeemed for a wide selection of Rogers products and services. Customers will have access to rewards depending on their region. Wireless rewards include: U.S. and international roaming packs; talk, and text packs; long distance calling and more. 

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Wednesday
Jul032013

Forget Netflix, Crackle is coming to BlackBerry 10

Anyone who has a hankering for streaming video on their BlackBerry Z10 or Q10 smartphone is still smarting from the Netflix snub but this opened up an opportunity for Sony's Crackle App. 

Available on the BlackBerry World storefront in 22 countries including Canada and the U.S., Crackle is a popular digital network that features hundreds of videost such as movies, films, and television series for free with minimal commercial interruption.BlackBerry worked with Crackle to create the free app now available for BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 smartphones. Hit jump for the details.

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Wednesday
Jul032013

Contest!: Win a Nokia Lumia 520 Windows Phone

Here's your chance to win a compact yet capable Nokia Lumia 520 Windows Phone!

Simply follow @CReviewer on Twitter and tweet the following message, " I would love to win the compact yet capable Nokia Lumia 520 from @Creviewer!." Contest is open to all residents of Canada and a winner will be picked by July 9, 2013.

The winner will receive a new Black Nokia Lumia 520 (locked to TELUS) with all accessories in the box, plus an extra Red cover.

The Nokia Lumia 520 features a dual-core 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM,  4-inch display, a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB storage expandable with a microSD card and a 9.6 hour talktime on 3G networks.

Thanks for joining and good luck to everyone who participates.

Tuesday
Jul022013

Nokia expected to launch Lumia with 41 Megapixel camera on July 11th

 

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Nokia has sent out press invites to their July 11th event in New York City. The invitation says Zoom. Reinvented, which hints at a camera-focused launch. Checking out their Nokia Blog page, we see another invitation offering 41 millon reasons to check the event. Nokia released the 41 megapixel 808 PureView camera last year, and while that Symbian powered phone really pushed the envelope of what camera phones were capable of, it was rather bulbous and it wasn't running Windows Phone OS.

 

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