Canadian Reviewer welcomes the CellGuru!

Canadian Reviewer.com started in 2008 as a place for me to publish my thoughts and ideas as well as product reviews in between deadlines as a freelance writer.

Canadian Reviewer offered me a venue to cover the stories and products that interested me the most. Through time, the blog grew in scope, size and readership. It was more than I could have imagined.

During the past five years, I’ve put a lot of time and effort to building Canadian Reviewer and it, in turn, has given me back a lot as well. I have enjoyed covering news from the consumer points of view. I've met a lot of fascinating people along the way.

It has been a magnificent journey.

That journey is going to continue and for the next leg I am joining forces with TheCellularGuru.com’s founder Corey Herscu. Corey brings great insight and experience in various areas of technology and the Internet as well as a keen entrepreneurial spirit. Merging the resources, intellectual property and scope of both websites will be both challenging and exciting.

Together, we hope to expand the range and scope of coverage as well as continue to develop the voice and direction of the website.

We hope to continue being the independent source for news, views and reviews with a Canadian perspective.

Kindly join me in welcoming Corey, as well as this bold, new direction for Canadian Reviewer. 

Here's to the future!

Gadjo C. Sevilla

The Apple Beat: Leaks and cases pointing to low-cost iPhone mounting

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

There's been a consistent stream of leaked photos pointing towards an upcoming low-cost iPhone, presumably to compete in emerging markets as well as offer users a cheaper alternative to the popular but premium iPhone 5. The latest is a photo from the WeiPhone Forums that show plastic cases for an iPhone 5C. The "C" may stand for colour or consumer as it has been rumoured that the plastic enclosures of this device will be available in various colours aside from black or white.

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New Nexus 7 pre-orders now available

The Nexus 7 (2013) is the only Android tablet that  many users will be considering. The lure of updated specs, that dazzling and dense 7-inch screen plus all the improvements promised by the latest Android Jelly Bean 4.3 OS and that oh so reasonable $249 price point (for the16GB version make it a no brainer. Why spend more just to get less. Future Shop and Best Buy have announced their pre-order pages for the device that is coming on July 30th. Exciting Stuff indeed.

Grid-It in bag form

What can be described as an OC geek’s dream come true, the Cocoon Grid-It travel organizer now comes in bag form. The Slim features an interior panel with the same crisscrossed elastic straps ready to accommodate your gadgets and cables of any size. It even comes with a second compartment to house your laptops or tablets or other thin devices.

Be careful not to overstuff the bag with gadgets. You wouldn’t want to throw your back out. It’s not the lightest bag at 1.14kg but it is reasonably priced at $80.