BlackBerry KEYone now available for preorder in Canada through Rogers

The new BlackBerry KEYone smartphone is now available for preorder through Rogers Canada. The latest handset from TCL, who owns BlackBerrys' handset business, is an impressive business smartphone that mates the full power of Android 7.1 with BlackBerry's legendary QWERTY keyboard, a 4.5-inch scratch resistant display, 12 megapixel rear camera, 8 megapixel front facing camera, fingerprint sensor and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Octa-Core 2.0 GHz processor, with a 64-bit Adreno 506, 650MHz GPU.

Starting at $199 CAD on a two year term, the BlackBerry KEYone is an iconic BlackBerry smartphone made for the modern user.

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Review: Philips Hue Smart Lighting System

Philips Hue turns the lightbulb completely on its head and manages to bring such a vast range of possibility in terms of lighting homes, offices, commercial spaces and any place that's in need of smart illumination.

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of the most impressive implementations of smart appliances or IoT (Internet of Things) has been by Philips, whose Hue line of smart lightbulbs, bridges, and switches, has all but revolutionized one of the oldest and most immutable devices and made it into a connected and smart appliance.

Lightbulbs are the oldest electrical devices. They're also the dumbest. You buy the lightbulb in the wattage you need, screw it into the socket and let it work until it dies, and then gets replaced. The cycle is endless.

If you want coloured lightbulbs, you buy them in the colours you need. Each lightbulb is one colour, forever. Not anymore. Read on.

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Apple amping up activities and events at retail locations with Today at Apple

Apple is launching  the “Today at Apple” initiative that is is the collection of new, free programs launching in all 495 Apple stores on topics from photo and video to music, coding, art and design and more. The hands-on sessions will be led by highly-trained team members, and in select cities world-class artists, photographers and musicians, teaching sessions from basics and how-to lessons to professional-level programs.

- The new programs and sessions focus on the features of Apple products customers love most, across all skill levels and ages, and begin on May 17.

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Moto X and Moto E line coming to some markets as per leak

Photo by Evan Blass

 By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Lenovo is apparently bringing back its former flagship Moto X line along with the entry level Moto E line which were discontinued some years back. Now under the ownership of Lenovo, who seems to be ceding its own handsets to focus on Moto phones, we now have quite a range of upcoming Moto phones.

While these devices are likely going to different regions and being made available in various capacities. There's now more range than ever and, as a result, more confusion.

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