BlackBerry Passport now available across major Canadian carriers

Powerful, exciting, unusual and disruptive; the BlackBerry Passport is finally avaiable from more Canadian carriers today. You an get the Passport at TELUS Mobility, Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility, MTS Wireless and SaskTel Wireless. Please see the carriers’ websites for up-to-date pricing information. 

The BlackBerry Passport’s innovative touch-enabled keyboard, unique 4.5” square screen and long battery life are built for mobile professionals who want a smartphone that empowers them to accomplish more.

It’s also the first BlackBerry device to come preloaded with BlackBerry 10.3. This new OS release includes BlackBerry Blend, a new app that seamlessly and securely brings messaging and content that’s on your BlackBerry smartphone to your computer and tablet. Here are our first impressions of this new chapter for Canada's mobile company.

Nokia's Lumia 830 comes to Rogers on October 9th for $400 contract free

It seems that the latest mid-range Windows Phone from Nokia, the Lumia 830 will come to market on October 9th (the day they are holding a launch event for it). It looks to be a Rogers exclusive and will cost $400 contract free. Stay tuned for more information on this latest Windows Phone device.

Source: MobileSyrup

Microsoft previews Windows 10, hopes you'll forget all about Windows 8.1

Microsoft is skipping a number and hoping that many will join them in forgetting Windows 8 and go straight to considering Windows 10. Currently in progress, the upcmoming new OS was shown off to 50 select reporters (none from Canada, apparently) who got a sneak peek at the future OS. Check the video above for some of the salient points coming to Windows. 

Pebble Watch gets $50 discount and some new functionality for sleep tracking

Anyone on the fence about the Pebble watch or the Pebble Steel will be happy to know that the cross-platform devices are now available for $50.00 less. As an added bonus, there's also new functionality for background tracking for fitness and sleep. This should make the devices even more enticing. Pebble is the company that really put wearables and smartwatches on the map and while the hardware has remained unchanged since release, there have been constant software updates making the watch even smarter. This means the classic Pebbles sell for US $99.00 and the Steel sell for $199.99.

Pebble's appstore features over 4,000 applications. There are also more than 18,000 developers on the Pebble platform. Is the pricing good for you?

Source: AppleInsider