BBM to evolve into interest based mobile social network through Channels

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

With 80 million worldwide users, BlackBerrys now cross-platform BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) is evolving into its own social engagement platform within BBM. BBM Channels is expected to come out of beta testing and will offer BlackBerry users the opportunity to create their own personal or brand channels. Interested followers can subscribe to these channels much like how people follow others on Facebook or on Twitter. BBM Channels can be verified so as to avoid fakes and channels can be set up for specific events like concerts, sporting events and conferences. This allows for focused, user-targeted and noise-free communications.

BlackBerry OS 5 and above and BlackBerry 10 through BlackBerry World. BlackBerry users can simply update to the newest version of BBM to have access to the BBM Channels beta when it becomes available later today.

Update on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 1:16PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Some sources say the BBM Channels feature will rollout in updates to the BBM app starting 3 PM Eastern Today.

First look at the Huawei Ascend P6

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We've seen a number of Huawei devices this year. Ranging from clearly entry level smartphones to an interesting challenger to the the supersized-handset market.

The Ascend P6 is an ultra-slim and premium smartphone that is impressively put together and shows just how formidable Huawei has become as a smartphone maker in a short span of time. 

The Ascend P6 is made out of brushed aluminum with a stainless steel bezel which likely incorporates the antennas. It features a bright 4.7-inch display, a 1.5Ghz quad core processor, 2GB of RAM, Android 4.2.2 and a sizeable 2000mAh battery. It is clever enough to incorporate its own SIM card slot pin and while it comes with 8GB of onboard storage, it can easily be upgraded to 64GB via microSD card expansion.

Huawei’s current flagship smartphone is available in Canada at WIND – at 6.18 mm slim, it is the thinnest phone available in Canada right now and a sign of great things to come from Huawei. 

Review: Nextivity Cel-Fi RS2 Signal Strength booster

Maintaining a good cellular reception indoors has always been one of the biggest issues with cellular phones. Now that mobile devices push voice, text and more importantly data across various bands getting a strong enough signal is something of a challenge. That's where a device like Nexitivy's signal strength booster comes in.

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Contest! Win a Moto G smartphone and case

We're giving away a Motorola Moto G smartphone on TELUS to one lucky reader. The Moto G just started selling in Canada today via TELUS and Koodo. It is also available from TELUS at Black’s, Cellular Point, The Mobile Shop and Walmart.  

The Moto G features a powerful Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8 GB of onboard storage plus 50 GB of free Google Drive storage. It also features a 5 megapixel camera, FM radio, all-day battery, removable backplates and colourful cases. Read our review of the Moto G here.

Contest rules:

Simply follow @CReviewer and @Motorola_CA on Twitter and tweet the following message, "I would love to win the powerful and long-lasting Moto G for from @Motorola_CA and @Creviewer!." 

 Contest is open to all residents of Canada and a winner will be picked on November 27th, 2013. Thanks and good luck to everyone who joins.