Setting: An average Rogers store. Center stage is the iPhone podium while stage right and back hold displays of various GSM phones. Stage left is a sales counter, behind which stands Sales Dude.
Me: Excuse me, how much for the Blackberry Bold?
Sales Dude: That’ll be four-hundred dollars.
Me: Wow, I can swing that.
Sales Dude: Alright, let me [...]
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Wait, that’s $400 WITH a contract?!?
Patent laws makes me want to smash my head into a table until I bleed all over the place…
Okay, this being reported as fact on several web sites, but I’m seriously hoping it’s someone’s clever joke and TechDirt and Engadget fell for it.
This is what I hope, anyway.
Apparently, someone has just obtained a patent for a smart phone, that’s a “mobile entertainment and communication device” and is now suing RIM, Nokia, HTC, Sony [...]
Canadian Mobile Data War 2007
For years, Canadians using mobile data devices (Blackberrys and other PDAs) have been getting royally screwed on mobile data fees. Just one year ago, I think most providers base plans included a “generous” 500 kilobytes per month.
That means users could download…five small pictures, per month.
A few months back, it looked like things might be getting [...]
