August 7th, 2008March of the iFauxns – Bell and Telus strike back
Tonight Bell and Samsung are launching the Instinct in Canada reportedly with the savvy PR-kungfu of an “unlimited” 3G data plan. You may remember Rogers getting a little flack for their not so unlimited. Expect Bell of course to offer unlimited service subject only to their usual laundry list of limits (except for tethering, subject to “acceptable” use, except for data services that don’t count etc.).
The Samsung is nice looking machine, it’s clearly designed to take on the iPhone, but does it stack up? We shall see.
Arguably more anticipated than the Instinct is the HTC Diamond. A friendly tipster to WirelessNorth.ca writes: “Just got a word from Telus that the touch diamond will be dropping in CDMA flavour on the Telus network on August 19th 2008.” Boy Genius had the scoop on the specs for the Telus Diamond here. The Diamond is a proper (Windows Mobile) smart phone, the specs are impressive, it has HTC’s fancy touch interface, nonetheless initial impressions of the device are mixed (in this case the UK GSM version). We’d love to hear what you think from the first ones that can get their hands on the Telus edition.
UPDATE: Telus writes:
“Good afternoon, Just saw your article about TELUS coming up with the Diamond. Just wanted to flag that we are actually launching next week, August 14th. See below the news release distributed yesterday. Rate plans info available at the bottom of the release.”
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Ken Seto
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TheC
