We have got you a very blurry shot of the LG “Bliss”, which will be coming to Bell as early as August 7. We have very few details on this device, but as far as we could gather, it brings a full QWERTY touchscreen with 2MP camera with video, microSD card slot up to 16GB space, Bluetooth, speakerphone and the usual other apps you can expect from cell phones today.
The Bell pricing is going to be as follows – $79.95 for a 3-year contract, $129.95 for a 2-year contract, $229.95 with a 1-year contract and $279.95 for outright, contractless purchase. More info should reach us as the launch nears its due date. So stay tuned.
LG Bliss
Source: IntoMobile
Canada, it’s time now to celebrate! Bell has launched the BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone, ahead of its arch rival Canadian CDMA carrier, Telus. Right now, the device is on sale only through the Bell website, but we expect to be up for grabs in retail stores very, very soon. The BlackBerry Tour has been ordered at all Bell outlets and will be in shortly.
The device is up for $249.95 for a 3-yr contract, for $549.95 with a 2-yr contract and for $649.95 for a 1-yr contract. You could even purchase it contract-free for $6995. So what are you guys waiting for? Click here to place your order right away!
Bell Blackberry Tour 9630
Source: IntoMobile
Ok, here’s the howler of this week, guys. We always knew that Bell would be the official carrier for the Palm Pre in Canada. Now Bell has introduced its new “You Could Win A 3G Palm Pre Contest”, which will supposedly give away a Palm Pre to one lucky participant. Of course, this is great – getting your hands on a Palm Pre, that too free, is almost too good to imagine. But there’s something hilarious that happened here.
When you visit the page that gives you the entry rules, it opens a PDF document that, on the header is a picture of the Palm Treo Pro and not the Palm Pre. Click here to go to that page and you’ll know what we’re talking about.
There is one more thing here. The contest rules state that the “approximate retail value” of the device is $650 CDN. So we can probably assume that this device will cost $649.95 outright, for an unlocked version of the smartphone. Click here if you want more info on the contest. This one goes on till August 31st. Go ahead and try your luck, guys!
Bell Palm Pre Contest
Source: IntoMobile
Former AT&T Wireless customers who filed a class action lawsuit for being mistreated when the company was bought by Cingular, now owned by AT&T, have been approved to go ahead with the suit. The customers are seeking payment for extra charges plus damages. The subscribers in question claim that their service quality decreased and that they were forced to buy new phones when Cingular took over the old AT&T Wireless network. AT&T fought the suit, and tried to deflect customers to arbitration. The court ruled that it would be too expensive for individual customers to pursue that course.
Here, it should be noted that AT&T Wireless and AT&T are not the same company, in spite of the common aspects of their names. AT&T Wireless was a separate cell phone carrier that was purchased by Cingular. At that time, Cingular had a joint venture between SBC Communications and BellSouth. Later SBC acquired the original AT&T and assumed its name, further going on to acquire BellSouth and thereby gaining full ownership of Cingular, which was re-branded as AT&T Mobility. AT&T Mobility is the AT&T that we refer to most of the time.
Source: MobileBurn
