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Curious where Palm model number P102UNA — the North American UMTS variant of the Pre 2 — might be headed? Since Bell and Telus rolled out their HSPA networks, Canada’s become far more averse to CDMA than the US has, so it makes sense that they’d be getting Palm’s latest handset in a GSM flavor, not a CDMA one (à la Verizon). To that end, MobileSyrup‘s managed to score some shots of a Rogers-branded Pre 2 strutting its stuff, though they don’t have a date or price — and Palm’s official line is still “in the coming months.” Anyone out there planning on moving to France to get it sooner?

Palm Pre 2 for Rogers in the wild originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When Google’s Street View cars glide through your neighborhood next, you can leave the WPA2 encryption off — Canada says that the company has “discontinued” the practice of snooping on unsecured WiFi networks with its mapping vehicles, and “has no plans to resume it.” That’s one of several findings in a report by Canada’s privacy commissioner today, which also claims that the controversial data collection feature was the work of a single Google engineer, and that Google intends to use smartphones to pinpoint WiFi networks from now on. Naturally, the latter caused the commissioner concern that Android phones might capture the same data as the cars. Perhaps you’d best keep those shields up after all.

Google’s wardriving days are over, says Canadian privacy commissioner originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG was naturally expected to show up for today’s announcement seeing how the company has been a longtime “strategic” partner of Microsoft’s — and indeed, they’re bringing two models into the fold. First up is the Quantum (known as the Optimus 7Q in markets outside the US, pictured right) that we broke as the C900 back in August, a landscape slider equipped with quadband EDGE and triband HSPA (850 / 1900 / 2100MHz), 16GB of storage, a 5 megapixel camera with 720p video capture, a 3.5-inch WVGA display, and an all-too-familiar 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon core; as you might have guessed from the 3G bands, this puppy will be coming to AT&T. Next, the Optimus 7 (pictured left) will be seeing a much wider international release on Telus in Canada, America Movil in Mexico, Movistar and Vodafone in Europe, and SingTel in Singapore. What is it, you ask? Well, it’s exactly what you’d figured by now from the leaks — a 3.8-inch WVGA slate at 11.5mm thick with specs that largely mirror the Quantum’s otherwise: 1GHz Snapdragon and 5 megapixel cam, notably. Both models will support “Play To,” the brand name for the DLNA features LG touted back at IFA, allowing users to fling media to DLNA-compatible TVs, set-top boxes, and the like. Expect both the Optimus 7 and 7Q to start rolling out on October 21, eventually deploying in over 35 countries; on AT&T, the Quantum will run $199.99 when it hits in the next few weeks. Follow the break for LG’s full press release.

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LG Optimus 7, Quantum, and Optimus 7Q welcome Windows Phone 7 to the fold originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rogers is breaking LTE out of the confines of its labs for the first time with the announcement today that it’s flipping the switch on a trial network in Ottawa — a place where infrastructure partner Ericsson conveniently just happens to have some facilities. The 4G network won’t be open to customers yet, but it seems like that’ll be a relatively small step — in the Ottawa area, anyway — once all the technical issues have been ironed out. Step one will be a deployment in Rogers’ AWS spectrum portfolio, but they’ve already filed a request with the gub’mint to roll out on 700MHz as well — a critical step if these guys want any semblance of interoperability with the first LTE deployments in the US. So, Canadians, tell us: excited? Follow the break for the full press release.

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Rogers, Ericsson turn Ottawa into an LTE trial playground originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Unless our eyes deceive us most cruelly, the Samsung phone we see above looks identical to the i917 Windows Phone 7 handset we’ve been seeing all over the place. Curious then that it bears the title of SGH-i916. We can only surmise that there’s some minuscule difference between the two phones, with this i916 seemingly set to ride Rogers airwaves up in Canada — purportedly with none of Samsung’s own branding anywhere on its shell. Another common feature it seems to share with the i917 is an AMOLED screen, judging by the deeper than deep black color it’s capable of pushing out. See a much larger picture of the i916 after the break, and if you want an even better idea of how a 4-inch Samsung handset compares to the iPhone 4, visit our screen comparison test starring the Galaxy S.

Continue reading Samsung SGH-i916 spotted cuddling up to an iPhone 4 in the wilds of Canada

Samsung SGH-i916 spotted cuddling up to an iPhone 4 in the wilds of Canada originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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