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The TELUS BlackBerry Tour 9630 is rumored to hit shelves July 15th for $249.99 on a 3-year contract.
What do you think of the pricing? It’s always expensive to be an early adopter, but at least the Tour isn’t as rich as the Bold when it first launched.
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You can’t hide from the Internet! A CB forums member went digging around the Telus site and by adjusting file link names, the user uncovered a picture of the BlackBerry Tour 9630. The size of the image suggests that the pic will be used for the devices page, where we’ll soon see specs and pricing associated with the device.
Rumor has it that the launch date is June 22nd, which jives with the launch of the U2 360 tour, sponsored by BlackBerry. The U2 360 tour kicks off June 30th.
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TELUS and Universal Music Canada have partnered to announce the “Summer of Music with TELUS“ contest.
TELUS customers who download music from the TELUS music shop’s newly priced library will be entered for a chance to win tickets to see three hot musical acts.
To register, visit www.telusmobility.com/music.
You could win:
AKON
· Two tickets to see Akon live
· Trip for two (2) to Toronto
Lady GaGa
· Two tickets to see Lady GaGa live & dance lessons with Lady GaGa’s dance crew
· Trip for two (2) to a North American location
Tragically Hip
· Tickets to three Canadian tour dates
· Limo and accommodations
· Press accreditation to take photos and blog about The Hip experience
In conjunction with this contest, TELUS is lowering the prices of their music library. Songs are available at $0.69, $0.99 and $1.29 and the majority of albums are now $9.99.
TELUS and Sportsnet have launched the MIKE Playoff Beard Challenge and are looking for teams who think they’ve got the facial follicles to beat.
Are you a BlackBerry developer? Consider being a beard developer.
Check out NoOrdinaryPhone.com for contest details and entries.
The team with the bushiest beards by the end of the hockey playoff season wins:
TELUS has a new demo app on noordinaryphone.com that allows users to try the text-to-speech function of the TELUS Mike push to talk handsets. This includes the BlackBerry Curve 8330i that was launched with NASCAR in Toronto Canada. The best part of this new demo that you can create funny messages and send it to your friends. If you’ve never tried MIKE PTT, head over to the site and give it a shot.
TELUS, Canada’s 2nd largest carrier said it will be investing $700 million in wireless and wireline systems, part of a 10 per cent boost in overall spending from last year.
The move is expected to help boost customer spending and increase new sign-ups which have been a little lower than expected this year. The upgrades will help launch high-speed packet access technology by 2010. That will allow for faster data transmission and video service on handset devices including smartphones such as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry.
TELUS is fortunate in that it is in a better financial position debt-wise than most carriers. It doesn’t have a lot of debt that is due in the next couple years, and it is therefore taking this opportunity to spend, while most carriers are cutting back.
So if you’re in the Alberta region, expect some better service coming from TELUS.
If you’re looking to unlock your BlackBerry, we have set up a partnership with the good people at cellfservices.com to provide you with great deals and discounts for unlocking your device. Here are some of the prices you can expect:
AT&T, T-mobile USA, Rogers and Fido Blackberrys: $9.99
Verizon Storm: $19.99
Bell/Telus Storm: $34.99
List of 96 other Worldwide Providers Blackberry: $24.99
Go to our BlackBerry Cool and Cellfservices BlackBerry unlocking page for more details.
TELUS is offering the chance to win a pair of tickets to see No Doubt in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton or Vancouver this summer. All you have to do is send a text message for the city and tour date of your choice for a chance to win.
Click through to read more details about this contest
Unlocking the BlackBerry Storm has been a real pain for consumers. Since the TELUS and Bell Storm devices were released, they have been a success in the consumer market, which also means there has been a large demand to have them unlocked.
The Verizon 9530’s were unlockable, allowing us to use their tri-band phone on the Rogers network here in Canada. Sadly, we could not say the same for Bell and TELUS devices. Attempts at hacking the device have been met with failure. A team in the UK that was charging 15 GBP to unlock any BlackBerry, tried to crack the TELUS and Bell Storms, but were unsuccessful. A few companies managed to find an unlock solution for the 9530 from TELUS and Bell, however, it stopped all data on the devices from working.
Now all that has changed.
I was recently contacted by a company cellfservices.com who say they are now able to unlock TELUS and Bell Storms. The unlock typically takes about 1-3 weeks, and the process is slightly more expensive than your typical unlock, The process has been tested on 34 devices and has been working flawlessly.
Check them out here.
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know that I’m in Montreal to get some BlackBerrys unlocked. The city is only 2 hours away from BBCool headquarters in Ottawa, so I took the bus to meet some unlocking companies I found online. The first company I went to was run by a guy called Chin and what seemed to be his cousins. The place was located on the 3rd floor of a nondescript building near some strip clubs.
[Side Note: Strip clubs in Montreal offer a great lunch buffet. The meal is all you can eat for $6 and entertainment is on a purely tip basis. Very affordable. At least that's what I've heard.]
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