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Best Buy Supports Earth Day

With Earth Day next week, April 22, all the major retailers are getting involved in one way or another.

Bring in your old cellphone to Best Buy next week and get $25 off the purchase of a new phone.  If you are buying a phone priced at $0 you will receive a $25 store credit for accessories.  The $25 accessory credit must be used at the time of purchase and no cash will be given back if the accessory is less than $25.

The trade-in program is only available for new contracts, contract renewals, and upgrades.  Thus prepaid phones are not eligible.   Trade-in incentives are only valid from April 17, 2009 – April 23, 2009 and must be done in-store.

Check out all the trade-in incentives online.

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Cricket Scores the Hint

Boy does this fully QWERTY slider sure get around.  Bell and MetroPCS released the Hint earlier and now its available through Cricket.  Cricket’s Motorola Hint is selling for $229.99 after a $20 web discount.  Of course the Hint features a full QWERTY keyboard, 2.0 MP camera, video capture, and music player.

More at Cricket.

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BlackBerry Outage

Looks like most BlackBerry users in Canada and the United States are currently without e-mail service.  From what I have read it appears all service providers are affected by this outage: Rogers, AT&T, Verizon, etc.

Are you experiencing no e-mail service or delays receiving messages, leave a comment below.

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Nokia Swivel-Verizon

One of the ninjas at BGR is reporting that Verizon Wireless is going to launching a swiveling Nokia this summer (July/August). Not sure about features but as you can see-full QWERTY keyboard and S40 OS.

The above image is a mock up of the actual device based on “first hand impression”.

Source: Boy Genius Report

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Fido to Sell “Refreshed” iPhones

Fido, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., has started to sell previous used iPhones through the loyalty and retention department.  Refreshed iPhones were purchased and returned within the first 15 days of use.

Pricing for the “refreshed” iPhones is as follows:
$149 – 8GB on 3-year term
$249 – 16GB on 3-year term

Only customers on a price plan before the relaunch of the Fido brand (November 4, 2008) are able to get these “refreshed” iPhones.  Also note, “refreshed” iPhones only have a 6 month warranty, not the full 12 months that new ones do.

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Telus Launches Palm Treo Pro

Bell Mobility launched the Palm Treo Pro late February, Alltel launched it early April, and now it’s Telus’ turn.

Like Bell’s model Telus’ will feature a touch screen and a full keyboard, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition, chat-style view for text and multimedia messages (similar to the iPhone), and a 2.0MP camera.

As you can see from the graphic, launch pricing is as follows:
3 year: $149.99 (voice and data over $20/month)
2 year: $399.99
1 year: $499.99
no contract: $549.99

Head over to Telus to learn more.

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