Canada’s WIND Mobile Bitch Slaps The Big Three With Low Prices

Those funky little guys that won a spectrum auction and got past regulatory hurdles, WIND Mobile, just bitch slapped the competition by unveiling their new service with a bang: LOW PRICES.

WIND Mobile’s new Simple Pricing plans are just that, simple.

Chat $15 dollars a month and gives you:

  • Incoming text
  • WIND to WIND calling across Canada
  • First Month Free!
  • 50 Canada/U.S. outgoing texts from any WIND HOME Zone
  • 100 province-wide calling minutes from any WIND HOME Zone
  • Call Control (Caller ID, missed-call alerts, call forward, call conferencing, call waiting, call hold)

Always Talk $35 dollars a month and gives you:

  • Province-wide calling from any WIND HOME Zone
  • All incoming calls while in any WIND Home Zone
  • Incoming text
  • WIND to WIND calling across Canada
  • First Month Free!
  • 50 Canada/U.S. outgoing texts from any WIND HOME Zone
  • Call Control (Caller ID, missed-call alerts, call forward, call conferencing, call waiting, call hold)

Always Shout $35 dollars a month and gives you:

  • Canada-wide calling from any WIND Home Zone
  • All incoming calls while in any WIND Home Zone
  • Incoming/Outgoing Text (CA/US)
  • WIND to WIND calling across Canada
  • First Month Free!
  • Call Control (Caller ID, missed-call alerts, call forward, call conferencing, call waiting, call hold)
  • Voicemail

With access to some decent handsets too:

  • BlackBerry® Bold 9700 $450.00 CAD
  • HTC Maple $300.00 CAD
  • Samsung Gravity 2 $150.00 CAD
  • Huawei U7519 $130.00 CAD

The WIND Mobile experience will include the following features:

• No activation fees
• No contracts on any services
• No system access fees
• No fees for Enhanced 911 services
• Never a charge for an incoming text
• No charge for incoming long distance calls
• No penalties for changing or cancelling a plan
• Unlimited WIND to WIND calling across the country
• Unlimited province-wide calling from a WIND Home Zone
• All plans include caller ID, missed call alerts, call waiting, call hold, call forwarding, unlimited conference calling – all at no extra charge. Services available include three simple unlimited voice and text plans and four unlimited data plans.

Head on over to WIND’s website and see what else they have to offer. You hear that Rogers, TELUS and Bell? That’s your three year contracts and overpriced service come crashing down next year. Perhaps you three will follow in Verizon’s footsteps and try and make the competition all about networks and not prices. Good luck!

Google’s Nexus One Caught on Video (A Few Times)

Can’t get enough of the new Google branded Nexus One? Here is some information that was obtained by the guys over at TheseAreTheDroids.

  • Proximity Sensor/Light Sensor: Capella CM3602 per sensors.mahimahi.so in Nexus One ROM Dump.
  • Accelerometer: BMA150 3-axis Accelerometer per sensors.mahimahi.so in Nexus One ROM Dump.
  • Magnetic Compass:  AK8973 3-axis Magnetic field sensor/AK8973 Orientation sensor per sensors.mahimahi.so in Nexus One ROM Dump.
  • Wifi Radio / Bluetooth / FM: BCM4329 in lib/modules
  • In libaudio.so I found “Routing audio to Speakerphone with back mic” reference.
  • In libaudio.so I found “Stereo FM speaker” also referenced.
  • Audience A1026 Noise Canceling Chip – No link but here is the A1024 found in libaudio.so
  • Qualcomm QSD8K Specific hardware libs in lib/hw (QSD8250 Probably)
  • Adreno 200 Graphics Core with OpenGLES 2.0 – Part of Snapdragon?
  • Camera Info Vague, found some references to auto focus, flash, white balance and anti-banding in libcamera.so

But the disappointing part, there was NO Snapdragon Specific Libraries found. Hopefully, they are wrong and this phone will be sporting the mighty Qualquamm Snapdragon processor we’ve all been dreaming about in our sleep.

First Ever FoneFrenzy Podcast On Monday December 21st, 2009

That’s right! We are starting our Podcast this coming Monday. The Podcasts are going to cover the most relevant information in mobile technology. You can subscribe via iTunes, Zune, Juice, and Winamp or the player of your choice. We’ll put the time up later but expect it sometime Monday evening PDT via our feed.

So if you have something you would like us to cover in our first Podcast, leave a message on this post and we’ll pick out the best questions or topics and cover them on our Podcast. We’ll even give you credit for the question or topic so you can feel special.

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