The Acer Liquid e (a slightly upgraded version of the Acer Liquid ) has just been announced on Rogers making this touchscreen device the latest addition to their slowly growing Android family of phones. Apart from being the first Acer smartphone to become available locally in Canada, the Acer Liquid e will also be the first Android 2.1-powered device in the country. It also boast of a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display, 5-megapixel AF camera WiFi, GPS, 7.2Mbps HSPDA connectivity, 3.5mm jack, and runs on a 78MHz Snapdragon processor

It’s no secret that Google has amassed a pretty extensive online shopping database through the years, and now, they’re making good use of it on their newly released app for the Android platform called Google Shopper. What this basically does is turn any Android phone into a mobile bar code scanner which can provide you with all the necessary info about a particular product including reviews, prices, and where it can be found

Unlike their fellow Korean handset maker Samsung, LG apparently is not interested in developing an OS of their own for use in their phone collection. This is what they disclosed to the press during the recent MWC event in Barcelona. If you may recall, it was at the same event that bitter rival Samsung launched their first handset ( Samsung Wave S8500 ) that’s powered by their proprietary OS called Bada

It’s now official. After numerous rumors, the recently launched Motorola Backflip is now officially AT&T’s first Android phone. This quirky backflipping QWERTY-equipped touchscreen Android phone has just been announced by AT&T and will be available beginning March 7th.

Amazon seems to be trying to cover all the bases as far as their Kindle-centric business is concerned with the announcement of the Kindle for BlackBerry app.

It’s still a long way before this goes into effect, but nonetheless, we’re letting everyone know that Quebec will be getting a new area code as announced by the CRTC. Based on a forecast submitted by the Canadian Numbering Administrator (CNA) in April of last year, they found out that the area code 819 used in Quebec will run out by February 2015.

Just as previously reported , Fido has launched this month the Sony Ericsson Naite and Motorola Renew+, two new phones that will appeal to tree huggers in the country. The Sony Ericsson Naite is part of the company’s eco-friendly GreenHeart line of phones which is made of recycled plastic and colored with waterborne paint

Following in the footsteps of Mike (Telus), Airtel is now also offering the Motorola Brute i680 under its iDEN line-up of handsets. For those note familiar with the Brute, this Motorola flip-phone is built to military standards making it ideal for roughing it up in the great outdoors

Got a Slingbox at home and want to watch all your favorite shows on your iPhone even if there’s no WiFi connectivity around? If so, listen up as we’ve got great news for you. The latest version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone is now available at the App Store and it brings along with it 3G streaming.

Lining up nicely with previous reports , Microsoft has officially announced their latest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, at MWC.