Well, today that’s finally changed. The Amazon Kindle is now also available for Canadians and will feature some local content such as The Globe and Mail and The National Post apart from their wide selection of international newspapers. Amazon was a little bit late in offering up the Kindle to those residing in Canada, but as they say, it’s better late than never. The Kindle is retailing for $259 or $275 in Canadian Dollars. Of course, feature-wise, it’s no match for the newer Barnes & Noble Nook e-ink reader, but with the Nook still on a pre-order status, the Kindle has the edge especially for customers who just can’t wait to get their hands on one.

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First the official Motorola Droid price: It’s $199 with a two-year contract and a $100 rebate in the mail.

Droid specs: Android 2.0 eclair OS, CDMA 1X 800/1900, EVDO rev. A, WiFi 802.11 b,g, 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash

The biggies: 3.7-inch (854 x 480) touchscreen with three-paneled customizable home screen, physical QWERTY keyboard (Droid is the world’s thinnest full QWERTY slider), Arm® Cortex™ A8 processor 550 MHz processor, real GPS with Google Maps support and turn-by-turn voice guidance–and we’ve included an Engadget video demoing the GPS and other features on Droid after the break.

The introductory video explains pretty much everything (and making a pretty good case about the Droid being an iPhone killer):

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Honestly, I don’t remember the exact date I began writing for PMP Today, but after almost three years and 4,000 posts, we can look back and tell ourselves that we have come so far. We started as a couple of part-time bloggers and even now we remain just a little more than one. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop us from the little successes every dedicated and hard working tech blogger deserves. And yet we have been one of the very few lucky ones. We also had a lot of help. Thanks to all our friends from other Gadget blogs. Because of the generous link love of sites like Engadget and Gizmodo, Dap Review, Uber Gizmo, Crunch Gear, Boy Genius Report and Slashgear and Crave, not to mention the two hottest European sites on MP3 and portable media players–Journal du Geek and Generation MP3–we have become one of the more popularly linked sites in our niche. Much thanks also to our advertising partners. Even after all our modest successes we have never departed from our original purpose: to write the hottest news (along with a little iPhone news) on portable multimedia devices without prejudice, neither favoring the pricey nor the merely pretty relying solely on the understanding that every human needs to be entertained wherever the wind may bring him.–Editor

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It’s also $259! Priced on the same level as the Kindle but offering more features. We all know this is coming, a Barnes and Noble ebook reader, officially Nook, but we didn’t know they’re going to make it a color reader. Just imagine the potential: e-books, e-newspapers and now e-magazines. The B&N Nook boasts two screen–a 6-inch diagonal e-ink screen and a 3.5-inch below for navigation. Unlike the Amazon Kindle, the Nook has WiFi, besides AT&T’s 3G antenna. On a full charge, the battery will give you reading time of up to ten days, though we’re not sure if this means it’s turned on a continuous 24 hours x 10. Storage is 2GB with the inclusion of a microSD slot. Definitely a more complete e-reader than its famous rival.

More information: Nook allows you to read where you left off with your markings and highlights on your your phone (Engadget mentions iPhone and BlackBerry) with the Barnes and Noble free e-reader. You can lend e-books to friends using the Nook, sample ebooks and Nook settings allow you to customize the Nook, and there’s a screensaver. You can have magazine and newspaper subscription and this goes to your “inbox.” Video at Engadget.

[barnesandnoble via gizmodo]

Meant for the Korean market with little hope of getting outside the country, The Samsung YP-VX1 is a voice recorder MP3 player combo that is as useful as it looks. The professional looking device. Will have music playback and ID3 tagging and even DNSe 3.0. There is not much else information available.

[via gmp3]

Amazon has announced that they will now be making the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX available in 100 countries en route to world domination. Interested buyers can now start pre-ordering the Kindle with US & International Wireless today for $279 while shipping will begin on October 19th. It wasn’t mentioned when the international version of the Kindles DX will be made available, but we’re hoping it will make it in time for the holidays. Those looking to just get the standard Amazon Kindle package also have a reason to smile as its price has also been lowered from a high of $299 to just $259.

So, with Amazon’s latest move to make their premium e-book reader more accessible to a larger audience, will you be jumping on-board the Kindle bandwagon anytime soon?

[amazon via crunchgear]

The walls of exclusivity barring the iPhone from reaching greater heights are slowly falling down. A week after the Orange iPhone become official in the UK, it’s now confirmed that Bell and Telus have also secured a deal from Apple to distribute the both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S in Canada which used to be exclusive item on Rogers. Still no word on its pricing, but it will definitely be launched next month. This is definitely good news for Canadians as competition is always healthy in any market. Will the iPhone escape its exclusivity clause in your country next? There’s no definite answer right now, but given these recent events, it’s now highly possible which will no doubt help the iPhone market share improve by leaps and bounds. .

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O2’s UK iPhone exclusivity is over. Orange is going to offer both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. No pricing has been announced for the Orange iPhone and the Apple phones is slated for a late-year outing. It’s Christmas this early in the UK.

Orange is owned by France Telecom.

[orange via engadget]

[o2 uk via bgr]

I am simply impressed by what Teclast has recently announced. Above is the T56, which is a 5-inch 800 x 480 PMP that supports 1080p videos. Of course, the screen is too low-rez for 1080p so you got the HDMI output. Also added is integrated GPS, which is definitely something you don’t see every day on a Chinese MP4 player. Teclast definitely has our attention when it also adds OTG, a mic for voice recording and standard FM. So far, these are the details we have of the Teclast T56. I’m looking forward to the pricing and date of availability. Hopefully, we will also get up to 32GB of storage, but there’s a microSD slot just in case.

[via slashgear]