Bought an iPhone 4 in Canada from an Apple Store? Due to “human error”, some sales reps are keying in your unlocked phone incorrectly and LOCKING the phone at the cash. Ensure your receipt says “No Contract Sim” $0.00 and not “Fido / Rogers / Telus Micro Sim iPhone 4″. If your receipt does say “Carrier Name Micro Sim iPhone 4″, make an appointment at the nearest Apple store (don’t just show up) to have your phone exchanged ASAP.

It is a little difficult to check if your iPhone 4 is unlocked because it could just be locked to YOUR CARRIER. The best way to test is an AT&T micro sim card, which is of course difficult to do in Canada. Or if you have friends who are on a completely different mobile company (Fido/Rogers sims are sometimes swappable and is not a good test).

Seconds after the Blackberry event started, AT&T has launched the BlackBerry Torch 9800 website.  It has a few photos and videos for you to check out of RIMM’s new “iphone killer” Blackberry.

Some interesting specs from the page:

* World premier BlackBerry in slider form factor with touch screen plus QWERTY keyboard and optical trackpad
* BlackBerry 6 OS with all-new browser featuring tabbed browsing for access to multiple web pages at the same time and pinch-to-zoom capability
* First BlackBerry with next-generation messaging including group messaging for up to 10 people and locations
* Social networking feed application for one view of all your favorite sites such as Facebook, Twitterâ„¢ and MySpace
* Integrated search from home screen
* 5 MP camera with flash, autofocus, and environment settings
* Latest Wi-Fi “N” network support (Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n) for home, office, and on the nation’s fastest Wi-Fi network with more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots nationwide

Check out the videos and specs from the AT&T website here.

Ahead of the 11AM event from AT&T and RIM today, looks like the FCC “leaked” the BlackBerry 9800 slider model ahead of the event.

The tech specs inside the PDF’s show that it has 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1900, GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800 MHz bands and UMTS I (2100) bands for overseas usage.

If you feel like treading through all the testing the FCC did on the unit, click here.

Netflix has sent word today that they will be launching a Streaming Only service of Netflix to Canada later this year. While no platforms were mentioned in the press release, we wonder which video game consoles it will be on. Most likely the Xbox 360 as there is already Netflix in the United States for that and Windows PC. The only oddity we found was the service will only be available in English at first, but that shouldn’t be a problem since you wouldn’t want to watch the latest action flick dubbed in French would you?

Netflix, Inc. the leading Internet movie subscription service, today announced it will expand into Canada this fall offering unlimited movies and TV episodes streamed instantly to TVs and computers for one low monthly fee. The Canadian launch will mark the first availability of Netflix outside the United States.

Canadian Netflix members will be able to instantly watch a broad array of movies and TV episodes right on their TVs via a range of consumer electronics devices capable of streaming from Netflix, as well as watching on PCs and Macs.

In addition to representing its inaugural international market, Canada will also mark the first streaming-only service promoted by Netflix.

At the time of launch, the Netflix Canadian service will be available in English only, but the company said it expects to add French language capability over time.

Canadians interested in Netflix can go to www.netflix.ca and sign up to receive an email from the company when the service launches in Canada this fall.

While we normally don’t post random YouTube links on Gametactics and then copy them over to TechMamba, this one caught our eye which claims that you can get an old lady to give you one heck of an earful and then she instantly kills you. The video claims it is from the PlayStation 3 version and is in the Underpass level.

Some comments on the Youtube video say they did it after a dozen tries only but we’ve pretty much calling this one fake.

Edit from Malcolm Owen: I don’t think this is a real bug. A quick search on Youtube turns up empty except for this video, the old lady that appears in-game shares her accent with the video makers, we can’t quite see whom gets the claim for the kill, and the video ends with a promotional URL featuring the word “film”. I have serious doubts that this is real…

Apple has released iPhone O/S. 4.0.1 which address signal bar display with the new iPhone 4.

Not sure if this firmware update will resolve the “left handed” signal cutting issue, but we’ll find out soon enough with tons of youtube videos I’m sure within hours of people installing it.

Firmware: 4.0.1
* Updated Carrier Signal
o Increasing the signal bar length of the smaller bars

Can’t afford those $99 or $79 stand alone iPhone apps, but have a decent data plan on your iPhone? MapQuest has your solution with a FREE MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone app that includes turn by turn directions with spoken street names. Can you really beat free? Just remember that it requires a data connection so if you have those skimpy 500 megabyte per month plans or roaming, this might not be a good idea unless you are totally lost.

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