Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 LTE has finally launched in Canada and will be available to purchase on-contract through three different Canadian carriers TELUS, Rogers and Bell, all of which offer 4G LTE data connectivity.

O2, one of the U.K.’s largest cellular operators, has announced the launch of its free London Underground Wi-Fi connectivity for its mobile subscribers. Like both EE and Vodafone, O2 has entered into a partnership with Virgin Media – which has Wi-Fi hotspots at more than 120 tube stations across central London – to provide the new service to its customers.

We first saw the Huawei Ascend Mate back at CES 2013, in January with its enormous 6.1 inch screen, at the time one of the largest we had ever seen on a smartphone, and now six months later the device is about to make its way to the U.K. market through the major U.K. carrier, Vodafone, who confirmed that it would be hosting the 6.1-inch phablet in an official blog post on its website yesterday.

One of the first announcements that T-Mobile made at its New York press event yesterday was the availability of the Sony Xperia Z . The device will be on sale starting July 17, and is the exact same waterproof Xperia that launched in Europe and Japan earlier this year.

U.K. independent electronics retailer Clove will start shipping its first batch of Galaxy S4 Zoom stock today. The device is expected to retail at £442.80 inc. VAT, (£369 exc. VAT), which equates to approximately $660. This announcement comes just days after the Galaxy S4 Active and Galaxy S4 Mini touched down in the United Kingdom.