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Rogers and Fido 2009 device roadmap leaked

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Kyle
on December 29, 2008
in Hardware and News
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Are you on Rogers or Fido? Well you may want to save your upgrade because the device roadmap for Rogers and Fido has been leaked. HoFo’s clearskies08 posted the upcoming smartphones for 2009 as well as slides from a corporate presentation. The presentation is a complete snooze but here are the upcoming devices:

* Blackberry 82XX Pearl Flip (3G version of 8220 Pearl Flip but with GPS, WiFi, and video calling)
* Blackberry 9520 Storm (North American 3G GSM bands and 802.11 b/g WiFi)
* HTC Touch 3G
* HTC Touch Pro
* HTC Touch Viva
* Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5
* Motorola Q11
* Motorola VE66
* Nokia N79
* Nokia N85
* Nokia N96
* Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
* Samsung M8800 Pixon
* Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a
* Sony Ericsson C905

[Via]

How to get a carrier-subsidized BlackBerry Bold before you’re eligible for upgrade

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Kyle
on November 27, 2008
in Hardware and Opinion
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Gimme the Bold! Gimme the Bold!

I am a definition gadget whore. I will sell out king and country for the latest in gizmos; I guess that makes me more of a gadget traitor.

Last summer around the iPhone craze I upgraded my high-end Sony Ericsson camera phone to the glorious Nokia N95 8GB. I wanted a device that was a real powerhouse feature-wise without making me look like an obvious iPhone turbo-nerd. Things have been going well for the device but I was starting to long for something with better text entry than the hardly-predictive T9. Who has ever used “shiv” in a text message, I don’t think I’ll ever know.
Continue reading this simple guide to getting your BlackBerry Bold carrier subsidized

Lawsuit filed against Apple for iPhone hairline cracks

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Kyle
on November 18, 2008
in Hardware and News
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Apple iPhone

Hairline cracks have been popping up on various iPhones including our intern’s iPhone. He has a black 1st generation iPhone with a long crack on the back plating and he is not alone. Our intern called Rogers and he will be getting a new phone. Also, Apple said they are waiving the $30 replacement fee because they said this issue is so widespread. I’m not sure if Apple will do this for everyone, but it’s worth asking when you call.

“Although Apple was and is aware that the iPhones were and are defective, and that consumers have experienced repeated instances of cracked housing, Apple has nevertheless allowed the defectively designed iPhones to be sold to the public,” read the lawsuit.

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Introducing QB contributor Ted Mirsky

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Kyle
on October 30, 2008
in QuicklyBored
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Teddo

Ted eats, breathes and sleeps the consumer/prosumer end of the mobile industry. For the time being, Ted is currently being paid millions of won/month to act like a kid just outside of Seoul in South Korea. Amongst other things he looks forward to offering an outsiders look in, of the South Korean telecom industry while relentlessly trying to bed a Korean girl crazy enough to let him use her domestic credit card to get a mobile contract and escape the shackles that is a Korean pre-paid cell account. He also knows a thing or two about Rogers Retention plans.

Love mobile entertainment? Got something on your mind about the mobile lifestyle you want to share? If you would like to contribute to QuicklyBored, drop me a line at kyle at quicklybored dot com.

How-to turn off SMS ‘WhoCalled’ alerts on the iPhone

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Kyle
on October 23, 2008
in Opinion and Uncategorized
. 2 Comments

Customer Service

[UPDATE: The customer service "magic words" are "ask for the ‘missed called notification’ to be excluded from your package."]

I don’t mean to link bait or anything with the title, because the answer is just “call customer service“, but what an annoying feature! Here is what happens when I miss a call:

  • The phone rings, and I let it go because I’m busy with something else.
  • They leave a voicemail. I see that.
  • Then I get an SMS notification about the voicemail. Thank I know.
  • Then I get an SMS notification about the missed call. Yeah I get it!
  • Then I have all the above information copied in my logs, just in case I somehow got amnesia and forgot.

    • I’ve recently had the features turned off but I couldn’t help explaining to customer service that this sort of notification process is borderline harassment.

    Rogers admits $26,000 iPhone bill is an error

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    Kyle
    on October 17, 2008
    in News
    . 0 Comments

    Rogers iPhone

    Steve Szikora from Brantford Ontario Canada received a $26,000 iPhone bill from Rogers and needless to say he was PISSED. The bill came after only 3 months of iPhone usage and was clearly a mistake. After trying to negotiate with the robots in customer service, he went to the local papers who in turn, got the attention of Elizabeth Hamilton, director of corporate communications. She wasn’t about to argue over something that was so obviously an epic fail. “There is no debate, there is an error on his bill. We would like to apologize to the customer and correct the error immediately” she said.

    [Via mobilesyrup]

    Rogers partners with Nokia to distribute N-Gage titles and Nokia Maps

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    Kyle
    on September 17, 2008
    in Mobile Games and News
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    Nokia Maps and N-Gage on Rogers

    Rogers is going to be the first carrier in North America to distribute N-Gage games and Nokia Maps. This is going to be great for all those N95 users on Rogers as well as a host of other Nokia devices coming to Rogers. Thanks Rogers! Now offer that sweet data plan to Nokia users as well.

    [Via Engadget Mobile]

    Canadian iPhone users not taking advantage Rogers data plan

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    Kyle
    on September 2, 2008
    in Hardware, News and Opinion
    . 3 Comments

    iPhone from Rogers

    Back when the iPhone launched in Canada, I did some interviews with CBC Radio where they asked me what I thought of the new iPhone data plan. They were expecting the usual “Good! Rogers is a big corporate corporation with money so they’re evil! They caved because they knew we were coming!” But I really didn’t feel that way. There was so much consumer anger going around at the time but it wasn’t totally merited. I told CBC Radio that the new plan was a ton of data at a great price, and that I didn’t really see many users using up the full package. Consumer education in this country is such that you can’t expect many customers to use their phone enough to burn through that much data.
    Click through to read about the actual iPhone data usages in Canada

    Canada has the 2nd best iPhone reception on the planet

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    Kyle
    on August 25, 2008
    in Hardware and News
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    rogers\' iphone has the 2nd best reception on Earth

    A recent study by Wired.com took 2,636 iPhone 3G owners from around the world and compared their download speeds. European T-Mobile users had the fastest average download speeds of 1,822 Kbps. Canadians came in second place with “average download speeds of roughly 990 Kbps”. Thanks Rogers!

    [Via MobileSyrup]

    BlackBerry Bold on Rogers going for $649.99 w/o contract

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    Simon.Sage
    on August 18, 2008
    in Hardware and News
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    BlackBerry Bold pricing

    If for some reason you wanted to spend more than the $399.99 asking price on a three-year contract with Rogers the BlackBerry 9000 (like to roam with an AT&T plan instead of going with Rogers), it looks like you’ll be able to grab the Bold for $649.99 without any strings attached. That’s the standard $250 that usually gets subsidied on BlackBerrys, but when you take a look at the BlackBerry 8220 getting knocked down to $50 from $599.99, you have to wonder how much more favourably Rogers wants the iPhone to look versus the Bold. The Rogers outlet here in Ottawa has the Bold on display, which makes me think that it’s ready for sale, but still nothing on an announcement, or any presence in the online store. Full release could be available as soon as tomorrow. The big question is are you getting one?

    [via BlackBerry Cool]