Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs officially announced at the end of a press conference held on Friday, that the iPhone 4 will be making its way to Canadian cellphone retailers on July 30th, 2010. He also mentioned that free Bumper cases will also be given to those who require them.
It has already been confirmed that [...]

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In Canada, there is a Petition to try and get Robbers, err, I mean Rogers to allow current customers to upgrade to the 3G s, who not quite 2/3 of the way through their contracts.
Please take a look and sign it, maybe Rogers will listen!
Will you be picking up the latest iPhone? Let us [...]

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If you have yet to pre-order your iPhone 3G S, you might want to get on that as soon as you can. Although it is too late for you to get an iPhone 3G S on launch day; June 19th, 2009, you may still get your hands on one just a couple weeks afterward. The [...]

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Starting today, any activation as a new customer or upgrade to either the iPhone 3G, or the iPhone 3G S, is automatically eligible for the CAD $30.00 6GB iPhone Data Plan.
Do note that this offer is only for a limited time, so if you’re at all interested, which you should be, then get your butt [...]

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For those living up north, such as myself, Rogers and Fido will have the new iPhone 3G S available for purchase in store’s on June 19th, which is only ten days from now.

If you are a new Rogers or Fido customer, you are a lucky one. If you sign up with either of the companies [...]

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Rogers has successfully brought itself an extra 191,000 customers, thanks to the arrival of Apple’s iPhone 3G to Canada.
The company announced that, since the introduction of the iPhone in Canada in July, that they’ve sold 255,000 of the famous product as of late October. That is a quarter million in just three months. Hey, not [...]

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Look, this comes from an alleged Fido employee, but knowing as I do how little information retail drones are usually given in advance, I would still take this with a grain of salt and chalk it up to rumour.
According to ehPhone member WorldIRC, the new Rogers/Fido inclusive plans will read something like this:
$60 iPhone Plan1GB [...]

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Yeah, we’ve all seen induction-powered electronic devices before — y’know, the ones with a hand crank you whiz round for a couple of minutes to charge up a capacitor that powers a flashlight or radio for five or ten minutes?  Nice idea, no batteries or solar charger required, which is cool, but hand cranking gets [...]

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Obviously it wasn’t going to last but I’m sure it’s still frustrating to see it go.
Fido’s early upgrade policy for the iPhone 3G — which allowed anyone who had burned through at least 3 months of their contract to upgrade to an iPhone 3G at fully subsidized prices — has come to a close as [...]

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Look’s like Roger’s is toying with all of us again. Now reports are saying that new iPhone plans starting at the end of September would go a little like this:

$60 plan with 250 daytime minutes, 75 text messages, 1GB of data, visual voicemail, 3 months of unlimited local calling and MY5 local calling included.
$75 plan [...]

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News has it Bell Canada and Telus are making the switch over to HSPA as early as next week. The two companies are making the move to the same 3G cellular network type as Rogers Wireless, which is the only network capable of providing contracts to Canadians for the iPhone and iPhone 3G.
It is being [...]

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There are half a metric ton of speed test sites out there, and they all work well enough for home computers and laptops, but until recently there hasn’t been anything tailored specifically for the iPhone.
So it was a pleasant surprise when I ran across an article describing a service called TestMyiPhone.com. This speed test [...]

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Seems the word’s spreading and Rogers have revealed more than CBC News let on. Toronto’s Report on Business offered up a little more dish on Rogers’ forthcoming October 1st 3G data plans, which will be applicable to all current 3G smartphones including the iPhone.
Data plans scheduled to go into effect after September include:

500MB for [...]

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Well, well, would you look at that. It would appear that all the doom and gloom surrounding Rogers’ future plans for data plans has been for naught, and may be even better than my cynical mind had expected — which may very well be a first for Canada’s only GSM provider. Rogers Wireless [...]

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