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Rogers Canada offers ‘early upgrade’ for your horribly outdated phone

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:27:29 +0000

Long term relationships can be hard. After a year or two, it’s easy to lose interest — but a contract’s a contract, right? Not in Canada, apparently. Wireless carrier Rogers is offering a get out of jail early card, letting you get some new hardware before the end of your contract with its new “early upgrade” offer. But if you want, say, the Xperia Play pictured above, ditching your antiquated handset will cost you, naturally. The service provider has a tiered pricing plan, charging a different level depending on the device and the amount of months that you’ve got left — something of an early termination fee for those who don’t mind sticking with the carrier. If math isn’t your thing, Rogers recommends you pop by one of its retail locations to help you figure out just how much it’ll run you. In the meantime, try to avoid hurling the thing out a window in disgust, okay?

Rogers Canada offers ‘early upgrade’ for your horribly outdated phone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 09 May 2011 22:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rogers, Ericsson turn Ottawa into an LTE trial playground

admin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:56:47 +0000

Rogers is breaking LTE out of the confines of its labs for the first time with the announcement today that it’s flipping the switch on a trial network in Ottawa — a place where infrastructure partner Ericsson conveniently just happens to have some facilities. The 4G network won’t be open to customers yet, but it seems like that’ll be a relatively small step — in the Ottawa area, anyway — once all the technical issues have been ironed out. Step one will be a deployment in Rogers’ AWS spectrum portfolio, but they’ve already filed a request with the gub’mint to roll out on 700MHz as well — a critical step if these guys want any semblance of interoperability with the first LTE deployments in the US. So, Canadians, tell us: excited? Follow the break for the full press release.

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Rogers, Ericsson turn Ottawa into an LTE trial playground originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For Rogers, HTC Magic + Sense = Magic+

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:23:36 +0000

Thought that one of the first major Android devices in the world would go away without a fight? Think again! T-Mobile and Rogers have taken two very different roads to extend the lives of their HTC Sapphire-based devices. Big Magenta, of course, has opted to make a hardware tweak, adding a much-needed 3.5mm headphone jack and spitting out a faux wood limited edition; Rogers, meanwhile, rather suddenly updated the firmware with Sense. Oh, but that’s not all — it turns out that Rogers views the Sense upgrade as such a big deal that it’s changing the name of the phone altogether, tacking a plus symbol on the end. Yep, that’s right: meet the Magic+. Apart from Sense on 1.5 with a promise of 2.1 down the road, though, there’s nothing materially new here, so don’t feel too bad if you’ve been stuck with one of the plus-less models. No, seriously.

For Rogers, HTC Magic + Sense = Magic+ originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bell, Telus, Rogers trial inter-carrier video calling

jedwan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:17:33 +0000

Even as American carriers continue to resist it, a variety of Canada’s GSM networks support video calling on so-enabled 3G handsets — but currently, the problem is that you’re only able to video call other phones on the same network. Fortunately, Rogers, Bell, and Telus have been hard at work playing nice long enough to ensure that their respective video calling services play nice one another, and they’ve just announced the successful completion of inter-carrier trials. The companies are quick to point out that this makes them the “first inter-carrier partnership in North America” to support 3GPP-compliant video calling, something that should hopefully make AT&T and T-Mobile feel at least a fleeting moment of shame. No word on exactly when the service will be available to end users.

Bell, Telus, Rogers trial inter-carrier video calling originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Average Rogers Wireless customer spends $63 a month : Digital Home

jedwan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:42 +0000

In terms of usage the average Rogers postpaid user spent just under ten hours on their wireless (588 minutes) per month while the average prepaid users spent about two hours (119 minutes) on their wireless phone . …

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Dropped calls, begone: AT&T expands feds’ Wireless Priority Service to Canada

jedwan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:59:00 +0000

American carriers have had Wireless Priority Service in place for several years now, giving government officials and first responders improved access to potentially overloaded networks in the event of an emergency or high-density gathering — but historically, that service has been restricted to American soil. With the Winter Olympics coming right up in Vancouver, AT&T figured it’d have quite a few G-Men strolling north of the border, so it has worked with Rogers this month to roll out priority access for devices roaming in Canada that are already authorized for the service. In a nutshell, that means VIPs strolling around the luge circuit will be able to get through (and stay through) if the crush of humanity gets too much for the poor, overworked cells to handle. And no, you can’t sign up for it, so don’t even ask.

Dropped calls, begone: AT&T expands feds’ Wireless Priority Service to Canada originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rogers yanks HTC Dream from shelves for urgent emergency call fix

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:07:00 +0000

Some of you Rogers subscribers have probably already taken your carrier up on its offer to upgrade your Dream to a Magic, but if not, pay very close attention here: calling 911 doesn’t work right now without making some changes. Basically, there’s an issue that prevents emergency calls from being completed if location-based services are enabled, which means you’ve got to head into Settings and disable GPS — not an optimal solution by any stretch of the imagination. Rogers and HTC are said to be working on a patch as we speak, but in the meantime, don’t expect to waltz into a Rogers store and pick up one of these bad boys.

Rogers yanks HTC Dream from shelves for urgent emergency call fix originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Text donations for Haiti from your cell phone – Digital Life

jedwan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:19:00 +0000

Rogers and Bell both announced Haiti text campaigns today, giving their customers a way of donating funds to the relief effort via their cell phones. For Rogers Wireless and Fido customers, sending the text message “HELP” to the …

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Rogers Wireless to Offer Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 in 2nd Quarter

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:39:32 +0000

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has just visited the FCC back in December 2009; and now, Rogers Wireless has announced that it will be the first Canadian and.

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Rogers vends Nokia N86, $100 on a three-year deal

jedwan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:22:00 +0000

S60 or otherwise, it’s pretty tough to argue with the meaty goodness of an 8 megapixel cam paired with an AMOLED display — especially when it’s being delivered on carrier subsidy. Rogers customers have another reason to celebrate their network’s willingness to release a glorious variety of largely untouched, sparsely branded handsets this week on news that the Nokia N86 8MP is now available for CAD $99.99 ($94) on a three-year contract, scaling all the way up to CAD $449.99 ($424) contract-free. These days, it’s pretty easy to lose sight of the fact that there’s such a thing as a non-touch smartphone, and the N86 — along with the E72 — is a prime example of why those sorts of devices still exist. Anyone planning on picking this up?

Rogers vends Nokia N86, $100 on a three-year deal originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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