Recently Rogers made some big improvements to their online ‘My Rogers’ service. So far, the changes have been received well, and I can attest to this. The new ‘My Rogers’ makes it easy for customers to view their account 24/7, make changes, setup email notifications, view payment histories, update ‘MY5’ numbers and a whole lot…
LG Shine Touch Lands on Rogers
After a bunch of confusion regarding its status on TELUS, the LG Shine Touch (KM555) is now available at Rogers for $49.99 on contract. The LG Shine Touch is a sleek, if modest slate device, with a 3″ WQVGA display, 3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, 3G, Bltouetooth, an FM radio, and LG’s ho-hum S-class user interface.…
Canadians, Hold Tight… Your Samsung Galaxy Spica Will Get Android 2.1, Eventually
Living and working in Canada as I do, I try to pay particular attention to Canadian mobile news… you know, keep all of us ‘Canucks’ up-to-date with the latest. With that in mind, you may have read the news surrounding the Samsung Galaxy Spica earlier today. Turns out an Android 2.1 update is rolling out…
Nexus One available with AT&T and Rogers 3G in Google online store
Rumors of an AT&T compatible Nexus One have been around for some time now. Today, those rumors have been brought back behind the barn and shot faster than Ol’ Yeller. The AT&T compatible 3G Nexus One is now available for from the Google online store. Now, with that said, there is some less than stellar…
Rogers My Account App for BlackBerry Available as Beta
While talking with the Rogers guys last night about their Android My Account app, it came up that they’re also sneakily soft-launching a BlackBerry version, which will also monitor minutes, data, and text message usage. The app also enables mobile payments once your bill comes in. Not bad at all! Rogers has been in the…
Samsung Corby Pro Coming to Rogers
Looks like Rogers is all prepped to launch another QWERTY slider, this time in the form of the Samsung Corby Pro. As you can see from the internal launch flyer (leaked, above), the Corby Pro will be made available for $69.99 on a 3-year contract, $119.99 on a 2-year, $219.99 on a 1-year and $274.99…
Paid Apps Making Debut in Canadian Android Market
One of the biggest problems/hang-ups I’ve had with Android in Canada has been the lack of paid app action in the marketplace. For whatever reason, Google and the big Canadian carriers have had issues to sort out before paid apps were a go. Thankfully, it looks like those issues have been sorted, and paid apps…
Rogers My Account Comes to Android, Helps Count the Kilobytes
Anyone packing an Android phone from Rogers, like the Dream, Magic+ or the soon-to-be-released QUENCH, Liquid e, and Spica, will probably want to pick up the new MyAccount application to keep tabs on their wireless voice and data usage. You can also monitor how many text messages you’re chewing through, check your balance, and make…
Rogers To Increase 9-1-1 Fee This April
A quick heads’ up here for Rogers customers. Next month you may look at your bill and notice a slight change to your 911 fee. Rogers is bumping the fee up to $0.75 per month plus taxes, effective April 12th, 2010. The fee currently sits at $0.50 (plus taxes) nationwide. I know a change of…
Shine Touch from LG Coming to Rogers and TELUS
The LG’s family of Shine phones, currently available in slider, candybar, and flip incarnations, will be expanding with a touchscreen device bearing the model number KM555, or more colloquially, the Shine Touch. It’s due to land on Rogers according to internal docs, and TELUS according to the LG Canada spec sheet, but still no official…