North of the border we felt a bit stung by AT&T BlackBerry Bold going for $299, since we paid $399 at launch, but happily Best Buy Mobile has dropped their price of the Rogers BlackBerry 9000 to $199 on a three-year contract until November 27th. We’ve already enjoyed one price-chop – it’s a pleasant surprise…
BlackBerry Pearl Flip Launch Kits Arriving at Rogers Stores
Looks like the new BlackBerry Pearl Flip launch kits are arriving at Rogers in Canada. With that in mind, the actual launch can’t be that far away! From reports I’ve read, the device is going to start shipping out to stores tomorrow, which means the device could very well be available in stores by Halloween……
Rogers banks 255,000 iPhone users in Q3 2008
There’s nothing better than having cash in the bank. Unless you banking new wireless subscribers into multi-year wireless contracts – post-paid wireless subscribers are better than cash because they add to a network operator’s cash-hoard every single month. In that vein, Rogers Canada is banking some serious… subscribership. Rogers has announced that they sold 255,000…
Rick Mercer Report Spoofs Rogers Wireless Commercial
I don’t know how I missed this one… But I did! Canadians will surely get a kick out of this, as I’m sure they’ve seen the original commercial hundreds of times. The Rick Mercer Report recently did a spoof of one of the popular/annoying Rogers’ commercials up in Canada that boasts superior reception and coverage……
Rogers sales reps get comissions cut
Canada’s biggest GSM carrier, Rogers, has taken the axe to comissions despite a 30% sales increase in 2008 to date. Folks at Rogers Plus stores across Canada (but not call centres) as well as Rogers’ subsidiary, Fido, will be effected by the changes. Single options now only pay $1, a decrease of 50% Value packs…
Rogers Selling HTC Touch Diamond Contract-Free for $599.99
Latest reports have Rogers Wireless up in Canada (eh?) selling the HTC Touch Diamond for $599.99 with no contract. These reports stemmed from the latest issue of UR Magazine, a free publication to all Rogers Wireless subscribers (which is kind of weird to me… I’m a subscriber and I haven’t received this once!?). The HTC…
BlackBerry 8220 Pearl flips out on Future Shop, available soon
The first BlackBerry flip-phone from RIM has apparently made an appearance at the Future Shop! Even before the handset’s official announcement on Rogers’ network, it seems that Future Shop is offering the BlackBerry 8220 Pearl clamshell at an expected $50 price-point. Of course, a 3 year service contract with Rogers is required, and you’ll have…
BlackBerry Pearl Flip on Rogers going for $50 after all?
Long ago when we were first hearing about the BlackBerry 8220, there were rumours that the Flip Pearl would be available on the cheap for students going back to school. That train may have sailed, but the price point might stick around after all. We’ve seen some conflicting Rogers documentation before, so this Canadian Best…
BlackBerry Storm due on Rogers before Christmas?
We had heard briefly that the BlackBerry Storm would be coming to Rogers back in August, but we’ve got further confirmation that all three of Canada’s carriers will be getting the touchscreen BlackBerry before the end of the year. Bell and Telus have been pretty open about supporting the BlackBerry 9530, but we haven’t heard…
Rogers Releases BlackBerry Bold OS 4.6.0.162
If you’re a BlackBerry Bold user, or even if you’re not, chances are you know of the (cough) issues that people have been going through on the device. Spontaneous restarts and dropped calls among other things were not uncommon. Well, good news for everyone running the device is that together with Rogers, RIM has released…