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Rogers September Voice and Data Plans for HTC Devices
by Billy on August 31, 2009

Below you find the latest Rogers Wireless plans for HTC devices for September 2009.

Please note that these plans will be reflective of Rogers Wireless and there are five sections below detailing individual regions (prices vary between regions):

1.) BC/ALBERTA REGION

2.) MIDWEST REGION

3.) ONTARIO REGION

4.) QUEBEC REGION

5.) ATLANTIC REGION

As of April 7, 2009, all new acquisitions on a 3 year contract will only receive one (1) month of unlimited local minutes (“Freedom … Read More

Update: Rogers HTC Dream/Magic Android Software Update Kills Some Apps
by Billy on August 30, 2009

Last week we indicated available software that Rogers (and HTC) had released which applied a fix for the text messaging time stamp issue, enabled Chinese character display for POP3 HTML emails and corrected ActiveSync calendar issues with Exchange 2003/2007.

Many HTC Dream/Magic users have since downloaded and installed the software without any issues until they attempted to re-download some of their most commonly used Android … Read More

Augmented Reality Gets More Awesome with Augmented Traffic Views
by Billy on August 26, 2009

Earlier last week we reported about the introduction of Layar into Canada, the augmented reality application for Android.

As a recap, Layar uses the camera on your Android device to display real time digital information over top of what you see through the camera lens. In other words, on top of the camera screen that you are looking at is a layer of 3D location-based content that … Read More

Update: Rogers HTC Dream/Magic Android Timestamp Problem
by Billy on August 24, 2009

It has been a few months since we last reported about the timestamp problem with the HTC Dream/Magic running Google’s Android. Well your patience has paid off as one AndroidInCanada reader seems to have located a fix!*

Timestamp Pains

If you head over to the Rogers Support Download Center, there is a software download that applies a fix for the text messaging time stamp … Read More

Rogers Reduces Your Local Calling Area
by Billy on August 23, 2009

Beginning July 1 2009 and ending on October 15 2009, Rogers Wireless has and will be reducing the local calling areas for the following cities (dates included):

Sarnia (Ontario) – July 1, 2009
Windsor, London and Kingston (Ontario) – August 1, 2009
Kelowna, Nanaimo and Victoria (British Columbia) – September 15, 2009
Toronto (Ontario) – October 15, 2009

What does this mean?

Local Calling Areas (LCA) are geographic boundaries that determine which calls are … Read More

Layar Augmented Reality Browser Available In Canada!
by Billy on August 18, 2009

Layar has announced that their second generation Reality browser is now available world wide on Android devices. For Canadians, this means our HTC Dream/Magic!

For those that do not know what Layar is, Layar uses the camera on your Android device to display real time digital information over top of what you see through the camera lens. In other words, on top of the camera screen that you are … Read More

How To Track HTC Dream/Magic Cellular Data Usage

I was looking around the other day for an application that could track the cellular data usage of my Rogers data plan. I wanted something that was simple and relatively accurate, as I do not expect these types of apps to be 100% accurate.

Well my searching was rewarded with two applications; 3G Watchdog and NetCounter.

3G Watchdog

3G Watchdog monitors your cellular data usage (EDGE/3G) and your WiFi usage as well. The … Read More

Rogers Updates Hardware Upgrade Policy
by Billy on August 17, 2009

Effective August 21 2009, Rogers is once again amending their Hardware Upgrade policy.

The new policy now states that you can only get a hardware upgrade after 24 months (used to be 12 months). The new policy affects all consumer accounts (business accounts seem unaffected) and all devices (smartphones and regular phones).

I am going to break this post down into four sections:

1.) The Background Info

2.) Rogers Hardware Upgrade Policy Before March … Read More

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