On September 18, we reported that Rogers may be reverting back to its previous hardware upgrade policy beginning October 2009. Effective October 1 2009, Rogers will be reverting its current Hardware Upgrade Policy back to what it was before the changes on August 21 2009. While the change is good, it likely will not last…
At the beginning of August 2009, Rogers dropped the price of the HTC Dream/Magic to $79.99 on a 3-year term. That price was for new customers/activations and pricing for existing customers varied from $74.99 to $249.99. This offer originally was set to expire on September 30 2009. Effective October 1 2009, Rogers has extended the…
At the end of August, we reported about the updated to the Layar Augmented Reality browser which brought an amazing traffic view function to the app. Well this morning Layar released three videos that demo a new 3D addition to its popular Augmented Reality Browser. The only word that comes to mind when I see…
What is Enhanced 911 Phase Two? Background Information Rogers customers pay a monthly System Access Fee of $6.95 and another fee called the “911 emergency access fee”. I will list the fee for the various provinces below: BC/AB/MB/ON/NF: $0.50/month SK: $0.88/month PEI: $1.00/month NS: $0.93/month NB: $1.03/month For the sake of this article, we are…
Everyone remembers on August 21 2009 when Rogers again amended their hardware upgrade policies. If not, you can read all about it here. Well, earlier last week I spoke with an informant and here is the highlight of that conversation. Check it out: “There have been many concerns regarding the recent changes RCI has made to…
Earlier today, Google released Android 1.6 SDK to the developer community. The release comes with a series of updated tools and new API’s for developers to play with. The benefit for users is that 1.6 allows Android devices to run in different screen sizes and various screen resolutions, it adds a new text-to-speech API and…
At the end of July 2009, we reported that Rogers Wireless will be launching a large 21Mbps HSPA+ network upgrade. Beginning September 14 2009, that network upgrade is now live in the following Canadian cities: Vancouver Calgary Toronto Ottawa Montreal Throughout the 2010 year, Rogers has plans to expand the new network upgrade to additional…
About a month ago Rogers began testing a new addition to customers’ Rogers.com accounts. The new addition was the ability to track your Voice and Data usage online, which meant you could track how many minutes, data and messages you have used. The feature went live two weeks ago in select markets, so only a…
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