DISQUS

Mathew's comments: iPhone Canada: Pay me now, or pay me later

  • Sudha Krishna · 1 year ago
    I agree Mathew, the data plan is key. Right now I have an HTC touch through Bell (and foolish me for getting the phone and the plan) and frankly both are terrible. The Window Mobile Browser is awful. The HTC touch interface is awful. The Bell service is worse than awful. The iphone is a superior product but I suspect the data plan will be cost prohibitive and they will lock you in for god knows how many years. Something you may want to follow up on is the online petition of potential Roger's Iphone customers http://www.petitiononline.com/iPhone99/
  • lance38 · 1 year ago
    I'm in the same boat but I don't regret it quite as much. NewsBreak, email, and Opera Mobile work well. Voice quality on the HTC Touch is awful though. I rarely talk on the thing so it's not a huge deal to me.

    I do miss having a keyboard on my phone. I should've gotten a Telus blackberry.
  • Mark Lise · 1 year ago
    My thoughts exactly, I'd be more excited when my usage wouldn't mean a $300/mth data surcharge. The phone is "old" after a year or two anyways, and there will always be something else to look forward to. Even @ 2 years, a $500 phone costs about $20/mth after which point you can probably ditch for $50-$100. The usage is where they make all the money. :)
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    AT&T's data plans for the iPhone are surprisingly reasonable--it was notably cheaper than the standard data plans when it first came out (I think the price may have pushed down other phone/provider data plans since then). I have heard bad things about Rogers, but I expected AT&T data plans to be prohibitively expensive, too. So I hope for my frozen northern cousins' sake that Apple "persuades" Rogers not to screw its customers in this case.

    PS: Think there's any chance that Rogers will be launching with the 3G iPhone?
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    I hope you are right, Jake -- but I have had my hopes dashed before.

    As for launching with the 3G, see above :-)
  • Tanya (aka NetChick) · 1 year ago
    I bought / jailbroke and did some "other hacking" of my iPhone for use on the Rogers network only weeks ago. The upside is that I pay very little for data because of all the research I did, but the downside is that I now have to sell my phone in a hurry because I *know* the 3G phone is coming in June, and Rogers wouldn't be bringing in the iPhone without that service. It wouldn't make any sense.

    Visual voicemail, here I come... And not worrying every month that Rogers might figure out what I've done. *sigh*
  • dignon · 1 year ago
    I have an iPhone in Canada that's been jailbroken and on an unlimited data plan with Fido for a couple months. I was totally upfront with them about the fact it was an iPhone and they assured me I won't be charged any extra -and so far, I haven't. The unlimited data added about $7 to my bill. Rogers has similar packages.