We're not really sure where to begin with this one, because the awesomeness is so thorough and so intense that we're basically at a loss for words; we'll see what we can do here, though. In brief, a
HoFo poster has thrown up what appear to be slides from a Rogers event detailing the carrier's release plans for the better part of 2009, and seriously, if you name a badass handset, odds are it's here. Samsung will apparently be bringing the 8.1-megapixel
Pixon, for starters, and Sony Ericsson will be throwing its name into the huge-cam hat with the
C905. Turning our attention to Windows Mobile, the
X1 is scheduled for release "around August if not sooner," Motorola brings the lowly
Q11, and HTC adds the
Touch Pro, the
Touch Viva (an unusual choice considering HTC's intention to send it to emerging markets), and possibly the
Touch 3G. Nokia will be offering the
5800 XpressMusic in the middle part of the year, Moto will be bringing a pair of 5-megapixel phones in the
VE66 and
ZN5, and finally, it seems RIM is signed up to bring the all-GSM 9520
Storm with WiFi -- a feature sorely missing from the Verizon and Vodafone versions -- and a 3G remix of the
8200 Pearl series flip that'll have a front-facing cam for video calling (yeah, no joke, they offer it up there). So look, AT&T, you have two options here: either crib off this presentation and make it happen, or we hope you get bought by Rogers. Your choice.
[Via
Engadget Spanish]
posted Dec 25th 2008 1:22PM
meh
Meh, yes, I agree. Rogers Sucks because they bait you with low fees that skyrocket so fast and you are locked into a 3 year contract.
We pay $400 a month to Robbers when we used to pay a fee of $50.
meh...indeed.
Blackberry used to have the best pocket PDA on the market for business users.
Now...everyone else is catching up.
Exactly. These phones will all literally be 'last year's technology' by the time they're released. This is the kinda stuff that really makes me feel sad for you Americans/Canadians. Oh, and your 2/3 year contracts... Damn!
@Aguiluz
Dont know what you're talking about, cause I'm with Rogers, and have a contract, and I have an amazing plan. Each year I pay less than the previous. Have you thought that maybe you're not that bright if you're paying $400 for the same thing you were paying $50 for before? lol...
And you do realize they can't raise your rates once you're in a contract right? unless you change your plan or get additional services? With Rogers, you just gotta be smart or they'll take you for a ride..
@ Aguiliz
Moron.
Learn to read ur contract. Or listen to what the people behind the counter tell you will happen in 3 months time; rather than salivate over ur new phone, and data plans that you probably don't even really need.
Did I mention you're a moron?
Rogers hauls ass. Period. From cells to home phone, to high speed internet, and HDTV. I'm not just saying this because I'm an HTS Rogers Tech either. I Subscribe to all of the above listed features, and all well below $400. With no employee rebate.
I doubt you pay $400 a month... thus making you a QQ'ing asshat, but if you really do pay $400 a month, then you truly are a moron. Seems to be a reoccurring term for you... Moron.
Either someone is extra defensive (and probably a little butt-hurt) or someone is a moron (and probably a little brain-hurt).
In any case, they both seem to be Canadian.
lol you'd wanna move to Canada for that?
Don't forget our Eskimo Women!
Why the heck are you still in the USA then?
Engadget likes to troll its users with bizarre spin.. these are mostly feature phones, there's no serious consideration as a handset as your consistent, trustworthy, be-all mobile companion. Let's see something interesting Android or even Apple, or some disruptive entry, along with a good plan designed to provide all the customer's voice and internet needs at a fair price, and that'd be drool worthy.
Come on, you can't say no to this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiqfusRWM4
@ professordex
They have Eskimos in the US as well... Place is called Alaska. Upper left corner of Canada.
"Turning our attention to Windows Mobile, the X1 is scheduled for release 'around August if not sooner,'"
Wait...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/10/sonyericsson-xperia-x1-qwerty-with-windows-mobile/
by Thomas Ricker, ***posted Feb 10th 2008 at 1:44PM***
Seriously? I know that getting it released in America has been a huge fiasco (the real shipping date for the X1a has now been moved once again to 1/9/2009), but if they're going to release it 18 months after it's been released...Why even bother when there will be so much mobile tech coming out? How can an 18 month old handset hope to compete?
Unless "if not sooner" means they're releasing it next week.
well I've had the chance to use the x1 here in switzerland. the finish of the device is awesome nice, keyboard very useful - but the OS sucks even though it looks fancy and feels good the lag between touching and activation is just not alright...so for me it's a No-Go Device unless you've got a braindamage which makes you think time passes by veeeery quick so you do not realize that it takes 5 seconds that an application or panel gets activated...
hello Mr. blurry cam
Apart from the fact that Rogers customer service sucks balls, and they are pretty much a monopoly, and they have shit rates, and you'll have to sign a 3 year contract.
....and so you won't be getting one?
Sounds just like AT&T.
Looks good
Canada, America's hat!
America, Canada's bitch cuz we're on top!
Florida, America's dick.
Haha nice one professor -- I lol'ed.
America: Canada's Mexico
But Ted Rogers rapes your mothers, still wanna move to Canada for that?
Not anymore. Ted won't be "raping" anyone from his grave; his children however...
...and the desire to move to Canada would easily be trumped once you received your first data bill.
My data bill is fine, got $25 unlimited data on my Storm from Telus. Before that I had unlimited data on my Windows Mobile device for $15/month.
Aren't we past flip phone phase already?
didnt they say the same things about candybars wayyy back then.now look all the new super-candybars (i
phone,storm,bold,omnia,etc) now flips are just getting smarter.
You don't wanna move here all ready? This makes me wanna ditch my shitty pay-as-you-go 7-11 Speakout Mobile phone and actually get a contract... Damn those are some nice phones. (That was a lot of hyphens) MERRY CHRISTMAS
these phones do sound pretty awesome, ill give you that. but given rogers' history of having exorbitantly high prices on everything from monthly plans to upfront phone costs, ill leave my interest as nothing more than cautious optimism.
Wow so wifi on storm. Indeed verizon did give USA customers the shaft, by taking away one of the best features ,so verizon . It's the network. That fux people over!!!!!!
Wi-fi wasn't on the storm anyway.
What does that say for Vodaphone who also gave users the Strom without WiFi.
i would prefer a more reasonable carrier than rogers to get those phones (sprint, maybe?)
hey USA u bitch, I'm Canadian and I'll be on top (I'm lying big bottom here). I am a Rogers customer, used to hate them, but now I have a fab bb plan including 6g data/month for $30.CDN. You got Obama we r getting a new 3g wifi bb flip, umm hopefully Obama will last 8 years unlike any cell phone.
Yeah, no. Rogers could release a phone that calls home to the mothership and I still wouldn't go near one of their stores without a cross and some holy water.
@kriss what the heck u talking about ,vzw disabled wifi in USA .rogers will enable the wifi in Canada.,dee dee deee.,STOP BEING VERIZON FaNBOY aLREAdy!!!!
How can I be a verizon fanboy if they don't offer their services to me. Oh and no network has a blackberry storm with wi-fi so that indicates that wifi is not in the chipset. It's been taken apart by hundreds of times and no one has ever found any wi-fi capabilities.
The next version of the storm is rumoured to have it.
I already have the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, and I'm in Canada.
It's like an iPhone, except that it's better in a lot of ways that Apple fanboys would never admit.
Nice, do you like it? i got a E71 recently and i am happy with it. If that phone is similar but with a better cam i would be happy, whats the web browser like? can you view full html pages? thats what i want
I don't see the Googlephone in the leaked slides. Might have to move to the states.
Hmm... Why is Motorola listed twice? Couldn't you just stick all 3 handsets together?
So, I'm in Canada, reading about new phones from a Canadian carrier, on a US website, that got the news from a Spanish website. Right...
So...?
That thought also went through my mind lol, very bizzare way to get local news.
It was on HoFo first. HoFo is Canadian. Take off eh.
Why the canada hate in the comments? Those phones are better then most US carriers will have around the same time. Or show me two 8 megapixel at&t branded phones.
Plus the 5800 subsized, it will have to be cheap as chips.
No it won't. If I remember correctly, when the N95 8GB was released on Rogers it was something like $500 WITH contract....
It's not the Canada hate, it's the Rogers hate. There are no redeeming values in the way Rogers runs its wireless division.
Rogers = Canadian Satan.
Rogers is a crappy carrier. I absolutely hate them and all that they stand for. They give us 60gb caps on internet and their prices for phones are outrageous. Engadget, stay in America. It will save you some money.
I think there was a time where Rogers Wireless and AT&T were the same thing? I think it was called Rogers AT&T... In fact I still have an old school Nokia with both their logos on it!
The "Rogers AT&T" thing dates back to the mid-90's when the wireless service was still known as "Cantel". The deal with AT&T Wireless was mainly a co-branding arrangement... pricing policies, operational policies, handset plans, etc. were never shared between the two (except by coincidence).
I'm not sold... there are typos all over this thing and it looks like someone's monitor. Did clearskies08 get up and move between slides??
Bah humbug!
Srsly though, if it is to be believed... BOMB ASS!!
Long enough since there's been much choice for consumers in Can.
Oh, my god. All you ignorant americans. THIS IS REAL PROGRESS!!!
Canada has had NOTHING. NOTHING. You guys got your stupid t-mobile and your stupid G1 and we got the i(great software, no hardware)phone. Just yesterday I ordered a LG secret off selectgsm.com
does that make you happy?
i dont get 3g. NO
are you guys HAPPY that we're getting some dece smartphones? I AM...
CANADIAN
If that LG Secret you just ordered doesn't have the Rogers 3G band you'll be kicking yourself in a few months...
ProfessorDex, yup you can tell that you went to school in the USA, because on the map of the world, Canada is on top of the USA! And why would somebody want to move to Canada just for cell phone service, when their beer is better, WAY BETTER, their social medicine (OOOOOH scary word) is free, and better. I was sick in California and the doctor kept asking for the co-pay, went to a hospital when I was visiting Canada, got FREE treatment and within 2 hours they told me what the problem was and gave me a prescription for generics, which at the Walmart pharmacy up there was 1/4 of the price they clipped me for back in California. Move to Canada just for all that? Or maybe that they can have elections, it's all done on the same kind of ballot, and the one with the most votes wins, not like some of the fiascos we have had down here.....As for FL being America's dik, that's a pretty accurate statement, but it's just too nice and warm here to leave. Y'all in the north will have to wait for global warming to catch up to you up there hahahahaha.
Woah, woah! Hold on for just a second. Our electoral system is just as broken as the US system. It is entirely possible for someone to become Prime Minister here without winning the most votes, it just hasn't happened yet. Our beer does kick the shit out of American beer though.
Also, I'm pretty happy with Rogers these days. Sure, a year ago I was paying 60$ a month for 25MB of data, now I pay half of that for 6GB and on a Blackberry no less. Someone please tell me how I'm ever going to put a dent in that.
I for one am hoping 2009 will bring fewer, make that far fewer (like 0.001% of current), articles about cell phones.
Wait a second, somebody is getting excited about service from Rogers? It's like saying "I get to go to prison? Oh boy, I hope I can get raped!"
It'll happen, sure, but it's nothing to look forwards to. Canada has pretty much THE worst cell phone coverage, reception, choice and cost in the 1st world. Things are so bad here it's laughable, and there's not a thing the "big 3" want to do about it, or that the CRTC can do about it.
So stop jerkin' my chain, Engadget. You don't want to move to Canada for Rogers - moreover, you don't want Rogers at all! Or Telus, or Bell, or Koodo or Fido or whatever other pet name they've come up with to deceive us with.
I see everyone's upset at Rogers pricing for plans, especially data. The thing is that Rogers' advertised plan do indeed suck but most Rogers subscribers have negotiated much better plans, myself included. You just can't get your hands on those plans as a new activation, but rather until you become a subscriber for a bit and then it gets much better from there.
I was with Telus for 8 years and my sister-in-law has been with Bell for just over two years and I can tell you that Rogers is much better than the other carriers up here. Better plans, better customer service and certainly better phones. What's not to like?
I'm pretty sure most of aren't saying that Rogers sucks compared to the competition, but rather that they just suck in genera or when compared the the USl. 95 GBs of data at 10 Mbps for $55? I'm not saying that 10 Mbps is slow, or that 95 GBs isn't a fair amount of data. But look at the US ISPs/Carriers. FiOS is 20 down and 5 up at about the same price (though obviously there's installation and stuff). Or AT&T's iPhone plan...
And comcast customers complain about a 250 GB cap...Pfft...
"Oh Snap" what a classic line
They don't need any new devices for 2009 because the iPhone 3G is the only phone selling well and will continue to sell well.
Oh Snap!
AT&T is another giant that should go under... greedy bastards.
As a Roger's customer, trust me when I say, you do NOT want to be a Rogers customer.
agreed