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Rogers Wireless Now Offers Samsung Rugby A836 and ZTE Rock F165

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:48:15 +0000

Rogers Wireless today announced the addition of two new rugged handsets, the Samsung Rugby A836 and ZTE Rock F165 to its line of rugged wireless product. The new Samsung Rugby is a heavy-duty work phone that makes it easy to get the job done right, with a large external speaker, 3G high-speed data access where available, access to e-mail, instant messaging, HTML browser and more. Its rugged design is highly durable and damage resistant.

The Samsung Rugby is certified to U.S Military Standard MIL-STD-810F compliance for dust, shock, vibration, rain, humidity, solar radiation, altitude and temperature extremes (from – 21C degrees to +63C degrees). Additional features of the Samsung Rugby include advanced messaging options, 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture, Bluetooth technology and a microSD memory card slot.

The ZTE Rock boasts a durable design ideal for harsh environments and features an extended antenna, which provides stronger signal performance in remote areas.

Other features of the ZTE Rock include:

176 x220 pixel display resolution
128MB internal memory storage; up to 2GB expandable memory with micro SD – 2 megapixel camera Pricing and :

The Samsung Rugby is available for $149.99 on a three-year plan, while the ZTE Rock is available for $79.99 on a three-year plan; both devices are exclusive to Rogers Wireless.

Rogers and RIM Launch the New BlackBerry Curve 8900 Smartphone in Canada

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:09:24 +0000

Rogers Wireless and Research In Motion announce the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone. The new BlackBerry Curve 8900 combines quad-band EDGE support with built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, a 512 MHz next-generation processor and a dazzling 480 x 360, high-resolution display.

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone from Rogers Wireless features:

A refined, streamlined design – the handset weighs just 110 grams and measures only 109mm x 60mm x 13.5mm
2.4 inch HVGA+ light-sensing display
A 3.2 MP digital camera including auto focus, digital zoom, flash, image stabilization and video recording
Built-in GPS supporting TeleNav GPS Navigator and BlackBerry Maps
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) with support for Rogers TalkSpot service
Instant messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger
Support for the Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones application
MicroSD/SDHC memory card slot supporting cards up to 16 GB
Removable and rechargeable 1400 mAhr battery that provides approximately 5.5 hours of talk time and 15 days of standby time
DataViz Documents To Go preinstalled, enabling customers to edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the smartphone
Support for BlackBerry Media Sync
Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, enhanced background noise cancellation, a low-distortion speakerphone, and Bluetooth (2.0) support

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is available from Rogers from $179.99 with activation on any combination of 3 year voice and data plan with minimum combined monthly service fee of $45 per month from Rogers. Some conditions apply.

Rogers Wireless Now Offers HTC Touch Diamond in Canada

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:57:05 +0000

Rogers Wireless and HTC announce the availability of the HTC Touch Diamond in Canada. Featuring HTC’s hallmark TouchFLO 3D interface, the HTC Touch Diamond allows Rogers customers to easily personalize and arrange their favorite contacts, photos, weather, and music in a graphical, intuitive way. The device features include support for personal and work e-mail, an advanced Opera Internet browser for a desktop-like browsing experience and innovative multimedia features such as Mobile TV, wireless video calling for connecting face-to-face with friends and family, access to Rogers MusicStore, and more.

Created to allow people to take advantage of the latest mobile services to stay in touch with the people and information that are most important to them, the HTC Touch Diamond boasts an extensive slate of features including:

Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) enabled
2.8 inch VGA touch screen
3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus
Integrated YouTube application
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system
GPS enabled

In addition to game-changing Web browsing, the HTC Touch Diamond includes a customized YouTube application for easy access to user-generated video content and automatic screen orientation that changes the display from portrait to landscape view just by turning the HTC Touch Diamond sideways. For easily accessing a variety of digital content, the TouchFLO 3D interface offers graphical, animated interaction with up to 4GB worth of images, videos and music.

The HTC Touch Diamond is now available from $199.99 with activation on any combination of three-year voice and data plan with minimum combined monthly service fee of $45 per month from Rogers. Some conditions apply.

[via mobiletechnews]

Rogers and RIM Announce Availability of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 Smartphone in Canada

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:30:05 +0000

Rogers Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) are launching the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone, the first BlackBerry phone to come in flip form factor. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip will be available in black finish from Rogers Wireless starting November 4, with the pink BlackBerry Pearl Flip coming soon.

The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip provides flip phone fans with all the power of a BlackBerry smartphone in a fun and familiar design. You can send a message to your friends or family, make a call, browse the web, snap a picture, watch a video or listen to your favorite song. It features two high-resolution, light-sensing color displays, including an external LCD that makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset.

Other features including:

SureType QWERTY keyboard
240 x 320 internal LCD
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) with support for Rogers TalkSpot service
2 megapixel camera
microSD/SDHC memory card slot that supports up to 16GB for plenty of storage
Enhanced HTML browser with RTSP support for online streaming video from sites like m.youtube.com
BlackBerry Maps
DataViz Documents To Go
Bluetooth 2.0

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone will be available in black from Rogers starting November 4, from $49.99 with activation on any combination of 3 year voice and data plan with minimum combined monthly service fee of $35 per month from Rogers. Some conditions apply. The pink BlackBerry Pearl Flip will be available in the coming weeks.

Rogers Wireless Joins RBC and Visa in Mobile Phone Payment Pilot

Kim Poh Liaw — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:21:48 +0000

RBC, Visa and Rogers Wireless have come together for the next phase of the mobile phone payment pilot, which will allow Canadians the flexibility to make purchases securely at the point of sale with a wave of their mobile phone. The customer phase of the mobile phone payment pilot is expected to launch in mid-2009, following a brief employee pilot. Pilot participants will be issued specially-equipped mobile phones that can simply be waved at Visa payWave-enabled checkout readers at select retail stores and quick-service restaurants in Toronto’s downtown core.

As part of the pilot, Motorola mobile phones outfitted with Near Field Communication (NFC) contactless chips will enable customers to make purchases using the Visa payWave feature just as they would with a contactless RBC Visa card. The functions tested in the pilot will include the secure delivery and storage of account information to the mobile phone and the security of mobile payments at retailers.

The pilot will be the first in Canada to test secure over-the-air (OTA) delivery of mobile payment software and credit card information to a customer’s mobile phone. Gemalto, who currently produce RBC Visa chip cards, will manage the transfer of credit card information from RBC to the secure SIM card in the Rogers Wireless NFC-enabled mobile phone.

Supported by Visa’s mobile payment platform, pilot activities will allow RBC, Rogers and Visa to better understand customer behaviours and their perceptions of the payment experience before the service is provided to consumers.

Canadian network to integrate Nokia Maps and N-Gage

Budi Putra — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:52:40 +0000

Rogers Wireless and Nokia today offer Rogers consumers to experience the latest in mobile gaming and navigation on Nokia devices. The N-Gage and Nokia Maps services in Canada are initially available for use on the Nokia N95 8GB, one of the world’s most sophisticated smartphones.

Nokia Maps, with GPS functionality and featuring Location Based Services, enables users to expertly navigate, whether searching for an unfamiliar address in their home city or exploring a vacation destination. Consumers can see the world with on-screen maps for more than 160 countries and millions of points of interest.

With Nokia N-Gage, consumers can easily find, try and buy the best in mobile games with a range of innovative, made-for-mobile titles from Nokia, such as Reset Generation and Dirk Dagger and The Fallen Idol, as well as popular brands from leading 3rd party publishers. Consumers are able to take their mobile gaming experience to new heights as they connect with other users through the N-Gage Arena community.

Rogers Wireless provides wireless voice and data communications services across Canada to more than 7.5 million customers.

Rogers and RIM Introduce the BlackBerry Bold 9000 Smartphone for Canada

Kim Poh Liaw — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:21:34 +0000

The new BlackBerry Bold smartphone is now being offered to users in Canada through Rogers Wireless. The BlackBerry Bold operates on Rogers’ high-speed 3G network and features a newly designed, precision QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, Wi-Fi and a 2 megapixel camera with video recording.

Crafted from premium materials inside and out, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone features a 624 MHz mobile processor that powers the renowned BlackBerry productivity applications, including phone, email, messaging, organizer and browser. The BlackBerry Bold also lets customers edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents directly on the handset using the preloaded DataViz Documents to Go software suite.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone from Rogers Wireless features:

Size: 114mm x 66mm x 15mm
Weight: 136 grams
Tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE support for global roaming
(480×320 resolution) color display with integrated lens for eye-popping definition
Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g)
Built-in GPS
1 GB on-board storage memory
microSD/SDHC memory card slot
removable/rechargeable 1500 mAhr battery
DataViz Documents To Go preinstalled, enabling customers to edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the smartphone
2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, built-in flash and video recording
USB 2.0

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone (model number: 9000) will be available from Rogers beginning today from $399.99 with activation on any combination of 3 year voice plan and 3 year BlackBerry data plan totalling more than $45 per month from Rogers. Some conditions apply.

Rumor: Rogers Upcoming Phones LineUp for Q3 2008

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:10:32 +0000

If you are on Rogers network, crackberry has obtained a screenshot of the dealer’s phone portfolio guidelines. The screenshot contains upcoming phones info for Q3 this year. Expect to see some adjustment on the schedule, for example the BlackBerry Bold 9000 was planned for early August and it has been delayed till next week.

This document is the same as the BlackBerry Pearl 8220, the KickStart clamshell phone leaked document.

Source [crackberry]

Rogers Wireless to Offer iPhone 3G Promotional Package with 6GB Data Plan

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:44:53 +0000

In anticipation of iPhone 3G launch on July 11, Rogers Wireless today announced plans to open the doors of select Rogers Plus retail stores across Canada in advance of regular hours. Starting at 8:00 am July 11, Canadians will be able to purchase the new iPhone 3G at special launch day events to be held at six Rogers Plus stores across the country. Effective July 11, and as a limited time promotional offer for customers who activate by August 31 on a three year contract, a data-only offering of 6GB of data for $30 per month is being made available that can be added to any in-market voice plan.

The following Rogers Plus stores in these cities will open their doors at 8:00 a.m. (all times local) on Friday, July 11 for advance purchases of the Apple iPhone 3G:

Toronto: 112-10 Dundas Street East
Montreal: 1015 rue St. Catherine Ouest
Ottawa: 690 Bank Street
Halifax: Unit 265, 7001 Mumford Road
Calgary: 5244 Falsbridge Gate, NE
Vancouver: 2097 West Broadway

New Canadian iPhone 3G customers will also have the choice to select from Rogers Wireless’ existing voice and smartphone data plans and/or additional features to best suit their needs, or from Rogers Wireless’ value bundled plans specifically for iPhone 3G. Existing Rogers Wireless customers can keep their current voice service plan and select a separate data plan to meet their needs or choose from other plans after checking their individual upgrade eligibility. iPhone 3G can also be purchased online at www.rogers.com and through Rogers’ customer service at 1-888-764-3771.

via [engadgetmobile]

Rogers Announces Price Packages for Apple iPhone 3G

Kim Poh Liaw — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:20:49 +0000

Rogers Wireless announced a variety of voice and data pricing plans for the Apple iPhone 3G set to hit stores on Friday, July 11. With monthly plans starting at $60 for voice and data combined, all price plans require a three-year contract. With the cheapest $60 plan you will get 150 voice minutes plus unlimited weekend and evening talk time, as well as a 400MB data transfer limit. These isn’t unlimited data transfer plan though, the most expensive plan will cost you $115 a month and it only comes with a 2GB data transfer package.

Pricing includes unlimited Wi-Fi access at all Rogers and Fido Hotspots. Rogers Wireless will also offer two voice value packs for popular wireless features: a $15 monthly value pack including Caller ID, Who Called, Caller Ring Trax, 2,500 Sent Text Messages and 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes; and a $20 monthly value pack including Caller ID, Who Called, Caller Ring Trax, 10,000 Sent Text Messages and 6:00 p.m. Early Evening Calling and 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes.