Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 coming to Rogers on April 15, free Bluetooth headset in tow
So who's the first North American carrier to pick up Sony Ericsson's high-end X10 ? AT&T? T-Mobile?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Carrier, entry, ericsson, ericsson-xperia, getting-first, mobile, rogers-wireless, sony, upgrade, x10, xperia-x10, xperiax10
Samsung Galaxy Spica comes to Rogers
Granted, they got off to a slow start -- but every since the Dream and Magic originally launched, Rogers has done a pretty commendable job of leading the Android charge north of the border. Latest in the line is Samsung's venerable i5700 Galaxy Spica , a phone that won't win any awards for running up-to-date firmware (it still rocks Cupcake ) nor any medals for being high-end (the camera's just 3.2 megapixels with no flash), but at the very least, it makes an interesting, cheap Magic alternative with a high likelihood of an Android 2.x upgrade down the road.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: being-high-end, down-the-road, engadget-mobile, entry, galaxy-spica, galaxyspica, i5700, magic, result, rogers, rogers-wireless
Rogers getting Android 2.1-equipped Acer Liquid e this spring
Acer may make plenty of cellphones, but they've so far been a pretty rare sight on North American carriers. That's now set to change this Spring, however, when Rogers will reportedly be the first carrier in North America to offer Acer's new Liquid e phone -- and, incidentally, the first carrier in Canada to offer an Android 2.1 phone (not counting the upgradable Milestone, that is). In case you missed its debut at MWC, the Liquid e packs a 3.5-inch touchscreen, along with a slightly underclocked 768MHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera, 7.2Mbps 3G and Wi-Fi and, of course, a basic implementation of Android 2.1.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: acerliquide, carriers, debut, engadget, exact, liquid, liquid e, phone, release, rogers, rogers-wireless, rogerswireless, snapdragon
Dropped calls, begone: AT&T expands feds’ Wireless Priority Service to Canada
American carriers have had Wireless Priority Service in place for several years now, giving government officials and first responders improved access to potentially overloaded networks in the event of an emergency or high-density gathering -- but historically, that service has been restricted to American soil. With the Winter Olympics coming right up in Vancouver, AT&T figured it'd have quite a few G-Men strolling north of the border, so it has worked with Rogers this month to roll out priority access for devices roaming in Canada that are already authorized for the service. In a nutshell, that means VIPs strolling around the luge circuit will be able to get through (and stay through) if the crush of humanity gets too much for the poor, overworked cells to handle
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: around-the-luge, carriers, density, engadget-mobile, officials, olympics, rogers, rogers-wireless, soil, vancouver, winter
Rogers yanks HTC Dream from shelves for urgent emergency call fix
Some of you Rogers subscribers have probably already taken your carrier up on its offer to upgrade your Dream to a Magic , but if not, pay very close attention here: calling 911 doesn't work right now without making some changes. Basically, there's an issue that prevents emergency calls from being completed if location-based services are enabled, which means you've got to head into Settings and disable GPS -- not an optimal solution by any stretch of the imagination. Rogers and HTC are said to be working on a patch as we speak, but in the meantime, don't expect to waltz into a Rogers store and pick up one of these bad boys.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: already-taken, emergency, emergencycalling, entry, rogers-wireless, rogerswireless, your-carrier
Rogers signed up to carry Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 as a Canadian exclusive
We still don't know whether T-Mobile is going to take on-contract advantage of the X10's AWS version in the States, but as far as we can tell, WIND won't be taking advantage of it in Canada now that Rogers has locked it up as an exclusive. The bad news is that it won't be launching until some time in the second quarter -- but when you think back to the X1 and the excruciating 16-month delay between announcement and retail on Rogers , that ain't half bad.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 16-month-delay, aws, engadget, excruciating, mobile, result, rogers, rogers-wireless, rogerswireless, sony-ericsson, x10, xperia-x10
Rogers vends Nokia N86, $100 on a three-year deal
S60 or otherwise, it's pretty tough to argue with the meaty goodness of an 8 megapixel cam paired with an AMOLED display -- especially when it's being delivered on carrier subsidy. Rogers customers have another reason to celebrate their network's willingness to release a glorious variety of largely untouched, sparsely branded handsets this week on news that the Nokia N86 8MP is now available for CAD $99.99 ($94) on a three-year contract, scaling all the way up to CAD $449.99 ($424) contract-free. These days, it's pretty easy to lose sight of the fact that there's such a thing as a non-touch smartphone, and the N86 -- along with the E72 -- is a prime example of why those sorts of devices still exist
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 100-on-a-three-year-deal, engadget, japanese, mobile, podcasts, return-false, rogers-wireless, rogerswireless
Judge sides with Telus, says Rogers’ ‘most reliable’ claim reeks of half-truths
Wireless networks in the States have a storied history of throwing fits over each others' "most" and "best" claims -- and now they're really getting into it up north, too, seeing how Telus just lit up a shiny new 21Mbps HSPA network that seems to be matching or besting Rogers' existing infrastructure in many ways. As is all too often the case, the spat has ended up down in the court system where Telus is bellyaching that Rogers' claims of running "Canada's most reliable" and "fastest" airwaves have been invalid as of November 5, when its competing hardware went live (funny -- and telling -- that it didn't bother levying any complaints back in the CDMA days). Anyhow, a judge has just ruled -- apparently after analyzing paperwork filed by both sides -- that "the present network technology is at least equivalent between Rogers and Telus," invalidating Rogers' reliability claim
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, canada, days-ago, engadget, facebook, firefox, injunction, judge-sides-with-telus, most reliable, nokia, return-false, rogers, rogers-wireless, television
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Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: another-mobile, BlackBerry, facebook, htc, include-data, include-name, mobile, Mobile Phone, phone, rogers-wireless, social, the-demo-site, toronto
LG GW620 Android phone spotted in the wild, on video
We haven't heard much from LG about its new GW620 Android phone since it got official with it back in mid-September (and at IFA before that), but it looks like it's now made an official outing in France, where plenty of folks were on ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, nintendo, Other Tags: accessories, engadget, engadget-mobile, games, handsets, htc, investing, network, nintendo, rogers-wireless, softbank-mobile, windows-mobile