I'd certainly bet Best Buy/Future Shop before anyone else (not that there's reallty anyone else to consider, unless Zellers or The Bay carries it, and I imagine that's too funny to even consider).
I'll bet Rogers' retail stores will have it first. I agree - Zellers and The Bay are the last place to go for cutting edge electronics.
This is just a cheap ploy to harvest email addresses for Best Buy marketing. They have no idea when the iPhone is coming.
If that were true you'd hear vocal legal action against Best Buy by Apple for using their name and their product without their permission. While there definitely is the desire just to sign up emails for their newsletters, Best Buy appears more involved with the iPhone than you credit.
You could cut the negativity in this thread with a knife
Finally, the question about the iPhone that I have is how does the phone itself sound? Is the sound quality good (for both the caller and the person receiving the call), because I use my phone primarily to talk and if it doesn't sound as close to a land line as possibe, I wouldn't buy one (no matter how great the gadgets are).
That doesn't make sense. You don't care about the portability of your phone, as long as it sounds like a land line? Land lines have their own problems too, usually different kinds of problems vs. mobile. They won't sound like each other.
Anyway, wirelessinfo.com measured and rated the sound quality pretty highly.
The sticking point to buying an iPhone in Canada is the data rates.
Rogers charges $100 for 100 MB of data. The only flat rate data plan in existence was a $50 Fido one, but that was eliminated when Rogers bought Fido.
As for other questions Rogers has EDGE everywhere?not, however, whatever 'fine EDGE' AT&T rolled out?, and is expanding UMTS (at HSDPA speeds, not that the iPhone can use it) beyond Toronto to other urban centres by the first quarter of 2008.
"It's beautiful, it's powerful and it's been all over the news; the question on the minds of Canadians from coast to coast is 'when can we get our hands on the iPhone?,'" wrote Best Buy. "The iPhone will be coming to Canada; we want you to be the first to know."
Marketing-to-English Dictionary says that this phrase means "We want to be the first to tell you."
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The sticking point to buying an iPhone in Canada is the data rates.
Rogers charges $100 for 100 MB of data. The only flat rate data plan in existence was a $50 Fido one, but that was eliminated when Rogers bought Fido.
As for other questions Rogers has EDGE everywhere?not, however, whatever 'fine EDGE' AT&T rolled out?, and is expanding UMTS (at HSDPA speeds, not that the iPhone can use it) beyond Toronto to other urban centres by the first quarter of 2008.
I don't expect the rate plans to be identical among different carriers selling the iPhone but I do expect Apple to work out a deal that allows for a good deal more data and/or a drastically lower price.
I don't expect the rate plans to be identical among different carriers selling the iPhone but I do expect Apple to work out a deal that allows for a good deal more data and/or a drastically lower price.
I hope that you're right, but I suspect you may underestimate the sheer evil of Rogers and the fact that since they're the sole GSM carrier in Canada Apple can't go to somebody else with the iPhone.
Canada's telecommunications market is the worst in the developed world for a reason you know. Ok. Actually it's because of protectionist economic policy, but Rogers is still more evil then your average telecom. And stupid. Very stupid.
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I'd certainly bet Best Buy/Future Shop before anyone else (not that there's reallty anyone else to consider, unless Zellers or The Bay carries it, and I imagine that's too funny to even consider).
I'll bet Rogers' retail stores will have it first. I agree - Zellers and The Bay are the last place to go for cutting edge electronics.
This is just a cheap ploy to harvest email addresses for Best Buy marketing. They have no idea when the iPhone is coming.
If that were true you'd hear vocal legal action against Best Buy by Apple for using their name and their product without their permission. While there definitely is the desire just to sign up emails for their newsletters, Best Buy appears more involved with the iPhone than you credit.
You could cut the negativity in this thread with a knife
Finally, the question about the iPhone that I have is how does the phone itself sound? Is the sound quality good (for both the caller and the person receiving the call), because I use my phone primarily to talk and if it doesn't sound as close to a land line as possibe, I wouldn't buy one (no matter how great the gadgets are).
That doesn't make sense. You don't care about the portability of your phone, as long as it sounds like a land line? Land lines have their own problems too, usually different kinds of problems vs. mobile. They won't sound like each other.
Anyway, wirelessinfo.com measured and rated the sound quality pretty highly.
Rogers charges $100 for 100 MB of data. The only flat rate data plan in existence was a $50 Fido one, but that was eliminated when Rogers bought Fido.
As for other questions Rogers has EDGE everywhere?not, however, whatever 'fine EDGE' AT&T rolled out?, and is expanding UMTS (at HSDPA speeds, not that the iPhone can use it) beyond Toronto to other urban centres by the first quarter of 2008.
"It's beautiful, it's powerful and it's been all over the news; the question on the minds of Canadians from coast to coast is 'when can we get our hands on the iPhone?,'" wrote Best Buy. "The iPhone will be coming to Canada; we want you to be the first to know."
Marketing-to-English Dictionary says that this phrase means "We want to be the first to tell you."
The sticking point to buying an iPhone in Canada is the data rates.
Rogers charges $100 for 100 MB of data. The only flat rate data plan in existence was a $50 Fido one, but that was eliminated when Rogers bought Fido.
As for other questions Rogers has EDGE everywhere?not, however, whatever 'fine EDGE' AT&T rolled out?, and is expanding UMTS (at HSDPA speeds, not that the iPhone can use it) beyond Toronto to other urban centres by the first quarter of 2008.
I don't expect the rate plans to be identical among different carriers selling the iPhone but I do expect Apple to work out a deal that allows for a good deal more data and/or a drastically lower price.
I don't expect the rate plans to be identical among different carriers selling the iPhone but I do expect Apple to work out a deal that allows for a good deal more data and/or a drastically lower price.
I hope that you're right, but I suspect you may underestimate the sheer evil of Rogers and the fact that since they're the sole GSM carrier in Canada Apple can't go to somebody else with the iPhone.
Canada's telecommunications market is the worst in the developed world for a reason you know. Ok. Actually it's because of protectionist economic policy, but Rogers is still more evil then your average telecom. And stupid. Very stupid.
The sticking point to buying an iPhone in Canada is the data rates.
Rogers charges $100 for 100 MB of data. The only flat rate data plan in existence was a $50 Fido one, but that was eliminated when Rogers bought Fido.
There was a mobile phone network in Canada called Fido???
Rogers & Fido - the every day tale of one man and his husky dog.
I have to admit I never really thought of operators in anthropomorphic terms before.
Technically speaking there still is a mobile network called Fido, but it's the youth brand of Rogers and no longer has the superior plans it used to.
I have to admit I never really thought of operators in anthropomorphic terms before.
Nor have I, but you never know, they could make a pretty good marketing campaign out of something like that.