Dec 24

Who knows what they’ll do with it after, but free tethering of your Rogers cell phone to your computer has been extended. It commenced July 2009, and was set to expire–read, you were going to be *charged*–as of December 31, 2009. But the new decade will bring a new, free extension of wireless [...]

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Oct 26

So today Telus announced that they would match Rogers pricing for the iPhone 3GS 16GB and 32GB for new customers (and some lucky qualifying hardware upgrade Rogers customers who got these prices):  $200 and $300, respectively.
Of course my question is:  what do you charge per month?  And what do you get for that?
Reason being of [...]

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Jul 23

Over a month after Rogers and fido released the iPhone 3GS, the main topic about the device on most online fora isn’t how to use some special feature, which operating system software is best, or even how to hack the phone: the main topic still is who is still waiting, and waiting, and waiting. [...]

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Jun 28

So Rogers relented and agreed to my “early adopter” discount (I’ll post separately about that fiasco/success! but in the interim, kudos to Keith Macarthur at Rogers) and I decided to purchase my iPhone 3GS at the Yorkdale, Toronto, Apple store on Friday. I didn’t want to activate, let alone unbox, in the store, despite [...]

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Jun 25

There are some scattered reports that the Name Display feature is working on people’s iPhones lately, with some speculation that Rogers may be working on either a fix to include it (or, for the more cynical, some way to charge for the ‘added’ service).
What can you report?  Have names that aren’t in your contact list [...]

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Jun 22

I looked around for the best instructions to share about tethering your iPhone to your computer to use it as a modem:  that is, if your data plan allows it, you can use your iPhone to connect your computer to the internet.  Apple itself wins the day for clearest instructions.
Tethering uses up data from your [...]

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Jun 20

Hello one and all!
ehPhone.ca is pleased to be back, up to date and blogging away.  You’ll be able to tune in for iPhone updates and news, answers to questions and more.
With respect to the “answers to questions” part, there has been a ton of misinformation floating around about Rogers’ iPhone 3GS upgrade policies.  Considering that [...]

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