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Canada might be getting the iPhone 3G
Our Canadian readers have suffered a long, iPhone-less time. There are been countless rumors that Rogers, Canada's leading cell phone provider, would be releasing the iPhone 'any day now.' The above graphic from Rogers' website mentions that someting 'really big' will be coming on July 11th. Hmm, that date looks familiar... what else is happening on that date? Ah, right, the international launch of the iPhone 3G.
Canadians, looks like you'll soon be able to join in on the iPhone fun.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Update: Rogers might be playing coy, but Apple released a press release letting us know what is happening on the 11th in Canada. In the rush of news yesterday, I overlooked this. Thanks, bob.
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Dave said 12:05PM on 6-10-2008
This is exciting, but I am cautiously optimistic. In typical Rogers-style, it's likely they'll screw this up and the monthly plans will be ludicrous.
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Jonathan Wise said 12:56PM on 6-10-2008
Ya, since Rogers owns Fido, they have no competition in the GSM arena, and can charge whatever they want.
Hopefully Steve put the screws to them and made them offer a reasonable data plan...
Jen said 12:06PM on 6-10-2008
Sorry, there's no rumour about this at all. It's all confirmed -- the iPhone will launch on July 11 on Rogers (and probably Fido too). See http://www.apple.com/ca/iphone/buy/ for carriers and http://www.apple.com/ca/iphone/countries/ for the release date.
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Chris Thomson said 12:10PM on 6-10-2008
This is just what Rogers would do. Apple Canada already lists Rogers and Fido on their Canadian buy page, while Rogers just says "something really big". Very lame.
Gotta love Rogers. ;)
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theEsco said 12:47PM on 6-10-2008
Agreed. Dumbest Strategy ever. There is no mystery, everybody already knows what it is. Lets just get to the details.
Shawn said 12:10PM on 6-10-2008
Canada MIGHT be getting the iPhone 3G?
Wasn't that one of the big red spots on the Map "his royal Steveness" filled in as launching at during the keynote? Or am I missing what the hesitation is bout?
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Uplink said 12:11PM on 6-10-2008
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/ for all the cell providers that will be getting the iPhone..
Also: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/09rogers.html for the rogers PR for July 11th.
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hilken said 12:12PM on 6-10-2008
Rogers and Fido are pathetic providers. Too bad we'll have to cope with them...
Aside from the small banner (the link on the banners points to nowhere by the way) on Rogers' website, nothing whatsoever about the iPhone on Fido's website, even tough Apple clearly states on their website that those 2 will offert the iPhone.
Is it me or shouldn't make an even out of it? It looks like they didn't know they were getting to sell the iPhone until late yesterday!!!
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akfromrhill said 12:14PM on 6-10-2008
iPhone coming to Canada is something many of us have been waiting for, for over a year. It's all exciting and very promising, but I'll be afraid to see the data rates when Rogers announces them. I can only imagine. $30 in the US for unlimited data-- yeah right. Don't get me wrong, I am a current blackberry user and I will most likely make the switch-- and for $200 how can you go wrong? Now time will tell how much us Canadians have to dish out every month to rock one of these puppies.
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JAx2000 said 12:28PM on 6-10-2008
But that's not the silhouette of an iPhone?
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Jesse David Hollington said 12:28PM on 6-10-2008
Yes, trying to maintain the suspense for those few people who have been living under a rock for the past twenty four hours. You don't just have to be an Apple geek following WWDC to get the news, either... It's been all over the TV and newspapers up here as well.
Note that despite playing coy, Rogers has also issued a press release that is buried in a link in their "Media" section:
http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=1606099873&view=84735-0&Start=0
The release indicates that the pricing will be $199/$299 CAD for the 8GB/16GB respectively, but with a three-year contract.
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Andre said 12:34PM on 6-10-2008
I was with a friend when they bought a phone from Telus last week, and I couldn't have been more impressed with their prices and service... Why can't they just upgrade their damn network? :(
Christ G. said 12:33PM on 6-10-2008
It looks like the silhouette is of a BlackBerry, perhaps the Thunder? Probably the 9000.
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Gerry said 12:39PM on 6-10-2008
that's what i was thinking. the corners don't quite look iPhone-ish, more like the Thunder
Brian B said 12:40PM on 6-10-2008
"Rogers might be playing coy, but Apple released a press release letting us know what is happening on the 11th in Canada. In the rush of news yesterday, I overlooked this."
You mean you overlooked the Keynote, apple.com website, and the PR release? If you are not going to do any homework, why bother reporting things at all?
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hilken said 12:53PM on 6-10-2008
3 year contract? WTF? Man, I'm so tired of companies binding us with contracts. Can't I just buy the damn phone and not have yet another contract? I just need the phone for development purpose anyways so if I can have the iPhone without a carrier and only use Wifi/GPS I'll be fine
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Wojtek Kowalewski said 1:01PM on 6-10-2008
Would it be possible to buy the iphone directly from an apple store and that way not have to sign a contract? The apple website says the iphone will be available both from the store and cellular carriers.
James said 2:47PM on 6-10-2008
Actually, the US Apple site says that you can buy an iPhone 3G from an Apple store. Apple Canada only says Rogers and Fido on their page ( http://www.apple.com/ca/iphone/buy/ ).
This makes me sad :(
Josh said 12:57PM on 6-10-2008
Yes, yes. Rogers 3G iPhone on July 11th was CONFIRMED IN THE KEYNOTE. Move along, there's nothing to see here.
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RM said 1:00PM on 6-10-2008
We knew that iPhones in Canada were official more than a month before the keynote, in fact TUAW reported it: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/29/its-official-iphones-in-canada/
What we don't have of course is details. I would like to know just how much dear leader Ted is going to charge so that I can go back to being definitively pissed and jealous of our southern neighbours and their iPhones, rather than have this faint glimmer of hope that he'll be reasonable.
Also, I suspect the reason that graphic looks nothing like an iPhone is that Rogers had absolutely no idea what the new one would look like. AT&T hadn't seen the original up until a week or two before MWSF07, so I doubt Rogers got any sneak peek at the 3G.
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