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   If Rogers will be refusing to release Android updates for this phone, like they’ve done with HTC Dream and Magic, I don’t see they bother with releasing this phone, since it will be outdated when you open the box.

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   Posted by mkm87 | January 5, 2010, 8:49 am
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   First : as of today, I’m still looking to a review of this device in this final version because the UI looks great as a concept, but on a real device, it may not be that great.

   Second, I truly hope that Rogers knows now that Android device are meant to be updated so they take that into account.

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   Posted by Mathieu | January 5, 2010, 9:37 am
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   Not just Rogers, if you get the phone unlocked we need assurance from the manuf. (Sony Ericsson) that they will continue to provide Android updates or will at least not make it hard for customers to mod their own phones.

   The one thing we need to start thinking is that these phones are seriously converged devices – they should be treated like computers more than just dumb phones. Computers require updates to remain in sync with the world. The simple example is trying to browse the Internet today using technology from Windows 95 “era”. In a lot of places it will work, but in many others it will #fail spectacularly (so much for Standards).

   Of course if you want to avoid this headache align yourself with Google by getting a branded phone. This will hurt carriers and manuf.s in general until they realize that updates make more sense than lost revenue

   /rant

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   Posted by Gervais | January 5, 2010, 10:18 am
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   I am impressed that Rogers would even think of releasing this phone. It’s not a Blackberry or an Apple product, they are now giving people a choice between very good and high quality phones that operate on different systems. Is this the result of competition? It is about time but too late for me since I just signed up for an iphone (3 years) but I would have chosen an upscale android phone like the Sony X10 if it were available from Rogers.

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   Posted by mitch | January 5, 2010, 10:23 am
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   I think this is great news. Now that all of the Canadian carriers are hspa, I think that pretty much every cool new GSM phone that gets released will make it to at least one of the carriers.

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   Posted by Mike | January 5, 2010, 10:29 am
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   Disappointed -Rogers- got it.
   I’m also disappointed it’s Q2, was hoping for sooner, particularly with Nexus / Milestone coming.

   Not to mention this won’t even have Android 2

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   Posted by Rich | January 5, 2010, 10:46 am
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   Fido as well please?

   I am almost set on getting a DROID on release and unlock it to use on Fido.

   But I have no Fido agreement and 150 Fido dollar, could use the larger screen and no keyboard as a second phone =)

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   Posted by Nicolas | January 5, 2010, 11:03 am
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   Oh and Snapdragon!

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   Posted by Nicolas | January 5, 2010, 11:03 am
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   If its comes out with 1.6 as rumored and Rogers doesn’t update it like the Dream and Magic. People should avoid this phone until its rooted.

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   Posted by Sined | January 5, 2010, 12:29 pm
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    I had forgotten how good this phone looks. The snapdragon, massive screen, 8.1 camera with face recognition and other cool stuff and what seems to be a pretty nice UI, will make this phone a top contender for me when it comes up, assuming rogers lets me upgrade in june. I’m not exactly sure how the upgrade process works but I thought you had to wait 2 years. However, rogers is saying that I can upgrade after only 1 year. Anyway, I am a little disappointed with it having 1.6 and no multi-touch but SE has confirmed that it will get 2.0 at some point and that it is at least capable of multi-touch and may get it(at least I’ll be able to use the dolphin browser once it gets 2.0 or 2.1). I’d also like a bit more ram. I wonder how this thing will run compared to the nexus one which has twice the ram(256 vs 512). Eh, I don’t know. At least rogers is releasing something though.

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    Posted by Samuel Maskell | January 6, 2010, 1:42 pm
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    Don’t see how this can ever beat my jailbroken iphone…let alone the new iphone being released this summer.
    I used to be an android guy and slander iphones…until i actually tried one. The device has practically become as important to me as some sort of extra limb.
    I’m not hating of android- the devices ore okay, but the iphone is superior in all facet except for widgets, which i used to swear by but do not miss at all.

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    Posted by aymo | January 22, 2010, 6:16 pm
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    @aymo
    Connectivity and standard components my friend… The iphone could have the better hardware or the better OS or be the most userfriendly thing ever made, but it would be useless to me for a few reasons.

    If I need to sync my music or videos, I’m tied to my computer because of Itunes. If I want to transfer a picture on it from my work computer I can’t! If I forget my charge cable, I’m bascially screwed whereas the competition uses standard mini-usb cables you can find everywhere.

    If I want to upgrade memory, I can’t do it. If I want to plug backup batteries, I can’t.

    So yeah, if you want to be tied to the apple closed world, if you don’t need to get out of their ecosystem, you are better off with the iphone, which is the best device on the market. But for the reasons I mentioned, I can’t buy an iphone and I have to look for the best alternative.

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    Posted by AJ | February 11, 2010, 10:00 am
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