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Rogers CEO: “customers will not be buying products per se, but buying into brands”

By Rob Avison ⋅ March 11, 2010 ⋅ 22 comments

A few weeks ago Rogers created an blog called Red Board, this is a place for their social media team to start a conversation with their customers. The topics are for all Rogers products, not just wireless. In the first video interview they went to the top and interviewed Rogers President and CEO, Nadir Mohamed.
The [...]

LG “Make Life Pop” Contest gives chance to meet Jason Derulo and win $5k

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ March 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

LG has a new contest that promotes the upcoming LG Shine Touch and the recently released LG Pop. The contest is called “Make Life Pop” and if you win you could walk meet artist Jason Derulo and score a cool $5,000 shopping spree in Los Angeles. Seems like the contest is pretty basic as all [...]

LG pushes out Eve maintenance release, but not to 1.6

By Rob Avison ⋅ March 10, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

For all those owners who have the Android-powered Eve (GW620R) you can now update your device as LG has pushed out a “maintenance release”. Very small updates have been put into this but those wanting to get their hands on the promised upgrade to OS 1.6 will have to wait a couple more months.
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 gets unboxed by Sony Ericsson

By Rob Avison ⋅ March 10, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

We had an opportunity to play with the upcoming Rogers Sony Ericsson a few weeks ago, you can check out the video here. If you want more X10 goodness, the folks over at Sony Ericsson have taken the time to unbox the upcoming Android device.
We hear the X10 will be releasing in the “coming weeks” [...]

Rogers proposes cellphone tower in B.C. cemetery

By Rob Avison ⋅ March 10, 2010 ⋅ 13 comments

There’s much speculation that shows cellphone use causes cancer and many other forms of health issues. The carriers continually have issues with the public when it comes to cellphone towers and their effects… finding real estate is getting more of an concern.
Rogers has possibly found a solution as they have proposed to build a semi-permanent, [...]

Confirmed: LG Shine Touch going to Rogers at $49.99

By John Connors ⋅ March 9, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Earlier today we checked out the LG Canada site and they revealed the Shine Touch was coming out soon. Checking out the carrier info on their site it had TELUS pegged as the carrier of choice… but actually our friends over at Rogers will be releasing and the internal document we received show this will [...]

Samsung Galaxy Spica now available at Rogers

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ March 9, 2010 ⋅ 9 comments

Rogers has officially release the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Spica. This can be yours on the following price plans:
3-year contract (promo price with a $45 monthly Voice and Data plan): $79.99
3-year contract (after promo): $299.99
2-year contract: $349.99
1-year contract: $399.99
No contract: $449.99
The Galaxy Spica is described as a device that “will help you get the most out [...]

Confirmed: Rogers Samsung Galaxy Spica to run Android 1.5

By Rob Avison ⋅ March 8, 2010 ⋅ 11 comments

Thanks to tipster “Mlexxus” for confirming the upcoming Rogers Samsung Galaxy Spica will in fact indeed come loaded with Android OS 1.5. We also hear from another source that this will be upgraded within the following couple months. No word on when the Galaxy Spica is officially launching but the price points are the following:

Rogers “Enhanced Text Messaging” coming soon

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ March 8, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

“Enhanced Text Messaging” I thought has been around for a little while from Rogers, but apparently it’s “Coming Soon”. With this service at Rogers you can now do more with your text messages such as creating a distribution list, signature, auto-reply, block spam texts and Rogers states that “these enhancements are available for every rogers [...]

By default… Rogers to release the Motorola Quench

By John Connors ⋅ March 7, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

Motorola stated last week that the Android-powered Backflip, Dext and Quench will be coming to Canada sometime “in the first half of 2010″. TELUS followed up by announcing they’ll exclusively release the Backflip and Bell announced they’ll exclusively sell the Dext… so by default this has Rogers to release the Quench!
No official word on a [...]

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