Comments on: Apple iPhone launching on Rogers December 7th?

By: edy

edy — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:20:38 +0000

why bother buying stupid iphone worth 499 and 3 year contract, when u can get the sony ericsson k850i or nokia 95 there both with rogers now

By: yaa

yaa — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:27:42 +0000

yeah are money is worth more because you american are idiots and keep going at war for pretole

By: Mike C

Mike C — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:17:04 +0000

it’s a fake ad … clear to everyone now though there are still rumours of the Iphone coming to Canada later this year… but if it was true you’d be reading about it hearing about it and seeing the ads… not on a site here

By: Ben Lucier

Ben Lucier — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:19:02 +0000

Hopefully, the announcement will be made at Macworld during Steve Jobs’ Keynote speech on Jan 15 (this month). For more details, see http://benlucier.ca/work/2008/01/08/macworld-apple-to-announce-iphone-in-canada/

By: jessie

jessie — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:36:03 +0000

i dont think this ad is the real thing. read the fine print… now look at the date and read the year. y does it say december 7th 2007.

By: jaxjix

jaxjix — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:34:01 +0000

500 dollars ! on a 3 years contract ! pleeeeeeease

By: Twice

Twice — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:31:15 +0000

Honestly, I think most of you guys are retarded, No offense. I am using my Iphone
here in Toronto perfectly on the Fido Network. My bill is a Woop $56 a month! That including unlimited 24/7 incoming/outgoing calling local “CityFido”. But thats not even the best part I got ahold of a spyke widget for calling anywhere in the world for free as long as theres a wifi connection. Gotta love technology

By: NJ

NJ — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:29:36 +0000

Yeah, having begrudgingly dealt with Rogers for years now, I’ve come to know their marketing crap (which gets regularly mailed to me to encourage me to sign up for their products that I ALREADY have… but I digress). Anyway, the Mobius Logo is always adjacent to the word “ROGERS,” and they NEVER use Times New Roman for the price.

By: nelson

nelson — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:30:36 +0000

if you interested in buying iphones kindly get back to us on our mail.we are located in new york

By: jayjay_21

jayjay_21 — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:47:33 +0000

Looks like its coming on the 18th of january this ad looks more official however still thinking why is rogers making it official on an useless flyer ad??

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/10/more-iphone-in-canada-stuff/

By: thickslab

thickslab — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:43:29 +0000

Only a complete retard would not realize immediately that this is a fake. It’s such an obvious fake that the person who posted this is obviously brain dead.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:28:39 +0000

Why is everybody so concerned about when Rogers getting the iphone? Who cares

If you want the iphone so bad you can get one TODAY on ebay or other classified sites.

We should be more concerned if Rogers is actually going to offer that unlimited data plan now that would be news.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:50:28 +0000

Personally I’d prefer Apple go with a carrier that actually has decent coverage out here on the east coast. Rogers doesn’t.

Maybe it’s possible that the iPhone won’t be exclusive to one carrier like it is in the US?

By: MrRoboto

MrRoboto — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:55:52 +0000

This add is fake. The Rogers logo is incorrect. Also their is a trademark dispute with “iPhone” in Canada…Comwave owns the iphone trademark in Canada.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:49:40 +0000

well, according to my bill, Fido IS Rogers.

And anyway, I am enjoying my iPhone on FIDO.

Just grab one from the states, bring it over, and jailbreak it if you really want one!

By: Peruchito

Peruchito — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:59:02 +0000

fake ad. worst graphic design i have seen in a while. looks like a elementary school kid did it.

also, fuck rogers. i want FIDO to get the iPhone

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:20:32 +0000

Obviously fake. I mean, I don’t know how they do it Canada, but I sincerely doubt they use © (copyright) to mean the same thing as ® (registered trademark), as in Apple® iPhone™ rather than Apple© iPhone™.

By: host it planet

host it planet — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:48:00 +0000

yup just buy a regulay iphone and get an unlocker on ebay,, it will do the same thning.
easy as pie

By: iggle

iggle — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:13:35 +0000

HEH. i call shens as well for the same reasons. the logo has NEVER been split up that i have seen in 4 years or being a customer or so. I can’t see them wanting 500 for the phone on a 3 yr plan, even if it were true. Yes, rogers are horrible for pricing, but asking OVER mrsp on a phone WITH a 3yr contract? I don’t even see them being that crazy. It does, however, seem weird how the molson, i think it was, add appeared the other day (leaked, fake?) with a content as an iPhone as one of the prizes, mentioning av. on rogers starting sometime in jan…

I guess we’ll see how it plays out.

For those with an iphone on rogers, could you give me a rough estimate of your monthly usage, i have mine unlocked on tmobile (i’m in the states every other month for a month) and i pull a bunch with regular use.. worried my rogers bill would end up at about 250/mo with it >.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:44:29 +0000

Real Rogers iPhone Ad:

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4396/rogerswirelessiphoner3ry6.jpg

By: Tod Maffin

Tod Maffin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:20:12 +0000

I have my doubts about this.

First, the small green text is in a horrible font. In a CTA subhead like that, most ad people will avoid (C) and TM symbols unless absolutely necessary. The ones in this ad really stick out.

Second, the last line of the small print says you don’t find out what the data plan will cost until later. I somehow doubt Rogers is stupid enough to sell an expensive phone (with a mandatory three-year term) without disclosing how much the data would cost.

Finally, I’ve never known Rogers to split up its logo like that (red circle and text). It’s generally considered to be a no-no in advertising practice.

This just looks like a fake Photoshop mockup to me. I stand by my original post on this.

That said, I HOPE it’s true, because I really want to move out of 1.0.2 without bricking my phone.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:43:39 +0000

If only this had 3G (HSDPA), we could get 1 GB for $65/month from Rogers. Something like that using EDGE is $420/month

By: mobile_pheen

mobile_pheen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:34:02 +0000

this smells phony, the AD doesnt fit within the current rogers ad themes, nor apple’s….

and the legal terms aren’t very well written either,

time will tell…………….

By: nh

nh — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:19:45 +0000

why does anyone care anymore? Im going to say the majority of people who will pay 399 or 499 for an iPhone in canada have already driven the 2 hours or so to the states and bought one or got one online somehow (which is what i did). Rogers had the iPhone a couple months ago when the Dev team released the unlock. hackingt0sh.org

By: bbcurve8300

bbcurve8300 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:16:10 +0000

Meh, I call BS too, but I really don’t care about the iPhone, I see one benefit for the iPhone being launched on Rogers and thats the fact they will need to create a data plan to accomodate, and if thats the case they may be forced to revamp their BB Data Plan with more MB for our money.

By: adjoke1

adjoke1 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:06:53 +0000

I’d agree that this execution is a fake. Green font on a Rogers print ad? Not going to happen.

By: Exeight

Exeight — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:25:58 +0000

How about that 99* beside the 499! Surely it ought to be the same font as the numbers beside it.

By: bill

bill — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:23:17 +0000

As a graphic designer at Rogers I would just like to confirm that this is indeed fake.

By: carlsheldon

carlsheldon — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:47:15 +0000

the typography is awful. obvious fake.

By: ALEX

ALEX — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:35:58 +0000

SO FAKE