Comments on: Rogers announces HTC Dream (G1) and Magic coming in June

By: thomas

thomas — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:34:26 +0000

“On May 7, 2009 @ 9:41 am, Spect21 Said:

“Who else but Rogers would be the first carrier to offer Canadians”

They probably forgot that in Canada, we have only one GSM provider.”

you probably forgot that that quote was from the senior vice president and cheif marketing officer of Rogers… he’s going to say that whether we have 1 GSM carrier or 1 million GSM carriers…

By: marco r

marco r — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:26:18 +0000

you guys are all idiots.

the HTC magic will be the first in NORTH AMERICA

the dream is a year old but who wants that?

ROGERS DOES NOT RIP OFF THE CUSTOMERS. I HAVE THEM AND LOVE THEM!

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:29:09 +0000

Actually rogers got the iphone 3g at the same time as every other provider and the g1 has been out for a while but the magic isnt released yet so rogers is not so bad when it comes to releasing new phones

By: ray

ray — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:38:54 +0000

But why does it have to be so ugly…. I am hoping that Samsung can bring some style to Android phones because the OS is not all that bad.

By: Ravnos

Ravnos — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:38:05 +0000

This would have been fucking awesome if it had come months ago. Now there are much better Android handsets due out within a few months, I can’t see myself dropping $600+ on one of these things (or signing a ridiculous 3 year contract.)

By: Jeremy T

Jeremy T — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:25:47 +0000

So f’n awesome… this means there’s an 850/1900 HSDPA Dream out there in the wild somewhere. As an earlier poster mentioned, this is AT&T, so those of us stuck with this provider FINALLY have hope of an android device on this lame network.

As an AT&T user this is totally awesome – there are now 3 great possible outcomes, from best to worst:

1) AT&T picks this thing up
2) Google will offer this thing unlocked directly via their dev phone program (ala the current G1)
3) Failing 1) or 2), we can import unlocked used versions from Rogers users

I really, really hope we see 1), but I’m extremely doubtful on that one. 2) to me seems really likely, and even 3) isn’t bad as a worst case scenario.

HTC, I’ve been wanting to buy this device for so long – please give me the opportunity!

By: seran

seran — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:14:31 +0000

Haha, we get the short of the stick again. We receive all the nice devices after they been in the market for a year like sony ecrisson x1, iphone, now g1. Rogers should 1st fix their plans mainly the data rates. Than reel in all those sweet devices. My opinion. Any one jumping to grab this on rogers network grab a text plan because they charge for incoming starting july 7.

By: E

Thu, 07 May 2009 15:43:03 +0000

Isn’t Rogers the company that over charges on everything? Don’t they make you sign 3 year contracts? If so….. I feel bad for you Canadians.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:24:54 +0000

Man, how long has the G1 been out for? A year? And just now they are introducing it in Canada? What a bunch of crap.

I’m sorry you Canucks have to wait so long.

By: StevenGlansburg

StevenGlansburg — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:58:41 +0000

Am I seriously the only one connecting the dots here? This means that it will have the 850 North AMerica 3G band will work perfectly on At&T

By: DavidThande

DavidThande — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:31:22 +0000

Lol riot! Its shame they had to wait nearly a year for this….seriously?

By: Adi

Adi — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:25:03 +0000

So let me see here, Fido won’t get them and they won’t also get the new iPhone.

I smell a riot brewing… mark my words.

Adi

By: Armaan

Armaan — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:22:37 +0000

is it just me or is there just a poster on the site and no sign up option??!?!??!?!?!

By: unclebrudy

unclebrudy — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:17:33 +0000

Is this a G1.1? Has anyone else noticed that in the ad, the hard buttons are slightly different? The ear speaker also appears larger. Could just be a mockup I guess, or could be the exact same internals with a slight facelift refresh for you Canadian folk who’ve had to wait.

Just curious. Have a great day everyone.

By: Spect21

Spect21 — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:41:03 +0000

“Who else but Rogers would be the first carrier to offer Canadians”

They probably forgot that in Canada, we have only one GSM provider.

By: Jeeverz

Jeeverz — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:23:26 +0000

I think this is great news. I hope it ships with version 1.5 Cupcake !!

By: Prolab

Prolab — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:13:44 +0000

Sweet! That means 850 mhz friendly and time to get this unlock and put to my no freals fido!