The Rogers handset that came locked in a safe…
We’re not going to lie — BGR definitely has its perks. One of them is that our pals from FedEx drop off a lot of packages at our office doors and today was no exception. Although it’s a Saturday, the FedEx truck just pulled up and handed us one heavy ass box (12lbs of heavy). Once we checked the shipping address and saw that it was from Rogers Wireless, we couldn’t help but tear away at the packaging. Inside we found an envelope containing a key, a compass and safe box labeled “Join the Revolution: 02-06-09″. Hit the jump for a sneak peak of what’s inside.
More to come tomorrow.
lol
You sure didn’t look very closely did you? The month is the second set of digits. Even says so!
You Americans, I tells ya.
Woulda been way cooler if the safe was time locked and only opened a week before.
it looks better than a g1 i noticed that it has diffrent bottoms
It didn’t strike me as anything special. Why is so?
It’s just a g1.
I wouldn’t mind having one but I think there are more interesting cellphones around.
they labeled it day month year because they knew americans would be looking at the picture, americans need to be told what there looking at they cant figure it out for themselves. want proof of this? watch there movies.. example.. shows a gay about to eat a sandwich, the character next to him says “so your eating a sandwich are you?”
Rogers probably sent it in a safe so they can bill you for data use after its opened.
I’m assuming this has Rogers 3g on it right? So it won’t be hard to get it to work on AT&T 3G as its uses the same bands. At least you can own a G phone without using EDGE only.
@ abo: It’s amazing how someone who would want to call Americans “stupid” leaves a post that is FULL of typos and terrible grammar in general. Bravo!
Woah woah whoah. Rogers uses 850/1900 HSDPA bands, yes? So in theory this is capable of ATT 3G unlocked.. Too bad the import premium won’t be worth it. Sigh.
The carriers are finally picking up their game, what an awesome way to build hype!
Good on ya BGR for turning some Rogers heads, ask them for an xperia and storm 2!
I never liked its design. The speaker part when the keyboard slides out seems intrusive.
Shipping in a lockbox is just a bit over the top, no? I mean, it’s not like it’s a new handset or anything. It’s old news. That would be like AT&T shipping the Blackberry Bold in a lockbox after every other carrier in the world and their mothers had released it. Can you say “let-down”?
Can you check the UMTS and HSPDA frequencies on this thing? Hopefully it will have 850 and 1900 for HSDPA and I can get one and unlock it for ATT 3G use. I know Rogers originally started out with those frequencies but then also purchased the 1700 and 2100 AWS bands that US Tmobile uses. The US G1 uses the latter frequencies but maybe this will be different.
maybe its a hint. “unlocked” anybody?
Beauty. I’ve heard that there will not be a White HTC Magic for Rogers on release day June 2. That is just what I have read.
@abo…
“they [sic] labeled it day month year because they knew americans [sic] would be looking [sic] at the picture, [sic] americans [sic] need to be told what there [sic] looking at [sic] they [sic] cant [sic] figure it out for themselves. want [sic] proof of this? watch [sic] there [sic] movies.. example.. shows a gay [sic] about to eat a sandwich, the character next to him says “so your [sic] eating a sandwich are you?”
Yes, perhaps Americans are a dumb lot (although the dozen+ errors above would be incredibly hard to beat). But dumb as Americans may be, we remain (by far) the most powerful and influential nation on the planet.
Stupidity aside, worry not my good lad, we’ll show up in Paris (or London, or Rome, or Berlin) to bail your sorry ass out the next time too.
@Dig
Cheney fan?
Can we get past the Americans’re dumb/Americans are the best debate?
This article’s about the HTC G1/Dream coming to Rogers. End of discussion.
No, Cheney is a huge putz (it comes with being a Republican).
Dig you just provided 30 mins of conversation at my weekend BBq. Lol
enough bashing each other. let’s all just agree that rogers’ data plans bu bu bu bu blow.
The rest of the world uses the Day/Month/Year format.. but america has to be different right ?
LONG LIVE CANADA …
So when will you show us the Magic from the safe?
wow nice (drools)