Comments on: TELUS rumored to be getting the iPhone in October

By: hachu

hachu — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:47:39 +0000

It actually just means he doesn’t know anything about any of the cell phone technologies since UMTS/HSPA is based off the same fundamental technology as CDMA.

And yeah, in the US, Verizon, like Telus, (EVDO) definitely has the title for best coverage and reliability. And most evil phone company.

By: ChaosHydra

ChaosHydra — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:40:48 +0000

Funny you say that the CDMA network is crap and old technology, yet when someone asks who has the best footprint in canada for Coverage, hands down everyone will always say Telus!

By: darwing

darwing — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:05:02 +0000

CDMA.. Telus won’t be CDMA anymore , CDMA is crap an old technology, its about time they moved forward and upgraded big time… plus I really hope they DO relawse the Iphone cause if not I’m going to switch carriers if its not available by Jan 2010

By: jayson

jayson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:58:24 +0000

Does anybody have links to actual statements from bell or telus on the cdma gsm switch? from the last few months?

By: thndrgrv

thndrgrv — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:04:46 +0000

exactomondo!!

By: Starkey

Starkey — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:45:43 +0000

Celz’ age and experience is extremely relevant to his exhaustive claims, as he obviously has little background from which to draw. His childish assertions [an assessment/not name-calling] are self-evident for anyone with the ability to discern the english language above a high school level. Those who disregard that this is an adult discussion will obviously be called out for their actions or words. That’s life in the real world.

I, too, would like to hear what device it was that Celz owned 4 years ago which held all of today’s features and abilities, as he has claimed.

Why is it that the most closed, least developed minds have the biggest mouths with the least regard for basic dignity?

By: matt

matt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:53:39 +0000

@celz
Apparently your a verizon employee hating so bad on the most popular phone in the world. Hopefully for your sake before you graduate your 10th grade marketing class, you will realize that apple couldn’t have sold that many smartphones on effective marketing alone. I think you could have listened to some of their marketing ploys rather than thumbing away on your Nokia 2600 series! You’re the minority on a site filled with people that use all these devices very often…..need me to spell it out for you? Did you say well thought out and coherent statements? LoL

By: celz

celz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:50:05 +0000

the iphone isnt intuitive its idiot proof the iphone is like fisher price.. and if homescreens, removable battery and mem, unrestricted apps, multitasking, etc etc confuse you im surprised you can use an apple computer or a pc they are much more in depth than any smartphone.. honestly apple did take smartphone usability to a new level but thats because they focused on making it easy to use not having features.. since it is only available one carrier apple needs u guys to buy a phone once a year.. so they throw in some basic feature that should have been there and cha ching you again.. that sounds alot like a sidekick doesnt it.. lmao funny how none of you idiots dispute my points.. i guess if i called more names and stopped posting well thought out and coherent statements i wouldnt be childlike.. lmao and yea i did pay the 350 or so for a ca c corp.. thats what you have to do dumb ass ..

By: moi

moi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:33:46 +0000

Yes – TELUS’ new network is HSPA+ to provide clarity.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:18:54 +0000

@Celz: You win the toolbag of the year award!

By: jmoney

jmoney — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:27:59 +0000

Guys your not reading Apple will only provide the iPhone in GSM/HSPA, CDMA with TELUS wouldn’t work, it will be for the HSPA network to be soft launched in Sept 09 and Verizon decided to opt out and stay with CDMA, sorry guys no iPhone for Verizon….

By: uerythmic

uerythmic — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:38:39 +0000

@celz- What single phone (hell … what single platform for that matter) delivered a naturally intuitive OS with each of your four year old ‘advances’?

Your claim to be what you are is what is laughable. You present yourself as a child, so you’re taken as a child. That’s life, kid.

So you paid the whole $350 to form a business and have letterhead and business cards and everything, eh? Impressive!

By: Celz

Celz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:55:49 +0000

Lmao @ urmommashouldknow – Forgive me if stating apples obvious intentions wounded your frail little ego. Obviously caught up in the midst of your name calling temper tantrum you forgot to actually provide substance to your argument. That would be the logic, or coherent thought process that would separate your post from mine which represents exemplified bull feces. But if you happened to review the two posts you would clearly see that I have a well documented train of thought to substantiate my opinions; and you well, you resort to the much lesser refined art of name calling. I correctly stated that the iphone only added a beautiful hi end device and multitouch to game. I also stated that every step apple used to launch the iphone was previously taken and pioneered by danger (even though the target market was younger). And lastly that a majority of the “new” iphone features are almost half a decade old. All you said was that 30fps cameras didnt exist 4 years ago; Which is true for the United States at least. That argument is baseless in itself because today that camera is in the same class as the camera on my a900 was when it was released in 2005. So if the fact that I am marketing major (I actually own a marketing company) and have been in the cellphone business before ringtones and color screens is laughable; please go ahead and prove my statements wrong you may resume calling me names after.

And my ego doesnt need to be justified by usin big words on here even tho I can, and since I type this from my samsung m520 on opera mini to pass time I keep it simple. Its not worth pullin out my touch pro or laptop.

By: Sparro

Sparro — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:23:32 +0000

@imo

There is no rumour about Telus’ new network, its fact and its HSPA+
There is a soft launch in September for most major cities with FULL coverage in Q1 2010 in time for the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

By: urmommashouldknow

urmommashouldknow — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:41:28 +0000

Celz has been in the cell business since before color screens, yet is a marketing major and speaks with the depth of a person no older than 20? Just who do you think you’re jacking off here, fool. The truth isn’t good enough for you? Outside that pointy, shrunken head of yours, what makes you so special?

As for your laughable argument against the iPhone, exactly what phone did you have 4 years ago that shot video at 30fps?

You’re right about one thing though. Marketing IS the art of bullshit. Exemplified by your use of it here as well.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:23:18 +0000

Look at this.. an Iphone with bandwidth throttling and blocked multimedia streaming ports.

Borrrring !!!!!!

By: Celz

Celz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:25 +0000

@ beelzebub and smart4phone – how long I’ve been out of my teens is irrelevant. I’m quite grown though and have been in the cellphone business before 3g and color screens were available. If your mind is to narrow to realize that apple is selling you marketing instead of an actual product than this conversation is pointless. Mms, 3g tethering, camcorder, turn by turn navi!! are you serious I had those features almost 4 years ago!!! But now they are groundbreaking because apple says so, and you idiots believe them. They made a beautiful high quality device that added multi touch.. but thats it. They didn’t bring anything new to the table besides that.

They stole Danger’s whole business model for the sidekick and used it for a higher quality device.

When danger made the sidekick they first developed a simple os that people would find visually appealing, then built hardware that would be better looking than competing phones, next they got a single carrier that would allow them to have control over thier users, then they made an application store so people would have to purchase games and ringtones which anyone else would let customers obtain free ones, they also raised the monthly prices over normal phones to make consumers pay for having a fashion phone, and finally they made minor revisions over and over to add features that should have already been present.. If you think I cant replace danger and sidekick with apple and iphone.. Your stupid and I dont have much else to say to you..

Every other smartphone os is based on having features and than the hardware and software are made around these core features. The sidekick and the iphone are the only mainstream phones that are made around being fashionable first and then given just enough features to sell and no more. Trust me Im a marketing major I know what Im talking about. If your an apple shareholder your winning, if your just a customer your losing because apple could flip a switch and make your phone ten times better than it is now. But since you are buying from them in that current state they aren’t gonna flip that switch. It will be available next year for a small price.

By: beelzebub

beelzebub — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:48:33 +0000

@Celz: So … You’re what happens when one scrapes the bottom of the barrel, eh? Just how long have you been out of your teens, anyway? Clearly, your “insight” is that of a juvenile, regardless of your calendar age.

By: StevenGlansburg

StevenGlansburg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:33:10 +0000

Well verizon employee armada that constantly slams the iPhone and talks up it’s great network seems to always forget their phones (all of them) suck.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Cincinnati United States

By: Sonya

Sonya — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:49:56 +0000

And my comment got deleted for what reason??

For stating enough with the bashing of Verizon wifi and gps since people don’t actually know what the hell they are talking about and this is off topic. Okay, good reason.

By: Jeeverz

Jeeverz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:37:19 +0000

I very highly doubt they are going to have all their towers switched over to HSPA before October .. let alone sell iphones to the masses.

By: Thebluetoothkid

Thebluetoothkid — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:25:10 +0000

This rumor has already been proven completely False. There was a giant conference call with Telus a few days ago with over 500 people listening to the call. Telus has confirmed the HSPA network will not launch until January, So don’t even think it’s coming this year. They are in talks with Apple but no deal has been agreed upon. If you go to Howard forums there is a thread all about the call giving all the facts about the call and the info it relieved. Which all the info in the post is proven wrong.

By: Aland Strangsi

Aland Strangsi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:10:50 +0000

Actually, Telus/Bell GSM towers are already up and running in a lot of places. They’re just not carrying a signal yet. The two companies announce their plans to get into GSM quite some time ago, so October doesn’t sound too far fetched.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:58:08 +0000

I love how all the VZ employees come out to try to defend themselves once they see an iphone post (even if it is Canadian)! I’m surprised they haven’t started puking tour yet!

By: smart4phone

smart4phone — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:41:13 +0000

mangenius is certainly right when it comes to the iPhone on Telus and Bell, and I still wonder why there are still people talking about CDMA in this thread. They probably are still trying to differentiate their left from their right as well

As for celz, he beats them all : we have seen the iPhone and the app store compared to past failed attempts by WinMo or Symbian … but comparing an iPhone and the store to the “SideKick-teenager-wannabe-a-smartphone-when-I-grow-up” Dumb phone ?!?!? WOw give me a break: what is the guy smoking ?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:21:16 +0000

Telus and Bell are currently expanding their EVDO network, building an HSPA network, and building a 4G LTE network.

They plan on splitting the $1 billion cost They plan on putting up more towers to acheive better coverage than Rogers. They plan on launching the HSPA network in September, ONLY in Vancouver and southern BC (location of the winter olympics). HSPA will be expanding to other major cities by the end of 2009, and nationwide by summer 2010. As for LTE, they hope to start rolling that out by the end of 2010.

I say this rumour is false. If and when Telus/Bell get the iphone, it won’t be untl summer 2010, when the HSPA network goes nationwide.

By: Adi

Adi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:15:48 +0000

More competition is better. Hopefully their iPhone offer will be enticing enough for me to switch over

Fido has become a joke in the past 5 years since Robbers started raping it..

Adi

By: Jeeverz

Jeeverz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:50:11 +0000

Only time can tell. I have my serious doubts that Telus or bell are going t get the iPhone and that when Telus/Bell launches the HSPA network that it’s going to be all there towers nationwide. If they do I will be seriously impressed, however I seriously doubt the iPhone on telus LOL

By: p

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:48:24 +0000

Wow, this will be great. I will burn my stoopid Storm it this happens.

By: RileyFreeman

RileyFreeman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:35:52 +0000

a lot of u people dont have a single clue what ur talking about regarding telus network.

first off lte will be data only so all phones will need to be dual mode when they launch. this will be for the first few years.

second the hspa towers are at 100 meg compared to rogers 25meg.

next telus is putting up tons of towers to have SUPERIOR coverage than rogers. so some of u should stop talking out of ur ass if u dont have a single clue what ur talking about