Boxing Day comes early to Rogers

By on Dec 18, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Retail December 18, 2009

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If you’re Canadian and love the thrill of the hunt Boxing Day provides, hate waiting in long lineups on a frosty winter’s eve, are looking for a new smartphone, and aren’t too sure what to make of this WIND Mobile business, then Rogers kinda/sorta has a deal for you. From now until January 18th, the following smartphones are avaiable from $0 to $0.99: BlackBerry Bold 9000 (white), BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, HTC Magic, LG Eve and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Of course, with such a price there is always a catch and in this particular instance it’s a decision not to be made lightly — a 3-year contract

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  • Nuthin

    lol…boxing day.

    50 bucks on Pacquiao?

    no?

    oh THAT boxing day. nvm

  • Adam

    You can go to some Rogers stores and get these phones for free anyway on a 3 yr deal lol

  • Wow

    not to mention with all these phones you have to sign up for a data plan which it think the cheapest is $15-20 a month for like 150 mb.

  • Matt Thompson

    Wow. Pass..

  • tom

    The buyout price is fxxxing ridiculous, 649 for Bold 9000

  • http://ijstech.blogspot.com Isaiah Copon

    The BlackBerry Bold 9000 is the fastest BlackBerry available?

  • Unknown

    I guess its going to be a little WINDy this Christmas season in Rogers stores,

    breaking Christmas deals early

    *sigh* I need to stop with WIND based puns

  • jim

    Please fellow Canadians… DON’T DO IT!!!

    Even if your phone is an old piece of junk, have patience! this is just the beginning now that WIND is here. Don’t count out the other new entrants either.

  • Dara

    Meh, Wind is here but aside from their better terms and conditions, their plans aren’t super.

    With all of the magical fees, I’m paying $70/month to Rogers for 200 daytime, evenings at 5pm, VM, CID, Conf, CW, texts, and 500 MB of data.

    I can’t see where I’d save much going over to Wind other than being able to talk more than I do now, which isn’t really a pressing concern. Plus, none of those phones is compelling.

    I was really hoping for a cheap data option, even a pay as you go data plan at Rogers overage rate (3c/MB) would be great. $35 for unlimited is a good deal, but it’s not actually unlimited and I pay that much for my genuinely unlimited home data plan from Acanac.

    If they introduce the N900, I could be convinced, but this isn’t earth shattering just yet. Especially with all the roaming you’d have to do. Right now, Rogers 3G data coverage allows me to make cheap VOIP calls anywhere in the country. With WIND, I’d be roaming on data so it would be Edge and expensive.

    Hopefully Rogers starts adjusting its ridiculous extra fees to compete.

    • Steve

      Wow Dara,
      We are living practically the same exact lives, LOL.

      I have the almost the exact same plan as you and it comes out to $64.xx/month, but I don’t have the evenings at 5pm, which I think accounts for the difference. And I use Acanac too lol.

      Just thought I’d share that.

      If only Rogers could get rid of the SAF, then I’d be much happier with my plan.

  • paulysworld

    Until they offer the N900 I won’t be changing anytime soon. My N95 8GB is far superior to anything else they carry (yes even better then BGR’s precious iphone) so really nothing to get excited about here at all.

  • longtimesprintuser

    Canada has 3 year mobile phone plans??? Yikes!

  • mjschmidt

    Beware! Rogers Android phones won’t be updated to 1.6 or above! We are stuck on 1.5.

    http://androidforums.com/rogers/10647-rogers-dream-1-6-update-11.html#post197520

  • Travis

    don’t fall for 3yr trap..sign up for wind mobile if you’re in calgary or toronto.

    • Travis

      if you fall for this you can’t enjoy 3 Christmas(s)..

  • Justin

    Rogers Android phones can be updated, you’ll just have to root it first.

  • http://angrychinesedriver.com AngryChineseDriver.com

    Oh, how I love to see Rogers squeal in pain…$0.99 phones, wow they are desperate!

    But s’all good, the point of WIND’s entry was to bring more competition and more competition is upon us. :)

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