More on the iPhone Data Phones

So Rogers have ‘responded’ to the publics less than favourable attitude to the bad voice/data combination to the iPhone plans and have announced a short term deal to entice iPhone shoppers to commit to Rogers for their data plans.

Rogers are offering 6GB for $30 extra on top of your existing, in-market voice plan.

For mobile internet, daily browsing of facebook twitter, email and adhoc mp3 downloads I think 6GB is more than than enough, its not unlimited but its enough and ample breathing space for the heavy user.

However this plan will not include iPhone’s Visual Voicemail and any essentials like call waiting etc.

If you have had one of those nice unlimited voice plans you kept since 2001 or got given a deal on your voice plan for customer retention you will need to give it up and go for one thats on offer on their website …. this includes EPP and corporate plans too so be very careful before commiting yourselfs to this offer you could end up losing out.

Just read these points and consider them before you setup a tent outside a rogers store tonight

1. Be smart and shop smart
2. Don’t get sucked in by the iPhone fad
3. Don’t forget its just a cell phone
4. iPhone is a design marvel and not new technology!
5. There isn’t much that an iPhone does which other phones that have been out for years can’t do …. yet

RedFlagDeals.com!

For nearly 3 years I have been a part of a community called RedFlagDeals.com, in Canada it is the best site for deals and coupon codes you’ll ever find. People on there are friendly, knowledgeable and, for me, the forums are the last web site I look at before committing to buy most things. There has been times where I’ll be ready to checkout something online, search RFD and find a coupon code that saves me 10-15% off the bat!

This is a list of some of the savings I have made in the past

Harmony 880 Remote for $119

Realtor.ca is here!

Finally Realtor.ca is here. Its leaps and bound better than MLS.ca which will soon retire.

Realtor.ca brings in the best of Web 2.0 like google mashups and web services to allow you to search the city or property to rent and buy easily.

Its really empowering and I’m sure the site has stirred mixed feelings amoung the realtor crowd. I can image some tech savvy realtors embracing this alot however some not so techy realtors might think this as a threat to their businesses, we’ll see.

I just remember searching mls hours upon end looking for comparable properties in my area I would need to query each street separately, now with this site there is so much more you can do.

Happy Property Hunting!

Happy 141th Birthday Canada!

I’d like to wish everyone a happy Canada Day! Canada is 141 years old today and every Canadian should be proud of were we are today.

I just started this blog and thankful for everyone coming by to visit. Please leave a comment if you found my articles useful or even if you disagree! 

iPhone in Canada

Finally the iPhone will touchdown in Canada on July 11th. After scanning most speculation and chatter on the internet about the reason for the delay, I could only think this was a massive political stunt on behalf of Canada’s parasitic wireless telecoms network Rogers Communications. Rogers is Canada’s only GSM cell carrier.

GSM is a section of the wireless telecoms market where the cell phone contains a SIM card which can be removed and placed in another GSM phone. GSM is better technology for world travelers and people that like to change their phones without notifying the network. Today in Canada there are two CDMA carriers (Bell and Telus koodo = Telus by the way)

Parasitic, you might say I’m being harsh but I strongly feel that Canada is long overdue for healthy competition in the GSM market or some decent governing body to stop Canadians getting ripped off for any moderately up-to-date technology. In the UK there is a company called Ofcom (http://www.ofcom.org.uk) which watches over the telecoms network and one of the duties is to ensure a wide range of telecoms services is available to everyone in the UK. This is great as it looks at the big picture and governs the service as a whole … not just on their by own bottom line.