Rogers gets Treo 680
Hey, Canada: it looks like Cingular was just the first stop on a comprehensive North American tour for Palm's new entry-level Treo 680, and your own Rogers is next. In fact, if you head on over to Rogers' website as we speak, you'll find it listed for $300 CDN on a three-year contract after rebates. Yes, that's right, we said "three-year contract," so we'd like to caution would-be owners that there's very little chance they're going to want the same phone a full 36 months from now -- especially seeing how Rogers is only offering the plain-vanilla Graphite variety.[Thanks, Darien]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
L3 @ Dec 6th 2006 7:28PM
What the heck? 40 yr interest-only mortgages, 96-month car loans, 5-year auto leasing, and now three-year cell phone contracts. In our 'no money down society,' long-term commitments solve short term needs (read: impuse buys.)
Remember that old philosophy about 'if you don't have the money, don't buy it?!?'
Otsego @ Dec 6th 2006 7:29PM
no kidding. its tough enough for me to live with the same phone for 1 year.. let alone 2, but 3 is freakin' rediculous!! Just spend the few extra bens and avoid the contract.
Z @ Dec 6th 2006 7:57PM
Just b/c your contract is a 3-year term doesn't mean you have to keep the same phone for that amount of time...I believe Rogers allows a hardware upgrade every 12 months.
j @ Dec 6th 2006 10:35PM
as a canadian i gotta say that the 3yr contract might be the stupidest idea of all...i've never had a 3yr contract and i have no idea why ppl sign them, especially given that only a year ago the hardware credit was the same on a 2yr as it is now on a 3yr...what a joke, post 2 is right, spend the bens (or in our case 'lizes and avoid the lockup
MikeC @ Dec 7th 2006 3:46AM
3 Canadian years is like 2 American...nothing new here.
Mark @ Dec 8th 2006 3:46PM
If you have an expensive plan, you can upgrade more frequently. Some customer's can upgrade every 30 days if they wanted to. They call those customers "high value customers".
Darien Taylor @ Sep 10th 2007 2:58PM
"Just b/c your contract is a 3-year term doesn't mean you have to keep the same phone for that amount of time...I believe Rogers allows a hardware upgrade every 12 months"
You're right, it is every 12 months that you can do an upgrade on your phone (but you have to re-sign for a number of years)
I totally agree with all the above statements that the 3-year is highway robery. Unfortunatly with Canadians they would rather pay nothing up-front then $59.99 and have it for 2 years.
Thanks Engadget for posting my article :)