Canada's
other GSM network has picked up a couple goodies that we thought our friends north of the border might be interested to hear about. First up,
Fido gets the Nokia E62, bringing some QWERTY S60 action to the carrier's stable, something Cingular customers have been enjoying
for a while now -- and like its American counterpart, Fido gets the dumbed-down version sans UMTS rather than the original
E61. Next up is the
Z710i from Sony Ericsson, a decent midrange clamshell rocking a 2 megapixel cam and a rather portly exterior monochrome display. Look for both in stores now; the E62 will run you $200 CDN (about $170) on a three (yes,
three) year contract, while the Z710i will go for $75 (about $64) on the same brutally lengthy agreement -- thank goodness for early upgrades.
[Thanks, Francis P.]
Update: Yep, it seems the Z610i has been kicking around for a little while up there (which is more we can say for any American carrier).
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Casper @ Mar 12th 2007 11:16AM
The Z710i has been available on Fido since December 2006 - although the SE Z550a is due anytime now.
Francis P. @ Mar 12th 2007 9:31PM
Even with this, the only reason keeping at Fido is they are stuck providing me with the crazy "City Fido" plan in the montreal area that gets me unlimited in and outgoing local calls for peanuts.
I'd be long gone to Rogers with a Pearl + data plan if it wasnt for my plan.
now I'm stuck on another 3 years :(
ah well, I'll just get a good phone off ebay and ditch the L2 they gave me as a replacement.
alanwestenbroek @ Mar 13th 2007 1:13PM
Is that a typo in the update to that post? I've got a Z610i, and it's a quadband-EDGE + UMTS 2100 device that doesn't make any sense in Canada. Unless there's a NA version floating around somewhere.