Fido wakes up, remembers to offer Motorola RAZR 2 V9
Hello, Fido! Welcome to, oh, about two months ago. We know that you live in Rogers' ginormous shadow, but let's try to be more on the ball, k? From the looks of your RAZR 2 product page, you're still a little sleepy, too: "Cristal [sic] Talk" isn't how Moto spells it -- and as curious as we are about "pear to peer gaming," we're pretty sure you meant "peer to peer." Anyhoo, unlike Rogers' V9, it looks like Fido is getting the same pinkish color scheme that AT&T is rocking -- for better or for worse -- and features the usual V9 goodness: HSDPA, A2DP, a 2 megapixel cam, microSD expansion, and so on. Speaking of microSD, Fido throws a 2GB card into the deal, but being a couple months behind the bleeding edge doesn't come cheap -- it'll run $150 on a three-year contract after $125 rebate.[Via Mobile In Canada]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
tim @ Dec 31st 2007 5:20PM
mmmm... pear!
leeeevy @ Dec 31st 2007 6:20PM
let's not forget fido's other big announcement:
RAISING PRICES AGAIN!
(from Howardforums http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1301543 )
As per stipulated on many customer's invoice this month, some prices will change as of early march 2008.
1) All international sms sent from Canada will be charged @ 25 cents/min
instead of 20 cents. That also includes over usage.
2) SMS sent while roaming within the USA will go from 40cents/message to 60 cents/message.
**** PLEASE NOTE THAT WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE CANADIAN DOLLAR, THIS MEANS GOOD MONEY FOR ROGERS ****
Also, every customer who was using the 8$ VM + CD bundle will be soon be charged 9$ like every new customer...
(end Hofo)
The cell phone situation in Canada is getting so ridiculous! Here's hoping PM Harper does something to open up the market so the people of Canada do not continue to get screwed by this collusive olligarchy of Robbers (which includes Fido), Bell and Telus.
Maybe time we start writing our MPP's and MP's (email or snailmail) to end this ridiculousness and open up the market some more? Even with the new spectrum being sold the rules about how much of each company has to be owned by Canadians is still barring the big international corporations from coming in.
rav97 @ Jan 1st 2008 9:13PM
Good dog!
Matt @ Jan 2nd 2008 7:16PM
And here I thought Canada was so much better than the US of A. But worry not...we do have our cell nazis too...Verizon, Sprint and at&t. Wait..that's almost all of them.