DISQUS

Too bad, I would've liked to see the RIAA sue the music-thieving children of that Warner CEO.

Congrats! I'm really looking forward to the conference.

We know where the money isn't going: Their crappy ass website where I've yet to successfully use any of the Member Services features without a system error message.

My experience with the iPhone 3G and Rogers during my trip in Montreal has been frustrating.
- multiple errors and slowdowns, some requiring resets
- slow as crap, speedtest from downtown Montreal reads: 286kbps download and 92kbps upload.

I guess I should be thankful that Toronto isn't as bad.

Using the Speedtest app for my iPhone 3G, I get 420-442 kbps

And using the inetworktest.com iphone test, i get 391.5 kbps.

This is from downtown Toronto at University & Dundas

I did a brief writeup of these two phones on my blog recently. Basically, the Instinct is part broken as the JVM is only a subset (why did they do this?!) so it can't run Opera Mini. This is a very bad thing because their default browser is CRAP apparently.

Also, Instinct runs on some proprietary OS so you can't even take advantage of a large app library like Windows Mobile or the App Store.

I'm looking forward to trying out the Touch Diamond. I used to have a Touch prior to the iPhone and I found it a decent mobile web device, but as a phone? Not so hot. The screen was small which made the touch keyboard way more annoying to use.

As much as I like my new iPhone, Apple itself is annoying the hell out of me with their intrusive malware installs (I'm looking at you MobileMe and Safari for Windows!) and their general arrogance and non-transparent attitude towards their users.

After I found out that AT&T capped their "unlimited" data plan at 5GB, I came to the same conclusion that the Rogers $30/60GB deal is actually pretty decent.

I don't actually see myself using 6GB in a month but I like the "never have to worry" feeling of whipping out the iPhone whenever/whereever and using the 3G data.

There's no way Rogers will bring out a better deal. They will likely remove the promotion at the end of August and maybe re-introduce something similar for the Christmas rush.

Great news all around! Too bad I've already been Rogered 'til 2011. :P

What do you think the chances are that, as part of the deal that Apple made with Rogers/Fido would have offer a reasonable data plan (maybe $35 for 1GB?).
I would think that it would tarnish the iPhone brand if Rogers continues their crippling data rates so that people get hit with huge data bills after the first month.

This is unbelievable. Just when you think Rogers couldn't sink any lower.

Are they doing this to to make the upcoming and likely overpriced iPhone plan look good in comparison?

I can see it now: "instead of paying $100 for 1GB, you can pay $65 per 1GB with our 5 year iPhone contract!"

This is completely typical of Rogers. Can we assume the iPhone launch plan will be mishandled, miscommunicated, and misunderstood in a similar fashion? This is a joke.