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Buyco — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:17:31 +0000

Ok so here I am laying in bed with my iPhone testing out this app allowing me to post mobile-y. My laptop is literally a foot away but whatever. I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with these apps. All downloadable directly to the iPhone no less.
I’ll keep this short (because I hate typing on this stupid touch keyboard) and leave you with some notable apps!
CheckPlease
Calculate your dinner’s cost after tip and split it with your friends. I especially like this because in the past, to get over the heartache of splitting the bill, someone would cover the entire thing. Hard to keep track who’s turn it is when that happens so this app is pretty useful.
Remote
This app is fricken awesome. Right now my Macbook Pro wirelessly transmits music to my Airport Express which is connected to my stereo. With Remote, I can control my iTunes using my iPhone which adds another level of portability! Lazy to the max yo!
TapTap
Zomg, this is guitar hero for your iPhone. No more needs to be said. GG batteries.
Shazam
And now the coup de gras! Do you have friends who play dope music in their car, but they’re assholes and don’t tell you what the name of “that” song is called? Well neither do I, my friends are sweethearts. So to save them from looking deeply into their memory of what they burned on their mix cd, just hold the iPhone up to the speaker and in about 15 seconds Shazam will blow your mind and name that tune. Be prepared to fear the makers of this app. It’s magic. And it will scare the shit out of you.
And that’s it! My first iPhone post. It will also probably be my last since it took me 4 hours to type it out with this POS keyboard. Farewell and Godspeed.

Rogers revises iPhone data plan

Buyco — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:26:08 +0000

So, last time this topic was brought up, there were no details on the pricing of the Rogers iPhone data plans. Last week they were released and here’s to sum up:

note: All plans come with unlimited evening calling (9pm-7pm mon-fri, and weekends), visual voicemail…and that’s just about it).

Option 1: $60

150 weekday minutes
400mb data
75 text messages

With this deal, you have just enough weekday minutes to call in to the Rogers’ support department and bitch at the first human you speak to. There’s just enough data for you to read this website a few times, and text messages to last you a night out at the club.

Skip to Option 4: $115

800 weekday minutes
2gb data
300 text messages

The weekday minutes are more than sufficient, although a questionable limit on the data. 300 text messages still wouldn’t get a text-fiending teenager through the week.

Source: Rogers.com

To put it bluntly, these plans suck. If it weren’t for the massive public outcry of the 57,000 potential iPhone buyers, I doubt Rogers wouldn’t have released the new time-sensitive offer of 6gb/month for $30 addon. Of course this offer expires at the end of August. Awesome.

Now why is it that Canadians are paying, on average, 33% more for cellphone usage than anywhere else in the world? Answer: because we have two companies charging whatever the fuck they want, only having to compete with one another’s HIGH prices.

It’s great that Rogers has revised their data plan for the iPhone, but can you believe what it took for them to do it? About 50k people complaining. But even then, isn’t it ridiculous that they were able to come up with this extra offer so quickly? I’m just curious as to how much money Rogers is really making. The problem with having only two major cell phone service providers is that they can throw a number into the air without really having to worry about the competition, because the competition has no problem boosting their charges just as high. Sidenote: I’m going to bring my Blackberry back into this conversation because for $30 extra dollars, someone with an iPhone can get 6gb of data per month. For that same price, you get a measly 300mb (for those technology and mathematically inept: the iPhone plan gets you 20x more data). If you wanted 6gb for your Blackberry, it would be another $100. Fucking ridiculous. Fuck you Rogers.

Anyways, I should feel sorry for all the Canadians spending so much money on their cell phone bills, but it’s hard to feel sorry for myself. We’re getting royally fucked.

Holy iPhone in Canada

Buyco — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:11:37 +0000

How long have we been waiting for the iPhone to come to Canada? It’s been since it was released in the States. How many people did that stop from getting one before hand? Not many. It’s actually pretty common for me to be swapping phones with a girl at a club, and entering my number on her iPhone. So it’s nothing short of ho-hum when hearing that iPhones will be available for sale in Canada on July 11. The real kicker is the data plan.

My Blackberry’s service bill for January 2008 was just short of $900. I don’t even browse the web, let alone use Google Maps or Facebook on it. Now how will that translate into the new plans for Rogers and Fido here in Canada? I’m currently on Rogers and they do not offer unlimited data (to Blackberry devices anyways). But they do offer 5mb for only $10/month. What the hell are you going to do with 5mb? I remember back in the day I could get on the net with my 14.4 modem and that was $20/month with unlimited downloads. That was 11 years ago. Mind you, if you double your data on your Blackberry to 10mb, it’ll be $20/month. Great. I’m pretty sure with my 14.4 modem I could download more than 10mb within a month. It may have taken about an hour to download 10mb, but at least I wasn’t charged for any data overages.

Rogers seriously need to unfuck their Blackberry consumers as soon as the unlimited data comes out for the iPhone. How pissed off would you be when you find out people have unlimited access to the web for $20/month while you’re sitting here typing on your Blackberry trying to view text-only sites.

Anyways, I’m not sure where I’m going with this. This “news” post should actually be filed under things that piss me off. Rogers-you guys piss me off.

Back on topic. 3G iPhones. Yippee. Come July 11th, tell me how it goes..