Filed under: Handsets, Messaging, Rogers Wireless, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Misc

Drumroll please! We all heard a fair bit of uncharacteristic anger echoing out of Canada with Rogers Wireless’ announcement of its — and FIDO’s — iPhone data pricing models. Of course, Rogers rethought its plans, launched the $30 / 6GB plan and all was well again in the land of the polar bear and beaver. We had a quick chat with Elizabeth Hamilton, the Director of Corporate Communications at Rogers, this week, and it turns out they may not have been so totally mistaken with the plans offered after all. First month stats show that 1.2% of iPhone customers used more than 1GB of data in the first four weeks, 95% used less than 500MB, and 91.2% used less than 100MB. Considering the original plans were as high as 400MB per month, it would seem they would have served the northern populace quite handily.

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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA

Nokia’s slim and slick E71 has been touted — OK, rumored, but we’re hopeful — to have its eyes set on the number two GSM provider in Canada, FIDO. While no pricing info is being bandied about, the “news” does see it landing during the November timeframe. Rogers, FIDO’s parent company and only GSM competition — at least for now — has apparently passed on this little QWERTY gem, though these kind of stories do change with time. Look for more news once we get something a tiny more tangible.

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Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson

Rumors of the XPERIA X1 being delayed to 2009 have been floating around forever, and the chatter’s only gotten louder at IFA — to the point where Sony Ericsson’s been forced into damage-control mode for a second time, telling Reuters that “there is absolutely no delay” and that the company’s first WinMo phone is “on target” to “roll out in Q4.” That’s not quite the “second half of 2008″ SE’s been saying since the X1 was announced, but it’s still in the window — and given the half-baked nature of the devices we got to play with at IFA, we’d say taking a little extra time to get things right isn’t the worst idea in the world, even it means missing that rumored October Vodafone release date.

[Via WM Power User]

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Filed under: Handsets

After what feels like centuries of waiting (and suffering through that painful CeBIT demo), we finally get to see the Meizu M8’s OS in action… and it’s not as bad as you think. Sure, the interface is totally derivative of the iPhone, and there’s that pesky cursor floating around, but all-in-all it looks like the company has managed to knock out a decent — if incredibly familiar — UI for its long-delayed phone. Still, there’s some low rent hilarity in this video. Our favorites? The smattering of soft porn pictures and video, and Meizu CEO and all-around bon vivant Jack Wong revealed in a reflection… wearing a face mask! Check the clip after the break (and freeze frame of Mr. Wong).

Update: Despite our excitement about Jack Wong in a face mask, some readers have pointed out (and we agree) that it’s actually the camera he’s using to film the video.

[Thanks, Patrick P.]

Continue reading A functional Meizu M8 UI, CEO Jack Wong finally caught on video

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