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Motorola Q 9h and Samsung JACK Offered by Fido

- Two new WM smartphones for Canada

By: Florin Troaca, Communications News Editor

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Fido Solutions, wholly owned subsidiary of Roger Wireless, announced the availability of Motorola Q 9h and Samsung JACK for its Canadian subscriber. The new devices are both running on Windows Mobile 6 and will bring 3G speed mobile browsing, unlimited personal emails and advanced business functionality. Fido customers will be able to create, view, edit and share Microsoft Office documents, send and receive unlimited emails from a maximum of 5 email accounts (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and other POP3/IMAP accounts included), as well as easily access popular websites like MySpace and Facebook.

"The typical Fido customer is a hip and young professional," said Patrick

Hadsipantelis, VP, Marketing, Fido. "They are social urbanites who are constantly on the go and need to stay close to friends and colleagues. The addition of the Windows Mobile 6 devices to our portfolio offers our customers tremendous value in terms of unlimited emails and the ability to access information and content that is relevant to them, whenever and wherever they are."

Motorola Q 9h (also known as Motorola Q9) is a quad-band GSM/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and quad-band HSDPA (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) device that provides data transfer speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps. The handset comes with a 2.4 inch, 320 x 240 pixels TFT display, a full QWERTY keyboard, 5-way navigation button, Opera browser, Music player, Windows Media Player, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0, 2 Megapixel camera with flash and video (30 fps) and so on. The phone measures 118 x 6.7 x 41.8 mm, weighs 118 grams and should provide a talk-time of up to 3 hours and a stand-by time of up to 10 days.

Samsung JACK is actually Samsung BlackJack II (or Samsung i617) and it offers quad-band GPRS/EDGE and tri-band UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, a 2.4 inch screen (320 x 240 pixels), full QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, 2 Megapixel camera with video, WAP 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0, embedded games and so on. Measuring 114 x 60.9 x 12.8 mm and weighing 115 grams, Samsung JACK can provide up to 2.5 hours of talk-time and up to 250 hours of stand-by time.

Motorola Q 9h is available for $275, while Samsung JACK comes for $225, both with a three-year Fido contract plus Windows Mobile option.

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Comment #1 by Mike on 2008-03-01, 18:06 GMT

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Who is Rogers/Fido kidding with pricing the Motorola Q9 at $525 (no contract) and $275 (with 3 years contract) and also the Samsung BlackJack at $425 (no contract) $225 (with 3 years contract)?

I can get the same phone from eBay, UNLOCKED with extra stuff and free accessories (eg. Car Charger, SD Memory and etc..) for ONLY $299 for the Motorola Q9 and $199 for the Samsung BlackJack plus shipping cost.

For $525 I can go buy myself an Unlocked Apple iPhone or an HTC TYTN II with Standalone GPS, 3G and WiFi.

I can't wait for T-Mobile, AT&T, Orange and other American and European GSM providers to come to Canada and kick Rogers out of business.

Check out the contract pricing for UK customers at www.orange.co.uk they are offering FREE HTC Touch and HTC Touch Dual or BlackBerry 8320. What do you get from Fido for FREE if you sign a 3 YEARS contract?..... emmm.. let me check www.fido.ca .. NOTHING! Absolutely nothing for FREE even with a 3 years contract. Well, if you pay $10 then you may get a Nokia 6070 which is probably worth NOTHING!

Basically Rogers/Fido is not discounting their phone to keep their customers on a long term contract. Why? Well because you have NO OTHER OPTIONS.

I would have done the same if I were Ted Rogers, knowing that there is no compatition in my GSM World Business in the country. So let's charge people whatever we like! In fact lets milk them as much as we can!!! What are you going to do? I will buy you... just like I bought Fido! or the SkyDome. I will buy CN Tower and change the name to Rogers Tower or may be Niagara Falls and call it Rogers Falls, Why not buy the country and call it Rogers Land or something. Lets change the flag and put Rogers Logo in the middle. So selfish that didn't wanted to come up with a creative name for the company... I mean Orange, Fido, etc... they are sound cool. but I WANT MY NAME... EVERYTHING IS MINE. WOOAHA HA HA...

Unlimited plan??? Hell NO. Why would we give people UNLIMITED something when they are paying hundreds a months for their current bill and they have no other options!

Hey T-Mobile, Orange, AT&T and other GSM companies out there... Canada is waiting for you. Millions of people are waiting for you to have their business. We are all ready to take our business from Rogers to go elsewhere. Show us WHERE?

Reply #1.1 by Rebecca on 2008-03-10, 11:08 GMT
Wait are other american phone companies actually coming to Canada

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