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By Gary Ng on February 18th, 2008

Free Domain With $5.95 Hosting Package Since I started this blog about the iPhone in Canada in December of 2007, things have progressed along the way. When I first got my iPhone it was on firmware 1.1.1, and I had to wait two weeks for an unlock to come out. Once it was released, I…

By Gary Ng on February 9th, 2008

The wait is over! For those Canadians with 1.1.2 OTB and 1.1.3 OTB iPhones, your day has finally come! If you bought your iPhone and it came with 1.1.2 or 1.1.3 firmware out of the box, this is the guide you have been waiting for! The software unlock has been released by GeoHot (send him…

By Gary Ng on February 8th, 2008

**Win a FREE BestSkinsEver full body shield for your iPhone! Enter my contest/giveway!** If you’ve been following this blog you probably read about my post regarding changes coming to data plans from Rogers. Anyways, our best friends at Rogers have indeed come out with some changes. The one that has caught the eye of many…

By Gary Ng on February 1st, 2008

As you can probably see on the top of my blog, I have a Contact Me page. Ever since I started this iPhone blog in December of 2007, the number of emails I have received have increases everyday. Sometimes the questions ask about a specific problem with an iPhone, or some ask about my opinion…

By Gary Ng on January 27th, 2008

There has been some buzz lately that changes are coming to Rogers’ data plans. This includes prices and features, according to some of the online forums out there. Could this be a hint that they are preparing for the launch of the iPhone? It is an interesting theory, but I’m not going to get into…

By Gary Ng on January 19th, 2008

Jeez, we’re still waiting patiently for a 1.1.2 unlock, and then Apple springs the 1.1.3 firmware update on us. Forget about unlocking 1.1.2, let’s focus on 1.1.3 for today! A user from Vietnam has posted on the GSM forums that he has unlocked his 1.1.3 iPhone via a HARDWARE unlock! Yes, I said hardware–that means…

By Gary Ng on January 15th, 2008

This is the post that will matter to those still locked on a 1.1.2 iPhone. As I told you before, iPhoneTheSolution sent me a StealthSIM to review. And as I mentioned, after I post about the review I was going to give away the StealthSIM in a contest. That’s right baby, a free StealthSIM, worth…

By Gary Ng on January 5th, 2008

How Many of You Are Waiting for the 1.1.2 Unlock? Let me guess–you drove down to the USA, bought your iPhone for $399US, and are patiently waiting for the iPhone Dev Team to come out with their free 1.1.2 firmware software unlock. I can just imagine the hundreds of Canadians out there just scouring the…

By Gary Ng on December 16th, 2007

Canada has some of the most expensive data rates in the world. Remember the guy with the $85,000 phone bill?! Anyways, if you want to setup your iPhone with Rogers, make sure you’re on a data plan if you want to use mobile internet (WiFi remains free). It’s going to be expensive so get ready!…

By Gary Ng on December 15th, 2007

The 3rd party iPhone developers out there never cease to amaze me. First, a fix for my SMS voicemail notifications, and now an application to let me send MMS (multimedia messaging service) picture messages on my iPhone on Rogers via EDGE. How to setup MMS picture messaging on the iPhone with Rogers? It’s a very…