IPhone 3G (in Canada!!)

Since it is all the rage in internet postings, and partly because tech gadgets are a personal passion of mine, I’ve decided to put in my two cents on the matter at hand — even though it really doesn’t have to do with anything.

So the announcement arrived June 9th (was there ANYONE out there who cares about this stuff but wasn’t silently yet fidget-edly waiting for the WWDC conference?). The big day is going to be July 11th. Partly disappointing, yet partly relieving — the former because a month seems so impossibly far away, and the latter because now I can set clear sights on a concrete date. Blah blah blah, new features (GPS! 3G!)

What made me almost pee in my pants this morning was finding out that you could purchase the iPhone from both Rogers AND Fido. I’m not really quite sure how many Fido users there are out there in our massive Canadian world (ha.) but this news is absolutely euphoria-inducing in its message for this select group. I’m sure many Fido subscribers would agree that Fido has always been lacking in their selection of devices for their customers (how many of you have just sat there while sleeker, prettier, more advanced phones whizzed by you and was available to all three other carriers in Canada while you were still punching away at those clunky 1999-esque keys on a phone double the size of the average cell phone on the market??).

Obviously this was the clear way to go to reach out to the largest market out there possible (yes, DEAL with the fact that the conglomerates are going to be making loads of money off you). Was Rogers (who owns both Rogers and Fido –common knowledge) unaware of this simple economic fact? Did they really not realize that they could *gasp* sell MORE phones and make more money by making it available to a wider market? Why did it take Apple to, well for lack of better words, clonk the Rogers people over the head hard enough so that they finally realized this fact?

I guess it doesn’t really matter anyways, seeing that now that I know Fido will be offering the phone, it eliminates 75% of my hesitation in purchasing one once it becomes available. I guess the days ahead will be filled with constant internet searches for new information regarding how the prices will look and what kind of data plan will be offered so that I can add on to my ever-increasing phone bill.

As a parting note, please stop harassing us on flights. I do NOT have to answer any personal questions. You acting sleazy will not get you in my good books. It just means I will probably wait longer to answer your call light.