Our cellular providers here don’t make it easy to find out what phones they sell. I don’t know why this is; somehow they seem to think that the handset is a necessary evil, perhaps? In any case, here’s a list, based on research today, of the handsets each of the three providers has in their current stable. I’ve included GSM phones for Rogers, and PCS/CDMA phones for Telus and Aliant.
- Aliant
- Rogers AT&T
- Sony Ericsson T306
- Panasonic GD88
- Motorola T720
- Nokia 3595
- Siemens C56
- Motorola C333
- Nokia 3590
- Siemens M46
- Motorola C332
- Nokia 6310i
- Motorola V66
- Motorola V101
- Nokia 8390
- Motorola Timeport 7382i
- Sony Ericsson T68i
- Motorola V60
- Motorola V70
- Palm? Tungsten? W
- Motorola 280
- Motorola T193
- Handspring Treo 270
- Telus Mobility
Obviously Rogers has the greatest variety of phones. Aliant seems to, inexplicably, have phones that seem like they come from the bottom of the “hot and sexy” barrel. Telus comes up the middle. Only Rogers offers a Bluetooth-enabled phone (the t68i). None of the providers offers any information about how to source phones elsewhere and have them enabled on their network.
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I brought a cell phone from
I brought a cell phone from AT&T back to PEI, and got it set up on my own after Googling some programming instructions and getting IslandTels network info. Watch out! After changing the carrier code 4 or five times my phone is now blocked and cost more to reset than to buy new.
I would love to see a cell phone system that is P2P and requires no activation other than to hop around all active cellphones, unless you wanted a land line, that would cost 25 cents. For local calls this would work since cell phones can just link directly within so many kilometres, otherwise like in the country you could jump onto a network when you needed to. It would be like default FRS with your cell phone.
Yer talkin’ ham radio Ken!
Yer talkin’ ham radio Ken! Strap one of them puppies on everyone’s backs. That’ll fix it.
I am KC5RQSWhat about making
I am KC5RQS
What about making all of Canada a local call, let’s get behind that regional equalizer. Also it is a social equalizer, since even poor people could afford to call Ottawa. You could call it The Telecom Reform act of 2004.
I’m making the web page now.
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