Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Total 707 USD including tax/shipping/brokerage but it got lost in usa post for a couple day

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Not bad! The gift receipt was a nice touch as well.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

anyone receive one from Newegg.ca yet ... looks like a very good CA$680 all-in, BUT I wonder about any additional UPS/duty charges???

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I'm so confused... You originally posted:

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I know It's a bit confusing. It's difficult to get a phone in this 3rd world country (canada) I paid 727 - 50(Nokia rebate) +gst/qst around 30$ so it is around 707 usd. GST/QST was lower then regular because I agree with the seller that he put value at 250usd on the package

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Anyone got a good working phone? Mine keeps rebooting.. I have checked a lot of post talking about random reboots. I just hope this is something that can be fixed

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I've been playing with mine for a few hours now... seems to work great.
I can talk on my cell plan, not yet on my SIP (nobody heard anybody after picking up) but overall it rocks.

The recorder program doesn't work either, go figure... More news tomorrow i guess :-)

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Ok, so you didn't have to pay any extra brokerage fees, or that included the brokerage fee?

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

nop, that was everything i had to pay. (typing from n900!)

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I can't wait to get this, I have an E71 and I was looking for the N97, and I decided to search a bit more ''just to see if there was something else that is better'' and I found the N900!!!
I know someone who's on a trip in the virgin islands in USA and I asked him to get me one is he sees one... Im wondering if there are N900's in the virgin islands? lol
At least, if he doesn't get it, I think I'll order from newegg not later than this week !!!

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Btw, i've been trying some EDGE over Fido and got 15k/sec average over an apt-get update and around 18k/sec over a wget of the latest kernel...

Though typing over ssh is responding in the second, you still get a feel the latency is not so good...

EDIT:
Now i got to fix my SIP/asterisk setup (can't here myself in the echo test) and then test over EDGE (it's going to be horrible haha ;) ).

So i can call my echo test, here the message, type # to stop it, but it never hears me and thus send back anything... any idea?
(Yeah, i ll go check the asterisk thread ;) )

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

After all this bad news I keep reading, I'm wondering if I should keep mine.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Waiting patiently on expedited shipping of my N900 from newegg.ca

Been waiting so long for something like this.

Never used Maemo before though... but since it's Debian based, I think I might like it :rolleyes:

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I'm on Vancouver Island, BC. I pre-ordered mine through MobileCityOnline.com and received in on Monday (Dec 7). I'm on the Fido network and just moved over the SIM card from my Sony-Ericsson phone to the N900 and bingo, it works!

I do not have a Fido data plan and at Canadian prices, I won't be getting one. There are lots of WiFi hotspots around and the N900 seems to work very well on my WLAN.

However, the main reasons I got the N900 are:
1. Want to integrate my phone, Palm Pilot (now dead), Sansa Fuze music player, Garmin GPS and a farily decent always-with-me camera into ONE really solid device. WiFi is gravy.
2. Sony-Ericsson PDA features are terrible and the camera is pathetic. So this had to be replaced.
3. I liked the open development platform since I'm originally a software developer.
4. I don't like carriers locking/crippling my phone.

Hence...the N900.

Biggest likes so far...
- the screen is awesome
- the physical design quality is very good

Biggest gripe so far...
- the Maps app doesn't function without a data connection, which makes it pretty useless to me as a hiking/geocaching tool. Why not let me download and install all the maps for North American, like my Garmin?

Cheers!

Brad

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Globalive and Wind back in business immediately!!! Hee Haw.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Wind is back in business! This is incredible news! I'll be ordering mine as soon as newegg gets them back in stock.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/sto...ment-crtc.html


YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Doh...you beat me to it. K, I'll post another article about it then. :)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...rticle1396853/

Good news for Canadians!

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Excellent news indeed. Finally our Government doing the right thing. Now, who will be the first with a Wind SIM card?!

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I work right by the Eaton Centre, I'm getting it first.......

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I really wonder if Wind will have an agreement with Vidéotron to sell locally and for Vidéotron to do the same nationally... Which wouldn't make much sense for either uhm.

Probably just a roaming agreement, but then, if it's "free" I could get a plan/sim online and use it... I'm really eager to see both start operating a real network!

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I'm late in the news, what's SO nice about this wind mobile? Why should you get a Wind SIM card instead of, let's say, a rogers sim card?
Please help the noob. :)

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Support for 3G on your N900 ;-)

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

AH! Well, that would be great haha! But I still have a 2 year agreement with rogers :(
Will Wind mobile work in quebec? Montreal, etc...? Can we know what plans they will have? I heard somewhere that Wind won't work in quebec :(
If it's nice, I'll just break the agreement :)

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Does that mean that the Wind just broke? :)

And this announcement comes on xmas bonus day...how fitting! N900 here I come!

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Nop, won't, check the montreal thread i guess but still, it'll push competitive price across the country (i hope).

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Yeah, I suppose... Service providers have different plans depending on the province where they are, but I also think it'll bring a lot of competition... Is EDGE really that bad on the N900? Can you watch a video on youtube without it being choppy? Is instant messaging fast enough, and can you browse on facebook easily?
P.S. Sorry for all the questions, that's all I can do until I get mine, but newegg is out of stock :( haha

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

It might eventually, but it looks like it will start in Toronto and Calgary first. Then extend to other cities.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Edge is not that bad it is about 50% of 3G speed but wifi is faster than 3G so if you have wifi that best, and by the way a youtube video is choppy on wifi the sound is ok the video is not steady. That is on Wifi so on 3g maybe it is more chopy.

It think with the news of wind Rogers will a pressure to use their 1700 frequency

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

my youtube plays smooth ?

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Yesss yesssss today is a good day folks.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I love competition, Video on youtube is choppy because its still on Flash player 9.4 I believe, once it gets updated should be ok

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

The YouTube resolution probably matters too. The older 320x240 videos would likely be smoother than some of the newer hi-res videos that YouTube is apparently now favoring.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

I want my N900 :'( please guys apologize with me hahaha!
My bro is currently in the virgin islands in the USA and I asked him to get me one I pray he will find one :P Please encourage me, do you think there can be N900 somewhere in the virgin islands?????

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

woot, i can finally have 3G on my cell

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Btw, didn't test this much, but playing youtube fullscreen was super smooth while it was choppy not FS... try it :-)

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Just got off the phone with a Wind representative at one of the Kiosks in the Blockbusters they have, he told me that initially they won't be selling a plan with a SIM card only, so he says your going to have to get the phone with it. So either you have to wait or just buy the phone then resell it to someone else on Craig's list or get the phone as a present to a family member, wife wouldn't mind the new BlackBerry 9700 they offer.

But anything can change in 72 hours, I pleaded with the guy that there are alot of people like us, who have phones (Nokia N900) that are compatible already with the system and just want the SIM card, I told him to contact his district manager and relay that information to him. If enough of us call we'll show interest for them to just sell the SIM cards. Here are their phone numbers.

647-260-1402 Danforth Ave. Blockbuster Kiosk

647-260-1403 Liberty Village Blockbuster Kiosk

If we work as a community this will get done.3

Thanks Guys

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Oh man, bummer about not being able to get a Wind SIM card.

There's still no sign of a live 3G network in Vancouver anyway, so <shrug> whatever.

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Wow, that's utterly stupid... what are they thinking?
It's not like they are making money off the phones...

Can't wait to see how Vidéotron is going to disappoint in a similar way now haha ;-)

Re: N900 in Canada (Toronto)
 

Hahahah! Good to see the big guys sweat a little...

Montreal Gazette article:

and finally,