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I do hope something comes of the PRIMUS wimax tests. There have been whispers in the news that devices are going to have combination LTE/Wimax chips, and Wimax seems like a tech far more open to competition (I could be very wrong about this).

Sadly, that $30 for 1GB deal from rogers actually ends up being something more like $72 after all of the charges are added in. In anticipation of an N810, I stopped in a rogers store and had a sales rep run down the options for tethering a device to a phone which is where this number comes from. It assumes that you get rogers lowest plan, and purchase the phone yourself.

The price is lower for the USB dongle data-plan, but I'm not sure if you're tied to using the dongle for this service or if you can activate your own device. Knowing rogers, something tells me that the customer is restricted to the dongle, which would make this less than ideal for an HSPA enabled tablet. Of course, my intuition could be wrong.

Either way, it's still extremely expensive, which is why I'd love to see widespread wimax from added service providers. More competition means saner prices.



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Actually, Nokia dwarfs Apple in sheer size, they would have considerable clout...

I find it somewhat sad that I'll be (hopefully!) getting this amazing new device later this year, and I won't be able to use it the way it was designed, because I'm not giving into Godfather Rogers and his Mobile Mafia.

I thought I'd seen somewhere the other day that Bell or Telus had a really good rate for their USB dongle data plans... which is what we're looking for in terms of the new device as far as I understand, since the USB dongles act as data only devices, one assumes that a tablet which supposedly won't have any voice capabilities would fall into the same category (this is different from things like the iPhone where you're looking for voice + data capabilities). I could be wrong, but I thought the USB sticks were just data devices with a SIM card in 'em, so by that right hopefully you could just get one from whoever, pull the sim out of it and slap it into the new Nokia... I know it'll never be that easy, but one can dream...

It is that easy, the problem is that Bell and Telus are cdma and not gsm, and I assume the Maemo 5 devices are gsm, requiring a SIM.... Am I in left field here?

Maybe not... (I just saw this.)

The last time I was out your way was about 3 years ago. I had my Nextel iDEN handset and had coverage from VC to Kamloops and it picked up again in Jasper all the way out to Rainbow Lake.
If I made a voice call I got charged whatever the Telus/MiKE agreement with Nextel was. However just like in the states, I could access the internet with the phones browser all day and not be charged anything...

This was before I had my N800. Now I BT tether to my phone and again, no charge for usage. The connection is slow @ 19.2 but it works well for my needs. >> http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=14059

Now I'm thinkin' Boost mobile uses the same network and technology. I would buy one of >>these<< @ only $59 (real dollars ) and give it a try. If it doesn't work you could sell it on e-bay for a $10 loss...

If it does work, you'd be rockin' dude.

Just stumbled on something interesting. It looks like you can buy a brand new N800 for a little over $300 at TigerDirect.ca... No, that's not a great price, but still, it is a brand new N800!

EDIT: Expansys.ca has N810s for a not-spectacular price ($317), too: N810 at expansys.ca