Okay, I take back 13% of all the bad things I’ve ever said about Rogers. The Social Media Rep for Rogers/Fido, Keith McArthur, has unleashed the following today via Twitter:

• Both Rogers Wireless and Fido will offer iPhone 3GS starting June 19. [link]
• Rogers/Fido pricing is $199 for 16GB iPhone 3GS; $299 for 32GB iPhone 3GS on a three-year voice and data plan. [link]
• 8GB version of the iPhone 3G will drop to $99 on June 19 at Rogers and Fido with a three-year voice and data plan. [link]
• Rogers is reintroducing the $30/6GB data plan for iPhones effective tomorrow, June 9. Offer available for a limited time. [link]
• Rogers/Fido are only national carriers to offer $25/500MB plan. 93% of iPhone users use less than 500MB so this is the right plan for most. [link]

You stand on guard for me. Well done, sirs!

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Rogers to Sell iPhone 3G S in Canada, Same Day, Price as US

Lots of smartphones have lots of features, and as Steve Jobs has said in the past — many people don’t even know about them, much less use them.

With the original iPhone, Apple popularized mobile web browsing, and the iPhone 3G too that to previously unseen levels (and AT&T has the data network woes to prove it). The App Store made getting and using mobile applications so ridiculously easy that 50,000 now fill the store and over 1 billion have been downloaded.

So now Apple is set to take on mobile video.

Like previous efforts, mobile video isn’t new. Many smartphones have been able to shoot video for many years. Likewise, the Flip Mino and similar pocket video camera have become media darlings. But as with most things Apple, the iPhone 3G S is set to make shooting, editing, and sharing videos not only more convenient, but easier and likely more popular than ever.

Think about it: the video camera will be with you everywhere you have a phone. It will be constantly connected. And it will be integrated with not only MMS and MobileMe, but with the 800lbs gorilla of video — YouTube.

Hey, dad, here’s your son making that soccer goal 5 min ago. Hey, sis, I just Steve Jobs just totally ordered a smoothy at whole foods! Hey, air force, here’s that flying saucer that keeps buzzing my cattle ranch!

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iPhone 3G S — Apple Delivers Mobile Video to the Masses

In one of the more impressive demonstrations during the iPhone 3G S introduction, Apple showed off a new feature — Voice Control.

To activate it, you hold down the “home” button (previously reserved for “force quit”). When you hear the sound, you’re good to speak!

It can be used to make a call by saying either the name or number. Voice Control will repeat what you say for confirmation.

It can also be used to tell the iPod app to play a song, play a playlist, shuffle, activate Genius, or even tell you what song is currently playing.

Most impressive? It will be available in a ton of languages! (See full list after the break!)

• Chinese (Cantonese)
• Chinese (Mainland)
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch (Belgian)
• Dutch (Netherlands)
• English (Australian)
• English (UK)
• English (U.S.)
• Finnish
• French (Canada)
• French (France)
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish (Mexico)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish

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Apple Demonstrates Voice Control for iPhone 3G S

Although humorous for the crowd attending the WWDC Keynote today, when Apple VP of iPhone Software, Scott Forestall, announced MMS and Tethering, AT&T being deferred until later this summer on the first count, and totally glossed over on the second count, likely won’t be as amusing for US iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S owners who will miss out on fairly standard functionality other carriers and regions may get on 3.0 launch come June 17.

To learn more about iPhone tethering, visit Apple’s iPhone feature page. To learn more about AT&T’s support for these features–

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AT&T — MMS Later. Tethering… Um… Er… Bai!

Apple has made the GM (gold master), or final version of iPhone 3.0 available to developers via developer.apple.com in advance of June 17th public release.

Apple VP of iPhone Software, Scott Forstall, reminded developers to download it, test against it, and if their apps didn’t work, to get updates done and fast!

WARNING: Devs are telling us that new terms and conditions need be accepted before downloading iPhone 3.0 GM, which include a warning that applying the developer build may permanently lock your device out of the commercial 3.0 release on June 17th.

If you’re not a legit developer who needs this now, more than ever — stay away!

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Apple Releases iPhone 3.0 Gold Master to Developers + WARNING!

When Tim Cook said Apple wasn’t going to leave a price umbrella for the competition, did anyone really think he meant the (as of this writing still) current 2008 iPhone 3G would sell for $99 on contract?

Of course, exact pricing will vary by region/carrier and eligibility, contract-wise. Still, if a new customer can walk in AT&T, drop $99, and walk out with a still highly functional iPhone 3G with free upgrade to 3.0…

Hot.

Who knows how long it will last, so if that’s your magic number, go get it!

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2008 iPhone 3G Now Priced to Move! $99 Starting Today!

Looks like DaringFireball.net nailed it: the S in iPhone 3G S stands for speed. Faster processors (we’re guessing both CPU and GPU in line with new ARM and PowerVR chips), new OpenGL ES 2.0 implementation (no word on OpenCL yet, which leverages GPUs and CPUs).

HSPA cell downloads are also boosted up to 7.2 Mbps, where available.

Missing in the speed-boost department, however, was any word on support for 802.11n Wi-Fi according to the Tech Specs.

Guess we’re waiting on fourth gen for that?

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iPhone 3G S - 2x Faster, but Still no 802.11n

As part of the WWDC keynote today, Apple announced new features for their MobileMe service as it pertains to the iPhone:

• Find my iPhone shows map location
• Find alerts sends text or sound to advise of lost iPhone or help find it

• Remote wipe lets you clear data from a lost iPhone, or restore it via login or iTunes

• Mobile iDisk App gives access to viewable files right on your iPhone

• File sharing lets you send links to files via email with access control
• Access public folders lets you share files on your friends’ iDisks

Like iPhone 3.0, the MobileMe updates will be available June 17.

[Thanks Cody for the tip!]

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MobileMe Update Coming June 17: Find my iPhone, Remote Wipe, iDisk Mobile, File Sharing, Public Folders

Apple VP of iPhone Software, Scott Forstall, announced during the WWDC Keynote that iPhone 3.0 (see our massive walkthrough) will be available for one and all, next Tuesday, June 17.

Ladies and gentlemen, set iTunes for download!

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iPhone 3.0 Release Date: June 17

After today’s WWDC keynote announcement of the iPhone 3G S, Apple immediately placed one of their now-famous “Guided Tour” videos online.

Check it out to see highlights of Apple’s third generation smartphone, and the exclusive features it will be offering…

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Apple Posts iPhone 3G S Guided Tour