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   @the18 said: On December 19, 2009

   The worst thing is, I was an early adopter, with an understanding that Rogers had a 1 year hardware upgrade. They then changed it to two years on me, so now I'm stuck with this phone for way longer than I was hoping. I guess that's how they treat their early adopters. What a piss off.

   Going to spend some time next week rooting this thing.

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   pureimagination said: On December 20, 2009

   Just go to http://www.cyanogen.com and you can have all the donut you can handle. I love my G1 and plan on keeping it.

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   Brian Goodyear said: On December 20, 2009

   Hi. There are two other issues if you are considering Android on ROGERS are the network speed, software updates and paid apps. I have the Magic and it is an amazing phone coming from the Blackberry especially the browser and integration with Google however the 3G network with "speeds up to 7mps" is total ********* here in Montreal at least. It NEVER goes above 1.4 and most of the time it's below 1. This makes absolutely no difference for email and things of that nature but for web browsing it's marginal.

   The final stinker is that here in Canada there is NO access to paid apps in the Android App Market. Granted there are many good free apps however this lack of acccess to the other half of the app store is, to me, inexcusable. There are conflicting reports on who is responsible for this App issue but the end result for us Rogers clients is the same.

   Early adopters are often burnt it's true but it doesn't have to be so. Often times too those early adopters will turn away to greener pastures if they are not properly taken care of.

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   jeff said: On December 20, 2009

   this is crap ….I really feel for my northern neighbors …but if i were in your position i would just root the phone and put a donut rom on the phone ….there are plenty of very stable roms that offer a solution to all the problems you might have

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5. 
   Marc Lee said: On December 20, 2009

   I was an early adapter with the HTC Dream. It’s my first phone on contract with Rogers. This is a very bad development for me. I will stay away from Android devices tied to Rogers for a long long time.

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   @the18 said: On December 21, 2009

   Good idea Mark. I would stay away from Rogers for Android as well, but is there an option in Canada that won't get your screwed? I doubt it. I plan on rooting as soon as possible. Having an issue getting into the fastboot on the thing though. Just comes up with the Rogers logo forever, like they are making fun of me. Anyone else have this problem?

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   seanc said: On December 22, 2009

   Well I will say at first after reading all the reviews about the net speed I was also a bit iffy on this phone with rogers. That being said here in thunder nay Ontario you can’t complain about speeds my email and searches load fast my only complaint would have to be the fact that the phones boot time is a tad long and that the keyboard isn’t to good with larger hands. But speed wise for net I’m happy so perhaps its where you guys live?

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