[Vanhackspace] Motorola Milestone, Rogers data plan?

[Alexandre Harvey]

okay so the one sold by mobile604 is from europe/asia. Not sure what that
means for the bootloader, anyone know if that changes if it can be rooted or
not?

Alex

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Tim Bray <tbray at textuality.com> wrote:

> Oh, and something else.  If you get a Nexus One, there are two models.
>  Inside google we call them the Passion and the Passion-A.  The "A"
> variation can do 3G on the frequencies used by AT&T & Rogers (and
> hardly anyone anywhere else in the world), and is hard to get, they've
> just started being shipped.  -T
>
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Alexandre Harvey <alex at pixelfactor.ca>
> wrote:
> > Anyone know if the ones from mobile604.com are American or Canadian
> > unlocked? That maybe a way to get an American unlocked unit. Been
> > considering getting one myself for the past few weeks.
> >
> > As for the whole keyboard debate, I would only add that a keyboard can be
> > nice since it can give you back some screen real estate while typing, say
> at
> > a ssh shell, or at least that is my current thought and one of the
> reasons
> > I'm considering the Milestone.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Colin Keigher <colin at keyboardcowboy.ca>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Speaking based on experience, Rogers' rural coverage of HSDPA has been
> >> rather decent. I was in the middle of Shuswap Lake getting about 3 Mbit.
> >> Of course, the islands and Shuswap Lake are two different beasts, but I
> >> would take a bet on both having the same reasonable coverage.
> >>
> >> With that said, EVDO coverage out in the sticks has been rather shoddy
> >> for me. Our office has a connection in Central Vancouver Island and it
> >> works, but it will have some nasty latency and speed issues. You're
> >> going to have to roll the dice I guess.
> >>
> >> - Colin
> >> >
> >> > OK, I'd be suprised if Telus HSPA worked out there.  I'm sure CDMA
> >> > works fine, and perhaps a Telus EVDO USB modem work work out there if
> >> > they're selling them.
> >> >
> >>
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