Rogers now blowing out Dreams and Magics for $79.99 on contract

Hey, T-Mobile, allow us to hit you up with some knowledge, if you would. Take a quick gander up north of the border, where our dear friends on Rogers have reduced both the Dream (your G1) and the Magic (your myTouch 3G) to just $79.99 on a three-year deal -- and that's in Canadian dollars, which works out to $74 in greenbacks. Granted, yes, we understand that a three-year deal is a full 12 months longer than an old-fashioned American two-year deal, but still, you're going to have to forgive us if we start working on our visa applications. Coincidentally, we know there's a version of the Hero kicking around that'd work swimmingly on Rogers; we don't mean to start any rumors, but... oh heck, who are we kidding, of course we're trying to start rumors.

[Thanks, Ilia]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 10th 2009 4:12PM]

Nah I would rather pay more upfront for the equipment then be stuck in a contract.

[Taknarosh Posted Aug 10th 2009 4:26PM]

Man, HTC Hero in Canada PLEASE, the wait is killing me!

[johnkzin Posted Aug 10th 2009 4:27PM]

How much to get them unlocked? Since Rogers uses the same 3G bands as AT&T, this might be a way to get the G1 on AT&T...

[Taknarosh Posted Aug 10th 2009 4:30PM]

On ebay and some sellers on some Canadian forums I've read the price of the G1 is around $500CAD. Yes it would work perfectly on AT&T Networks.

[POZ Posted Aug 10th 2009 5:20PM]

Tmoble isnt going to knock prices down because canada is... if you want that deal, move.

[Wally Posted Aug 10th 2009 6:08PM]

Three years, and you will get your eyes poked out for the amount of money that you will be paying.

[Zodiac Posted Aug 10th 2009 8:06PM]

Who the heck would buy this when one could get an iPhone for $99!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 10th 2009 9:57PM]

Rogers has not reduced the price of its HTC devices by even one cent: they're still both still $599 on a contract-free basis. All that they are doing is increasing the incentive for you to lock in for 3 years. They are scared about competition coming in September from Telus and Bell, and want to imprison as many of their customers as possible right now. If you're smart, you won't fall for these shiny baubles, since there are going to be lots of better deals in just a month or two.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 12th 2009 1:54AM]

Then why did they only lower the price on these two android phones, while they didn't touch the price of their Blackberries / WM / iPhones?

Clearly the price cut is related to upcoming Android models, not Bell / Telus.

Rogers way overestimated the demand for Android. They probably read too much Engadget. They thought these things would fly off the shelves and they haven't been able to move them at all. This is the 2nd price cut we've seen in 2 months. It launched for $149 just in June, and it's about half price now.

Hopefully they'll focus on getting some new WM models when they actually launch, not 6 months to a year later like they did with the Diamond and the X1.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 11th 2009 12:10PM]

its about to go down to 29.99

[Taknarosh Posted Aug 11th 2009 12:16PM]

BestBuy and Futureshop also carry the phones for $49.99.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10124930&catid=26372
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10124930&catid=28565