the white leather backing is gonna turn yellow/brown :\

is the Rogers 9700 branded? with Rogers everywhere?

Also, I have a data plan with an iphone right now. If I bought a Rogers 9700 or unlocked 9700, do I need to change my data to a BIS plan or something? I want data, and bbm, email, etc.

Yes it does.

Only the Bell version doesn't have physical branding (at least that's the case when they first came out)

haha good point. If that happens, I could just grab another battery door for like 4 bucks off of ebay.

Only thing that's stopping me from changing the housing to white is; "is it REALLY that easy compared to the youtube videos??!"


I'm pretty sure I'll do it myself, cause I don't know / "trust" anyone to do it for me haha.

anyone have trouble removing the media card from their 9700? it's quite easy on some phones but i must have a horrible 9700 where it just wont come out! after i push down on the card, it slides up and then i can't get it over the little edge and it's killing me! i've tried everything (paper clip, paper slipped inbetween, tweezers) and it still won't budge.. can anyone help? thanks

push out really fucken hard. It wont break. After the 1st time it should be good

Just ordered my housing from sw-box.com..

take a untility knife or a small x-acto blade and slight scrap at the edge, that will "sand" or "scrape" off the edge. it happened to mine when i first got the phone, the sd card would not come out no matter how hard i pulled, then i scraped it down and now it comes it fairly easy.

it seems like from factory, some of the cases have a "lip" on the edge that will catch the sd card and prevent it from coming out.

for those still looking
Rogers..can offer free 9700 + netbook/rocketstick free as well on a 3yr!

whee!

rogers.ca still offering it at 149 with 3 year plan.. could you please provide me a link? thanks :)

Blackberry slider in action, still in beta testing though!

Newest official OS out .680

Link

^ Whats the difference?

So far, I have noticed the faster browser , startup is faster and GPS locates more quickly.

^ What about youtube? SUPER HD clear?

you guys should definitely try pwncakes' hybrid firmware, its running very solid.

^ no east asian language support

quick question for rogers users, the $15 unlimited email and im plan, it's good for emails and stuff liek bbm and msn only right? can't use stuff like facebook and google maps?

you cant bbm or msn with that plan because it requires data which is $25 a month

Uhh, yes you can. That's why it's called the unlimited e-mail and IM plan.

Anybody else has white housing?
I just ordered a set from sw-box.
I'll post impression and pictures once I have it installed.

I orderd mine about a week ago, it is in richmond right now, i'm making mine black and white :p i will take some pictures when they actually arrived and when i have it installed.

is this thing any use without a data plan? just using wifi? I used only wifi while i had an iphone. Is it comparable?

i think you can but you wont have bbm and it would be terrible to surf compared to iphone

damn =(