Edword

I’m totally freaking out!  I got a text message from Rogers tonight saying that there was an update available to fix the 911 issue on my Magic. It went on to say that if not installed by the 24th of January that they would disable the devices data connection.  The thought of that made me a little queezy so I downloaded and installed it as soon as I got home.  On the first boot post install I hear a new sound coming from the phone and I look down to see a little animation of an android waving at me and thought “huh, could they have put Sense in this update”?  I wait in anticipation and holy crap, It’s all Sensed out!

Not only is it all the prettiness of Sense but get this, it’s got f’n multi touch in the gallery app as well as in the browser!  All that and it works super smooth so far.  Like I said in the beginning, I’m totally freaking out man…lol.

I wish I could play with it some more but I gotta wake up early tomorrow morning to do a little overtime, the servers are calling.  So ya, if you’re on the Magic then go get the update now!  There was also an update released for the Dream, That one won’t have the Sense UI but I’ll still install it first chance I get and report back to you with the results of that install.

Later all,
Ed.

Hello all,

HTC and Rogers have recently announced that do to memory limitations they will no longer update the HTC Dream after one more update to the 1.5 android firmware.  They have also announced that the HTC magic will continue to be developed at least as far as version 2.1 that will include HTC Sense UI, scheduled for release later this year.  I was one of the people disappointed by this being an early adopter of the platform with my purchase of a Dream handset the day it was released on June 2nd of 09 but it looks like there is some good news after all.

Looks like Rogers is going to do us all a solid and offer a free upgrade from the Dream to the Magic.  Yup, you read that right, there offering a free upgrade and they are letting you keep your Dream.  Only catch is that you will need to renew your contract out to 3 years again so this will cost you up to 7 months worth of contract.  I called in 2 days ago now and the process was super easy, I just asked to take advantage of the promotion and they said “okay, we only have the black model in stock but you should receive it in 4 to 6 days”, fine with me as the black is what I wanted.

The offer is valid from Jan 12th to Jan 26th.  To take advantage of it you can call Customer Care at 1-888-Rogers1 or online at Rogers.com, retail stores will not be able to help you with this.

Later all,
Ed.