If you’ve been reading any of my posts over the past year you may notice that I have an affinity for Apple’s very cool, yet overpriced devices. Like my iPods before it, the iPhone is no different. Like many other Canadians, I have patiently waited for the past year for the killer device to arrive here in the “Great White North”. In June Steve Jobs finally announced that we (Canada) would get the iPhone along with 22 other countries this July 11th.
Suffice it to say I was a little excited. I saw the device as a great productivity tool for our company, allowing us to: take meeting notes, display page proofs of designs on the go, have full email capabilities on the road, show video work to clients anywhere… you name it. But – and we all saw it coming – Rogers, the only Canadian carrier to sell the iPhone, announced their rate plans and my dream of the affordable iPhone business tool left as quickly as it came.

If you use Google Calendar to keep your appointments and to-dos in the “cloud” as we do, then keep a close eye on your email inbox because you might see some suspicious email come in.
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