Rogers: NAME DISPLAY with caller ID

I don't see a name displayed with a number that is not in my iPhone's address with my iPhone, which was the same with phone I was using with AT&T prior to purchasing an iPhone.

And this is the same with the business phone I use with Verizon as the provider.

Neither do I, although it seems that some people have some sort of issue with imported 'Contact' information where number-format differs in various ways between a 'Contact' and the CLI information-content.

As seems to be the case increasingly with sophisticated technology which people wish simply to take for granted, the Devil IS in the detail, wouldn't you say?

Rogers does offer name display on compatible wireless devices. Unfortunately, according to Rogers iPhone tech support, the iPhone is currently not capable of caller ID name display, only number display.

This is called Enhanced Caller ID. At least in the US, it is pretty uncommon on cellular networks and is a pricey add-on to landline service.

I wouldn't trust anything that a Rogers tech support tells you about the iPhone -- they're incompetent. If he's right, it's by pure coincidence. A wizard on Rogers tech yesterday told me that getting 15-20 hours standby on the iPhone battery is considered very good performance.

Hmmm. Depending how I use the phone, I can get between 2 to 3 days standby.

Yup I know, I've got another thread started talking about my battery problems. Long story short Apple is shipping me a new phone this week.

Got my fingers crossed that you're problem free when your new phone arrives.

Wow, I just took it for granted -- up here in Canada, if you buy caller ID, you are also likely going to buy name display. Caller ID is anywhere from $3-7 a month and name display is usually a $2 add-on to it. Name display is included in most bundles where caller ID is included, and can often be found in prepaid offers (e.g. Fido) alongside Caller ID.

One problem Rogers has that apparently AT&T doesn't, however, is the stupid text messages Rogers sends you when you get new voicemail messages. And the whocalled (missed call) notifications can also be irritating as they are sent a minute or two after every missed call, whether the phone is on or not. Both such "features" were easier for me to ignore on my old blackberry than on my new SMS conversations-style iPhone, where I have to click through four menus to mark them all as read/seen/not new.

On the plus side, I've heard people have tons of trouble with 3G in the US, while up here in Canada my 3G speeds are always fast -- fast enough for me to be listening to streaming MP3 radio or 192 Kbps podcasts and still buffer at 3x to 15x playback speeds, depending on audio quality. And sure, it's not wifi-fast, but it's still very good, and likely more reliable than early DSL was, for speed. Note, however, that I haven't yet tried using 3G in my laptop, so it may also be that I have different expectations while using the iPhone. But a bandwidth tester within FlyTunes reported the Rogers 3G network I was on was fast enough for everything short of wifi speeds, capable even of streaming video playback with quality higher than that of YouTube.

Since that test, I've been eagerly awaiting Rogers to release their cable TV service in a streaming iPhone format, or for Slingbox developers to get off their butts and release the iPhone SlingPlayer application. Either that, or Flash has got to be supported in Safari. It's killing me that this "computer" has been so artificially limited... I just want my TV on my iPhone without converting it from my TiVo using my Mac. Is that too much to ask? I already can stream MP3 and YouTube, so why not normal flash video?

Sigh.