Google Nexus One Comes to Canada

Today, Google announced via it’s Nexus One site that they will be offering an unlocked version of the phone which will work with Rogers’ network here in Canada.

The Globe and Mail has reported that the phone will also work with Wind Mobile, although as of yet there isn’t any information from Wind on this. Clues as to whether this might be true can be found on the Nexus One tech specs page, where the AWS band that Wind uses is clearly listed.

The Globe and Mail story also suggests that the Nexus One will work at full 3G speeds on Rogers and Wind (sounds right), but only at 2G and Edge speeds on the Bell/Telus network. This doesn’t seem quite right as there isn’t very much difference between the Bell/Telus 3G network and the Rogers 3G network in terms of frequencies, so maybe there is something else which crops up in this case.

It is nice to see an unlocked phone for sale directly from the (sorta) manufacturer here in Canada, one which you can take from service provider to service provider (okay maybe not due to Wind’s limited range and the possible incompatibility with the Bell/Telus network) by just dropping in a new SIM card.

If only one could get a data plan with a pay-as-you-go voice plan now.