The latest piece of info allegedly comes from a Rogers employee, who snapped us a shot of their Hardware Upgrade Sales Flow system, shown above. Here’s what he had to say about it:
It clearly shows that an 8GB 3GS has been added to our stock list and is the same price as the 3G coming in at 99$…
The first listing is showing 74.00$ (promo price with data plan and minus customers 25$ discount)
The second listing shows the phone if the customer does not choose a data plan, which is normall 299$ minus said $US25 discount, so 274$
I think that when 3G stock runs out they are going to build 99$ 3GSs since those are the parts they are ordering, might as well keep the parts list minimal…
This is the second such internal reference to a 8GB 3GS to come from Rogers in as many weeks, not to mention their recent website fiasco, where an 8GB 3GS was listed in a feature comparison chart, then deleted as “a mistake.”
Here’s what’s especially weird: When a company gets caught out like this, they usually have two main options. Either they just admit that the leak is true, or they issue a giveaway non-denial, which effectively accomplishes the same thing. Of course, there’s the third, last-ditch option, which is to just straight lie. Rogers’ denial was flat and unequivocal, but it’s totally within the realm of possibility that if the alternative is blowing a big announcement for the notoriously vindictive Apple, a company might be willing to say just about anything.
So is this really happening? On their own, none of these incidents are very convincing. But three unconnected leaks? That’s a little too much to ignore, even for a sceptic.—Thanks, Mr Rogers!