I recently caught up with an old friend, RogersDude69 , and had a long conversation about retail and smartphones.

Rogers have been pretty active in the social media space with a wide variety of Twitter accounts and now an official blog . It reminds me of a lot of what RIM are doing with their official blogs and Twitter accounts.

Rogers have launched a new One Rate Roaming plan which is going to be really beneficial for anyone who travels to the US . For an extra $10 more per month than most Rogers regular domestic data plan rates, customers can now sign up for One Rate plans which allows them to use data in the U.S.

BBCool reader Michael S. writes in to say that page 2&3 of the March 1st issue of Canadian Business shows the BlackBerry Storm2 and within the ad says “See all there is to see with BlackBerry Storm smartphones from Rogers…” We’ve been hearing about the Storm series coming to Rogers for some time now, and it would be great to finally get this device. On the other hand, it could be the ad department is lazy and switched out “Verizon” for “Rogers” without thinking.

Our good friend RogersDude69 sent over some pics of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in white, which has recently arrived at Rogers retail outlets. It’s a shame that Rogers haven’t updated the software for the device, and that it’s running OS 4.6.1.290 out of the box. There isn’t all that much to say here other than white definitely suits this device

By now, you may have come across SAM and MO BlackBerry .

Dataoutages.com are reporting that Rogers and RIM have a planned outage on January 17th between 2AM and 6AM EDT .

When we first posted impressions of the BlackBerry Curve 9700 , we asked BlackBerry Cool readers what they would like to know about the device. We have taken some time to post more pictures of this device, and answer some of your questions. Albert: Does the T-Mobile HSPA Bold support more than 1700 AWS band for 3G

Gotta love carriers and their late night website updates.

The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is a really decent device for those that want a powerful BlackBerry, but are looking for something smaller and more modern that the Bold 9000. We have taken a look at the T-Mobile version of the device, and to our knowledge there isn’t much different with the Rogers version.