TELUS rumored to launch the MILESTONE on the 18th

By on Feb 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM
Rumor February 4, 2010

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Canadian Android aficionados who wait with bated breath for TELUS to release the Motorola MILESTONE might soon be able to breathe easy if a new rumor has any truth to it. According to the folks over at MobileSyrup, TELUS recently sent out a memo its employees that the MILESTONE will make its debut on February 18th with pre-orders at Best Buy starting as soon as the 5th. Pricing wasn’t mentioned, but it’s looking as if the MILESTONE start at $199 and max out at $549 without contract. Pretty damn tempting, eh?

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  • http://www.twitter.com/1MoreNarcissist Kyle

    If I’d had this info 3 weeks ago, I would have waited for it.

    • http://palfrei.blogspot.com palfrei

      I was about to buy an Omnia 1 and the evening before going to buy it I read here about Motorola’s releasing it as Droid, so I decided to wait [for as long as it would take]. Luckily, for the first time I’ve been aware of, my carrier Personal Argentina, got it only two or three weeks after its USA launch [usually it takes for my country's carriers from 6 months on to get a new phone after its world release]. Now, I’m a quite happy Milestone owner and Android user before several first-world people [you might think my attitude is lame but Argentina holds the record for cellphone market growth in Latin America and it was really nice from Motorola to consider us important enough to release their flagship phone in our land way before other more "established" markets.

      I decided to wait just as you would have done and it payed.

      The only regret I have with this phone is that no matter how awesome the Milestone is, its physical keyborad is below par even though I love having the chance to use it [a so so keyboard is better than no keyboard at all].

  • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

    I thought that phone was called the Droid?

    • http://twitter.com/ConstantineXVI Andrew

      Verizon’s the only carrier using the DROID branding. All other carriers call it the Milestone.

      • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

        Why as a company would you allow a carrier to change your phones name?

      • Dara

        With all of the concessions that some phone makers give to carriers, a name change is pretty minor.

      • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

        I understand a some give and take but you are not remaning my product. Hell, a company isn’t naming my product. What, next they are going to tell me how to price it?

      • mike

        Most phone names are given by carriers.

    • StevenGlansburg

      No Droid is what Verizon called this phone and heavily it advertised as. So much so that even people don’t know that there are other Android phones (Hero, Mytouch, etc) on other carriers.

      • red014

        Something tells me that’s the result they were going for.

    • Ausfest

      I like the name Milestone better than Droid. Great phone though. I am very happy with mine. No issues what so ever.

  • Vik

    Is this the CDMA version or will it have the 850/1900 bands for AT&T 3G?

    • pat

      the milestone is the gsm version

    • Martin

      It will have the AT&T 3G bands as it’s supposed to run on the new Telus 3G UMTS/HSPA/HSDPA network.

      Rumor has it that it will ship with 2.0.1 CA localized OK which would mean no root possibilities (for now at least).

      • Martin

        That was supposed to be localized OS not OK.

      • Mrwirez

        The German, Brazilian, and Italian Milestones were rooted as well as the Droid and N1.. It will be rooted, they all are eventually.

      • Martin

        True but the key difference is in HOW they were rooted. The Milestone root relied on a bug in part of the OS that loads updates. This bug has been patched in 2.0.1 so any phone that comes with 2.0.1 stock is not rootable at the moment. The other two phones were rooted by either signing custom (hacked) updates so the phone will install them or by unlocking the bootloader so the phone will install unsigned updates. The Milestone cannot install unsigned updates and updates cannot be signed since we don’t have the private keys (damn you Motorola).

        So, you may well be correct that they’ll root it eventually but there’s not guarantee as the current method does not work on newer OS versions.

  • Bated

    I think it’s “bated” breath, no?

  • Mrwirez

    The non US Motorola Milestone comes with multitouch pinch-zoom integrated, but Google maps is not, at least in Europe and Brazil. I am not sure about Canada… All is well with a rooted device though!

    Example: I am currently running my Droid overclocked at 1GHz with a glass theme, multitouch, tethering, and all the crap factory apps removed. ;)

    ” The rumored price is $199 on a 3-year contract and $549 outright “… I would buy this outright..

    Telus, 3 Year contract?? WOW… No way.

    • Martin

      Problem is the Milestone is not easily rootable right now and this one may not be at all due to shipped OS version.

      It’s definitely not as hackable as the Droid so most of the cool things people can do with the Droid you can’t do with the Milestone.

      • Mrwirez

        @Martin
        Is there a difference between the Canadian and the European/South American OS, besides the languages?

      • Martin

        I believe so. I know that flashing a UK or HK OS onto a South American Milestone disables any 3G functionality as they support different 3G bands. As for other differences all we really know is that the each region’s OS has slightly different build versions etc. We also know that there are keyboard configuration differences between say France and UK.

        The major applications and such appear to be the same but there are definitely small differences that could prove to be difficult to work around. What I’m gathering for now is that we may not be able to simply switch OSes from different locales.

      • i dont know about that

        That sounds pretty ridiculous…I dont think i believe that at all.

      • i dont know about that

        And there is a lot that Milestone does that droid dont.

      • jason ip

        such as?

      • Martin

        You don’t have to believe me. Search around the development community and you’ll find plenty of detailed information about people trying to root, update and hack the Milestone. The methods used for the Droid and N1 don’t work for the Milestone. They may find workarounds in the future but as of right now, the Milestone is fairly locked down and tied to Moto.

        As for what the Droid does that the Milestone does not, I assume you’re referring to the multitouch in browser and other apps. And that’s all it is, different app versions. It has little to nothing to do with the actual core of the OS. All those apps have been ported to the Droid and you don’t even need root to use them (you can install them cleanly over the orignal versions with root but you don’t have to do that).

  • http://www.fullchipdesign.com fcd@fullchipdesign.com

    Milestone!

  • Peter Cuevas

    One question, is the Milestone the Droid?…Are they the same thing?

    • DJ Megatron

      Yes they are in act the same thing. Verizon calls it the Motorola Droid, but elsewhere in the world it is known as the Milestone. The only difference may lie in the what the firware is.

      • DJ Megatron

        Wooops, meant to say in Fact the same thing.

      • LaToya (AKA Digital Nightmare)

        And what kind of technology used…the DROID is CDMA, while this is GSM/HSPA.

      • DJ Megatron

        Doh, thanks for that, forgot to mention that in my earlier comment.

  • Mrwirez
    • Mrwirez

      I did not post this … see the icon I use.. Don’t be a tool..
      miguel alvarez is the real troll..

  • Mistro

    I’m going to have a hard time finding an unlocked version that matches the $549 price tag. I really want this on at&t as their coverage is practically the same as Verizon in my area plus the 3G speed boost and the roll over minutes.

  • Miguel Alvarez

    Why do I feel lime I’m talking to myself? Anyone??

  • miguel alvarez

    Not to say anything bad about Firefox, because that’s what I used to use and it’s a great browser! Internet explorer is by far the best!! God I’m so confused??

  • miguel alvarez

    I love to suck a big fat cock. Latoya is my lover.

    • LaToya (AKA Digital Nightmare)

      I wouldn’t have you miguel alvarez.

      • I screwed LaToya’s Mom

        Damn being rejected by LaToya must be a good thing…

        Fuck gays anyways

  • mi_canuck

    Forget the Milestone… I’m eagerly waiting the Nexus Two…

    http://gizmodo.com/5458842/motorola-confirms-they-are-working-on-a-google-phone

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