TELUS releases the Motorola MILESTONE

By on Feb 16, 2010 at 1:24 PM
General February 16, 2010

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A huge leap forward in the Canadian smartphone world today as TELUS has started to sell the Motorola MILESTONE. The first Android handset to go on sale in Canada that’s actually capable of holding its own against the likes of the Bold 9700, iPhone 3GS and Touch Pro2, the MILESTONE goes for $199.99 on a 3-year voice and data contract with no term pricing coming in at $599.99. At these prices we can’t imagine TELUS will have a hard time selling the MILESTONE to smartphone crazed Canadians, but then again we know better than to expect Canadians to warm up to Android after the disaster Rogers had on its hands with the Dream and Magic. Anyway… Any Canadians tempted to unlock a few and sell them off to desperate AT&T users at exorbitant prices?

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  • Chris

    Gladly

  • Joe

    I’ve been considering buying a Milestone for use here in the US on T Mobile, but as it stands right now, it’s basically a guessing game as to which keyboard you’ll get on the phone. QWERTZ seems to be on the majority of Milestone’s being sold to the US from Europe currently. I know there is QWERTY devices available, but that’s a mighty expensive mistake if I don’t get the right phone! This is good news, now I just need to schlep 5 hours up to Canada to get one when it comes out. :)

    • Mrwirez

      …You do realize you won’t be able to install any new roms on the Milestone. If you are interested in rooting and installing streamlined ultra-fast roms, you can’t. Motorola digitally signed its firmware for the Milestone. With the Droid, you are free to do whatever you want. Currently I am running Bugless Beauty rom with my chip overclocked @1Ghz… It flies!

      Milestone: http://tinyurl.com/yhxrzjn

      • Joe

        I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the heads up though! But in all honesty, I’ve never cared much for rooting, although I certainly see the perks of it (overclocking specifically). I have a mate that has a rooted Mytouch 3G on TMobile and it definitely works better than the stock counterpart. I just really like the build of the Droid/Milestone. Do you think Moto will make a US GSM version when the exclusivity with VZW dies off?

      • Mrwirez

        I am not sure about the Droid specifically, It seems with the big push from Verizon, it may be an exclusive device for VW. However, Motorola and HTC are cranking out new Android handset like crazy.. I would guess something similar will be coming soon.

  • Nino

    I rather get a 1ghz plus phone. Anything else no a days is last years tech.

    You can bet the new iPhone will have 1ghz…. And everyone will make that the default.

    • Joe

      Oh, I see. 1GHz doesn’t mean shit on anything unless Apple does it. Then it becomes the standard. How stupid was I, thinking the Nexus One and HD2 were actually making the industry progress with their sweet 1GHz processors. Then again, they are pretenders. Once Apple does it, then we know it’s for real.

  • Brad

    If anyone wants to buy the Milestone online at discount from Telus at these prices:

    no contract price $509.99
    1 yr contract $459.99
    2 yr contract $409.99
    3 yr contract $109.99

    Through the Telus Team Webstore.

    email blt4424 at gmail dot com

    $15CAD paypal

    • AusFest

      Living in the US we dont have the 3 year option, but I can say after owning the Android Machine above since the release date I wouldnt hesitate to pick it up on a 3 year contract.

      • TypicalVerizonDBAG

        I’m right there with you. I’d sel my soul to Verizon for a life time contract. God do I love that great great company.

      • Mrwirez

        How about a ONE YEAR contract, or better yet, how about a Droid for cost and Verizon splits the connection fee profits with the manufacturer.. Three years is complete RAPE!

      • Michael B

        Imagine how obsolete the Milestone will be in three years. I doubt Android 5.0 (or, knowing Google’s rapid release schedule for Android, it’ll be version 12.0) will be able to run on it.

      • Celz

        Lmao I love your comments dont down rank typical

  • Geoff

    Can’t find one in Langley at all or even a dummy phone to see. If anyone knows where I can get one in Vancouver post it on here. I need it out right.

    • http://chris.olstrom.com/ Chris Olstrom

      There’s a dummy model available at Brentwood Mall in Burnaby, but no actual handset to buy.

  • Geoff

    So anyone found one to buy, other then on the telus Internet store.

    • Joe

      I’m not sure if this answers your question or not, but you can buy the Milestone via Expansys’ USA store. Like I said above though, you run the risk of getting a QWERTZ device and not a QWERTY, although I’m sure changing the language will remedy the problem.

      • http://www.eXpansys-USA.com Kevin

        I can confirm that all Milestones sold by eXpansys in the states have QWERTY keyboards. We do import some QWERTZ devices (the GSM Palm Pre). Keyboard layouts are noted in the product title so it’s clear to our visitors.

  • http://www.ProductFrom.com Kazik

    Does anybody knows where Milestone is made? I want to add it to my “made in” website: http://www.ProductFrom.com but can’t find any info about its origin.

  • TypicalVerizonDBAG

    God I wish Verizon would offer 3 year contracts… or even life time contracts. I’d sign up right now, no questions asked. I could care less if we never we get the iphone. As long as we get the one new flag ship phone every year that is quickly outdated I will be happy.

    • Patrick Moto Droid

      Like how the iphone is outdated! Because it is. Don’t be jealous that Android is cranking out 30 MILLION Handsets a month. And you can root and overclock your processor to match newer handsets on Android, but alas, the wretched iPon is locked down. Sorry charlie.

      • Patrick Moto Droid

        Sorry that is 2 Million. Still “Suck it”

      • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

        Funny that it took you 20 minutes of research to figure out that your number of phones was off by 28 million.
        So, let us simplify the math for you.

        The number would actually be closer to 1 million. Granted it is more than one million but still less than two million.

        Now there are over 20 Android phones.
        So that means 50,000 for each device. That would be on average. Do you really think 50,000 MyTouch’s get sold a month? No. We already know that the motoral droid at it’s most popular sold almost a half million in a month. The NexusOne sold 80,000 it’s first full month.

        A platform with 20+ handsets still cant sell half as many units as a company that sells just two models.

        What is outdated exactly? If your stance was shared by each individual person on earth then I would agree. Being that twice as many iPhone’s are sold as Android phones each month my guess is the world doesn’t share your view.

        Cheers

      • http://chris.olstrom.com/ Chris Olstrom

        It’s true. Nobody has a marketing machine on par with Apple. It certainly is impressive, but I don’t know if it has anything to do with the device itself.

    • Rusty Shackleford

      Never graduated 3rd grade, huh? Typical web ass trying to be hipster/ironic = Massive Fail

  • darrell

    I dropped in at the Telus store in Mayfair mall in Victoria. Turns out that even though the web page is advertising them, you can’t actually get one yet.

    Store elf says they’re taking deposits and maybe they’ll have some next week.

  • Geoff

    kinda odd that Telus wouldn’t have filled there retail channels before putting it on for sale, best buy still says the 18th they will have one for sale and the Telus store close to best buy in langley says tomorrow. So who knows whats going on here.

  • Chad

    Here in Calgary, Bestbuy said they’d be getting them on the 24!
    A Telus dealer said they get them tomorrow probably.
    Glad I’m not actually with Telus, because the fact that no store has any, though it launched today is bogus.

  • Geoff

    Apparently dummies are everywhere with telus :)

  • Russ

    I’m a bit peeved-off at Best Buy, I was the first person to get onto the list for the Milestone for the pre-order and they never even called or texted me… waste of $50 really. I guess I’m going tomorrow to heckle them.

  • andi

    @Jarrett
    Of course the iPhone sells more units. People are sheep, and they have been told that the iPhone is the best and since 80% of smartphone users have phones that are actually smarter than them, you can’t use the popularity of a device as proof that it is better. Remember back when the RAZR was the best selling phone on the market and everyone had to have one? Does that mean that motor made the best flip phone? Ummm….I think not….

    • http://chris.olstrom.com/ Chris Olstrom

      I recall Motorola falling behind in sales a bit after that. The story goes that Droid/Milestone is their comeback.

      We’ll see, eh?

  • chad

    Just picked mine up at futureshop today in calgary:)

  • Russ

    I just got mine at Best Buy in Etobicoke, Toronto!!! :D I LOVE IT!!! Its a HUGE upgrade from my crappy old RAZR2!!!

  • jarrett

    @andi,

    The market always determines what the “best” technology is. my post I believe was in reference to units sold. If in Q4 there were 4 million Android devices (3.6 phones) shipped and 15 million iPhone OS devices shipped (8.7 million iPhones) isn’t that disparity still large considering there are 20 Android devices and 6 iPhone OS devices?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • Joe

      I think you have to consider though what Apple did to the industry back in 2007. Before that, people were clamoring for the Apple phone for at least 2 years, dating back to the announcement of the iPod Video. Apple is a marketing master, there is no doubt about it. Once the iPhone came out, for the first 6 months or so it was a luxury item. Now, the iPhone is the standard in multimedia centered smartphones. Apple created and conquered the very market that didn’t exist before the iPhone. Remember, in 2006, there were dumbphones for consumers and smartphones for business users. There was no middle ground and let’s be honest, the Motorola ROKR with iTunes was a fucking joke. Apple created a market out of virtually nothing and it’s dominated ever since. If it weren’t for Apple, I don’t think Android would have come into existence at all. Android took all the customization that Apple touted with the App store and integrated it into the OS itself by making it open source. Just my opinion of course. :)

  • Mark

    Bought one on the 19th at BestBuy. Returned it today. Great phone as long as you don’t care about people on the other end. Terrible call quality :( Motorola needs to fix this ASAP! Droid suffers the same.

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