Two days
earlier than expected, Motorola's
Milestone has become available to the public via Telus Mobility. For Canadians, that means that you can wrap your palms around one of the sexiest Android devices out for as low as $199.99 on a 3-year contract, while it'll set you back $499.99 with a 2-year deal, $549.99 with a 1-year agreement or $599.99 outright. Americans -- you should pay close attention that to last figure. A half dozen Benjamins (not including losses in currency conversion and the trip to go get one) will land you what's essentially a 3G-enabled
Droid for AT&T's network. You know you need an excuse to go see the Yanks take the ice against the Canucks on Sunday, so you might as well snap up your dream phone before heading back from Vancouver.
*AT&T support hinges on one's ability to procure a Milestone from Canada, get it back across the border, unlock it and slide an activated AT&T 3G SIM card into it. Godspeed.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted February 16th 2010 11:09AM
Guess I'll be waiting for some to show up on eBay.
@Capper Anyone want to buy an iPhone? Mine may be going up on eBay. =)
@Capper Ha, I'm already ordering two to do just that!
@Capper
id bite.. but ONLY if id be able to get a data only AT&T plan.... anyone know if they even do that anymore?
@skyblaze
they will with ipad...
@Capper
Forgive the dumb question but why would I pay full price for the phone and still have to go thru the process of unlocking it to work on AT&T? Isn't the point of paying full price to have the ability to use the phone on any GSM network?
@JCA - No, not at all. The reason you pay full retail price is so you're not locked into a multi-year contract with the carrier.
I love when I actually lol...Thanks asterik
@ColinScatt Asterisk
Great phone, glad to see some AT&T customers with a chance to get a DROID with 3G.
Now we just need the official 5 AT&T Android phones to drop :D
@treats f**kin' at&t. Hurry it up!
@victor
I KNOW!!! im itchin to drop 500 bucks on one!!
@treats
Dell Mini 3
Motorola Backflip
Nexus One
Dell Mini 5
Up to 4 and I haven't even gotten to HTC's phones. They said at least one from Dell, Moto, and HTC. Pretty sure the Nexus One is not the one they meant. And They never talked about Dell's Mini 5, but Dell doesn't call it a phone.
Aside from being locked in with a two year contract I don't see the point of going with AT&T over Verizon here...except if you live in the bizzaro world where you have perfect AT&T reception but no Verizon reception...does that place even exist? I've heard of it but never actually seen it.
@insky Oklahoma.
I don't know what Verizon's coverage looks like now, but back when Cingular was still around, the Big Red's coverage sucked.
@insky Oddly enough I life in such a world........btw, Verizon coverage maps are not as accurate as one would think.
@insky
We also have the fact that you can easily switch between several phones with AT&T, as well as the fact that you can bring your phone overseas, buy a prepaid sim card, and toss it in.
And I'm one of those with nearly flawless AT&T coverage. Verizon doesn't compare in my area.
@insky I would agree, except I travel internationally too.
@BigJayDogg3
Why I said "We also have the fact..." I have no clue.
@btompkins1231 Live........not life. Let there be flame!
@insky
I live in PA and Verizon has terrible coverage in my area. AT&T never lets me down.
@insky
Except if you want to do something like data and voice at the same time of which cdma and its inferior technology in the US can't do.
@Versed Considering you live in AT&T's small bubble of 3G
@BigJayDogg3 Thanks to some major network overhalls ATT is great where I live I am loving it
@scots79
I have great coverage here at the Jersey Shore.
@BigJayDogg3
Here in Florida, It goes
AT&T
Sprint
Verizon
T-Mobile
Best coverage here with AT&T.
When I get my Dell Mini 5. I like the SIM card so I can switch to my LG Shine when I don't wanna break my Dell Mini 5's screen or don't need it.
@Versed
Fist pump!!!!
Of course, if the cell service providers were not allowed to sell phones, and thus could not hide behind ETF's and subsidies, we'd buy these things right off the shelf in Best Buy or on Amazon. They'd have to compete against each other without a middle-man jacking up the MSRP. This thing wold probably retail for $349.99.
Isn't AT&T getting the motorola milestone some time this year. Or the next.
how to choose between android, wm7, and iphoneOS 4.0?
@IceTheGreat
Wait and see. I know it sucks, but that's really all you can do at this point.
@IceTheGreat While I'm getting fairly tired of the standard iPhone OS as we know it, Jobs said the next iPhone update will be an A+ effort. On that note, I'd say at least wait to see what the gang in Cupertino is capable of before you decide.
@XChrisX touché, ain't competition great?!
@IceTheGreat Indeed it is! Once I see the new iPhone OS, I'll then decide between that, Pre Plus, or the Nexus/Desire.
aw, i got excited...a decent phone coming to att before wm7? too good to be true!
Out of interest, are these like European Milestones with Multitiouch enabled?
@ChazClout Spelling fail.
*multitouch.
@ChazClout
yes
Too funny...I just scheduled a trip to Ontario next month and wonder if I should take a look at this....though I'm a bit concerned about unlocking a phone...never did it...
@Schwack
EBay is your friend. Unlock codes are about 10$ and already available.
So like isn't that only $30 in USD?
Well.. now I'm confused..
I was waiting for the Nexus One with ATT 3G bands, but I also like the Milestone. I'm wondering which one is better?
@LuisOCR
The Milestone is better if you like a physical keyboard. I have my DROID rooted and overclocked to 1ghz, the same speed as the Nexus One, and I've been very happy with it. There was no real technical knowledge involved in doing it, either. It's a program from the market you download to root the phone, then another to overclock it. Very simple.
Mind you you won't be getting active wallpapers but for the sake of speed I think most of us can live without them.
@SuiXide Cool, thanks for the info.
I currently own an iPhone 2G which is painfully slow!!
So I'm used to the touchscreen keyboard but I think I can easily get used to Milestone's physical keyboard.
Might be getting one while in Canada next week.
@LuisOCR: having played with a few Android phones, unless you need the keyboard, I'd say either go with the Nexus One, or better yet wait until HTC launches the Desire (basically Nexus One with Sense). Sense makes Android WAY more usable.
Of course, both the Milestone and Nexus One should see Sense ROMs available via XDA devs soon enough. ;)
@LuisOCR keep in mind that the milestone cannot be overclocked.. and probably will never be.. damn motorola and their stupid bootloader signing.
@SuiXide
There is a BIG difference between the Droid and the Milestone. The Milestone has a bootload that prevents to load custom kernels, so NO OVERCLOCKING on the milestone.
See http://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope?ref=nf how happy Milestone users think about this fact.
And being in upstate New York only 2 miles from a boarder crossing (and then only all of ~60 miles to Ottawa), it's not worth it for me to have to hand over a passport (that I don't have) or the EDL (that I don't have).
I'll wait on eBay methinks.
You cat sign up for 3 year contracts in Canada? That Would be so against the law here in Norway. 12 months max and an easy and fair way to get out of it.
@espentan - Yes, 3-year contracts are the norm in Canada. It's 2-years normally here in the US.