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
I am still a bit torn, if it was easier to arrange the purchase I would probably go with the Milestone. There have not been any other really nice Android phones with keyboards released as of yet.
Anyone going to order one with no contract and attempt the unlock for us all?
I wanted this phone very badly but I'll have to wait and see. Apparently you can't hack the milestone like you can with the droid. Something to do with signature keys and certificates. So it makes it difficult to run roms.. essentially hackers would have to find a way to load the droid ROM onto the milestone and hack away at that.
muito legal esse mototola milestone neste eu fiz um artigo também em portugues sobre o milestone....very nice these phone ;)
http://www.teucelular.com/motorola-milestone/840/
@all , don't ever think that you can customize the milestone like it can happen with droid. to be clear Droid and Milestone are completely different. you can not put custom ROMs on Milestone like on Droid. there is already a big disappointment going on motorola forums and facebook but motorola has clearly stated that it will not open the bootloader or remove signatures.
@chowdarygm
Yes just look at http://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope?ref=nf
to see how happy the Milestone users are
@rj7855 Hi, i am already there in that facebook page
So when is AT&T going to announce their Android line up? What's taking them so long?
for that price I'd rather have a palm pre for $0.
I saw got this alert this morning and went immediately to the closest Telus retail outlet, and lo and behold. They don't have it yet and don't know when they'll get it.
I really don't understand why they wouldn't A) announce a release date prior and/or B) have the damn phones at the stores on the release day.
@ProfKOS
I saw got this alert* english fail.
By the way Telus is giving away the Car dock when you purchase a Milestone as well. This was a nice bonus to find out about.
@ProfKOS Apart from no google nav on the milestone so a bit pointless?
@lookseehear Eh, it comes with the Motonav trial and Google Nav will be here eventually.
$600? Seriously? This makes the Nexus One a bargain (other than having to switch to T-Mo for 3G).
Now - the question I have is if I were to purchase the phone outright from Telus would it work on the Rogers network? How would I do that? Bring it into Rogers, buy a SIM card and have them activate it? I'm locked in with Rogers for another year and a half and they want to charge me $400 to end my contract. My intent was to get a Milestone and give my iPhone to my girlfriend - no one has been able to give me information as to whether its even possible let alone how to go about doing it.
@PBRstreetgang you need to get the phone unlocked, then you can put any other SIM card (Rogers, whatever) in it. Whether it works depends on whether it supports the frequencies that network uses. I don't think anyone's actually confirmed the frequencies the Telus Milestone is capable of, beyond obviously the Telus ones, yet.
@PBRstreetgang The Telus Milestone has the Bands for Roger/Bell/AT&T.
Unlock the Telus Milestone and you basically can go to either of the carriers above.
That doesn't not spending 500$ FOR a unlocked phone. That does it I'm telling AT&T that I'm canceling my contract NOW and move over to prepaid. DAMN IT.
Milestone users are in for a big disappointment the device is locked so you can't even overclock it. See http://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope?ref=nf or http://www.sigridschrijft.be/index.php/free-the-motorola-milestone-a-pr-nightmare/
The keyboard's still hideous, though. I thought all the complaints were overblown until I tried out the Milestone demo model at a Telus dealer. Wow. Just...wow. It's actually worse than soft keyboards, and I never thought I'd say that...
wow, thats great. i love it
Since Windows Phone 7 Series , this android very much looks uglier everyday.
" Yanks take the ice against the Canucks on Sunday" thats gold!! lol
the only thing keeping me from getting this is because it's on telus, I also would like to get a palm pre but it's on bell, rogers is the only good service even if it is a lot more expensive, quality = money. i wish the Milestone was on Rogers
Looks like some Americans will be bringing more home from the Winter Olympics than just memories, heh heh.
Has anyone found out whether this can be unlocked??!!!
I am addicted to t his site! Im losing sleep reading articles and watching videos!!
You can get the Milestone and several other phones already unlocked. And they ship to us folk in the USA. http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php/2541/motorola-milestone-smartphone Currency converter puts the Milestone at $545.50 ($465.10 excluding VAT) as of this posting.
They also have the soon to be released Desire (pre-order) for $587.60 (500.08 excluding VAT). http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php/2749/htc-desire-----sim-free-unlocked-
If we don't have to pay the VAT that makes the Desire cheaper than the N1 from this site!
Is any one having a problem with getting 3 g on the att network and the milestone?