Telus Milestone users finally get a taste of Android 2.1's custard filling
By Tim Stevens 
posted April 22nd 2010 9:52AM
posted April 22nd 2010 9:52AM
If you're on Telus and you've been longingly waiting for your turn to jump onto the Android 2.1 bandwagon, that time is now. However, you're going to have to take a few steps to get aboard, as this update is not coming OTA. According to MobileSyrup, where you can find the full update instructions, you'll need to hit Motorola's site directly, accept an agreement, then download a software updater to your PC. After that you'll get a taste of multitouch in Maps, a new Facebook widget to clutter your desktop, and the option to enable up to nine homescreens -- something you can gloat about to your Droid-owning neighbors to the south. We're still making do with just 3. [Thanks, Sean]
Yes Finally! 9 home screens????? So excited
Thanks guys!!!!
@oblivion
Yay! Now only if they gave us a option to have moto blur UI. (I know its not as nice as sense but its still something!)
@tmurph
Doesn't Android have homescreen widgets that are similar to what motoblur do? Could have sworn they got something similar. Those things are really useful.
@ounkeo
Similar but not as clean.
X10 user here. Not getting 2.1 until September makes me sad panda.
@strawe
Now YOU'RE endangered!
This means there are actually people in Canada using ridiculously priced and limited data plans. This blows my mind.
@xDRAN0x
Yeah, we lie down and take it. Lack of competition and stuff will do that :(
@xDRAN0x
Hope you Americans realize how lucky you are.
2 year contract... Unlimited data.. We don't even have unlimited broadband on our internet for crying out loud.
@xDRAN0x There aren't that many providers in Canada and they use that situation to keep prices high and plans limited; sucks to be us, really.
@oblivion
I live in Quebec in fact :] (and still using a Moto Razr)
I'm waiting for Videotron's service to launch to finally decide whether or not I join the overpriced data plans users bandwagon.
@xDRAN0x Assuming you mean Videotron's 3G service, that's supposed to be out in September AFAIK
@xDRAN0x
WRONG! I have a ridiculously priced UNLIMITED data plan!
@xDRAN0x
Here what the CRTC says on their website:
"The CRTC does not regulate the rates, quality of service or business practices of wireless service providers because the market for wireless services is sufficiently competitive."
LOL
@WickedEast
The CRTC is a joke and run by clowns.
@xDRAN0x
But Canadian cell phone providers are pushovers! I phone up Telus every 6 months or so and ask if there is anything free they can put on my account. So far I pay 60 bucks a month - Unlimited local calling, my FAVS 8 long distance, 1 gb data, unlimited txt, and 450 anytime minutes!
@tmurph
That'll be within my budget range, but far from the website's advertised plans. You must be a long-time customer. :]
@xDRAN0x
Well a policy with telus is that they will never downgrade your plan. And they commonly have new plans that come up with different 'free' features. So they will transfer you to that new plan and keep the 'free' features you had on your old plan.
Or you can just tell them that your leaving for wind mobile and they will do anything to keep you lol
@tmurph Which one is it? Unlimited local calling or 450 mins? I smell something fishy here.
@tmurph
That is not really that great. I am with telus and pay the same as you but have: 450 daytime, unlimited incoming, 300 long distance, unlimited text, unlimited data and web, unlimited calling from 6pm, caller id/vm/foward.
@WickedEast
Well what about Wind? I heard they gonna offer 3G in fall as well..lets hope they will support N900's frequency o I can get rid of ROGERS!!!
@lerxst
Well its not actually unlimited calling, its unlimited cell phone to cell phone (except for wind) and then unlimited telus to telus. And Almost everyone in Calgary (where i live) has a telus home line. So the minutes are go towards bell, rogers, and shaw home phones.
PS for anyone who would like to know my brother works for Shaw as a telecommunication project manager and he told me that shaw is going to be getting into the cell phone game soon!
FYI, you can have up to 9 home screens in the US by installing HelixLauncher, free in the market. I've been using it for a couple weeks and it runs just as well as the stock launcher for me.
@mykalson Helix launcher caps your number off home screens at 7. Same with Helix launcher 2, which I use on my Droid and LOVE!
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This is a pretty bullshit update. I updated yesterday. Music automatically playing bug and random reboots. Nothing really updated, except live wallpapers and more homescreens. No 3d gallery app, no new music app, no 2.1 launcher.
I think I'm going to sell the phone, media dock, car dock and case and buy a N1. Motorola actually broke the phone more and with a locked bootloader, there's no way fix it ourselves.
More then 3 screens...yeah there have been apps for that for a LONG time.
What people FAIL to mention about what makes this update awesome is one of the features mentioned in the update .PDF.
Enable bluetooth multi function to facilitate voice dialing.
That right there makes the update worth its' weight in GOLD.
@Darkseider
Except that probably shouldn't have been overlooked in the first place. My shitty flip phone did bluetooth voice dialing. I had assumed my $600 smartphone without limits would too.
By the way, does anyone else's voice dial takes 15 to 20 seconds to start-up? Or is that just me.
Thanks for the heads up
this update seems to be
*puts on sunglasses*
quite the milestone
YEAHHHH
@skyblaze
Dude, you are a legend.
I still laugh at the post you made for Nilay to get a raise after a review he did.. "tell them skyblaze sent you.."
Classic.
@Circa Survive
i dont know what to say..... i just like to have fun here ^_^'
nice to know people dont think im a total douche, though... thank you very much!
In a world that doesn't Droid does!
For some reason Motorola Canada stripped speech-to-text out of the Canadian 2.1 update. What an annoying bunch of slow-to-update idiots. I've only had the phone a few months and am already considering switching to a Google or HTC non-crippled device. [sighs]
I'm hoping someone can help me with this one:
I have an unlocked Milestone running on Rogers rather than Telus, and getting the unlock code was a pain! If I update it, will I have to re-unlock the phone?
@bassbeast It kept getting confused by the "eh's".
@barry99705 Damn-it! That was supposed to be @Steven W
@bassbeast
No - phone will remain unlocked. Don't worry
@barry99705 There's a 'u' in 'color'. Please refer to English.
You forgot the "And they found the filling bitter" part of the title.
Vegeta:
WHAT? NINE HOME SCREENS?
@Johnny Rockets
I know, it's the one thing that I really wanted from the 2.1 update. I would rather have waited a bit longer for the update. Now there's no telling when/if we'll ever get more home screens. Only 3 is bullshit.
Finally!!!
Milestone on AT&T FTW
Anybody find out how to manually update with a mac? Seems that the Motorola Update page only allows Windows users…