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Motorola Milestone launch getting closer as TELUS puts “coming soon” on homepage

By on February 1, 2010 at 11:11am in Asides, Mobile News, Telus Mobility News, Various News

Over the weekend we posted a story of the TELUS Motorola Milestone appearing in the upcoming Best Buy catalog. More Milestone news today as TELUS has updated their site to have the Android-powered device from and centre. It’s still the usual “coming soon” but now we get a notify me when it’s available sign up page.

Any predictions on the actual launch date?

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Discussion

11 comments for “Motorola Milestone launch getting closer as TELUS puts “coming soon” on homepage”

  1. Isuspect they’ll launch around the time of the olympics. Because this is such a highly touted device, it would be worth they’re while to get it out just before the olympics. That way people could blow the hell out of they’re data plan by following the Olympics through the device’s browser.

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    Posted by Lance | February 1, 2010, 11:25 am
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  2. should have called it droid.

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    Posted by Nadim J | February 1, 2010, 11:29 am
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  3. They definitely should’ve called it something other than Milestone. The name isn’t catchy like Droid. Sounds like a university term paper project.

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    Posted by Ahmed Eltawil | February 1, 2010, 11:39 am
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  4. @nadim J

    Verizon owns the rights to the name “Droid”

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    Posted by Brendan McMillen | February 1, 2010, 11:40 am
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  5. @Brendan McMillen
    Verizon is using “Droid” under license from Lucasfilm.

    I honestly can’t wait for this phone, and just in time for my renewal period. :D

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    Posted by Matt R | February 1, 2010, 11:53 am
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  6. Actually Verizon/Motorola purchased the rights to use the “droid” name from Lucasfilm, who owns the trademark. They have to pay them a royalty for all devices sold, plus for marketing.

    They probably didn’t want to have to pay more than they had to outside of the US so they changed the name.

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    Posted by Lexcyn | February 1, 2010, 12:13 pm
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  7. George Lucas owns the rights to the name “Droid” beep boop beep.

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    Posted by Denis B. | February 1, 2010, 12:17 pm
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  8. @Nadim J & Brendan McMillen
    The Droid© is a trademark used by Veziron (US) for all Android devices (including the Motorola Milestone CDMA and the HTC Hero CDMA).

    Motorola Milestone is the worldwide name for this device even if everyone have in mind the “Motorola Droid” and the “Droid does” ads.

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    Posted by Mathieu | February 1, 2010, 12:32 pm
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  9. Pretty sure George Lucas (Lucasfilm) owns the rights to the name “Droid”. Verizon and/or Motorola probably licensed the name…

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    Posted by Jason | February 1, 2010, 12:54 pm
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  10. Will Telus just sell me the phone without activating it? Or will they pull the “We can’t sell a phone from our inventory without activating it” stint? If so, where could I buy this so I could just unlock it and use it on Bell?

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    Posted by Chad | February 1, 2010, 1:15 pm
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  11. Well, The telus owners will get a hold of it and then the Bell people can come and take the left-overs (if any)SuckerSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

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    Posted by Maq | February 1, 2010, 4:31 pm
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