Comments on: Feb. 18th Milestone availability removed by Best Buy

By: Kenny Cheung

Kenny Cheung — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:31:17 +0000

It looks like Motorola is preparing to upgrade the OS from 2.0 to 2.1 for the Droid in the US market.

If that is true, then it is reasonable for Telus to delay the roll-out until after the official upgrade from Motorola.

I for one don’t mind to wait that extra week or two, if this means I can have the latest version of the OS.

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By: MaqubeX

MaqubeX — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:59:37 +0000

I’m dying to get the motorola milestone.
I can exchange my device using the 30-day retun policy by feb 24th. So, I’m praying to God that the milestone gets released by feb 18th. If it gets delayed any further I’m more or less stuck.

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By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:04:58 +0000

@luc : I had the same issue with the Richmond location… They had no idea… And they had to call Cambie to get the info on how to do it… Because Cambie was the only location that knew…lol..

As a former BB emp, this isn’t surprising… I can guarantee BB will over sell the pre-orders and will not have enough phones at release…

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By: luc

luc — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:38:38 +0000

I’ve just returned from the BestBuy store in Vancouver, on Cambie, and the mobile department had no idea about this preorder. I even spoke with the store’s manager and he had no clue about how to take the preorder because it wasn’t in any of their papers. He was surprised when I showed him their own web site’s ad. He claimed that they got not info about it.

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By: Ethan Bugden

Ethan Bugden — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:23:43 +0000

Yeah, it’s probably just Telus realizing they forgot to disable some feature and making sure they go back and cripple everyone’s firmware even more. Man, I really can’t wait for a root, just to get rid of all the branding.

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By: Erik Berkun-Drevnig

Erik Berkun-Drevnig — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:57:05 +0000

I really hope it is not delayed, although if you can still go into the store and pre-order it for 50$ then I don’t see how they can change they date.

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By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:34:41 +0000

Maybe Telus realized they haven’t quite removed all of the phone’s features yet and they need more time to lock it down further and limit it’s functionality completely. I can just hear them asking Moto to make sure the GPS only works with their paid app, no access to streaming media except for YouTube and so on.

On a serious note, I don’t see this as a big story. Neither party with actual input and control over the release has ever given any dates, so I never took the Feb. 18th date as all that firm or accurate.

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By: ya think

ya think — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:02:34 +0000

Best buy is infamous for that so it’s no surprise. It happens with apple products also and other things. As a former supervisor with best buy, you can’t really rely on their for products launches other than dvds, video games and cds.

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By: John Henry

John Henry — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:47:58 +0000

Maybe they sold out of the pre orders?

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:10:34 +0000

I’m gonna take a wild uninformed guess (really, i’m making up facts here!!) and say that the phone has been delayed because Telus forgot to plaster their name all over the device.

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