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Various upcoming TELUS OS upgrades: Android, BlackBerry, WP7

By on March 15, 2011 at 3:49pm in Mobile News, Telus Mobility News


Curious when your TELUS device will be seeing the next OS upgrade? We asked TELUS where various Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 devices are in the upgrade process… here’s what we were sent:

In terms of OS upgrades – Updated information on:

- Shine Plus: early this winter – Android 2.2 –> Actually going to Gingerbread directly and skipping Froyo, should be launching early summer
- Milestone : this winter – Android 2.2 –> just finished testing and should be on its way very soon. Early spring
- Apollo: this winter – Android 2.2 –> launching not too far into this spring

And more Android:
- HTC Desire to Gingerbread – this spring
- HTC Desire HD to Gingerbread – this spring

And some BlackBerry:
- BlackBerry Curve 3G to BB 6.0 – launched
- BlackBerry Bold 9700 to BB 6.0 – launched
- BlackBerry Pearl 9100 to BB 6.0 – next few weeks/early Spring

And of course Windows Phones:
- LG Optimus 7 – NoDo update – next few weeks
- HTC Surround 7 – NoDo update – next few weeks

More soon!
(Thanks James!)

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Discussion

31 comments for “Various upcoming TELUS OS upgrades: Android, BlackBerry, WP7”

  1. Keep this up telus and you’re gonna be the new go-to carrier for android!

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    Posted by Corks | March 15, 2011, 4:01 pm
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  2. Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

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    Posted by Burner | March 15, 2011, 4:04 pm
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    • Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

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      Posted by KingK | March 15, 2011, 4:36 pm

    • Get it for free (on a 2 year contract right now) when the update comes out, root it, overclock it to 1ghz and you will have a phone that is fantastic. I can’t wait!!!

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      Posted by monsterduc1000 | March 15, 2011, 5:44 pm

    • @ monsterduc1000, the milestone has a mediocre battery life with it’s 550 Mhz processor. you wanna over-clock it to 1Ghz?? good luck on having the battery to last more than 3 or 4 hours.

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      Posted by Sub-Joker | March 16, 2011, 1:53 am

    • I’ve had mine rooted and overclocked to 1ghz for a while now (tentative to do custom rom though) and it is not about processor speed, but how much voltage is needed to run the phone at that speed. Stock voltage at 550mhz is 56 vsel. Through trial and error I got my phone to run stable at 1ghz at 60 vsel with milestone overclock and the battery lasts very near as long as it did before, being a charge a day for heavy use, every 2-3 for moderate to light. Big performance hike, minimal loss in battery life!

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      Posted by monsterduc1000 | March 16, 2011, 5:44 pm

    • Also, to save battery on an overclocked milestone you need an app killer, cpu tuner (root only) and a 3g and wifi on/off widget. I would say my biggest battery savers are the 3g and wifi toggles so apps that I don’t use the app killer on can’t send background info without my permission.

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      Posted by monsterduc1000 | March 16, 2011, 6:03 pm

  3. HTC Desire hell yeas

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    Posted by Lance W | March 15, 2011, 4:10 pm
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  4. Very nice Telus. Keep it up.

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    Posted by Jon | March 15, 2011, 4:11 pm
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  5. .. I like to b***h about Telus, but I thank them and MobileSyrup for some worthwhile info. I hope Telus can iron out a few of the bugs that the European rollout for Milestone seems to be having

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    Posted by Todd | March 15, 2011, 4:22 pm
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  6. Woo I can’t wait till my desire gets updated to gingerbread, might a well take off my root so I can get the OTA update.

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    Posted by Dino | March 15, 2011, 4:35 pm
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  7. Meanwhile Virgin still has no date for the HTC Legend Froyo update… even though they previously promised mid January + everyone else on the planet got updated 4 months ago.

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    Posted by MER1978 | March 15, 2011, 5:26 pm
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  8. SWEET MAMA!!! I have been checking for the milestone update daily so hopefully this is true. I also hope I can still use universal androot after the update because I read that one of the versions of 2.2 for the nexus one fixed the kernel bypass that was used for the app.

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    Posted by monsterduc1000 | March 15, 2011, 5:28 pm
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  9. What about the LG Optimus One gingerbread update? LG promised 2.3 for the Optimus line.

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    Posted by JG | March 15, 2011, 5:32 pm
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  10. I want to believe! Not sure I can.

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    Posted by Gideon | March 15, 2011, 5:51 pm
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  11. Do you think the desire will also get the new sense UI?

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    Posted by Unknown | March 15, 2011, 7:08 pm
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  12. Sweet The sine Plus is a really good (cheep) phone
    300 No contract and the contract does not need a data plan so it’s even better

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    Posted by Sean | March 15, 2011, 7:12 pm
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  13. Finally, some 2.2 Froyo action for the ol’ Milestone. The year wait may finally be over. Next time I’ll get the current iteration of the Nexus series. Hopefully more variety of stock Android units will be available the next time i get to upgrade the phone.

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    Posted by SeanT | March 15, 2011, 7:34 pm
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  14. Good to see that the Blackberry 9100 will be upgraded to OS 6 still… but it should have been updated when the curve and bold were done..

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    Posted by Matthew | March 15, 2011, 8:56 pm
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  15. This is ridiculous. Wheres the gingerbread update for the fascinate.. Every phone they have except the one I own come on! This is ridiculous..

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    Posted by Delaney | March 15, 2011, 9:57 pm
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    • I agree. But I guess that’s what you get with Samsung. Wished I waited and got the Desire HD!

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      Posted by MikeyD | March 15, 2011, 11:41 pm

  16. *Wish

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    Posted by MikeyD | March 15, 2011, 11:41 pm
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    • This should be towards my previous reply on Delaney’s comment haha

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      Posted by MikeyD | March 15, 2011, 11:42 pm

  17. is there any chance of LG IQ getting WM7? And is this handset capable of running WM7?

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    Posted by phew | March 16, 2011, 2:08 am
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    • @Phew, Sorry to say the LG IQ doesn’t meet the min spec required by MS to use WinPho7. Although I use the Optimus 7 and like it alot…

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      Posted by Jack | March 16, 2011, 9:08 am

  18. Glad to see better news for the milestone then when i asked at my local telus, I can’t belive it till I see it thought.

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    Posted by ChemicalTree | March 16, 2011, 4:51 am
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  19. The European Milestone is already getting the update. Argh! I can’t hold out much longer. Telus, please flip the update switch ASAP!!

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    Posted by SeanT | March 16, 2011, 11:54 am
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  20. I hope everyone remembers the Hero update fiasco before getting too excited!

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    Posted by Tomudei | March 16, 2011, 12:26 pm
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  21. @Sub-Joker I have the milestone and I have it running at 1Ghz beautifully. I get a solid day out of it with no issues. I know some guys over at xda running CM7 @900Mhz and they get 36+ hours on average on a single charge.

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    Posted by cbstryker | March 16, 2011, 1:12 pm
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    • I’m running the FroyoMod 2.0.5 on my Milestone.
      By default the phone is overclocked (@800MHz) and undervolted.
      I’m getting 48h on one charge and I use it a lot.

      BTW: In Canada a 2G/3G switcher is worth having only if your Milestone is on Rogers. Bell and Telus are 3G only.
      I think Milestone was the 1st phone to get the Gorilla glass.

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      Posted by Dawn | March 17, 2011, 3:00 pm

  22. I’m running the FroyoMod 2.0.5 on my Milestone.
    By default it overclocks (@800MHz) and th ephone gets also undervolted.
    I’m getting 48h on one charge and I use it a lot.

    BTW: In Canada a 2G/3G switcher is worth having only if your Milestone is on Rogers. Bell and Telus are 3G only.
    I think Milestone was the 1st phone to get the Gorilla glass.

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    Posted by Dawn | March 17, 2011, 3:04 pm
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