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Motorola Milestone on TELUS
Feb 17th
Canada finally has their version of the DROID. The Motorola Milestone has launched on TELUS’s 3G+ network, giving us north of the boarder official access to an Android 2.0 device (that also comes with a full keyboard). The Milestone is the GSM/HSDPA version of Verison’s DROID. Most reviews of the DROID say the tactile keyboard isn’t the greatest, but it you refuse to use on-screen keyboards and want a fast Android smart phone, this is definitely the one you want.
You can grab yours for $199 on a 3yr contract, or $599 buy out. Motorola is also offering a free car mount kit for use with Google’s kick ass turn-by-turn GPS application that comes with Android 2.0.
Palm’s WebOS – I’ll to do everything for you
May 8th
A friend of mine has been watching Palm Pre news just as closely as I have. He sent me this exerpt today, but he unfortunately did not have a source for the info, so take this at face value.
“Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners, who invested 20 percent of his private equity fund in Palm, has revealed some pretty cool new location aware features that come as standard with the Pre.
The first thing he mentioned is that it “does stuff for you,” which in this case he used the calendar as an example; McNamee said that when you wake up in the morning, it will have already had a look at your calendar and downloaded things such as maps and Wikipedia entries for the people, places and organisations you are going to visit for the whole day, all in advance without you having to do anything other than turn the setting on. Wow, pretty cool, right?
It gets better!
It knows when you are going to be late. No, seriously. Using the Pre’s GPS, Clock and Calendar functionality, the device will check the calendar to see where you are supposed to be and at what time – it will then check where you actually are (i.e, 5 miles away from where you are supposed to be) and then warn you that you are going to be late, calculate roughly how late you are going to be, and email all of the involved parties to let them know you’ll be however minutes late. Awesomeness.”
Giggity Giggity.
If anyone knows the source of the above, please let me know. Thanks!
