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Motorola Android Upgrade Roadmap

Canadian Android — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:14:06 +0000

If you’re wondering whats going on with Motorola and their upgrade schedule for their android devices, you can take a look at their upgrade roadmap for the latest info.

Phone Model	Timeline
DROID by Motorola (USA)	The DROID by Motorola over-the-air software upgrade to 2.1 is completed**
MILESTONE (Europe)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 for select countries/carriers* is currently rolling out in stages
MILESTONE (Latin America)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 for select countries/carriers* is currently rolling out in stages
MILESTONE (Asia-Pacific)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 for select countries/carriers* is currently rolling out in stages
MILESTONE (Canada)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 is currently rolling out in stages
BACKFLIP (USA)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 planned for Q3
BACKFLIP (Asia-Pacific)	Upgrade under evaluation
BACKFLIP (Canada)	Upgrade under evaluation
BACKFLIP (Europe)	Upgrade under evaluation
BACKFLIP (Latin America)	Upgrade under evaluation
CLIQ (USA)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 planned for Q2
CLIQ XT (USA)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 planned for Q2
DEVOUR (USA)	Upgrade under evaluation
DEXT (Europe)	Upgrade under evaluation
DEXT (Asia-Pacific)	Upgrade to Android 2.1 planned for Q3
DEXT (Latin America) and Mexico	Upgrade under evaluation
QUENCH (Asia-Pacific)	Upgrade under evaluation
QUENCH (Canada)	Upgrade under evaluation
QUENCH (Latin America) and Mexico	Upgrade under evaluation

Motorola Backflip coming to Telus

Canadian Android — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:32:41 +0000

Telus announced today that it has gained exclusive rights to sell the Motorola Backflip with Motorola’s MOTOBLUR UI here in Canada.

“Toronto, ON – TELUS today announced that it will be offering the acclaimed Android-powered MOTOROLA BACKFLIP with MOTOBLUR later this year, available in Canada only on the TELUS 3G+ network, Canada’s biggest and fastest.

Awarded 2010 CNET Best of Consumer Electronic Show award in the Cell phones and Smartphones category, the MOTOROLA BACKFLIP is the ultimate smartphone, combining the best in social networking, personalization, and multi-tasking all in one place. The BACKFLIP also has an innovative backward flip design, which features a touchpad on the back of the touchscreen and a large user-friendly QWERTY keyboard. BACKFLIP features MOTOBLUR, the only solution to sync all your friends, posts, feeds, messages, e-mails, photos and much more – from sources such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, work e-mail and more – with continuous updates, automatically delivering them to your home screen for immediate reply. MOTOBLUR delivers these updates in easy-to-view streams, so there is no need to switch between different mobile applications to keep up with the latest content.” – Read the whole press release here

More android devices are defiantly welcome here in Canada!

Milestone release date moved back?

Annie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:12:15 +0000

The February 18th release date for the Motorola Milestone on Telus appears to have been removed from Best Buy’s mobile page. Could this mean a longer wait?

Customers who planned to preorder from Best Buy can still do so, however, although we no longer have confirmation of the release date from anyone…

Motorola to issue Droid update this week

Canadian Android — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:55:40 +0000

The rumored update to the Morotola Droid has been confirmed on Morotola’s facebook page today, where they stated that they are “happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to Droid will start to roll out this week”. There is no current info about what that update will contain, but they assured us that they “will have more information to share on other device upgrades later.“

Its great to see Morotola staying current with their Android versions for their customers.

Motorola Droid gets Multitouch Maps

Canadian Android — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:39:23 +0000

When it rains, it pours, huh, Google? Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One, Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom support on the Droid.

Of course, it was no secret that Android 2.0 had the framework in place to support this kind of stuff — Moto enabled it all by its lonesome on the Euro-spec Milestone — but it looks like this could be the watershed moment where multitouch finally becomes a must-have feature on Android devices across the board, as Moto CEO Sanjay Jha recently suggested would happen. The new version 3.4′s available as a software update in the Market right now, so grab it if you’ve got your Droid handy.

[Via Engadget]

Telus Launching Motorola Milestone – BestBuy Preorder on now!

Canadian Android — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:07:52 +0000

Its been pretty much confirmed that Telus is going to be launching the Motorola Milestone (Known as the Droid by residents of our neighbor to the south) in Canada on February 18th (Excluding Manitoba and Saskatchewan, sorry ). See it on Telus’ homepage.

Some features include…

-Ultra-thin design (13.7mm)
-3.7 inch widescreen display
-pinch zooming capabilities
-5MP camera with flash
-MOTONAV turn-by-turn GPS navigation
-Scratch resistant screen

Sign up for updates from the Motorola website to be alerted when it is available, and check out BestBuy’s preorder page here.

Taken from Telus’ homepage…