Unfortunately, Telus has announced the cancellation of its planned Android 4.0 update for the Desire HD.
"It's very, very alive and kicking, " said Drazen Lalovic, vice president for market planning at Telus.
The Internet communications provider works with Verizon Wireless in the U.S., KDDI in Japan and Telus in Canada.
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Their tools ranged from TELUS Buzz, a microblogging platform of updates and questions to their version of an internal YouTube channel.
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Further, the Lumia series will also be made available in Canada, and Rogers and TELUS are already on board for the launch.
We've been hearing rumors of these handsets for a while and true to its quick release nature, Telus launched EV-DO rev.
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Telus: The Canadian carrier has advised that it intends to deliver Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) to the Galaxy S III in late November.
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Neither Telus nor Mobilicity is commenting, although we'd note that there may be a few roadblocks (however temporary) if the scoop is accurate.
The Globe and Mail reportedly has documents showing that Telus has been in active talks to buy Mobilicity through a share buyout deal.
Today''s announcement from RIM builds on the recent deployment of mobile payments in Canada by EnStream, a joint venture of Bell, Rogers and TELUS, which uses RIM''s SEM solution.
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Investors in Widevine include Constellation Ventures , Cisco Systems , Charter Ventures , Dai Nippon Printing , Pacesetter Capital Group , The Phoenix Partners , TELUS (TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners .
Moving right along, Canada's own Telus will be offering yet another new one from Sierra Wireless this March: the AirCard 319U USB modem, a device we recently spotted in the FCC's database.
The phone is also very individualistic: my test unit only had the sober black shell, but Telus supplies a white back in the retail box, and the more exotic colors (neon green, anyone?) really add character.
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Unless it's some elaborate post-Thanksgiving hoax from our Canadian neighbors, several Telus customers have demonstrated that the LTE chip hiding inside the Nexus 4 does work, and have connected to some data speeds resembling a 4G connection.
Rules meant to preserve competition will prevent Telus from buying any newcomers' spectrum until early 2014, and Mobilicity left the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association just this week while accusing the industry group of being a puppet for bigger networks like Telus.
Samsung Galaxy Note: Similar to the recent arrival of Ice Cream Sandwich in the US, Canadian users of the Galaxy Note are now eligible for the Ice Cream Sandwich update, which has been made available to customers of Bell, Rogers and Telus.
If you absolutely have to buy a phone on contract, the Lumia 620 currently has a lot of similarly priced competition at Telus that trumps it in performance and screen size, including the ATIV S, Galaxy S III, One X and Optimus G.
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You might think that the EV-DO technology path has seen better days, what with carriers like Bell and Telus defecting for HSPA and others prepping to pull the plug altogether -- but really, it might take nothing more than one massive, eight-figure subscriber deployment of a next-gen EV-DO network to get things up and running again.
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Enter ZTE, a company that's quiety snuck through the ranks to become the sixth largest handset maker in the world but has approached Canada and the US with kid gloves so far, starting with a Fastap phone (of all things) on Telus just last year and just recently moving onto MetroPCS in the States with the AWS-equipped C78 candybar and C79 flip.
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