Let's talk Telus. Up until 2 weeks ago, I really liked Telus. But, I had only used their data services (one for my air card and 1 for my iPad). So, based on that, I decided to trash Bell Cellular and move to Telus for my phone service. I got a great deal. Almost twice the services I had before for about the same price (still the most expensive cellular plans of anywhere in the world).
And, after 10 years of using a Blackberry, I decided to jump to a Motorola Android Milestone. After all, technology is my hobby, so why not. This phone took some getting used to. However it has some amazing features. In a large number of cases it is leaps and bounds better than a Blackberry.
Until 2 weeks ago. It started doing weird things. First off, it doesn't have smart dialing. (You blackberry guys know what that is--if you need to add 1 in front of your phone number it does it automatically). Great if you have over 2000 phone numbers in your address book.
About 50% of the time, you can't seem to dial the number you want. Even if the number is in memory. You get a Telus message "8UT2 - the number can't be completed as dialed". So, you try 8-10 times and it eventually goes through.
The final straw is it starts to play music on its own. Nice at 3am. :)
So, I call Telus (again). They've never heard of this problem, yet a simple search shows hundreds reporting the problem in North America and the UK. Telus transfers me to Motorola. Guess what? They've never heard of the problem either.
After 2 hours of being on the phone, the short story is that Telus/Motorola want me to send my phone in for repair? Repair? Just send me new software. (Did I mention that Telus replaced this phone once. It was to be 10 minute visit to the store, but some reason it took over 2 hours do the exchange). Even Rogers is better than that!
To add insult to injury, I can't return it now or exchange it for a Blackberry unless they agree it is a Lemon. To get that status, it has to be sent in at least 3 times. You've got to be kidding!
Not to sound so negative, there is good out there. If you've noticed that most of my pictures are GEOTAGed with GPS coordinates. I have a special device attached to my Nikon D300 (essentially a GPS) from the great guys at Di-GPS. It gets abused some (hence the reason I use nothing by Nikon). Lately, the special 10 pin connector that plugs this into the camera has started to become intermittent.
After emailing Di-GPS in Hong Kong, I get an email back a few hours later. CM tells me that if I can solder (can I solder??? Of course I can), that he will through a cable in the mail to me. No charge! My hats off to Dawn Technology. Many thanks guys!
As an aside, I did squeeze in a 3 day canoe trip on the French River a few weeks back. I owe a detailed update, which I will do shortly, but here are some pictures. And you can see the GPS mapped pictures here.
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