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Purchase a Windows 7 phone with Telus between December 15 and 19th on a 3 yr activation, and you will receive a XBox 360 for free!

• We’ll ship your new Xbox 360 to the address on your TELUS account
• Once your Xbox 360 has shipped, we’ll send you a confirmation email and tracking details.
• Up to 6 weeks after receiving order confirmation, your Xbox 360 will arrive.

Details here

Windows Phone 7 is launching in Canada on Monday, November 8th, 2010. Trying to regain market share in the mobile phone market now dominated by Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and RIM’s Blackberry.

To celebrate the launch aka add buzz, Telus and Microsoft will be giving away XBox 360 consoles at Telus’s flagship store in Toronto.

If you active a HTC 7 Surround or a LG Optimus on a 3 yr contract with Telus (exclusively at the Eaton Centre Store) you will get a XBox 360 for free!

They will have limited quantities of XBox 360 consoles to give away, so get there early!

Telus finally released FOTA (Firmware Over The Air) updates for the HTC Hero.

The highly anticipated Android Éclair 2.1 update for the HTC Hero, that has been delayed for months is finally available for patient Telus customers.

What’s included?

• Android Éclair 2.1
• Google Navigation (Web-based Turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidance)
• Voice activated dialing

More details here

As part of Telus’s “Go Pink” campaign, Telus will donate $25 to Breast Cancer research for every Pink Blackberry Peark 9100 and Pink Blackberry Curve 8530 sold.

The funds will go directly to purchase digital mammography machines for women in your local community.

The following hospitals are involved as partners in the campaign:

More details here.

In response to Telus’s promotion from a few days ago, the other Big 2 carriers have decided to match the promotion.

Telus offered new clients 6 months of unlimited local calling, free calling on early nights and weekends starting at 6pm (regularly $7/month) and free activation ($35 fee).

That offer is now available at Bell, Fido and Rogers for new clients signing new 3 year contracts.

Officially, this offer is not available for existing clients looking to renew their contracts.

Telus is offering new clients two great incentives for their business.

New activations to Telus will receive 6 months of unlimited local calling and their $35 activation fee waived. The 6 months of unlimited local calling promotion hasn’t appear among the big 3 carriers in almost 3-4 years. In the early to mid 2000s, the 3-6 months of unlimited local calling promotion was quite common among Bell, Telus and Rogers.

The promotion is likely in response to the new wireless entrants, Wind Mobile and Public Mobile offering unlimited calling and texting as a regular plan to their clients.

If you currently in the market for a pre-paid cellphone and package, you definitely should check out Telus’s current promotion.

They’re offering 3 different handset models for only $49.99. I know what you’re saying. “Bell and Rogers offer handsets for $50 too”.

Here’s where the promotional part of the deal comes! When you purchase any one of these 3 pre-paid phones, you will also get an activation credit of $50.

There’s also a forth phone on sale for $49.99, but you will only receive an activation credit of $20 with that model.

Phones on Sale

• Samsung M540
• LG 490
• Samsung U510
• LG 285 (This phone only comes with a $20 activation credit)

You can activate the phone yourself online at www.telusmobility.com and avoid paying the $15 activation fee (when you do it at a store or over the phone with a client care rep).

Once you’ve activated the phone yourself, your prepaid account will have a credit of  $50 (what you’ve paid for the phone). Making the phone you’ve just purchase FREE! *

We live in Canada so we have to pay GST and PST (about $6.50).

Details of the promo here.

The Nexus one comes unlocked directly from Google and will support Both Quad-Band GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800 and 1900 Mhz) and Triband HSPA/UMTS (850, 1900 and 2100 Mhz) 3G networks. This means, the phone will work on all 4 major Canadian carriers: Rogers, Fido, Bell and Telus.

After a couple of months of exclusivity for the TMobile network in the US, Google has opened the market for its Google Nexus One.

The TMobile version will work on the Wind Mobile Network (900/AWS/2100 MHz)

You can order your phone at: http://www.google.com/phone/