Telus picks up the LG Venus

by Chris Ziegler, posted Apr 17th 2008 at 12:21AM

Strong work, Telus! First you guys are pretty much on the ball with your release of the BlackBerry 8330 Curve and the Motorola Q9c, and now you've become the first Canadian carrier to offer the LG Venus -- and you're clearly reveling in it, too, since you point out on your product page that this is actually LG's first touchscreen phone in all of Canada. $99.99 CAD (about $100) of your customer's hard-earned savings is going to net them a 2 megapixel camera, QVGA primary display, microSD slot, GPS, EV-DO, and stereo Bluetooth, so we'd say you've done good -- for the moment, anyway. Keep up the strong work.

[Thanks, Jesse]

Filed under: Handsets, LG, Telus Mobility, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: canada, lg, slider, telus, telus mobility, TelusMobility, venus

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jesse @ Apr 17th 2008 12:36AM

someone should mention that this phone does multi tasking so you can use the mp3 player or radio and text or play games at the same time :D this is an awesome phone :D

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athousandleaves @ Apr 17th 2008 3:11AM

yeah but telus is not an awesome company :P

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Tko @ Apr 17th 2008 7:13AM

Hey few years ago there were a phone call nokia 6265i who can play music whille doing other stuff.. playing game. writing text. etc. .. This was nice .. although this was not certainly full multi task like it seems on the venus..

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Erik @ Apr 17th 2008 5:34AM

Be prepared for them to try to offer you a vastly inferior phone in three years and laugh in your face when you try to get something even close to equivalent...

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badqat @ Apr 17th 2008 9:24AM

Why do Canadians put up with those awful three-year contracts?

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Khris @ Apr 17th 2008 2:12PM

Mainly because we have no other choice.

Personally I could care less as to whether or not I sign a 1, 2 or 3 year contract. I use Rogers and have no desire to use anyone else so I might as well sign for 3 years and get the best possible price I can.

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jon.wiltzen @ Apr 19th 2008 3:55AM

umm, you can sign a two year you know and the price is only $50 extra for the phone. It's because people up here have been overly conditioned to sign that three year and don't know any better. But don't mistake yourself, the option is there and is very fair, $50 isn't that much more.

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Nick Santella @ Apr 17th 2008 4:47PM

GREAT!! Now we have to wait for the other LG touch phones to come out. As for three year contracts I believe that will change after the auction at the end of may. I've been hearing t-mobile might be one of the bidders :) Hello side kick :)

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chris @ Apr 17th 2008 6:27PM

Rogers will be getting the LG Vu...better looking phone as well. Check out the link...
http://ca.lge.com/touch/pdf/vu_en.pdf

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