Posted by laffen
"A spokeswoman for Orange told us the theft would not have a significant effect on the supply on the smartphone. It is continuing to receive shipment of the phone from Taiwan, she told theregister. Meanwhile the stolen smartphones have been blacklisted by Orange"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/28174.html
Posted by swazi
I bet there is gona be a huge surge of grey phones circulating now.
Posted by gadgetboytom
ha ha!!
Posted by ShibbyLicious
dunno bout grey market feasability
cos orange have obviously b/listed them now so theyre no use 2 nebody on uk networks
probably get shipped overseas mayb ?!!?
shibby
Posted by gadgetboytom
nope they wont work on any network other than orange uk
Posted by bjambean
yeah I can confirm this piece of news as I was told last night by a friend who works at orange retail.
Those phones might as well be sold as paper weights!
If all the write ups on orange and microsoft's partnership through out this project are true Orange will have made this phone an ORANGE ONLY phone, with out the facility to have the phone on other networks.
Also don't 4get that recent legislation means that any blacklisted phone in the uk becomes blacklisted on all networks so there are completely useless over here.
P.s. what the hell is going on with heathrow!! The worlds most busy airport and their security record over the past year has been terrible!
Posted by couzo
I know what you mean hopefully they will ship some P800 phones there soon!!
Posted by captainsm
Does that mean that you CAN'T travel with a SPV ??
Posted by [MDS]
are u guys positive that the phone can not be unlocked??? i really want to get one, but i am in us and i have to be sure i can use it... i am not going to pay 500 bucks for non usable phone... please let me know... thanx.
Posted by pachy
I have been told that "cloning" is what happens to these phones, (same as stolen cars) it makes the phone imei appear legitimate to the network. allthough what happens when both are being used at the same time ??????
Posted by swazi
The ppl who stole these would have known that orange would immediatly block them , so im sure they had a plan for them to be used again some how. Otherwise they wouldnt have stolen them.
Posted by JiggyJaggy
AT the moment the only way to unlock them is through Orange customer services...about £32 i think if your an orange customer. And only if your a customer. Im sure you will be able to unlock via data cable or through shops like all other phones.
Posted by georgied
I'm staying clear of the spv, ms software is really buggy on phones and pdas. P800 has got my vote! ;-)
Posted by markboyce
The SPV is a tri-band handset so it can be used in Europe, Asia and the USA.
Posted by wapchimp
U can use spv abroad with orange-just roam onto a supported network-true blacklisting covers all uk nets, but it is locked to orange-so dont make sense to steal em-stil waitin to hear if it can be unlocked officialy
Posted by wapchimp
And i woukdnt trust me nan at heathrow-there were samsung a300 nicked-and 2 large cash roberies
Posted by bingo
Anyone want to buy an SPV?
I've got 1400 I want to shift quickly!
Joking - dont spam me saying "I want one!"
Posted by exrom
that the thieves stole the smartphones only makes the world better!
Posted by bingo
Maybe it was Microsoft trying to hide all the bugs?
Posted by georgied
Couldn't have been ms goons, they would've blue screened...
[ This Message was edited by: georgied on 2002-11-25 15:10 ]
Posted by Eleventy7
Maybe it was MS coz the CTrl-Alt-Del buttons weren't workin properly