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Posted by JiSm


Congratulations on your engagement and your wedding mate! Are you getting married in New Zealand then?



Yup, on the 29th of November. Leaving here on the 27th Oct and having a week in Hongkong on the way back. Honeymoon in Tonga on some island with nothing but a restaurant and 12 beach huts! Talk about privacy. Should be good!

In saying that though, I have 2 weeks to figure out how I get an X1 or C905 before I leave. After paying for the wedding there aint much pingers left to spend on gizmos. Will see what I can pull out of my contacts here... hehe


Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Wow, that sounds awesome! And expensive!

Maybe you could score the phones as leaving gifts... You know, drop hints wherever you can!

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[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2008-10-13 04:28 ]

Posted by carkitter
@heitat
Welcome to Esato!

@JiSm
Congratulations! Hope your wedding goes well, the weather here is starting to improve after a very wet and stormy winter.

Posted by yea g
well everyone participating in the playtime?
JUst a question oli:
does the playtime threads go up sometime during the english daytime (our night time)

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Yeah they're almost always in our night time. Be careful, they're addictive to want to wait for. Last time I won a couple of things, but I was staying up til 3am and 4am some nights just waiting for the Playtime threads to pop up!

Posted by yea g
I think Ill get a bit pwnd if i stay up that late

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
I'm kinda used to it to be honest.

Posted by yea g
well yea but I got school etc. and cause of my stupid bus, that goes like 2kmph and breaks down every second day, I have to get up at 6am. arrgh!

Posted by heitat

On 2008-10-12 14:01:50, JiSm wrote:
Hey Heitat! Welcome! Oli has to update the Thread with your name. Will be good to have an "insider" here! We promise to be nice. hehe. Whats the buzz in Voda about the B&W network startin up?


Hey jism. not really much buzz about the B&W network starting up with us at the moment. I'm a part timer so and i study at AU during the week so maybe I've missed the news about B&W lol.. i think vodafone would like the more networks starting up in NZ anyway.


Welcome to Esato! I have added you to our New Zealanders list. It's good to have you here mate. The C702 is a great phone from what I hear, and coming from your Motorola, I can guarantee you'll love it! So what's it like being a Vodafone rep? Any sweet perks to the job? Any crap bits?


Thanks Oli for adding me. yea i'm really excited lol but still have to wait another couple of weeks before i can get one. cause i'll be getting it at a low low price and thats one of the sweet perks. craps bits are usually grumpy customers but 90% of the time is all fun. Its a cool job and i do like it.

Posted by yea g
better keep my mouth shut about vodafone annoying me now

Posted by JiSm
Haha, reckon! Especially since Im hoping to be with them in a few weeks too! What area in Auckland you workin in Heitat?
Im hopefully going to be in South Auckland. Thats where the fun is! haha - Mind you, London has been the funnest place to work. You want weirdos and angry customers you come here! Had phones thrown at me, customers yelling so much they start hyperventilating, people saying "F**k off" when you approach and say "Can I help you with anything today?" and one guy started a fight with me because I wouldn't put his phone on charge!. I can tell you these are daily things and everyday is something different. Hopefully South Auckland will be the same! haha

Posted by carkitter
All you'll have to look forward to in South Auckland is armed robbery I'm afraid. Methamphetamine has society's morons killing for cash these days.

Retail and Account management is heading into a tough time here in NZ. Gadgets are still selling but for how long if people can't get credit?

Posted by heitat
wow jism thats some crazy customers in london lol.. I work on queen st and i've worked up in k rd as well.. seen a few weirdos, homeless, psychos, drunks and strippers come into my store LOL.. girls and bartenders from the white house usually comes in on a Saturday and mess around in the store still drunk haha but nothing to that extreme lol. but we do get a lot of dummy phones stolen -_- I don't get those people stealing dummy phones for what?

I have heard they take dummy phones from vodafone stores then they would go to those parallel imported phone shops so they can steal their display phone by replacing it with our dummy ones. not 100% sure if that is true or not.. lol sounds quite cleaver though

Posted by yea g
Hello to everyone today!!

lol just dropped my remote

anyway has everyone done this:
go to service menu
go to service info
go to model info
press 2,4,6,8

Posted by JiSm
Haha, yea this is funny as! I seen this on another Forum a while back. I have tested it on every SE I get (I see a few in my job) and it works on all of em so far!

SE ROCKS!

Haha

Posted by yea g
I thinking the firmware programmers might have had a few friday night drinks

Posted by heitat
tried it on my old s700 ... doesn't work -_-

Posted by JiSm
Maybe its db2020+? Now that I think about it I havent fried it on anything less than that...

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Yeah I saw that too. Pretty funny right there. I showed my brother on his (my old) V630i and he was like "man that's gay". Hahaha. I guess he's kinda right about it. It's kinda nerdy.

On another note, I saw my first 'H' for HSDPA just a minute ago on my C902! Woo! Finally my area has HSDPA coverage! Even if I have to walk around trying to find it! Anyway it disappeared before I could check out it's speed. Damn.

Posted by heitat
where about are u located at oli? no HSDPA before?

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
I'm in Christchurch. I've never ever noticed HSDPA anywhere in Christchurch before. Even in the central city. I live about 10 minutes from the centre of the city and I got HSDPA coverage for a few seconds last night and haven't seen it since!

Posted by yea g
too bad . I (would) get the hsdpa icon almost everywhere in Auckland.

Posted by heitat
humm -_- i thought vodafone would have pretty much all the major cities in nz fully 3G covered by now... its appears not.. hang in there oli lol.. they upgrade their coverage constantly it extends every month.. soon enough u will have ur H appearing on ur phone period!!!

Posted by yea g
totally agree. I see vodafone masts going up all the time

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Hopefully yeah. I can get 3G quite easily though it does disappear and come back as it pleases, but never HSDPA until last night.

Posted by yea g
does it matter? in central auckland my dad's vodem get shit speeds even with hsdpa.


Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Nah it doesn't matter much, but anyone would prefer it be there than not.

Posted by yea g
really?? I really dont care if my 3g shows up

Posted by yea g
So oli, you and your friends spaming some people aye????

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Yeah cause there's only like 6 people that live in Christchurch.

Posted by carkitter

On 2008-10-15 07:14:51, yea g wrote:
does it matter? in central auckland my dad's vodem get shit speeds even with hsdpa.



It's not the network, it's the Vodem. I gave up using mine after it returned a download speed 1/2 that of my V640i in the same area.

@M-O
I've only seen the 3G+ symbol in two places in Auckland - Silverdale just north of Auckland and Unitec in Mt Albert. Despite this I get speeds faster that 3G at home (800 - 1400 kbps) with out seeing the 3G+ symbol so I wouldn't rely on the symbol to determine whether you're getting HSDPA or not.

I upgraded the RAM on my laptop yesterday from 256MB to 2.0GB and whoa what a difference! Everything runs faster, I can open multiple Word and PPT documents effortlessly while running my Java Software, run Anti Virus and Anti Spyware programs in the background without a performance loss and even run iTunes without slowing everything else down. Just Awesome. Looking forward to seeing if I get a download speed increase too.

Next up is a HDD upgrade once I fiqure out how to painlessly clone my old 40GB HDD. I gonna go for the largest available which I think is 320GB, but not for a little while yet. My laptop uses IDE not SATA HDD; 320GB should be plenty because I'm storing Handycam video not HD/Blueray DVD video.

Posted by lampligher
Hello all- Please disregard, I've answered my own question.
Cheers all, LL-

[ This Message was edited by: lampligher on 2008-10-18 04:25 ]

Posted by yea g
Ok. Enjoy the cookies!

Posted by yea g
ok umm... no posts for a while so ill make one
C905 out on friday (not here though)

Posted by JiSm
Me too... looks like I have scored an X1 before I leave! haha. I had the choice between C905 or X1 and the X1 won. Its so sexy. Feels like its made of iron or something indestructible anyways. The C905 feels very plastic. Similar to the N96. A real nice menu speed though. Not all slow like the W595 and W980. Roll on Wednesday! I just hope I dont have to install that Windows Mobile Bluetooth stack to get it to work with my watch...

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Lucky! I reckon that if I could afford any phone from the SE range right now, it would be the X1.

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
The Vodafone online store has just been updated with fancy new looks, presumably to be in line with their UK counterparts, and now every single phone comes with the same wallpaper of a bunch of kids doing 'bombs' in the pool.

Anyway, along with the update is the appearance of the black C902 at $899 (Ahahaha rip off), and the T303 in both black and silver (apparently, but the black is the only one shown) at $199, which I'd say is on the very limit of what they can sell it for. Have they even looked at the spec sheet on that thing? I'm surprised it has a calendar! I'd give them $99. Oh yeah and the G502 is now on there, giving the V640i a run for it's money.

Both the C902 and T303 are out of stock, or more likely were never in stock. Also, the P1i has made it's departure.

Posted by carkitter
Vodafone online store has N95 8GB for $1099 down $300. N96 must be arriving soon. It'll be interesting to see how much SE prices the C905... anything over $1099 and it'll struggle to compete with N95 in our market I think.

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Yeah I noticed that too. I think they could only just get away with $1200 on the C905, and that would be if they really tried to upsell it for it's 8MP camera, which I really doubt they will. $1000 seems too cheap for a Vodafone NZ new release, especially considering the C902 just came out at $900!

It's kind of weird in a way cause the C905 without the 8MP camera, WiFi and GPS (the latter two I don't think most people will buy it for), is the same as any other SE phone. So if a basic (which is what the C905's is) 8MP camera is about $300, and you gave that to, say a V640i at $300, then add WiFi and GPS at about $100 a pop... That's $800, and I think that would be reasonable. But still, there is no chance.

Posted by yea g
Well the c905 will eventually get down. I remember when the k800 was $900!!

Posted by JiSm
I remember when the T68 was $900 or $1100 with camera attachment! The first camera phone on Vodafone. Then the 7650 came out at a silly price - in which I bought one - $1599!!! Was cool at the time. Not so much now though! haha

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[ This Message was edited by: JiSm on 2008-10-21 09:08 ]

Posted by yea g
OMGWTFBBQ???!

how could it be that much!!???!!!?!?!

Posted by JiSm
Yep. And Im talkin like 6 years ago. $1599 was worth alot more then too! The second they opened I was there waiting and there hadnt been much advertising so I was by myself! I heard about it through the grapevine and yea! Not that im proud of it or anything... :'(

Posted by yea g
haha I can imagine thaT

Posted by RevoWution
Whoa, this is awesome!! A Kiwi thread on Esato!!

Cheers to whoever added me to the NZLder list on Page 1 Haven't visited this place in quite a while now, but I'm back

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Well welcome back dude! Just saw your post about the Bond content on the K800i... Sorry I can't help with that! It's always good to see a few more NZers on here though. We don't get many!

Posted by RevoWution
Cheers for the warm welcome back

Yeah, really strange how all my Bond content just locked itself up haha. Other than that, the K800i's by far the best phone I've used, ever. It does everything I need it to do, and does it all very well.

The X1's the only real replacement I can see myself purchasing in the future, provided it meets two things:
1) The OS/menu isn't lethargic/laggy like all the YouTube videos show it as
2) The price to drop. A LOT. Haha.

Will stick around and wait for official reviews once the phone is released. But it is one sexy cellphone!

Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Yeah definitely mate. Like I said a few posts ago in this thread, the X1 would be the one phone I'd want most if I were getting a new SE. But with the C902, I'm well covered for the next 6 months or more I'd say.

I'm thinking the X1 should be a fairly slick phone in the end. I mean, it's not really too much different OS-wise to any other WM phone, plus it has a better processor and RAM than almost any phone! I mean, if all WM phones were slow and laggy, you could expect the X1 to be, but I think if that was the case, then nobody would buy a WM phone in the first place!

Posted by carkitter
@RevoWution
Welcome back! Check out our revitalised NZers thread. Pretty swish eh?

@M-O

I think all Smartphones lag to some extent, even my iPhone. That's because they are miniture computers with serious OS software and you just can't stop lag in an OS when your hardware has to be small enough to fit in a pocket. It's just the price you pay for better integration of web and applications.

My 8GB iPhone has 7.1GB available because the rest of taken up with OS and managing memory. Even the updates are 238MB in size!

While we're on the subject, perhaps Vodafone should consider making iPhone type plans available for all smartphone/HSDPA equipped phone owners and up the minimum data to 1GB per month. This would increase sales of data hungry phones and services and allow alot more students/IT people/Business people to take advantage of internet on the move.

Posted by RevoWution
@carkitter

Cheers for the welcome! And I must say, good job with the NZ thread!!

I shall be visiting here on a very regular basis from now on!


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