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amawanqa
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@ da brixsta:
For that price you'd think so, but it's actually unlocked and unbranded, as it's Carphone Warehouse's sim-free stock, and they're also not T-Mobile or '3' CPW offers, who do sometimes supply locked and branded phones to CPW. The choice of networks stipulated in the ads also confirms this.
If I was buying from Phones4U, The Link, or the networks' online shops, you betcha it'd be locked then.
The only stuff CPW sometimes put on their phone stock is (sometimes) start-up and shut-down shows, plus sometimes a wallpaper. Usually one can delete these anyway. 
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Hobbs
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A Sony Ericsson K500i is what im having to use.
Such a simple phone.
And quite a nice change.
Press on/off key and phone is up and running in a second.
Forgot how that felt.
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brix25
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@HOBBS: Your K500 reminds me of my old K700...an almost perfect phone apart from the lack of expandable memory and piss poor camera. I think I need to search up the K700 picture thread.
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Tsepz_GP
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Hobbs
You're worrying me now,when i got my N81 i did the same because the lady at the counter advised me to,she said if i turn on the phone and the factory charge is still full then i should play around with the phone until its dead then recharge for something like 8hours. So im hoping thats not what caused the problem lol.
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Tsepz_GP
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Hobbs
You're worrying me now,when i got my N81 i did the same because the lady at the counter advised me to,she said if i turn on the phone and the factory charge is still full then i should play around with the phone until its dead then recharge for something like 8hours. So im hoping thats not what caused the problem lol.
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Hobbs
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K700i is a lovely little phone.Gucci,I think the Golden rule is to give it that good 8-12hr charge before using it.It even says not doing this will effect your batteries lifespan.
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gola
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@kyle
lmao! 
@GUCCI
nah,i'm cool with it,wouldn't buy anything off the streets.still got my eye on the w960i,you seen'm?saw a w960i dummy at a phone shop at wits.the guy says they'll probably have them in stock in three months time...
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amawanqa
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@ Hobbster:
LMAO, check what I stumbled across on mp3fiesta: lullaby renditions of songs by U2, Nirvana, The Cure, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Pink Floyd, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins etc  :
http://www.mp3fiesta.com/rockabye_baby_artist21122/
Sigh, just when we think that we've seen (and heard) it all, LOL.
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Tsepz_GP
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@ Hobbs
So true,but you know how it is for us when we get a new phone 
@ Gola
Lol i'd be worried if you went for it at such a dodgy price.
Thats gud, 3MONTHS!!? Dam thats long though,thats exactly 12months since its announcement, when is your upgrade?
Dam my friend's N95-8gb's one speaker may have blown,man that phone has been through so much abuse from day-1
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Hobbs
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Brix you hear that.3 months time.W960i? or P1i? Me I'd skip them both,debrand a K850i and get that.I'd even consider a snazzy green T650i.GEEZ Im enjoying the size and simplicity of this K500.
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Hobbs
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Will definitely check that link tom at work Wangs.My mp3fiesta account needs a top up again.What do you buy? I normally just get the $29.99 option.
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amawanqa
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Yesterday, one of the main stories on O2's wap site and the newspapers was about the British student who was killed by a black mamba bite in SA.
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..and in one of the free local newspapers, taken with the P1i:
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amawanqa
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@ Hobbster:
I'm still on my initial $20.00 top-up. Having said that, I've only a few $ left on the account, so methinks I'll be topping up with another 20 greenbacks in the next week or so.
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brix25
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@da wanqsta: Never heard of that story...and I check the newswires constantly.
@HOBBS: Not keen on either the P990, K850 or the T650...all nice phones but just not for me.
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amawanqa
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@ da brixsta:
Here's links to the Times Online article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/[....]orld/africa/article3529594.ece
..and Sky News:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1308880,00.html
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