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W900 on Vodafone (UK) Idiots! |
dckl
Joined: Feb 05, 2005
Posts: 24
From: Washington, DC
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Is the keypad light on the Voda branded W900 red? |
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ayejatt
Joined: Dec 15, 2005
Posts: > 500
From: Hong Kong
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It a white light
and @David...i got mine for £50 being on a £25/pm contract, u just need to negotiate a bit since u being a £400 pm user!!! |
floatlite
Joined: Jan 23, 2002
Posts: 486
From: Glasgow
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Oh believe me, I tried, and I am very polite but to the point, but ohh no, they never moved, well until I had sent in a formal letter complaining, and they got back to me.
I was seriously pissed off!!
Anyways, got it and then promptly unlocked and debranded the bugger.
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hongsta299
Joined: Dec 07, 2005
Posts: 21
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DRM? theres no DRM. I can use ANY mp3 for my ringtone no probs. The brandings not as bad as everyones making out. You can change nearly every aspect of the phone (themes, wallpaper, backgrounds, ringtones, font colours, etc) The only thing you can't seem to change are the icons and i actually prefer the voda icons over the cartoony original SE ones, but i guess thats just me...
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ajs2003
Joined: Dec 09, 2004
Posts: 51
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so this phone wont be available on o2 at all??
I only use O2 because they dont brand their phones like orange, tmobile or vodaphone. Im not the only one. I know so many people that are moving to o2 for that very reason. I would of thought them 3 companies would of noticed that by now and started to change things back |
SL33PYH34D
Joined: Sep 06, 2004
Posts: 486
From: Berkshire, UK
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On 2006-01-02 01:32:17, ajs2003 wrote:
so this phone wont be available on o2 at all??
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It is already, although not officially through O2 but third party dealers who bundle a sim free phone with an O2 connection pack.
I would have thought it will officially be available on at least O2 after the Voda exclusive deal finishes sometime at the end of January. |
ayejatt
Joined: Dec 15, 2005
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From: Hong Kong
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they are imports not official UK stock thou... |
Wirral Bagpuss
Joined: Feb 09, 2004
Posts: 246
From: Liverpool, UK
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Well the only other solution is to buy the phone sim free, then u would only have the  branding and nothing else. I did that when i got my P900.  |
p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London
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So o2 should get it begining of Febuary?
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P-Dogg
Joined: Dec 22, 2005
Posts: 5
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I cannot understand why anyone is complaining. Nobody forces you to buy a branded phone, if you dont want one, dont bloody well buy one.
How simple is that to understand.
I quite like the branding on my W900. I can use any MP3 as a ringtone which I couldnt do on my S700i and I think they've improved the branding on the actual phone hugely. OH and it was free, not £300-£400 which it is unbranded.
Never even used the my friends bit so I couldnt give a monkeys about that tbh. |
SL33PYH34D
Joined: Sep 06, 2004
Posts: 486
From: Berkshire, UK
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On 2006-01-03 21:34:32, p900 lover wrote:
So o2 should get it begining of Febuary?
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Would have thought so yes, although as I say you can get it unofficially already.
I bought mine SIM free from Expansys and it is working fine with my Orange sim. |
SL33PYH34D
Joined: Sep 06, 2004
Posts: 486
From: Berkshire, UK
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On 2006-01-04 10:45:07, P-Dogg wrote:
I cannot understand why anyone is complaining. Nobody forces you to buy a branded phone, if you dont want one, dont bloody well buy one.
How simple is that to understand.
I quite like the branding on my W900. I can use any MP3 as a ringtone which I couldnt do on my S700i and I think they've improved the branding on the actual phone hugely. OH and it was free, not £300-£400 which it is unbranded.
Never even used the my friends bit so I couldnt give a monkeys about that tbh.
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Have to say as far as branding goes it doesn't look too bad - at least the Voda icons have been designed with someone with an ounce of design skill unlike the typical Orange bland grey icons, and they haven't insisted on ruining the phone's functionality by replacing soft keys with duplicate camera or live! buttons or forcing rubbish like the Orange homescreen upon you. Although the moving around of the icons is a little strange they have done it so it matches more with their other branded handsets like the Sharp 902/903 etc.
The battery icon is perhaps a little strange though using bars - simply because of the new way the battery meter works on the W900 it can can go up and down depending on phone usage so using larger bars probbably makes this feature look rather strange.
Now whilst I agree that right now the only way to go if you don't want a branded handset is SIM free (in fact IMO SIM free is the only way to go full stop) that doesn't mean that the operators are qualified to do a good job in user interface design or changing the phone's functionality (Orange take note here!).
Despite the fact that here in the UK phones supplied with contracts are heavily subsidised (which I personally think is wrong anyway, but there you go) it is the end user who owns the phone outright from the start of the contract and it is their's to do with what they wish, so in some ways I think the end user should have an element of choice whether they want a branded version or not. Those choosing the non branded version would probably end up in the minority anyway and would have to accept little or no handset support from the network operator which you'd get with a branded handset. |
batesie
Joined: Feb 13, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London, UK
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the branding really isnt that bad.
many of you know how much i despise networks interfering with handsets software.
but the voda W900 only has a shortcut button and voda written once on the bottom of the screen.
there isnt much changed in the software, the walkman side is completly unaffected, there is only a slight shuffle around in the menu, to make room for a shortcut to take you to the Vodafone Live! site.
its a lot better than it used to be...
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Posted: 2005-12-31 20:06
