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Miss UK
Joined: Jan 11, 2003
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Goodluck vlamm. Hope u don't have trouble obtaining it like with ur Z600 a yr ago ;-)
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govigov
Joined: Jul 30, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Back home - Cochin
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@vlam... you planning to get one??? |
dave_uk
Joined: Mar 06, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: London, UK
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The headline offer will be "Free video calling, double minutes and double texts"
PLUS
"Free Football, film and news video services and 3 free music track downloads"
*The Free Video Calling is for 30 minutes per month until end of Feb 2005.
**Double Minutes for 3 months
***Free Video Services for 3 months with free browsing.
****3 Free Music Tracks per month until end of Feb 2005
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To quote myself: 
I think the "free stuff" ought to be the same independent of service provider, so if you are in the UK, I would think the above is what you can expect.
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ts_666
Joined: Feb 21, 2002
Posts: 301
From: SWEDEN (actually UK now)
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so, its now possible to have video calls with 3 subscribers, or doesn't it work cross-network? |
esoqq
Joined: Jan 17, 2002
Posts: 96
From: UK - Oxford
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It looks liek cross network video calls will work - the brochure I picked up today from the Voda shop where I bought my V800 lists a price for cross network video calls after your free 50 minutes is used up (on a 3G price plan). It's 35p per min on Voda network, and 55p X-net.
Incidentally, the free access to video for news/football/movie news & Live! is not just until March if you sign up to one of the 3G tariffs - it's permanent. |
Dyce9984
Joined: Apr 16, 2004
Posts: 168
From: London
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It seams to me that 3 contracts are still better value for money, more minutes for the £ me thinks 
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dave_uk
Joined: Mar 06, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: London, UK
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Only once you have experienced "3"'s customer service can you truly understand their pricing strategy!
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Dyce9984
Joined: Apr 16, 2004
Posts: 168
From: London
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Dude I can safely say I experienced their customer service, when working at a phone shop \nnnn/ 4 u (no suggestion at all to what shop lol)
Most of them are based on in europe such as belgium or holland or germany, so they don't understand english properly. Their phones are the worst. But we had more probs with voda than any other network.
So when 3 have a good phone, maybe they will get more customers, all I will say at the moment is wait to see what Orange do in the next 2 weeks and wait to see what T-mobile do.
As far as I know O2 haven't released and plans for 3G as yet, but I have a feeling they are holding a trump card as always
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amnesia
Joined: Jan 15, 2004
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From: Doha, London, Tokyo, Shanghai
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discovered that Colchester doesn't have the phone.
You can order it though.
Colchester doesn't have a 3G signal either.
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p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London
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one thing that might stop me moving to voda and getting the v800,
can u browes other internet pages other than the voda live ones?
because i know on 3 u can only go on their own portals |
simon69c
Joined: Feb 24, 2003
Posts: 177
From: Southampton, UK
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I got one on the £40 '3G hero' tariff today as well and the download speeds are great - as is the bundle of stuff and most of it is permanent! Only the music downloads (3 full tracks per month) are temporary and they run out at the end of february.
The problem I've had though is that I can't make or receive voice calls or texts when I am on a 3G signal - which unfortunately (ironic huh?) for me is pretty all of the time! For some reason either my SIM, my phone, or Vodafone's network is causing a problem such that packet switched services on 3G are fine (i.e. browsing/downloading on live!) but circuit switched services like voice calls and texting won't work at all. I haven't tried video calling yet but I guess that will be in the same category as voice calls and texts as it is circuit switched I believe? I have a funny little symbol on my display when I have 3G signal which is a small phone with a tiny red cross at the top right - anyone know what it means? No mention of it in the manual. Also if I switch to CS only in the preferred service settings of data comms instead of PS and CS the signal seemingly disappears and I get a no network access message (but Live! will still connect if I press the button). Vodafone tell me they are working on the issue but does anyone here have any ideas in the meantime?
Great handset otherwise though - really light, smaller than I had imagined it and less heavy handed Voda branding than previous SE handsets on Live!
Not to worry - problem must have been with Vodafone as it has now been corrected! Move along ... nothing to see here
Oh and yes you can browse anywhere you want - there is no walled garden. Browsing the Vodafone Live! content is free but browsing elsewhere with WAP or using internet through the phone will use up your extras allowance (i you have one) and then normal GPRS charges will apply (£2.35/MB in the UK) - the extras are at a special rate for the two exclusive 3G tariffs available in stores though.
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TJMerwanji
Joined: Jan 21, 2003
Posts: 86
From: London
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What two tariffs? I've got the 'hero' tariff for 40 quid...does that apply? I want to use the phone wirelessly via bluetooth with my laptop. Once I've connected it and I have £12 worth of extra. If its £2.35/mb, does that mean i could have at least 5mb? |
simon69c
Joined: Feb 24, 2003
Posts: 177
From: Southampton, UK
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Yes it does. And the other is the anytime 1000 hero tariff. Oh and here's proof there's no walled garden!
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Edit: Oh - didn't show it but that was posted from my V800 - honest! If you look at the extras package options for the two hero tariffs they are cheaper than the standard extras on ordinary tariffs. The £12 you get included as standard would indeed get you 5.1MB if you used it just for browsing the internet.
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lynn
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
Posts: 65
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have all 3 colours been released? |
annax
Joined: Oct 23, 2002
Posts: 53
From: London
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Vodafone shop at London station only had black, told me they didn't do any other colours.
My port from another network won't happen til Weds next week, so I've put my work 2.5G Voda SIM card in (taken out of my T39 which replaced the nasty Nokia POS that work decided to issue 12 months ago) and I can confirm that it works just fine as a non-3G phone, too.
£150 for the phone on the £40/month 500 mins package with all the video service content you can eat, plus plenty of free texts and video calls. I don't think it's that bad at all!
I do resent having to pay £1.50 for itemised billing though. So I haven't. |
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