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Muhammad-Oli
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@frankthetank: That's awesome that you scored a K850i out of it! If you can't get the K850i to use the HDR software, maybe an older photo could be used? 
@yea g: Welcome mate! I hadn't heard of Black + White before... Thanks for the link! So is this the one of the new networks we heard about a while back?
What phone do you use dude? And what city are you from?
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yea g
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not to sure, I saw it on the sony ericsson website wen I was sending mms and wap settings to my k610 after flashing the firmware. So I did a google and got that website.
Edit: o yea i use a k610 and im from Auckland
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I do have a cracker panorma shot of Mount Cook that you might appreciate?
Or Lake Tekapo?
Whangaparoa Harbour?
Mt John Observatory?
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Muhammad-Oli
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Thanks for that!
I'll work on it tomorrow night hopefully. Obviously if I'm making it a background, I will need to make it a bit paler. I'm thinking either the Lake Tekapo or Mount Cook one, because they are really typical of New Zealand's beautiful countryside. They are all really stunning though. I've been up to Mount John Observatory and around that area myself and views like that really stick in your mind.
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carkitter
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Great shots mate! What you need for the K850i is an IPK-100 but I don't know if SENZ have sourced it yet as when it was released last year I called the Sony Style store in Newmarket who said SENZ didn't know what it was and had no plans to supply it. Typical behaviour really.  Anyway, worth enquiring again I reckon.
On 2008-08-12 11:41:36, yea g wrote:
not to sure, I saw it on the sony ericsson website wen I was sending mms and wap settings to my k610 after flashing the firmware. So I did a google and got that website.
 WOW - Good spotting!
That's very likely NZCommunications! I've heard recently that they're doing a low cost approach to mobile, but B&W is a very interesting concept and could certainly tempt me away from VodafoneNZ.
I signed up as a Beta-tester and got this email:
Dear XXXXXXXXX,
Thanks for dropping us a line.
One of the gurus from the Black+White team will be in touch with you for a bit of a chin wag some time in the near future.
Cheers,
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Black+White
http://www.bw.co.nz
Looking forward to this chin wag
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yea g
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yes I signed up too and got that same email. wonder when they will contact me...
Edit: just out of interest i sent the wap settings to my fone. the homepage is a non-exitant page wap.bw.co.nz and the proxy is the same one as vodafone - 172.30.38.3 port 8080
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carkitter
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NZC have signed a deal with VodafoneNZ to use the Vodafone network in the same manner as TelstaClear renamed 021 services as 029 but now use the 027 network.
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All of those photos would look great on the first post but my preference is for the Whangaparoa Harbour shot as it's more representative of what I see everyday.
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looking in b&w's t&c's they mention a company called m2 New Zealand Limeted. A google says that m2 signed a deal with huawei to build a mobile network in New Zealand, at least thats how i understood it... |
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Right again!
It appears M2 is already up and running in Oz as GreenMobiles specialising in Small Business Enterprise and running an Online shop called Simply Mobiles supplying Optus handsets. Here is a link to thier SE phone page including C902, K660, W890 and W980 at discounted (Australian dollar) prices: http://www.simplymobiles.com.au/cart.php?m=product_list&c=3
And here's a link to a pdf of thier agreement with Vodafone signed last year signalling their plans in NZ and detailing their background. http://m2.com.au/viewfile.php?id=82
From the M2NZ news page:
"...M2 is also already in the New Zealand market entering back in January [2006] with a Wholesale Services Agreement with Telecom New Zealand. This deal is initially for fixed line services. Since the beginning of the year, M2 has been growing an active sales channel in both Auckland and Wellington.
The new deal with Vodafone's wholesale division will give M2 a lot more leverage in the market and will allow it to bundle fixed line access from Telecom New Zealand and cell phone access from Vodafone..."
Hmmm... good luck to them getting Voda and Telecom to play together nicely; in 2006 I was an Xtra customer but couldn't get my emails on my K700 or V800 because they were on Vodafone.  I hope M2 can work around this.
Info on NZ Communications is hard to find, this was part of the profile they provided when the submitted an application for Wimax spectrum being auctioned by the government:
"NZCL has announced plans to commence business in NZ using Huawei Technologies as its technology partner. Huawei Technologies have supplied equipment on 32 GSM/WCDMA networks worldwide and are the fastest growing network equipment supplier in the world. They are on track to supply 20% of all new mobile phone networks by 2010.
NZCL is headquartered in Auckland with offices in Wellington and Christchurch. The company is in the process of deploying an initial 840 cell sites to cover 60% of the NZ population. The company currently employs 58 people and 20 consultants. It is in negotiations for multiple co-location sites with Telecom and has filed XX RMA applications for cell site tower erection in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch."
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Alrighty, Whangaparoa Harbour it shall be. But you have to wait. I'm getting over my hangover from design camp...
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right the one thing i want to know is gsm or cdma. hopefully it will be gsm so we can all use our sony ericsson phones and hopefully they will have a good 3g coverage (if they have 3g lol) |
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All network providers will be on GSM come November!
What I'm worried about is that a new separation may form in the near future as some networks decide to go the Wimax route instead of LTE.
LTE has wide industry acceptance while WiMax is an American standard doomed to failure but propped up by the fact that Google are investing in it and will be releasing Android on it.
Yes, WiMax is the new CDMA  and NZ Communications are heavily committed to it, while Vodafone are committed to LTE. I don't know where Telecom stand but it'll probably be the opposite of Vodafone while M2 will probably go where Vodafone goes or may be influenced by Optus in Oz.
I hope these telco's get thier act together and all go the LTE path or else we'll see more incompatible mobile networks like to past and I though we'd just fixed that situation.... finally! 
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yea g
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sound like another bluray vs hd-dvd
why cant they be more like sony ericsson or nokia - they all decided to use bluetooth, imagine if they didn't, sony stereos would be able to connect a play back from sony ericsson phones but not nokias lol
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carkitter
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Yeah, only with that battle consumers stayed away from both formats until there was a winner meaning the issue was resolved relatively quickly. I can't see NZer's not having cellphone accounts until the LTE/Wimax battle is resolved.
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On 2008-08-14 10:47:56, carkitter wrote:
Yeah, only with that battle consumers stayed away from both formats until there was a winner meaning the issue was resolved relatively quickly. I can't see NZer's not having cellphone accounts until the LTE/Wimax battle is resolved.
good point. maybe most of the companies will go with one and then the other companies will follow. at&t, vodafone and o2 probably will have the most effect on the others |
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