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Phone Branding - Visual and Software? |
Xugaa
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^ Topic...
As in Vodafone spoil their phones with a Vodafone logo on the phone exterior and mess up the menus and stuff inside. Virgin do not, well not on my K750 anyway, but if I moved to O2 for my upgrade, do they do anything? Apart from that when you turn on the phone thing... or is that gone?
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Sammy_boy
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No, I've never seen any external branding on o2 handsets, just an icon and startup/shutdown screens 
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jcwhite_uk
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The only branding on an o2 phone is the startup and shutdown screens and a link on the menu
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Xugaa
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Thats good 
Visual branding on a phone with the exception of start-up/shutdown screens and the odd menu icon, really put me off of buying phones with certain networks.
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Tigerente
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On 2006-06-18 16:43:28, Sammy_boy wrote:
No, I've never seen any external branding on o2 handsets, ...
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Don't know what O2 makes in UK but in Germany there are some SE-handsets with changed QuickShare-label to O2-label. But that's all.
Inside firmware also only changed start-up and shut-down animation and changed icon for menu1
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genesis89
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so is the virgin mobile k750 unbranded? I have been told that they come unbranded but id like to hear it from someone that has one |
anay
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anyone know if orange brand their phones? |
awave
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hmmm....i bet the o2 mms / wap settings are locked still though lol - and also locked to their portal etc....just like the vodafone - i just can't see them doing it any differently, otherwise se would make money out of it rather than o2, for example the 'get more games' shortcut, would go to the o2 games page rather than to the se one.
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Xugaa
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Yeah Virgin Mobile do not brand their phones. They are technically the same company as T-Mobile, but as you know T-Mobile brand their phones and have only specific phones they sell that have usually been changed, so you can often use Virgin to get away from that.
Orange, though not as bad as Vodafone, do usually put an Orange logo on the phone's exterior and of course like most networks except Virgin, do also have the start-up and shut-down screens.
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Dogmann
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Orange not as bad as Vodafone, well in my exexperience they are worse, Virgin and even T-Mobile seem to do the least amount of damage IMO never had an O2 phone so can't comment my P900 from Orange was dreadfull and was told i could not use the update service, that and the bad customer service is why i left Orange never to return.
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Xugaa
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^ Well there you go, I've never had Orange but assumed from what I had seen on some mobiles, but hey wrong I was .
Vodafone I thought were worse though, since I've had one and they screw up the whole of the menus in the phone and the menu bar at the bottom of the main desktop screen etc.
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genesis89
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thanks Xugaa. I was concerned about getting one as i wasnt sure about how to unbrand a SE phone and the costs involved (divinci?) but now i dont need to get it unbranded then all is good. I was going to get another moto as i love their modification capabilities but apart from the v3i there is nothing specs wise that can compete with the rest of the market and i dont want a flip phone. I hope motorola adress this problem as i hope to be going back to them when my next upgrade is due
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fatreg
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depends on what phone you get..
im sure people with K750is would argue that vodas branding is worse than oranges...
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max_wedge
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voda sucks, but did you know you can use far manager to turn the Vodafone Live middle button BACK into the activity menu as it's supposed to be?
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Posted: 2006-06-18 16:34
