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On 2006-01-03 21:34:32, p900 lover wrote:
So o2 should get it begining of Febuary?
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.
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Posted: 2006-01-04 10:49:52
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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.
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.
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Posted: 2006-01-04 11:20:37
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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: 2006-01-04 11:36:21
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