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"A spokeswoman for Orange told us the theft would not have a significant effect on the supply on the smartphone. It is continuing to receive shipment of the phone from Taiwan, she told theregister. Meanwhile the stolen smartphones have been blacklisted by Orange"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/28174.html
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Posted: 2002-11-21 13:42:00
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I bet there is gona be a huge surge of grey phones circulating now.
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Posted: 2002-11-21 15:52:00
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ha ha!!
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Posted: 2002-11-21 16:01:00
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dunno bout grey market feasability

cos orange have obviously b/listed them now so theyre no use 2 nebody on uk networks

probably get shipped overseas mayb ?!!?

shibby
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Posted: 2002-11-21 16:30:00
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nope they wont work on any network other than orange uk
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Posted: 2002-11-21 16:38:00
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yeah I can confirm this piece of news as I was told last night by a friend who works at orange retail.

Those phones might as well be sold as paper weights!

If all the write ups on orange and microsoft's partnership through out this project are true Orange will have made this phone an ORANGE ONLY phone, with out the facility to have the phone on other networks.

Also don't 4get that recent legislation means that any blacklisted phone in the uk becomes blacklisted on all networks so there are completely useless over here.

P.s. what the hell is going on with heathrow!! The worlds most busy airport and their security record over the past year has been terrible!
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Posted: 2002-11-21 16:46:00
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I know what you mean hopefully they will ship some P800 phones there soon!!
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Posted: 2002-11-21 20:27:00
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Does that mean that you CAN'T travel with a SPV ??
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Posted: 2002-11-21 22:44:00
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are u guys positive that the phone can not be unlocked??? i really want to get one, but i am in us and i have to be sure i can use it... i am not going to pay 500 bucks for non usable phone... please let me know... thanx.
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Posted: 2002-11-21 22:52:00
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I have been told that "cloning" is what happens to these phones, (same as stolen cars) it makes the phone imei appear legitimate to the network. allthough what happens when both are being used at the same time ??????
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Posted: 2002-11-22 04:59:00
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