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carnivalist Posts: 30

I'm due an upgrade on Orange in the UK and I need a bit of advice. I've searched through other forums, but I'm either finding it difficult to get answers in terms I can understand, or the information seems like it might be buried in a 300-page thread.

I could have upgraded last December, but the horror stories about the P990 were legion (and not just on here) so I thought I'd wait and see if the situation improved.

It now appears that a recent firmware upgrade has addressed most of the problems. However from reading various posts on the subject, there is some doubt in my mind as to whether or not I can use SEUS to upgrade an Orange-branded P990. Can I do this or not, and if not is the orange firmware as much of a disaster as the early non-branded phones wseem to have been? Please bear in mind that a lot of this stuff (CDA numbers, firmware version numbers etc) flies straight over my head!

I would also be interested to know if any of the wise heads and those, "in the know" think it might be better to further delay upgrading in anticipation of a successor to the P990. In other words is such a phone likely to be released in the next six to eight months or so? (If one is going to be released in that time it might be worth waiting).

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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Posted: 2007-05-06 04:29:44
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Draxx Posts: 36

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Posted: 2007-05-06 12:42:46
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carnivalist Posts: 30

Thanks Drax.

Do you have any info on the second part of my question? i.e is there any word of a potential successor to the P990?
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Posted: 2007-05-07 01:52:38
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