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Come on everyone on here come and sign my petition on here against phone branding. My petition i wish could be sent to Vodafone Orange and 3 to stop all branding on mobile phones. If they knew how many complaints it causes and maybe even how many customers it can lose them then surely they would do something about it. Why should we sign that contract or pay hundreds of pounds for pay as you go and not be given the real original product as it was intended to be. Why should we put up with nasty graphics and horrible menus when signing on the dotted line. Branding. Why?
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Posted: 2009-03-27 12:23:00
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Some our worse than others, e.g. Orange totals the UI & graphics whilst O2's branding tends to be amongst the least intrusive.
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Posted: 2009-03-27 12:32:43
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Oh good the first one im sure there will be more. I wonder if anyone has ever actually sent anything to the networks complaining to get it stopped?
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Posted: 2009-03-27 12:36:00
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never really bothered as the networks wont listen. branding is part of their global marketing so is a big part of their network...
But if it helps.
I add my name to this petition to try and stop the networks branding phones so fiercely.
J.
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Posted: 2009-03-27 14:27:33
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Not to rain on your parade, but has any online petition ever been effective? I don't think they care at all. Or did 3, vodafone, tmobile, etc agree they will stop branding if they get x signatures?
http://mlcastle.net/petitions.html
Don't get me wrong, I despise this branding that some (Orange is the worst) providers do, but the only thing we can do is stay away from them so they notice it where it hurts; their pockets. I buy my phones from the carphone warehouse or tesco, without any hardware branding, the software is easy to remove anyways.
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Posted: 2009-03-27 16:39:51
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Don't get your Orange phones from Orange, get them from CPW, my last 2 upgrades have been from them and they were completely sim free
The Orange homescreen is the worst part of the whole thing, they have sort of listened and it can now be disabled but the FW is still fudged!
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Posted: 2009-03-27 17:48:26
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Yeah i am debranding next week. I would have bought from Carphone or Phones4U my c510 but as i was on Orange at the time my budget only reached the price it was on Orange. Normally i buy from Carphone. And currently its one of if not the best phone at the price.
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Posted: 2009-03-27 17:57:00
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I've flashed one Orange branded firmware in my C702, and it wouldnt even allow me other themes to change the menu's icons. Branding is one think, but takign away functions is much much worse.
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Posted: 2009-03-27 18:07:05
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I'll add my name to the petition.
End of the day. We pay the networks for a service. The don't pay us to advertise for them so why should we get a phone with all their stuff plastered over it.
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Posted: 2009-03-27 18:09:00
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I wouldn't mind it so much, if they didn't remove important features , my 02 branded C702 had no google maps.
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Posted: 2009-03-27 18:16:25
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