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Hi All,
Just recieved my free upgrade to K750i on vodafone (from carphone warehouse). Phones appears to have no vodafone branding whatsoever which im very chuffed about.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 17:22:28
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I believe all of the first phones which are with networks come without branding, if you get what I mean.
I think it's because the networks haven't had chance to alter the firmware with their own branding yet, so they send them out with Sony Ericsson's own firmware.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 17:23:24
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I just got one today from Carphone Warehouse on O2, no branding either
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Posted: 2005-06-01 17:29:53
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carphone warehouse upgrades are often unbranded models, especially if you ask them for an unbranded one.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 17:35:15
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Our current stock of K750i's on Vodafone here at The Link (both new and upgrades) are generic black-colour SonyEricsson models without any branding whatsoever. That will probably change soon when the new silver Vodafone ones come in.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 17:43:29
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Voda themselves told me they wont have them for at least another couple of weeks. Not waiting that long for one that will probably be munged, so asked for my Pac code and have a new one coming from CPW tomorrow. Was expecting more argument of Voda as a customer of 10 years with a monthly spend of 70 quid, often well over 100 when I am abroad, but they didn't put up a fight!
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Posted: 2005-06-01 22:28:51
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CPW will always sell the unbranded versions on O2 and Voda (unless a Voda-branded alternative is available). Sometimes, this is also the case on T-Mobile (although it is unlikely with the K750i, as the D750i will be the T-Mobile equivalent, and they won't authorise the K750i to be sold on T-Mobile). On Orange, handsets are almost always Orange-branded stock, although there have been a few notable exceptions recently (Samsung D500, Siemens S65) which may herald the start of a promising new era on Orange where it is possible to have generic, un-ruined firmware as a subsidised handset option.
Also, even if Voda or T-Mobile branded handsets are available, CPW will occasionally sell the generic versions as well, if there are stock shortages of branded variants.
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Posted: 2005-06-01 22:53:19
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rickster2kuk Posts: > 500
Now that Vodafone have released this online, has anyone got it and got pictures of the branding - is it like they did with the K700i?
Also can use ringtones that are mp3's - what other restrictions are there?
Just interested to know.
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Posted: 2005-06-04 19:03:54
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I got a silver branded version yesterday. You can't use 'ordinary' mp3 files as ring tones ... I wish they wouldn't do that! It is like my garage speed limiting my car!
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Posted: 2005-06-04 19:56:44
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@Phantomlynx
You will probably need to use SE's DRM packager tool to give the MP3 files Digital Rights Management.
Vodaphone limited MP3 ringtones on the K700i too - all their firmwares apart from the last couple (R2V & R2AA) didn't allow MP3s to be used at all, even if DRMed.
I hope they have learnt their lesson and at least allowed DRMed MP3s on the K750's R1C004 firmware!
Oh! And let me know if this works! I'll add the info to my K750 Firmware Overview page.
[ This Message was edited by: mwarner on 2005-06-04 19:04 ]
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Posted: 2005-06-04 20:03:17
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