Hi,
Anyone know if the HD2 is being released on Orange UK and any idea when?
Sorry, but everything points to the fact that this device will not be released on Orange UK, the seem to focusing more on upcoming android devices... Its a shame really since it was Orange that brought us the original SPV range which kicked it all off. But I have seen it so many times before, its always the innovators that get left behind.
If anyone knows anything different, I would love to be proved wrong.
Any further news on when or if Orange may get this phone
Best thing you can do is get the best phone you can from Orange for free (upgrade or new customer) sell it and buy a HD2, thats what i've done for the last 4 years or so as Orange never seem to have the phone I want! lol
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Sup ppl,
i have just returned from central london (xmas shopping lol)... and i thought why not pop into a orange store.... obviosuly they didnt have the M700 on display. So i thought let me ask one of the sales reps. and his excat words were "..orange have with drawn it, and i dont know why". Hearing this i thought hm it does related to ppl on forums saying that the GPS will be disabled to start with. But i thought i wonder how true this is. So me being me... i went to other store asked same question....and got a similar answer. Can anyone confirm this?
So looks like you what be seeing the M700 for a while until the problem is sorted out between the GPS and FM radio(i think it was rite?).
But in place of that they do have the SPV M650 coming out soon. God knows when tho. Its been mentioned on the france orange website. So who knows!!
I haven't heard about the M700 but somewhere I've read that Orange has withdrawn the C700 (HTC Breeze). Reason mentioned here was a too short battery life.
As we all know resellers (like Orange is one of them) have a hard time with HTC. For instance i-mate fell of the boat already. Maybe Orange is next? Anyone more info?
I have just had a look at orange's business handset roadmap and they have the M700 listed as a february/march launch.
Hi all,
I've been reading all your comments regarding the X1 for around 3 weeks now.. As I'm new I thought... No I wont start a new tread as it seems you all have the same frustration as me waiting for it to be delivered/released (any B/S the network operators seem to fob you off with). I've herd loads of things..
1 O/S fault hence the release put back to late 2008
2 Problems with delivery(Hence the Sony say it's released but no operator can tell you an acctual date... seems to me thay are trashing the phone with their operator software)
Is's some one in the no that can say why this phone has so many issues that it's still not released.
and if someone already owns this phone... what are the bad points, I no everyone wants to no the specs... I want to know about the quality, workman ship..ect.. I don't want to see loose fitting buttons ..or the phone surfing the internet on it's own while it's in my pocket.... nuff said...
But the phone has been released in the UK. I got mine from Vodafone on contract last week, others have picked them up from the Carphone Warehouse quite a few US users got them online from Clove.co.uk
First released in Sweden and then a month later in UK with online shops shipping to other countries as well. And we are talking about simfree unbranded devices.
Threads like this are why I wish people would read through the posts on the first 2-3 pages before posting.
Got one from the o2 shop on thursday..
its been out on vodafone for over a week
yea, guys an idiot? lol
Well as the above user thinks I'm an idiot.. he should try and speak to O2...
as thats who i'm with and I've been calling them everyday. I wouldn't mind but thats the only reason I posted this post. and after calling them again. i'm told they still dont have any... Yes I may now have to now change to Vodaphone. I maybe an idiot because I dared to listen to the many o2 operators fobbing me off. Still you live and learn...
Did you all get your phones sim free or on contract.....?
After I asked to cancle my contract... hey presto they all of a sudden have them in black....
As I was so angry I asked them when did they get the stock... they had stock yesterday for half an hour before it all ran out. ( never knew this phone was in that much demand)
seems to me I was being made a fool of... coz after all that, they wanted £99 pounds for me to upgrade...! It better the nuts or i'm gonna break some
Got mine on the 28th of October at Expansys.com. Surprised you're saying that it's still not in the UK.
kas-digital said:
Well as the above user thinks I'm an idiot.. he should try and speak to O2...
as thats who i'm with and I've been calling them everyday. I wouldn't mind but thats the only reason I posted this post. and after calling them again. i'm told they still dont have any... Yes I may now have to now change to Vodaphone. I maybe an idiot because I dared to listen to the many o2 operators fobbing me off. Still you live and learn...
Did you all get your phones sim free or on contract.....?
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Ey up chav... no where in your first post did you mention you were on O2. Is jimmeh1988 supposed to have telepathic poweres to sense this?
The thread and post subject you gave was: X1 Still not released in the UK.., so you'll have to excuse the guys on here (including myself) for thinking your an idiot for obviously not reading anything that anyone has posted on this forum!
My Vodafone HD2 is set to arrive tomorrow, and I know that because of the way Vodafone are that it is going to be heavily branded (White and Red instead of the nice ice cold black theme).
Does anyone know if i can flash it with a standard WWE ROM.
Will let everyone know how it is tomorrow. Got the last one they had in stock today.
if you are getting a HD2 on Voda tomorrow (like me) it suggest you have bought a strapon contract from a site like mobilephones direct (like me) as Voda does not do the HD2 yet. These phones come with a stock HTC ROM and are not branded at all. I got a hd1 on such a contract which is how I know.
Vodafone got the HD2 from today. My X1 came with very minimal Vodafone branding, so I'm guessing you might be ok.
@ Stoolzo - No my HD2 is from Vodafone themselves. They had it on their website for about 2 days and have now removed it (probably cause i got their last one,he,he). Their contract is really good on it also.
£40 a month, 900 mins, Unlimited text, landline calls & internet, and the best part, the phone is FREE!!!!!
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@ Stoolzo - No my HD2 is from Vodafone themselves. They had it on their website for about 2 days and have now removed it (probably cause i got their last one,he,he). Their contract is really good on it also.
£40 a month, 900 mins, Unlimited text, landline calls & internet, and the best part, the phone is FREE!!!!!
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I'm not sure if it will be heavily branded. There was some comment about it in the Vodafone forums, someone asking if the black theme that the HD2 uses would come to the Touch Pro 2. The guy didn't say that the HD2 would be red and white.
My last two phones from Vodafone weren't too heavily branded, so I think we might be ok. I hope so at least. Otherwise I will wait to Hard-SPL and flash the normal HTC stock ROM.
According to our corporate account manager at HTC, Vodafone have done no branding of the HD2 at all. It's the main reason why they have been able to come to market before any of the other operators. From what I'm told, the Vodafone HD2's will also be unlocked.
It's the supposed lack of branding that persuaded me to go with Vodafone, rather than waiting for O2. I hope the HTC chap is right.
Bagpuss.
@ Bagpuss... He,he now i can finally go to sleep alright tonight and stop searching the net to find out. I know I'm getting the phone tomorrow, but wanted to be ready to try and get any vodafone stuff off of it so i have a nice clean ROM.
Thanks so much for the info, will let you know how things turn out tomorrow.
magic mind reader
i predict you wont get the HD2,
I predict you will get a txt saying:
"Your vodafone order has been delayed and won't be delivered as planned. We will send you another message with a new delivery date when your order is dispatched from our warehouse. If you have any questions call 08700700191 quoting order rference <yourorderreferencenumberhere>. please accept our sincere apologies for the delay.
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According to our corporate account manager at HTC, Vodafone have done no branding of the HD2 at all. It's the main reason why they have been able to come to market before any of the other operators. From what I'm told, the Vodafone HD2's will also be unlocked.
It's the supposed lack of branding that persuaded me to go with Vodafone, rather than waiting for O2. I hope the HTC chap is right.
Bagpuss.
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I spoke to Vodafone last night, and the guy I spoke to also said that as far as he knew, it wasn't branded.
Rock on getting my phone...whenever that is.
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@ Bagpuss... He,he now i can finally go to sleep alright tonight and stop searching the net to find out. I know I'm getting the phone tomorrow, but wanted to be ready to try and get any vodafone stuff off of it so i have a nice clean ROM.
Thanks so much for the info, will let you know how things turn out tomorrow.
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Hi, doesn't gaiden mean F*ck in farsi?
Dam, just got the message that my phone won't be delivered till Monday now, i am so so pissed about it.
Was looking forward to spending the weekend configuring it and testing it out.
Hi - hoping someone with a HD2 from Vodafone can help me!!
I pre-ordered a HD2 from an online retailer ages ago and it arrived the other week (obviously one of the first batch officially into the country).
However, in the meantime I'd also signed up to one on my existing Vodafone contract as soon as I realised they were offering them, as they gave me a good deal (ie. not the £££ handset cost!). Trouble is this one hasn't yet arrived, and I'm today told that VFs expected delivery has been delayed yet again.
My retail supplied one is currently sitting at my house as yet unopened. I was going to chuck it on eBay and hopefully get either what I paid for it or maybe even a slight profit (demand etc). However I'm getting increasingly impatient about my Vodafone one still not having turned up. I'm very tempted to do it the other way round and open up/use the one I've got, then stick the one from Vodafone on eBay when it does eventually turn up.
So my question: are the ones from Vodafone identifiable in any way? Branded? How about even the packaging and/or included documentation - is this Vodafone branded? If it is then I guess I'll just have to wait as I know it'll be harder work to get rid of the Vodafone branded handset as opposed to a retail one; however if not then I might as well with nothing to loose!
Thanks in advance, Simon
I have a Vodafone HD2 and there is no Vodafone identifiable things on it in any way. Vodafone hasn't made any alterations to the rom, well in actually fact you can't even tell you got it from vodafone other than the fact that they also send you a vodafone sim.
I'm loving mine, and it is also is sim unlocked.
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I have a Vodafone HD2 and there is no Vodafone identifiable things on it in any way. Vodafone hasn't made any alterations to the rom, well in actually fact you can't even tell you got it from vodafone other than the fact that they also send you a vodafone sim.
I'm loving mine, and it is also is sim unlocked.
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Excellent - thanks for taking the time to reply!
Means I can crack open the one I have at home and then just eBay my Vodafone one when it *finally* turns up!!
Thanks again..
THinking of getting the DHD on my network Orange when i'm due for an upgrade in October and i was wondering if it will actually be available? Does anyone know what the flagship network will be?
Please don't say o2 lol, i hate those buggers.
As far as I know, Vodafone is going to be the "flagship". HTC seemed to be bigging them up a lot at the launch event.
Orange and T-Mobile are getting the phone too, but they didn't get a mention.
O2 so far aren't even getting the phone at all!
3rd party online stores are offering the HD on T-Mobile, Orange, O2 and Vodafone...always best to get from a 3rd party as to not get a crap branded handset!!
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3rd party online stores are offering the HD on T-Mobile, Orange, O2 and Vodafone...always best to get from a 3rd party as to not get a crap branded handset!!
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Yep, that's what I did with my TP2 and is what I'm doing with my HD
I have it ordered from a 3rd party on Vodafone. I wonder because it will be the first shipment will it have all the Vodafone crap on it or touch wood it will be sim free ??
Depends where you get it from and whether you're first shipment or not.
When I ordered my TP2 from mobilephonesdirect I was first shipment and Voda didn't even have theirs yet - so I got an unbranded one.
I don't know if somewhere down the line Voda got their stock and MPD started selling from Voda stock rather than sim-free stock...
I expect at this stage all stock that doesn't come direct from an operator will be unbranded and sim-free.
I ordered it from here immediately once they started taking orders so i should be in the first shipment - http://www.mobiles.co.uk/htc-desire-hd.html
Here's hoping its sim free then m8
I've just sent Orange an email asking about a release date. I'll post back when I hear something.
I never use a 3rd Party. Insurance is 6.00 a month on Orange. They replace the phone the next day usually no questions asked.
If you buy 3rd party you cannot insure your phone direct. You end up paying about 10.00 a month then if you want to claim they try everything to get out of helping you.
In my experience always buy direct. I know the branding is a pain. Custom Roms get rid of the bloatware. A small badge you can put up with.
If you buy a 3rd party phone the main operator will always tell you to contact who you bought your phone from if there's a fault.
That's where you will start having problems.
Sent from my HTC Hero
I phoned Vodafone about my TP2 when I got it asking if I can have insurance put on through Vodafone rather than via the reseller and they said "Yep no problem" and put it on for me! Not had to use it, but just saying...
That's good maybe it's just Orange. I got a phone from Phones 4 you years ago and Orange wouldn't touch me on insurance. I just like to deal direct because I get really good loyalty discounts.
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I know what you mean. When I upgraded from my K800i to my TyTNII Orange were really really great at giving me a good deal.
I actually used to work for Orange about 4 years ago, and I still have a warm place in my heart.
I'm defecting to T-Mobile this time so I can take advantage of Everything Everywhere, makes me feel like I'm getting closer to Orange again.
Orange Care was by and large one of the best aspects of their service. I used it on my old SPV M2000 which I crushed on the day I got it by tripping over a rope fence. Problem I had was that they had none to replace it with so I got stuck with an SEP910i - which was no replacement for the M2000. There was a big scandal about it and the media got involved and in the end I got a brand new M2000.
I would have stuck with Orange for my TP2, but it was going to take a couple of months for it to be available on Orange whereas I could get it on Vodafone instantly, and I was so fed up with my TyTN II that I begrudgingly jumped ship. Not that Vodafone have caused me any problems. Orange just had a bit more of a personal touch. Vodafone is very corporate and don't seem as 'fun' as Orange are.
My work Treo Pro is on Vodafone anyway, so it's no loss
Wow, I ended up talking a lot there.
Orange are not ideal as they tend to mess with the handset too much for my liking. I did mention this in another thread but orange don't seem to have any information on DHD, one of the sell reps even suggested they might not even get it at all!!
mobilphonesdirect.com are quite good they have confirmed handset will be sim free and are offering the cheapest deals. Ordered mine today expected to get it on he 7th October, wait and see.
I'm pretty sure orange will get it since they're merged with T-Mobile. I read that they'll be rebranding around 2012 too. I can't imagine orange not getting it, it would be a mistake on their part in my opinion.