Vodafone customers in the UK can finally rejoice as Samsung’s latest high-end Android phone has now joined their favourite network. The Ice Cream Sandwich riding smartphone was originally only found on the O2 network from high street retailer Phones4U since mid November. With a free handset setting you back at least £41 monthly over a 24 month plan, which is on par with O2′s offering yet with a higher text allowance, Vodafone’s offering proves a very...
If you had any hopes that Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao was one the consumers’ side when it game to a hands-off approach in which the government stays out of the one great thing on this planet — the internet — you were sorely mistaken. In a self addressed letter to the Financial Times, Colao says that despite claims by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg, the internet is not self regulating efficiently enough or quickly enough to keep up with the dangers of piracy,...
Beginning today, Sony Xperia Arc and Xperia owners on Vodafone UK should take a minute to hook up to their computer and initiate the latest Android 2.3.3 update. Besides the usual bug fixes, stability improvements and improved voice quality as well as exchange tweaks have made the cut in the latest OS release. Most exciting, however, is the revamped Facebook UI — “Facebook Inside Xperia” — that ties Facebook actions into various aspects of...
It’s embarrassing to admit, but we’ve been duped. Yesterday we posted about a claim by Vodafone New Zealand that the launch of the Sony Xperia PLAY was to be delayed due to the initial launch shipment being stolen by some rather clever thieves. Yesterday evening we received a response from Vodafone PR regarding the story, though the response was typical PR jargon (read: useless). Today, however, the truth has come out — it was all a big marketing ploy. ...
Hearing that a brand new, potentially top-tier phone has been delayed because of some software bug/hardware problem — typical. Finding out your entire country’s supply has been delayed because it was stolen — wait…what? Vodafone New Zealand customers are facing that very scenario today after the entire shipment (claimed though unconfirmed) designated for the country was stolen. Announced via Twitter and Facebook, the revelation is rather...
