I got mine Direct from vodafone free on £35 pm on a 12 month contract check thier website. mine came unlocked i was suprised because it has all the vodfone branding, i might have been just lucky.
You could always get one and if its not unlocked use the 14 day return policy

i got mine on vodaphone same hh1 firmware as above it has haptic feedback and its unlocked to any network

core player is a must have, it will play anything you throw a it..

Technology Overview

Built-In YouTube Support
Flash/FLV Container Support
Bluetooth ready!* (A2DP and AVRCP)
Support for over 15 Languages (30+ more coming soon!)
Podcast, Enhanced Podcast, CoreCaster Ready
GPU: Intel 2700g, ATI Imageon, QTv, Marvell Monahan Processors (more coming soon!)
Operating System: Symbian (all), CE 3+4, CE Embedded 5+6, Windows Mobile/Smartphone (5.x - 6.x), Palm, Windows (NT 4.0 - Vista), OS X, and Linux (OEM only)
CPU: x86 (32bit and 64bit), Intel, Altivec/PowerPC, ARM9, ARM11, MIPS
CoreUI 'Universal skins' Widget. Allows you to create a unique custom user interface exactly how you want it!
Best in Class audio and video codecs like CoreAVC our High Definition H.264 video decoder
CoreTheque media library allows for easy management of your playlists and bookmarks
Audio Formats:
MP3, MP2, AAC, MKA, WMA, Midi*, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, TTA, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, G.729, GSM

Video Formats:
H.264 (AVC), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV*, Theora*, Dirac*, MJPEG, MSVIDEO1

Image Formats:
JPEG (420, 422, 440, EXIF Headers)*, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MJPEG

Container Formats:
Flash/FLV, Matroska, ASF, ASX, AVI, PS, M2TS, TS, 3GPP, MOV, MPEG-4, OGM, NSV*

Streaming Formats:
HTTP, UDP, UDP Unicast, RDP, RTP. RTSP, RTCP (keep alive), ASX, ASF, Multicast, HTTP Tunneli

has any one got this to work on the lobster

problem! want to sync video to smartphone but vista media player 11 deos not recognise c550 as a video player , video settings greyed out. video sync works on lobster but wmp11 does not see the sorage card in the phone so can only use internal memory.can sync directly on the card using card reader but again a only music, video settings greyed out.. microsoft are pants i always have problems with thier stuff just renembering bluetooth sync nightmare. any ideas?

i've got a similar problem want to sync video to smartphone but vista media player 11 deos not recognise c550 as a video player , video settings greyed out. video sync works on lobster but wmp11 does not see the sorage card in the phone so can only use internal memory.can sync directly on the card using card reader but again a only music, video settings greyed out.. microsoft are pants i always have problems with thier stuff just renembering bluetooth sync nightmare.

thats the only thing i can thick of i'm going to buy another battery if fails again i'm going to send back and ask for replacement, but even if the battery and the back up battery goes flat it still should not hard reset, charged my c500 after leaving on unused for a month and info. is all still there. :??:

got wifi card and mda compact and skype works realy well..

mda compact keeps going dead, get going with charger after few seconds and a hard reset has hapend. sent to htc for repair twice and they say thay have replaced the board but still doing it. any ideas anyone :cry:

is'nt wifi just the same as bluetooth but better, i've got a mda compact with wifi card cost only 20 pounds and its cool do free,cheaper skype calls all the time and free internet at work, home ,local pub, stream music and films in garden. yes some of this can be done on your laptop at home but its another toy, if you don't like toys why did most of you guys bin your nokia.

got tomtom5 working with mda compact fine but m500 does not connect to the to the gps when in tomtom. i thought theese were the same phone. all settings and files are identical. any ideas anyone.

how do you get it to auto sync videos with media player it does'nt seem to workk i tought that was what wmp 10 was all about :?:

what are the best prices, and is their any difference between th mda compact and m500. :?:

i find radio over bluetooth in the garden quite cool especially some U.S and OZ. stations.. might wait till it's a bit warmer though.

i ended up with two ,quality case.

My Webpage

connected through bluetooth activesync

why does it keep saying "can not show this page "on every other page i look at :roll: is thier somethig in the setting that makes it act normaly,also is thier any software that ets you see the whole web page and then zoom in to the bit you want
to see.

i cannot seem to sync via bluetooth can send and receive files but will not sync, is thier an idiots guid to this :oops:

no screen protector in my box

any body now how to get rid of scratches on the screen only had this thing a week and i've got a large scratch down the middle of the screen :oops: also whats the best screen protector to get..

i've also got a green dot but v small ,stll the best thing since sliced bread

thanks for looking.

hi does the compact come with the user maual in pdf format, if it does could someone please post it as it will give me somthing to read while i wait for mine to arrive.

just caved in, still 6 months left with O but could not help it. orderd at 12:05 its now 12:47 and no phone ahhrr how long do these things take to come..

sounds good to me. how will 3g effect data pakages..?