SPV in France

[Guest lexus]

I have good offer to buy SPV from France Telecom for 300ish EUR. I was wiondering if any1 knows is it locked an is the software in french or in english? If it is locked, can it be unlocked rigt there in the shop and if it has french SW can they make it english? Hope I was clear :D

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Programs > settings Regonial settings > language. you got a choice of us and uk english, then french and german too

[Guest lexus]

That`s great, so there`s no language specific versions? What about that lock? Is the phone worth 300EUR?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

works out at a little under 200 quid. cheapest you can get the spv from the highstreet is £130. then its another 20+ a years worth of monthly contract costs, so yeah i think 200 quid aint bad :D

[Guest ajb3000]

I *think* he's asking if an SPV bought in France would work with a UK Orange SIM card in it?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

hmm maybe, sorry if i missed the point, those costs i mentioned were to get a phone unlocked by orange here in the uk, i assumed for the price quoted it was unlocked? either way i'd have hoped orange is orange regardless of country? or is that too intelligent to hope for? :D give O a buzz and see what they say

[Guest lexus]

Actually, I want to use it on non-oragne network, here in Montenegro so I need it unlocked. Qusetion is: what about update an other Orange special servises? I won`t be able to use it, would I? Another thing: price ulocked and without contract is 525EUR which comes pretty expensive. I would probably go for P800 I think...

[Guest TAS 2012]

Anyone got more information about this?

I live in Sweden and will soon receive an SPV from France. It is promised to not be network-locked, but I still wonder what kinds of problems I may run into.

Obviously (I'm not made of money) I will not want to use Orange France as my network, and we don't even have Orange in Sweden (anymore, they just pulled out).

Should I keep the French software or should I rather get the English (or even Danish or German)? Is it even possible to change the full OS software like this? I will use the phone OS in English no matter what regionalized version it is.

What is the real difference between the regionalized versions? Is it just support for the local network services? I guess I won't be able to use those anyway(?).

Is there some general agreement on which region software is 'the best' - least bugs, best updates etc? Will I be able to update without being on the Orange network? It seems that you can update by downloading files from the Orange websites through normal http, but I also read about 'auto updates' being pushed by the network to your phone.

Any general advice to me as a soon-to-be SPV user in Sweden with a French SPV?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer anything of this...

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[Guest daveng]

As far as I know an network-unlocked SPV is 529 euro in France. This is the price I paid for mine in an Orange Shop (took me more than one month to get the unlock code, but they seem faster now.. guess they didn't know how to find the code at first).

300 euro is the price with subscription...

I think 529 euro unlocked is the cheapest in Europe. In the UK I beleive you'll need a subscription plan an pay it in full to get the unlock code, in Denmark, I think it's over 600 euro and in Switzerland, its around 700 euro without a subscription but you can't get the unlock code.

So I guess the best deal is still a french SPV at 529 euro. If somebody has a better price, let me know.

(this is the official price from an Orange shop with an officilly network unlocked phone).