The 'I got my Vario III' thread

[Guest blackice-original]

The build quality is excellent although the keyboard buttons are a bit on the hard side

[Guest amo]

Wow, thank god it's not got the pink text everywhere! Honestly, what were they thinking with those aweful themes? Can you confirm if it has the T-Mobile branding at all in the ROM (Start up/Shut down screens, ring tone, extra crappy applications etc)

[Guest blackice-original]

Wow, thank god it's not got the pink text everywhere! Honestly, what were they thinking with those aweful themes? Can you confirm if it has the T-Mobile branding at all in the ROM (Start up/Shut down screens, ring tone, extra crappy applications etc)

Only saw the t-mobile logo when the phone turns on and apart from a few t-mobile icons on the launcher screen its pretty generic

[Guest Shuflie]

here is a pic as requested

Looks good. I actually prefer the look of the flatter, squarer buttons, I'll probably be the only one not to think t-mobile have 'uglified' it.

[Guest amo]

Another image courtesy of www.msmobiles.com (http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6738.html).

Blackice: What're your initial thoughts on the device? If you have HSDPA enabled on your account, would you mind running a speed test to see what kind of datarates I can expect on T-Mobile with the phone.

Cheers!

[Guest blackice-original]

Another image courtesy of www.msmobiles.com (http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6738.html).

Blackice: What're your initial thoughts on the device? If you have HSDPA enabled on your account, would you mind running a speed test to see what kind of datarates I can expect on T-Mobile with the phone.

Cheers!

I'm at work at the moment so i'll have to do the test when i get home. It's my first WM mobile but so far i'm quite impressed with. It feels lighter than i expected it to be

[Guest Metafunk]

Got mine !!!!!!! Yipeeeeeee

Flext 20 upgrade cost was £230

On Flex 25 got the phone for £100

M,

[Guest scouser75]

What! None of you are put off by the BIG "T-Mobile" logo and writing??? The Pink???

If only they'd done what they'd done with the N95 - a small TMobile logo on the battery cover!

[Guest creamhackered]

They keys are different from the picture on the T-Mobile site

Edited September 27, 2007 by creamhackered

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Nifty Tom! Liking it?

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[Guest evad]

here is a pic as requested

Wow - unbranded Today screen and wallpaper! :-o

I hope those lucky owners of VIII - Paul, to be specific :) - will post further details on differences between VIII and TyTN II. It may sound a bit awkward, but I actually like T-Mobile's design of Kaiser (please, don't beat me! ;), and I might replace my current TyTN II with VIII when my upgrade offer from T-M will come in (Jan 2008)...

[Guest miker33]

As a new customer not upgrade mine was £130 on Flext25+WnW Plus £32.50 (I assume it's 18 month but forgot to check)

[Guest amo]

Potentially a noobish question but, does the device come bundled with an MSN Messenger app? If not, is there a free app available for it?

[Guest creamhackered]

I haven't actually got the phone yet. Just taken pictures of a friends phone at work. It looks good though! Same generic homescreen as HTC. I think I prefer the HTC TyTN II looks though, the colour and buttons etc.

[Guest tsutton]

T-Mobile flatly refused to offer me the upgrade even that I have 2 weeks left till the contract's up (not 2 months as I thought!)

Going to try again this afternoon...

[Guest funkychicken9000]

Another phonecall, another offer. Again they wanted £180 for an upgrade on my flext 25 with 25% discount, then he suddenly said that if I agreed to the new flext plan which charges 12p/min for voicemail he'd let me have it for £100. woohoo, it arrives tomorrow

[Guest PenFold101]

Just thought i'd add my experience here:

Just got off the phone to 150 (12:10)

I had the tmob 25% discount on my flext35. They agreed to add my WNW into this discount so I pay £31 a month for flext35 + WNW. They've sent me out a vario 3 by special delivery that will be here friday morning. I have to pay a £100 upgrade fee on my next bill tho (26th oct).

[Guest blackice-original]

Another phonecall, another offer. Again they wanted £180 for an upgrade on my flext 25 with 25% discount, then he suddenly said that if I agreed to the new flext plan which charges 12p/min for voicemail he'd let me have it for £100. woohoo, it arrives tomorrow

Don't rule out calling resellers as well like carphonewarehouse because sometimes they provide an extra discount. Plus if you can't get a good price from a tmob rep call back another time.

The person i spoke to last night knocked £50 of the price so i got the phone for £50 on flext 25 w'n'w with a 12 month contract

[Guest pjam001]

Funkychicken

So have you kept your 25% discount for sure?

I had to lose my 25% discount on flext 25 + wnw in favour of £5 per month off.

Only works out at 10p per day different but was pretty cheesed off to lose my discount

cheers

pjam

Edited September 27, 2007 by pjam001

[Guest zippy172]

Looking good ;) (photos above that is... should've refreshed this page before posting!)

Edited September 27, 2007 by zippy172

[Guest amo]

Forgot to mention my deal, managed to get the phone for £80 (plus £5.99 for delivery) on a Flext 35 and got to keep my 50% off advantage plan discount! Even got them to integrate w+w into my discount rather than having to pay the full £7.50 for it! ;)

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Tony, I had 8 days left, and it seemed to be at their managers discretion, who approved it.

Tell them that Voda will do it for you now perhaps? ;)

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T-Mobile flatly refused to offer me the upgrade even that I have 2 weeks left till the contract's up (not 2 months as I thought!)

Going to try again this afternoon...

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

For those connecting on a new connection, you can get a 20 quid credit on your account if you're introduced by a friend, your friend gets 20 quid on their account too if you quote their name and postcode.

I'm your friend, 'Paul O'Brien @ NR15 2BP'. ;)

You can get this if you call them back having just connected too.

This only applies to new connections and not upgrades - kudos to Craig for pointing this out!

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[Guest Shuflie]

Potentially a noobish question but, does the device come bundled with an MSN Messenger app? If not, is there a free app available for it?

Not sure if MSN (or more likely Windows Live messenger) is still on the phone, but if not you could always give Palringo a go. People might have missed it in the kaiser package prize fervour but it can connect to the MSN network amongst others.

[Guest veef13]

For those connecting on a new connection, you can get a 20 quid credit on your account if you're introduced by a friend, your friend gets 20 quid on their account too if you quote their name and postcode.

I'm your friend, 'Paul O'Brien @ NR15 2BP'. ;)

You can get this if you call them back having just connected too.

This only applies to new connections and not upgrades - kudos to Craig for pointing this out!

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good call Paul! I'l let em know tomorrow/fri when it here!