Replacement orange unit horrendously branded

[Guest noct]

i received a replacement omnia from orange last week and it's horrendously branded with those orangish icons, and a dated rom with no geotagging fix (BVHH1). i of course flashed it in no time. :excl: For the love of god would they stop doing that already. I'd like to send them hate mails if not their monopoly on the 16GB version. :excl:

What's the point of branding a phone in an arguably less appealing way from Orange's corporate perspective, if someone from the know could shed some light? Surely that's going to drive away some less tech-savvy customers (who ain't going to do flashing) to other carriers selling non branded units, no?

Edited April 22, 2009 by noct

[Guest evil Homer 3k]

i received a replacement omnia from orange last week and it's horrendously branded with those orangish icons, and a dated rom with no geotagging fix (BVHH1). i of course flashed it in no time. :excl: For the love of god would they stop doing that already. I'd like to send them hate mails if not their monopoly on the 16GB version. :excl:

What's the point of branding a phone in an arguably less appealing way from Orange's corporate perspective, if someone from the know could shed some light? Surely that's going to drive away some less tech-savvy customers (who ain't going to do flashing) to other carriers selling non branded units, no?

That is why I demanded an unbranded Omnia when I signed up to Orange. Okay I lost out on 8gb extra storage, but at least the branding wasn't there to start with.