What will Orange/ZTE do now?

[Guest cmberry20]

Thinking back the Blade was incredible easy to hack & mod. I got the fealing that Orange didnt like that & made it more difficult for the phone to be hacked. (removing the Vol+ method of installing superboot etc)

Now that the extremely difficult network lock has been broken, I expect the phone to wiz off the Orange shelves but go onto a differnet network - which results in lost revenue for Orange.

So, does anyone think that Orange will re-address the lock method & make it even for difficult to get the phone unlocked.

Also, I can see the price returning to £149.99 now that theres a way to unlock it. Also, at this price it wont compete with the SF2

[Guest wrtease]

its easy answer stop making it and produce new models.when you think is new it old within a time period so new models will surface.thats my opinion

[Guest glossywhite]

Thinking back the Blade was incredible easy to hack & mod. I got the fealing that Orange didnt like that & made it more difficult for the phone to be hacked. (removing the Vol+ method of installing superboot etc)

Now that the extremely difficult network lock has been broken, I expect the phone to wiz off the Orange shelves but go onto a differnet network - which results in lost revenue for Orange.

So, does anyone think that Orange will re-address the lock method & make it even for difficult to get the phone unlocked.

Also, I can see the price returning to £149.99 now that theres a way to unlock it. Also, at this price it wont compete with the SF2

A company that can justify charging its' customers £5 for **150Mb** of 3G data, doesn't deserve to keep those customers on their terrible quality tariff. Orange are amazing with customer service, however, and I find them a pleasure to deal with - I have my landline and adsl with them, and it is superb. It is a shame that they cannot open their greedy eyes, and change the tariff to match that of others. 150Mb is pathetic, and a total ripoff.

I don't see the price of the OMC going back up; they'd be shooting themselves in the foot, to do that,

Edited November 18, 2011 by glossywhite

[Guest unrandomsam]

I thought it was 250MB for £5 (Still not really very good)

There is nothing really that ZTE can do at this point unless they get rid of their brand new windows software flasher

(The fact that it uses FTM mode makes it totally insecure) - even if they made it need a code they would have to hardcode it into the app or the means to generate it.

and only provide TPT's - change the cefs.mbn

Make it so you need a code to even get into diag mode or download mode.

Blow the jtag qfuses

I don't think they will bother.

[Guest unrandomsam]

Yeah its definitely 250MB

Orange World - http://www1.orange.co.uk/entertainment/OrangeWorld/OrangeWorldCosts.php

• £5 for 250MB internet access for one month

[Guest gitf@ce]

Yeah its definitely 250MB

Orange World - http://www1.orange.c...eWorldCosts.php

• £5 for 250MB internet access for one month

And if you are on the Dolphin plan... "*Dolphin internet usage capped at 100MB per month. (250MB per month for iPhone users)

**unlimited texts subject to fair usage policy."

Makes me want to buy an iphone (not)... so generous :lol:

If you just 'top-up' (standard charges) you get a nice surprise if you have any apps synching or updating themselves... "maximum daily charge for mobile Internet browsing £2".

That's capped at 25meg, so you could be paying around 60 quid for less than 1gig in a month :lol:

[Guest brcinema]

I'm on Dolphin and get 250MB a month for £5 plus free 100MB internet when you top up for £10.

Edited November 19, 2011 by brcinema

[Guest Roph]

I'm on giffgaff and for £10 a month I get unlimited texts and have used just over 6GB this month so far :)

And what are you talking about with Orange customer service? Are you not being sarcastic when you say they're great? The last time I dealt with them it took me about 15 minutes just to talk to somebody, who turned out to be an Indian guy with an accent so thick I could barely understand him. It took me multiple tries to get him to understand that I wanted my code to port my number, at which point he transferred me to an English guy who (after another 15 mins or so) agreed to send it to me by mail (refusing to just tell me it or send an SMS). :huh:

Edited November 19, 2011 by Roph

[Guest tillaz]

this can only favour orange, because they still need to sell the handsets to get the money back they paid for them...

they obviously were not selling well at 149.99 + 10 top up to drop to 119.99..

orange should start making there own smartphones like zte... & then they could have massive profit & unlocking would not be a problem for them.

they have ALREADY got there self noticed for good affordable smartphones form the OSF & OMC... i think it would be wize

[Guest glossywhite]

Yeah its definitely 250MB

Orange World - http://www1.orange.c...eWorldCosts.php

• £5 for 250MB internet access for one month

I'm on Dolphin and get 250MB a month for £5 plus free 100MB internet when you top up for £10.

Ah well then, in that case... oh hang on - no, it's STILL a con! :lol:

Seriously, why would anyone stay with Orange mobile?

It amuses me how much people have been deceived into seeing these ridiculously overpriced tariffs include "free" this or "free" that. Wake up world! It IS NOT "free". If you're talking of anything less than 3Gb, you've been deceived, and that is pathetic for the money.

LOL!

Edited November 19, 2011 by glossywhite