Guest Paul [MVP] Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 O2 have sent out an e-mail notifying all customers who registered to receive information about the upcoming Smartphone device based on MS Smartphone software about a planned delay: "Dear Customer, Thank you for registering at myo2smartphone.com. We would like to update you that we will not be launching the O2 smartphone with the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 operating system. Instead we will be launching the Smartphone 2003 version around the fourth quarter of this year. Thank you for your continuous support. Sincerely, O2 Devices and Applications Team" This could provide another operator, as well as T-Mobile, to compete with Orange for SmartPhone sales in the UK... P Source: Geekzone
Guest ClintEastman Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 I suppose it makes sence for them to go with 2003, time is ticking and all.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 What model handset though...? :) (xda was an HTC model...)
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 Hehe yeah, i was trying to be subtle... ;p /me goes back to being blatant
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 Nice bit of healthy competition will be good for the customer :)
Guest spacemonkey Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 Probably a good move by O2. I am very thankful that Orange took the bold move of getting us these devices up front, but realistically when more full featured (inbuilt camera/bluetooth) devices with faster processors come out at the end of the year Tanager and SPV will become very obsolete. Where as the handsets we get end of 2003 will not be much different feature wise from what we see in 2004, so those phones from a telco point of view should be a lot more saleable. The good news of course is that my contract is up in december :) so I'll have a number of options available.
Guest Smart-Tech Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 "]Probably the Voyager at a guess... P Paul i have the O2 smartphone sample right now, can i post it in here? also the coming of XDA II
Guest pisquee Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 Of course you can post it here.
Guest AngelOfRage Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 i dont surpose theres any news of Vodafone bringing out a Smartphone? i might ask them when i enquire about my contract renewal. which looks the best Smartphone coming out then?
Guest stuartd Posted September 23, 2003 Report Posted September 23, 2003 Very good move by O2, competition is good. Personally I'm not too bothered about the new smartphone, I could not care less about bluetooth (I would never use a phone as my modem due to excessive gprs data costs) and used the in-built camera on my GX10 about 20 times in a year so I miss neither on my E100. The E100 downloads my e-mails, plays wma files and has some very good games, that's enough for me until a better looking smartphone model appears, and I have yet to see one. I hardly think the lack of bluetooth which is one of the most overhyped technologies in years and the omission of a gimmicky built in camera can make the E100 obsolete.
Guest nickcornaglia Posted September 25, 2003 Report Posted September 25, 2003 I remember they had a contest to name the phone. Was it decided yet? Just curious.
Guest Matt Whitfield Posted September 25, 2003 Report Posted September 25, 2003 The good news of course is that my contract is up in december ;) so I'll have a number of options available. Snap! :-D
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