News - Vodafone gets Sony Ericsson X10 Mini and HTC Wildfire

[HEXUS]

Two new mid-range smartphones join the ever-growing Android family at Vodafone.

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[directhex]

Do they still have the worst data rates in the UK network market?

[scaryjim]

I've always found data very snappy on my HTC Magic on Vodafone, although I couldn't give you figures...

[Brewster0101]

Vodaphone recently reduced the data allowance on unlimited data tariffs to 500mb per month. This falls iin line with Three and Orange. T-mobile and O2 I believe offer 1GB of data per month. In a time when mobile data usage is on the up and mobiles are more designed for data then this is a massive step in the wrong direction.

Although not entirely vodaphones fault, the mobile infrastructure in this country just cant handle the amount of data the public want to use without a major upgrade.

You hear so many tales across all the networks about poor data speeds and connection issues, I think its a very much hit and miss with these. I have three on my mobile which works mostly fine, but has its bad days and also a Vodaphone usb stick which works in the same way, sometimes good, sometimes rubbish.

[directhex]

Vodaphone recently reduced the data allowance on unlimited data tariffs to 500mb per month. This falls iin line with Three and Orange. T-mobile and O2 I believe offer 1GB of data per month. In a time when mobile data usage is on the up and mobiles are more designed for data then this is a massive step in the wrong direction.

Although not entirely vodaphones fault, the mobile infrastructure in this country just cant handle the amount of data the public want to use without a major upgrade.

You hear so many tales across all the networks about poor data speeds and connection issues, I think its a very much hit and miss with these. I have three on my mobile which works mostly fine, but has its bad days and also a Vodaphone usb stick which works in the same way, sometimes good, sometimes rubbish.

I dug through all the small-prints today.

Three "Unlimited" is 500 meg.
Orange "Unlimited" is 750 meg.
T-Mobile "Unlimited" is 3 gig.
Vodafone don't do "Unlimited" - they only have 500 or 1000 meg fixed contracts
O2 "Unlimited" is really unlimited (i.e. their fair-use policy explicitly has no upper limit, it just says don't be stupid with it)

[crossy]

I dug through all the small-prints today.
Three "Unlimited" is 500 meg.
Orange "Unlimited" is 750 meg.
T-Mobile "Unlimited" is 3 gig.
Vodafone don't do "Unlimited" - they only have 500 or 1000 meg fixed contracts
O2 "Unlimited" is really unlimited (i.e. their fair-use policy explicitly has no upper limit, it just says don't be stupid with it)

Yep, that pretty much squares with what I found when I went looking. I really fancied an Xperia X10 or HTC Desire, but there's no way that I'm going to go down that route with a 500MB/pm cap (because I'm with Three at the moment), so I'll stick with me ole Nokia N95 on PAYG.

I was thinking about transferring my number to T-Mobile (solely because at 3GB/pm they seemed to be a bit more "with it" than the rest) but I hadn't realised that O2 had a "better" deal. That said, I'd heard O2's 3G network coverage was ...

The way I feel at the moment, the first company to come out with an X10 on a £30pm with 6GB/pm internet or better is going to get my business, (although I probably could quite happily "live" with 3GB/pm if I wasn't using Spotify etc).

Bob