UK: In stock at Vodafone

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Hi guys

Went to 02 shop today in Chester to see if any news: The staff hadnt even heard of the X1.

Went round the corner to Vodafone expecting the same thing but imagine my suprise when I was told it was in stock. Within 30 minutes I had purchased my new X1!

Yet to have a proper play but smaller and lighter than I imagined.

Andrew

Locked or unlocked?

5th of November...

Thats when most dutch shops should have the Xperia. Atleast my local Belcompany store will have it..

Branded or not?

From the pics posted on other forums, it's branded, but not that big a deal.

http://www.nullpacket.co.uk/X1_1.JPG
http://www.nullpacket.co.uk/X1_2.JPG

Originally Posted by miky7

Branded or not?

Originally Posted by Zaim2

From the pics posted on other forums, it's branded, but not that big a deal.

http://www.nullpacket.co.uk/X1_1.JPG
http://www.nullpacket.co.uk/X1_2.JPG

Thanks for the photos, but apart from the appearence the big question is if they have messed up with the rom.

Now we see where the dealy has come from! Making all the crap boxes and literature to acompany the naf Vodafone logos phone with its bloated Vodafone crappy ROM.
When will service providers learn its not what the end user wants?!?!?!

Originally Posted by ajbartley

Hi guys

Went to 02 shop today in Chester to see if any news: The staff hadnt even heard of the X1.

Went round the corner to Vodafone expecting the same thing but imagine my suprise when I was told it was in stock. Within 30 minutes I had purchased my new X1!

Yet to have a proper play but smaller and lighter than I imagined.

Andrew

weird, I went into the vf store in chester yesterday and they only had the dummy phone in, that was about 11.30, they didn't know when they were having a delivery but guessed it would be tuesday,they must have had a delivery after I left, you jammy git .

Originally Posted by vinokirk

Now we see where the dealy has come from! Making all the crap boxes and literature to acompany the naf Vodafone logos phone with its bloated Vodafone crappy ROM.
When will service providers learn its not what the end user wants?!?!?!

The two pictures of the Vodafone X1 above were taken by me yesterday. I really don't think they've messed with it much at all branding-wise. The Vodafone logo is black and doesn't stick out like the red one would have, an unbranded X1 just has "X1" written in that space, so it's not a huge change.

They've pre-loaded a few 'applications' which are mainly links to open Vodafone Live and their data-powered GPS site. Apart from that and a few bookmarks in Opera/PIE, I don't see too much to complain about, it still has the HTC apps like the streaming media player, sim manager, A-GPS data downloader, etc.

The Google panel is called the Vodafone panel, but the only real change I think is the inclusion of a few link to the Vodafone Live site and Mobile TV (streaming 3G video from Vodafone).

Difficult choice, Vodafone definitely in stock, but their 12 month contracts are rubbish:
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/mobile-ph...y-ericsson/X1/

But T-Mobile just said they will definitely get it, but have no date yet.