Hi all, just thought I'd put a quick post up - I had been told by CPW and phnes4u that N97 wasn't compatible on 02 and they can't make software for it etc :con?
I got N97 this week, naturally thought oh what the hell and put the 02 sim card in - worked fine and within 30seconds had received internet settings SMS - saved these and widgets were working fine. I tried to take a photo to put on here but the n95 camera doesn't focus well on the n97 screen - besides - i thought it was a bit geeky taking a photo of my phone anyway!!
Hope this helps 😊 😎
Where did you end up buying it? simfree?
londoner888 wrote:Where did you end up buying it? simfree?
Nope - bought it from mobilephonesdirect on the �35 18month 700min unltd messages and 1gigabyte per month web/walk TMobile plan. (Phone was �29.99)
It doesn't appear as though it is locked to any network at all - maybe I'm just lucky - the N95 I received from insurers when I busted my old one is/was unlocked!
Yep, mine works on O2. O2 wont sell it because they got contrat with Apple. And as guy from Nokia told me, only Vodafon and Orange won the bid to sell N97.
Mike.mp wrote:Yep, mine works on O2. O2 wont sell it because they got contrat with Apple. And as guy from Nokia told me, only Vodafon and Orange won the bid to sell N97.
Its all very convoluted and I'm guessing a lot of PR rubbish - if that was the case - I'm quite impressed how I managed to get a T-Mobile one!
Allegedly N97 have secured rights to sell the PRE, so again, I can't imagine if the conspiracy theories of them only wanting to be Apple's bitch are true, why they would screw it up with bidding on PRE exclusivity!
Yeah I read somewhere how n97 was exclusive to orange and voda as well.
Maybe MPD sold you a simfree phone with a t-mob contract because T-Mobile ALWAYS lock and brand their phones.
Expansys are also selling n97 on t-mob.
That would make sense? MPD apparently are the guys behind the Nokia shops in this country so its feasible!
All for me though, total price over 18months will be �650 and I will have a sim free N97 at the end - I know full well I would spend more than �150 on credit in 18months had I bought the phone outright sim free!
Any mobile retailer can generally supply vanilla phones and apply network subsidy's to them.
Mobile phone shops have been doing this for years and one local one would often buy and refirb handsets and sell them unlocked and unbranded either straight out / with a payg sim card or connect it onto a contract and give it to you for free.
Its not *AS* cheap however as buying the handset from the operator which is (as expected) branded to hell and locked. This is why many places can offer phones before official network release and testing.
As long as a phone meets GSM spec, has a valid IMEI number that isn't blacklisted it will "work" if you enter the correct settings and with a valid sim. Any network that tells you it wont is talking out of their a***
Its a very niche market though but I suspect more and more specialist retailers ( like what expansys are doing with t-bag ) will in future start doing this as more and more people "object" to shelling out ��� for a stripped down version of the official firmware that's bug ridden to hell and updated by the networks about twice a year.