Comments on: Vodafone 360 – An Absolute Failure?

By: Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:33:00 +0000

Ah dear!

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:14:00 +0000

it is an absolute heap of crap, it was fine in the beginning but now it is useless and neither Vodafone nor Samsung careless, disgraceful and dishonest.

By: Paul_garty

Paul_garty — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:44:00 +0000

i like 360 its always worked for me !!!!!!!!!

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:04:41 +0000

latest news vodafone plans to stop work on any new 360 device rather concentrate on portin the 360 service to various handsets….might take years to do this also…since already been working for around 1.5years to develop this for symbian, iphone android and java handsets…comparin how long would some small organisation take to develop and port this application…make it clear that the people who are handling this are totally clueless what they want to do.

By: RememberMe

RememberMe — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:32:48 +0000

I think i know the fool….the guy who went on a Honeymoon when his team was being reorganised….shamelessly foolish…the guy keeps talking all the shit about great UI using 3d and the fool doesn't know those simple things are done using plain 2d effects.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:24:52 +0000

That is super news!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:25:16 +0000

WOW this is interesting considering everyone in my (not so) local (but still closest) store seems to have this phone and have on occasions, where ive been in to get them to send it away have been shocked because theirs have had no problems at all and i just seem to be one very unlucky customer to have so many problems.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:13:54 +0000

have worked at Vodafone 360 team for a while and what i see is just managers making a mess out the projects…the client development to be specific has been so grossly mishandled….the team has been chopped and changed throughout…and more so they seem to be trying to impress the Higher management rather than building a solid product….and some doubtfull transactions where contractors are hired at above average rates and to benefit individual pockets. The blame game has begun with weird reasoning…sit back and enjoy while they make a messed up product spending millions.. which a couple of solid developers(Keep away those bullshittin managers) can do better sitting in a garage.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:03:13 +0000

Very interesting indeed!

By: Ann Onymuss

Ann Onymuss — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:53:31 +0000

I am a Vodafone retail employee. The amount of grief we've had from regional managers telling us to flog this phone is unreal. Thankfully since the iPhone launched much of the pressure has been taken off but due to how faulty the H1 turned out to be, I started to refuse to even mention the H1 or M1 to customers, targets be damned. So many customers have problems with those handsets, and the 360 service is very buggy. Not to mention we've had almost zero training regarding troubleshooting, yet we're often in deaing with handset issues.

Your article was spot on, 360 will go the way of VF Live and Vizzavi. You'd think that VF would have their finger on the pulse, but they continually miss the boat.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:01:06 +0000

Given that Vodafone are such a big Android supporter, it's quite a surprise isn't it?

By: Barry-Jon

Barry-Jon — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:20:11 +0000

Had a friend email me the other day asking for help with Vodafone 360. I had read about it here but never bother with it beyond that before now. He was advised to use the service when they sold him an HTC desire and he expressed concern about transferring his contacts. Can you believe that to this day they don't have a sync app for android? That's a MASSIVE FAIL from where I'm standing.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:31:14 +0000

I know….:|

By: missannethrope

missannethrope — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:19:21 +0000

there is currently no twitter support

By: missannethrope

missannethrope — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:29:00 +0000

what kind of way is this to respond to a user of a piece of software??

By: Ewan

Ewan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:42:48 +0000

Where is the Twitter support, Ziggy? I don't seem to be able to add it.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:42:48 +0000

Where is the Twitter support, Ziggy? I don't seem to be able to add it.

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:39:38 +0000

clearly Ewan you have no idea on the proposition or Vodafone marketing have done a crap job of selling it. My suggestion “try again”…that applies to you to. Have a closer look and you will find Twitter support. Before you rant on it would be great to get your facts straight. Otherwise your article I admit was a ball to read…will lose respect. Another suggestion stop being such an iPhone fan boy…we get it. Now get over it.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:57:14 +0000

Not currently available; coming at some point though

By: Ricardo Portela

Ricardo Portela — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:21:49 +0000

One point I saw no one referring to: what about twitter support?

By: Ewan

Ewan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:46:46 +0000

Hah! Fascinating. So you're not that committed to your viewpoint then, Freddie?

By: Freddie Smithers

Freddie Smithers — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:40:44 +0000

Well if you're as well informed as you claim, you should be able to do so yourself.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:57:30 +0000

Go on then, correct the errors Mr Smithers! Let's hear them!

By: Freddie Smithers

Freddie Smithers — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:54:54 +0000

It is hard to see how such unbalanced unhinged ranting – full of factual error and misjudgement – is taken seriously by anyone at all. What a shame.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:08:09 +0000

Everything said on this site about Vodafone 360 is spot on and refreshing to see a U.K site/blog tell it how it is. One thing that has not been discussed is the promotion of the service. Obviously the service itself is poor as has been highlighted by Ewan and to a large extent I believe the product is the marketing, as if it is brilliant and exceed expectations people will tell their friends etc. However the group of old suits have probably thought rush out an average product and try and cover it up with big budget mass marketing (which is such out of date thinking).
The adverts were so cringworthy it was shocking. Where a guy is in a club and needs a chat up line, so goes on his vodafone 360 service to ask his mates and gets a 'real time' suggestion back and approaches the lady. Oh my god, who though of that, the concept was a joke and the scenario was so staged and fake. It was like the executives said thats what young people will use it for and how people act in clubs. Which agency came up with that and who signed it off because they need to be shot. Its like the Saatchi & Saatchi, Toyota social media fiasco. How out of touch are these people, putting out a weak product and nonsense marketing, they deserve to fail and become nothing more then just data pipes, with such an approach.