Orange
The wonderful world of flip phones gets a brother from another mother; this time around Orange gets an exclusive with the LG KF 300.
Only last week the new BlackBerry flip/clamshell phone was announced on O2 and not to be outdone Orange has shown off the new edition to their range.
Pitching up looking awfully similar to [...]
Another network exclusivity was announced today the HTC Touch is going to Orange according to this article over at Mobile News.
The Touch HD comes with a 3.8 inch, high resolution, widescreen WVGA touchscreen and a 5 megapixel auto focus camera. The device also comes with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D user interface and is fitted with a [...]
According to Mobile Today, Phones 4u have stepped up the game in the bid to target students and are offering deals such as offering £100 of free music on any price plan.
Which is fantastic except there are not doing a very good job advertising it to us. In fact this year all the networks and [...]
I was rather surprised to see that Orange here in the UK has actually got an option on it’s menu structure called ‘iPhone Alternatives‘.
iPhone must be hurting them. Here’s a snapshot — see the bottom menu:
Click on the menu item and you’re presented with four options — Blackberry Bold, Samsung Omni, Samsung Tocco and [...]
Continue ReadingIf you’re an Orange Austria user, you’ll shortly be noticing that the Orange portal will start to adapt to things you like.
That’s because they’ve deployed ChangingWorld’s ClixSmart Intelligent Portal Platform. As well as offering a quicker time to market for publishing mobile internet services, the thing that interests me about this is the fact [...]
You can now get yourself a 35-quid-a-month free laptop from Orange.
Although, as we saw earlier, because of their ridiculous .co.uk website design, you’ll need to arse about clicking on their website and be very, very lucky to hit the relevant pages first-time.
The order pages are here, if you can’t be bothered hunting.
Here, then, is what [...]
Orange UK was once the mobile operator equivalent of that omni-cool, good looking girl at the back of the class. They’ve since lost their way a little bit.
Here’s a good indication why. I’ve just got confirmation through about their new range of laptops.
Yes, every UK operator is jumping on the we-do-laptops-too bandwaggon and [...]
I found this ad on the Orange.co.uk site:
It made me smile a little.
The Bold certainly gives the iPhone a run for it’s money in my book, but the others listed? No. Not even near.
It seems that Orange not being content with its deal with Lyca Mobile, has just signed another ethnic MVNO to its collection GlobalCell.
GlobalCell will be aiming their SIM only services to migrants from countries such as Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and Russia, and will also offer customer service in those languages as well as English. [...]
Does everyone remember Charlie Waldren’s post from yesterday? Well it seems Orange was listening.
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So, I wrote an article yesterday about the problems I had been having with my phone and with Orange.
I popped a copy off in the post to their complaints department, and after a crafty bit of Googling also managed to find an [...]
According to a a Reuters report, Orange isn’t having any trouble drumming up interest in the iPhone launch in Poland today - in fact, it’s already got queues forming outside its shops. Nothing new there you might think.
Think again. The queuers are being paid to stand in line. From the article:
“We have these fake queues [...]
Seen this around? Orange UK are running one of those align-ourselves-with-successful-people campaigns. Lots of interesting interviews with sharp entrepreneurs. Looks interesting. You can visit the site here.
My issue? I’m not accustomed to visiting any site, ANYWHERE that requires you to download a 36mb file in the oldskoool manner.
I [...]
I’ll give credit, where credit is due, and despite my ramble about Data Charges yesterday (which I still think are appalling), Orange have tried very hard to redeem themselves.
They’ve given me back some more credit, and given me free evening browsing, and bundle thing for a month. So thank you!
What’s more amazing was that this [...]
You know how it is. You’re a marketing manager and sick to the back teeth with your company’s advertising. The only adverts they ever put out are celebrity “I use this” posters for shops and the odd advert.
Lets face it, it wasn’t the best of jobs. Kimi Räikkönen seemed a tad dull. [...]
I want WiFi, like right now.
I’m sitting here testing out a Nokia E66 (expect the review later this week), and I’m looking at the Maps function, and amusing myself at having Facebook on my phone. And I’m angry, at two things; that poor excuse of “speed”, and the ridiculousness of the cost.
I would have used [...]
I just chatted to the folks at o2 regarding this piece we posted earlier about the possibility of UK network Orange carrying the iPhone.
o2, naturally, aren’t in the business of commenting on rumours. But here’s a key quote from their response for us to mull on:
We’ve publicly said we have a multi year exclusive [...]
You’ll shortly be able to buy a one-time-use mobile handset complete with pre-installed SIM card with 60 minutes worth of traffic — extendable by top-up vouchers. So reports StrategyEye.
The deal is coming to us courtesy of everybody’s favourite maker of plastic pens, BIC. Yes! The mobile phone is now truly becoming a [...]
Ricky here!
Ewan and the podcast team have been giving Orange a hard time recently about mobile data, especially about their unlimited Bebo. You can read about his rant’s here, here and here.
It seems that Orange have listened to its customer and is now offering all £35+ plans unlimited free data which is 500mb fair [...]
I’m very impressed with Orange. Very.
I was just checking out the cost of an Nokia N82 and browsing the price plans when I got a little window pop-up on my screen asking if I needed help.
My gosh! A mobile operator, trying to help folk online!
Vodafone famously has a brilliant ‘Forum Intervention Team’ — [...]
Interesting. Orange UK have implemented pop-up customer services chat.
I was browsing their site and a little window popped up to ask if I needed help… cool! More soon..
SMS Text News reader Ross Derrick emailed me the other day to share his (positive!) experience with Orange after I solicited opinion. It’s good to read positive stories about Orange. It’s really depressing when you look at their offering, still. Anyway, over to Ross…
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I’ve been an Orange user [...]
Continue ReadingAfter my call for opinion on Orange UK, I’m pleased to be able to publish this viewpoint from reader, Kat, who reckons they’re actually pretty good. Kat has even taken out their 250mb data plan…
I’ve been with Orange probably for the last 10 years and if I’m honest I haven’t really had a problem [...]
Continue ReadingAfter Ewan’s rants about Orange and its stupid data plans here, here and here, we’ve had a tip from a reader to say that Orange are looking to introduce new data plans to rival Vodafone’s.
Anyone able to confirm this?
I’ve been thinking for a long time about signing up with Orange and getting an account with them. I have an account with each UK operator, with the exception or Orange and, as I’ve commented here before, I think it’s important to get an account to actually experience their service.
To date, apart from [...]
I just still can’t believe that Orange UK can, with a straight face, publish a poster in its shop windows offering customers free evening and weekend mobile browsing.
What about during the day? Just ridiculous.
I kid ye not, though. This is actually an offer. A genuine offer. People keep emailing me (James [...]
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