By Anonymous CowardPosted Monday 19th November 2007 12:48 GMT
Rebranding phones like this is just plain stupid, you get nothing extra and in fact HTC lose out, they make good phones but their brand will eternally suffer - HTC should take a leaf from Nokia and Sony.
By ChristopherPosted Monday 19th November 2007 14:33 GMT
After you've done the initial setup after you've lost power (i.e. screen alignment and all that), just hit soft reset immediately to bypass all the O2 crap getting installed.
Anyway, Microsoft finally sorted out the annoying lose-power-lose-all-your-data situation with Windows Mobile 5.
I was under the impression that xda-developers had been forced to remove all the ROM's they had available to download? They had a sizeable donation from me for providing me with the o2 rom for my Orange-branded Himalaya handset.
If they're still going, i'll start checking back again! Wonder if the ftp password is still the same... ;)
Thanks for your info all; maybe i'll arrange for the 5.0 rom to come into my ownership... :D
By kerlmannPosted Wednesday 21st November 2007 11:42 GMT
Why is rebranding HTC phones as O2 "just plain stupid"? HTC has virtually no brand equity here in the UK, whereas all the mobile operators are trying to generate some genuine loyalty by offering their customers something tangible (i.e. a decent handset), rather than just a pure service offering.
BT-branded home phones are a good example of where this has worked well in a similar industry.
Comments on: O2 to launch Stella/Stellar in December
Stellar #
By JB Posted Monday 19th November 2007 12:37 GMT
Bah #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 19th November 2007 12:48 GMT
Hm... #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 19th November 2007 13:27 GMT
The burning question... #
By Ash Posted Monday 19th November 2007 13:38 GMT
Stellar, I expect. #
By Anonymous John Posted Monday 19th November 2007 13:54 GMT
@Ash #
By Christopher Posted Monday 19th November 2007 14:33 GMT
@Ash #
By Joe Blogs Posted Monday 19th November 2007 14:45 GMT
@Bloggs, Joe #
By Ash Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 15:30 GMT
@Anonymous Coward #
By kerlmann Posted Wednesday 21st November 2007 11:42 GMT