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NoKia N95 and Vodafone

On the way to a friend yesterday (7.5.07) I popped into my usual Vodafone retailer. This follows a 90 minute helpdesk call during the week regarding settings issues. I

left 2 hours later. Again a most helpful techno went through all settings

contacted vodafone twice by phone. They sent settings by email for wap

and email which he printed out to manually re input. He changed the sim

card in case by chance it was corrupted with vodafone settings. He got

vodafone to send all settings for sim. Re installed them. Got my

vodafone email password changed to try vodafone email in case yahoo settings

were not correct. Guess what ? No email ! Web works ok and vodafone

setting is Vf wap. Agreed my use of broadband would have proved it was not

vodafone settings. Advice given bring back with

box etc and they will send it off to engineers to check the phone

completely. Agreed another replacement would not solve issue. What to do ?

The camera is wonderful. Downloaded Yahoo Go works like a dream (using it

now with broadband when at home in bed ! ) can I live without phone email and gps -

yahoo maps good!

Basically I think it has been Vodafone-ised and who knows what that has left from the original Nokia intentions. So I have to decide whether to live with applications that don't work, wonder whether Nokia software upgrades will be 'allowed' by Vodafone, enjoy the convenience of having a good camera or, take it back and go back to my old Sharp and wait for the N96.....or whatever. Also, maybe I should save up and get a 'free of Vodafone' version. Views would be welcome from those with more knowledge than I.

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