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Unfortunately my experience of Orange was not great (poor customer service, coupled with a network which unfortunately doesn&#8217;t work very well in my house, even though I live on a hill) and as I suspected, I never used many of the smartphone capabilities of the 6600.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been out of contract for a while, but have been deciding what to do &#8211; should I go for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/windows-mobile-50-why-it-shouldnt-be.htm\">Windows Mobile 5.0<\/a> device (difficult to find on my preferred network &#8211; <!--Static Ad --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?mid=1257&#038;id=87738\">Vodafone<\/a>), or just accept that I don&#8217;t need anything special because I have another mobile for work (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/nokia\/0,,71344,00.html\">Nokia 6021<\/a>) and that my personal phone is just a way to a) keep my number and b) mean I can ignore the work phone in the evening and at weekends?<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saab.co.uk\/main\/GB\/en\/model\/93_WAGON\/\">my new company car<\/a> arrived last week and I have a fully-fitted car kit for a Nokia 6021, I decided to get myself another 6021 so I have two identical handsets (one for work and one for personal use), both of which can be used legally in the car. Unfortunately, the excellent reseller I used last year (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilesuk.net\/\">mobilesuk.net<\/a>) doesn&#8217;t deal in pay-monthly Vodafone contracts and I didn&#8217;t want to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carphonewarehouse.co.uk\/\">Carphone Warehouse<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phones4u.co.uk\/\">Phones4U<\/a> as they have their own billing companies (both of which I have used, and both of which offered lousy customer service), so I went direct to Vodafone Retail. Except that I didn&#8217;t &#8211; and nor should you!<\/p>\n<p>Whilst having difficulty contacting my local Vodafone Retail store, I called Vodafone&#8217;s customer services department, who, after I pointed out that not being able to contact a store to enquire about stock before driving over to buy a phone is a pretty poor start to a customer-supplier relationship, eventually told me about Vodafone&#8217;s telephone sales team on +44 (0)800 015 8079.<\/p>\n<p>Even though there was no mention of it on the Vodafone website, I managed to get a Nokia 6021 free of charge, connected to Vodafone&#8217;s Anytime 75 tariff (for \u00c2\u00a316\/month instead of \u00c2\u00a320\/month), including 75 minutes of cross-network calls, a data bundle (with 100 SMS messages which can also be used for GPRS\/WAP\/MMS and would normally cost me another \u00c2\u00a36\/month), plus free insurance for 3 months (which I declined), as well as the current stop the clock promotion whereby if you commit to an 18 month contract off peak calls are capped at a 3-minute charge. I reckon that using that lot, my monthly bill should drop by about 40% and I&#8217;m back on a network that I can use in the house!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, although Vodafone shipped the handset with next-day delivery (for just \u00c2\u00a33.95), I can&#8217;t use the phone until my number is transferred from Orange next Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, the moral of that story is <strong>do not sign up to Vodafone in a Vodafone store or on the &#8216;net &#8211; call them on +44 (0)800 015 8079 instead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the plethora of devices that I carry (2 mobile handsets, a PDA and an iPod Mini, plus a notebook PC when I&#8217;m working) means that my Pocket PC is not seeing much use either, so expect to see one used (but mint condition) Nokia 6600 for Orange (boxed) and a used HP iPAQ Pocket PC h2210 (boxed) for sale on <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/710-5232-2978-22\/1?aid=8132995&amp;pid=1875354\" target=\"_top\">eBay<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tqlkg.com\/image-1875354-8132995\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I blogged about my entry to the world of mobility, courtesy of a Nokia 6600 connected to Orange. 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Now, I have a smartphone (a Nokia 6600), which is connected to my private number\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2749,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/usage-profiles-for-mobile-devices.htm","url_meta":{"origin":672,"position":4},"title":"Usage profiles for mobile devices","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Thursday 9 June 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago, an agency presented some statistics to me about mobile apps.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, although I did ask for permission to use the statistics, I don't have details of the source but I thought they were interesting to present on this blog, particularly in the light of Forrester CEO\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/technology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1174,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/default-pin-codes-and-voicemail-numbers-for-uk-mobile-networks.htm","url_meta":{"origin":672,"position":5},"title":"Default PIN codes and voicemail numbers for UK mobile networks","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Friday 29 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in 2005, I published a list of useful mobile handset commands and it's still attracting some interest so, as I bought a new mobile phone this week and it came with a list of the default PINs for each of the UK mobile operators, I'm re-publishing that information here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/technology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}