Tag: orange

The shocking disparity of data roaming and Pay as you Go while abroad

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I’m in Armenia, and I was planning on relying on Wi-fi hotspots to keep me connected, but as the group i was having dinner with were heading to buy some prepaid SIM cards, I thought “why not” and checked the price. 500 Armenian Dram picked up a SIM card with 400 Dram on the card. At a metered rate of 5 dram per megabyte, that gives me 80MB to play with. On previous experience Windows Phone pulls down 15-20MB a week for my regular usage, so I’m set (or at least will be when the SIM is activated in the

A battle weary mobile veteran on the Samsung Galaxy 2

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The software I’m less keen on, and I think the root cause here is the ease which which OEMs and operators can customise Android. It seems to allow the mobile industry to more easily commit the same crimes which left room for iPhone to succeed: exposing internal politics as end-user choices, bundling unnecessary or unreliable products, and reskinning the product to follow brand guidelines at the expense of usability. Tom Hume – although I’ll flag up it was an Orange branded version, which everyone in the UK knows is going to have more crapware on it than any other network.

Smartphone karma app as Orange lets you “Do Some Good”

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An interesting one here from Orange, which asks “if you have five minutes to spare, could you do some good?” Their latest application, “Do Some Good” does the asking and lets you fill in surveys, helping out charities in your local area, sharing ideas and generally being a jolly good person and helping out others in the world. Available for Android, iOS and Symbian via Orange’s dedicated site.

Glastonbury 2011 app for smartphones

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My review on All About Symbian: Back when T.Rex played the first Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, it was easy to keep track of the eight acts that were playing what has turned out to be one of the largest open are music festivals in the world. In 2011, it’s a little bit harder (the number of acts, singers, comedians, buskers and hangers on is in the thousands… plus The Wombles). Perhaps UK network Orange’s mobile guide to Glastonbury 2011 will replace your paper guide, whether you are heading to the farm or watching it live on the BBC?

Orange drop the ball on iPhone pricing

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Irrespective of how much the iPhone handset costs an Orange user, they really need to look at the data tariff that they’ll be put on. Orange are handing you the classic bait and switch of an Unlimited plan with a fair use policy. Can your iPhone survive on the utterly massive 750MB/month that Orange will offer you? O2 initially advertised the iPhone as being unlimited with a fair use cap on it, but before launch they sensibly changed their mind and said unlimited is unlimited, and we want iPhone users to use the device as intended, i.e. always connected. The