Vodafone clings to customers with cloud contactbook
Vodafone has announced its latest plan to try and hang on to customers, which centres on a cloud-hosted address book. Vodafone 360 involves a web portal where users can see their address book, connected to the usual social networking services, and a custom client which will be pre-installed on variant handsets as well as central …
Much like Nokia's rear-guard action against the new kids on the block. Good riddance to them and their closeted inward-looking ways
Paris, so we don't have to hack her phone any longer - it will all be on Voda's web portal..
Vodafone's website has a little more on the H1:
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/vodafone360-samsung-h1
Looks pretty underwhelming to me. I really don't see that Vodafone 360 is a "key feature".
The sooner the big operators realise that they just offer infrastructure and a bit pipe, the better.
Sack all your marketing monkeys, they're useless...
Recent upgrade attempt went like this:
1) Ask for a new 'phone as mine is 5 years old.
2) Get told to piss off.
3) Threaten to leave.
4) Get sent texts and letters and stuff related to leaving.
5) Receive a call offering the new 'phone you asked for in 1).
6) Tell them to stuff it (may not have happened).
To clarify your comment "we don't know what OS the H1 will be running", I can confirm it is the first LiMo Release 2 handset. For more information on this Samsung device, see the LiMo Foundation press release here: http://www.limofoundation.org/en/Press-Releases/latest-limo-platform-release-heralded-by-iconic-handset-from-samsung-and-vodafone.html
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