Lumia 710

straatkat said:
Will you let me know if you come right with Vodacom?
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I'm checking the Vodacom upgrade site to see when deals are loaded. The 710 is showing but no deals attached yet, will keep you posted. BTW, I'm using an E52 atm, typically recharge once a week and like to keep my screen clean. So, moving to a touch screen (smudgoo...) and charge every day or two will be a challenge, but then can we do without the everyday amazing :)
 
DearHeart said:
I'm checking the Vodacom upgrade site to see when deals are loaded. The 710 is showing but no deals attached yet, will keep you posted. BTW, I'm using an E52 atm, typically recharge once a week and like to keep my screen clean. So, moving to a touch screen (smudgoo...) and charge every day or two will be a challenge, but then can we do without the everyday amazing :)
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We probably will have to wait for the new month before the deals become available...
 
Dropped into our local mall. No news yet on availability of the phone from Vodacom. The lady did tell me to wait until next month.
 
How long can training take? It's exactly the same as the 800 software-wise, so all they need to learn is the specs.
 
roguemat said:
How long can training take? It's exactly the same as the 800 software-wise, so all they need to learn is the specs.
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She did tell me that the phone was demoed to them but it is not on the system yet, no deals and no stock.

Have a feeling we are going to have to wait until the May deals arrive on 8 May...

Our local Virgin Mobile store did have a phone on display and they have a deal attached to it. I did not checked out Cell C, the store was to busy.

I also asked Cellucity, the guys response: "Do you mean the Lumia 800?" So yeah, I guess they don't have stock either...
 
Dad got a 710 about 5 days ago from Nashua mobile on MTN contract. Probably not gonna help any of you though....
 
I'm more ineterested in the 610 tbh. The battery life is supposed to much better and it can run Skype now as well.
 
straatkat said:
Skype require 512mb RAM and the 610 is a Tango device with just 256MB RAM. So no Skype for you.
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We had a Nokia chap phoning into wpcentral podcast on Skype from his 610. It never didn't work.
 
roguemat said:
We had a Nokia chap phoning into wpcentral podcast on Skype from his 610. It never didn't work.
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Might work for voice calls on low end tango devices, but none of the current devices from Nokia (exception Lumia 900) have a front facing camera so we cannot say whether it will still work during a video call?

The official supported requirements is 512mb RAM.
 
Btw, the whole, not supporting a front facing camera in Windows phone 7 was really stupid. What is worst is that all the launch devices from Nokia runs windows phone 7.5 (which does support front facing cameras), yet none of them have front facing cameras. Considering that the Lumia 800 was build of the the N9, which does have a front facing camera, this is rather silly. Considering that my Nokia 6680 came with video calling and a front facing camera makes one cringe a little.
 
straatkat said:
Might work for voice calls on low end tango devices, but none of the current devices from Nokia (exception Lumia 900) have a front facing camera so we cannot say whether it will still work during a video call?

The official supported requirements is 512mb RAM.
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It will still work. If you have no ffc then it defaults to the back facing one.
 
roguemat said:
It will still work. If you have no ffc then it defaults to the back facing one.
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Which is an awesome user experience...last time I checked the point of a video call is so that both people can see each other and that works best with a front facing camera. There are many things you can forgive a great innovative product, but lets not be stupid. Not having a front facing camera in this day and age is stupid, especially if you are the company that rolled out this tech many years ago, long before Facetime or the iPhone was even a concept with the Nokia 6680. Video calling over 3G was all the rage way back then. So Skype on 100% of Windows Phones in SA will be text only when you are realistic about it, unless you like to sit in front of a mirror when you call...

I get that people are passionate about a product. What frustrate me is when they are irrational about it.
 
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