Vodafone Backs Down In Row With Android Users

jhernik writes with this excerpt from eWEEK Europe: "Vodafone has backed down in the face of angry opposition from Google Android customers, who last week received a software update thinking it contained Android 2.2, but instead found it contained Vodafone's branded 360 service. The Vodafone 360 service was launched in October last year. Essentially, Vodafone 360 is a user interface that puts social networking on the front screen of the phone, and arranges the users' contacts so you can reach any person with a phone call, IM, text or other call — or send a location message to meet up. However it also installs irremovable Vodafone-branded apps and bookmarks, including links to dating sites."

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Dating Sites preinstllaed on the phone...

[Anonymous Coward]

...lead to more usage of data sites with the SO picks it up and goes "Honey, why is Match.com on your phone?"

Whoever thought of this was a total idiot.

And this is why you buy unlocked/unbranded

[ickleberry]

This shows once again that the little bit of a subsidy the network gives is never worth it.

Remember lads this is in the UK where all networks offer good SIM-only plans and prepaid doesn't suck ass like it does in the States.

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[Night64]

That is the problem with the whole "regulation is bad" dogma. In Brazil telecom companies are forced to use the standards, in a way that I can freely hop between carriers at will. And my phone number is MY phone number. No matter what carrier I contract, my number goes with me. That's how a free market was supposed to work. Competition, folks.