GSM WORLD

Hi,

I ordered a MDAIII on T-Mobile from OneStopPhoneShop on 20 February 2005.
Forecast dispatch dates of 8 March and 18 March have come and gone and OSPS
have still not received any stock. Worse, without warning OSPS helped
themselves to Ł160 from my credit card when I placed the order a month ago,
so Ive actually paid for the thing in full now.

Am considering cancelling the deal on Monday and was wondering if anyone out
there has actually received a MDAIII recently? Either from OSPS or
otherwise.

Am I likely to have a problem getting my money back from OSPS? I know that
if necessary I can resort to a charge back from Amex, but in the first
instance need to approach OSPS - its just a question of how long I give
them.

The MDAIII was removed from the T-Mobile website a couple of weeks ago and
my suspicion is that theyve been caught out by higher than anticipated
demand and dont actually have any themselves.

Assuming that I do cancel I will probably re-order directly from O2 either a
XDAIIs or XDAIIi. O2 say they have stock of both. Does anyone have
experience otherwise?

Thanks.

Marty

Marty C wrote in message
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They talk bolox. Ring them up and cancel. Talk to Shanie, she is probably
the most helpful one there. Her direct dial is 01270 504460


I ordered my SPV M2000 from e2save.co.uk on Friday 18th (yesterday 12:30pm)
and received it this morning at 9:30am (Saturday 19th) Same deal as OSPS
i.e. yourplan 200 + 200 free, Ł30 month and Ł109.99 for phone.


See my reply to the thread we were on earlier. I cancelled no problem. They
should have reimbursed my cash, if not they will be in trouble. Shanie also
said that if I ordered, but found one elsewhere I would get a refund adn the
order cancelled as soon as I contacted them.


try e2save for an M2000, Dean on sales said they had about 40 in stock ready
for sale. I got mine and I am now fighting with it to get it on my home
ad-hoc wireless network. Can see the shared folders on the desktop, but
have not got the internet settings right yet. Off to googlesville for me I
think!

regards

-halli-

Thanks for the suggestion Halli, but I intend to use the new SIM alongside
my existing OVP Virgin SIM in my SE T610 and use the PPC purely as that, or
perhaps just with a PAYG SIM to send emails. Therefore I dont really want
two Orange SIMS in the same phone - will get confused and use the wrong one!

How is the keyboard on the M2000, do you find it usable or is it a bit of a
gimmick?

Also, I read that the Orange version comes with a spare battery, is this
really the case?

Finally, have you checked that youve actually received the refund. Your
comments dont exactly inspire confidence in them!

Marty

Marty C wrote in message
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one!

Unless you mean that you will be using a dual sim adapter, just write on it
with a CD marker - I have an OVP Virgin sim and two PAYG sims on Orange. I
never get confused. 400 xnet anytime mins are not to be sniffed at in the
first 6 months.
Why must you use the OVP sim? The call charges are cheaper on the orange
contract after the included mins anyway. If its a number thing, couldnt
you have it ported to the contract sim?

I had a T630 for a while - hated it, the camera and screen were worse than
my current nokia 6820 - and that is cr*p.

If you just want a pocket PC I am sure there are better ones out there for
similar money. A few have VGA screens too. Couldnt you get a contract with
a free-ish phone and sell it on ebay to put towards a pocket PC? What draws
you to the XDA clones?


I prefer to write using the stylus, but the keyboard is quite useable. No
good in landscape mode though :-)


Yup! and a space in the cradle to keep it charged too. Stereo
headphones/handsfree and a 32meg sd card. (but I have a 128meg mmc card
already and I am getting a 1gig card soon.) Comes with some good additional
software too, pdf and ppt viewers to mention two.


Yes, I am going to contact them and ask for a copy of the refund receipt. I
will also contact my bank.

I have the m2000 working on the wireless lan in adhoc mode now! It is brill.
Web pages are almost useable with the device in landscape mode. Pop3 seems a
bit slow, also when I sent an MMS it was received twice. I think I will
contact Orange and ask if I have been billed twice.

Now busy getting all of the software installed on it that I had on the
Jornada.

Yes, Ill be using it with a twin SIM adapter in my T610 and I need to keep
the existing number. I *could* port out and back to transfer it to a new
Orange phone , but I am reluctant to lose OVP Virgin - its so cheap
overall. Anyway porting would take 30 days, although Orange would probably
do it straight away (they would just love to get rid of another OVP Virgin
account :-).

Most of my outbound calls are off-peak and something like O2 online 450 will
get me lots of off peak coss network calls for Ł20/month not to mention the
100 texts and 1Mb data, so I think this is the way to go. Am tempted by the
Orange spare battery though.

I want an XDA so that I can send SMS / emails (cant be doing with the
texting thing on the T610) and use it with the Road Angel for SatNav -
granted others can do this as well, but it just seems the best solution.

Marty