Vodafone Smart Platinum 7

Dazstoke · 22 Jun 2016 at 17:48

It's going to take one hell of a phone to get me to replace my SU6

PapaLazaru · 22 Jun 2016 at 21:36

Had a little play with one yesterday at HQ.

It feels nice and is well equipped. Might be persuaded when my contract is up and just go SIMO.

Skeeter · 22 Jun 2016 at 21:49

kona786 said:
Something called media.

Why are you watching such large quantities of media on a ~5" screen?

kona786 · 22 Jun 2016 at 22:02

Skeeter said:
Why are you watching such large quantities of media on a ~5" screen?

Your assuming I'm watching video.

It's my music collection along with my nandroid backups and whatever else. Why should I have to restrict myself to 64GB when large capacity sd cards are so cheap. A smartphone is an all in one device after all.

Skeeter · 22 Jun 2016 at 23:16

I assumed because there's so many music streaming services that storing music locally is fast becoming a thing of the past.

Don't get me wrong, I think small capacity phones with no SD card slots are stupid, and the "pricing by capacity" model is a total rip off. The small 8GB and 16GB phones are a waste of time.

But 64GB is a decent size and perfectly fine for pretty much anyone.

kona786 · 22 Jun 2016 at 23:40

Who wants fine when you can have better.

And data is not always available everywhere. Haven't we been over this like forever.

Myshra · 23 Jun 2016 at 10:15

PapaLazaru said:
Had a little play with one yesterday at HQ.

It feels nice and is well equipped. Might be persuaded when my contract is up and just go SIMO.

Which House do you work at fellow inmate? It's the new staff phone for VFUK staff, all my friends over there are waiting for it to come out

Build quality was pretty good and it was a decent speed.

this_is_gav · 23 Jun 2016 at 12:17

Skeeter said:
Why are you watching such large quantities of media on a ~5" screen?

There's plenty of apps to stream videos from phones to TVs too.

PapaLazaru · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:18

Myshra said:
Which House do you work at fellow inmate? It's the new staff phone for VFUK staff, all my friends over there are waiting for it to come out

Build quality was pretty good and it was a decent speed.

Faraday.

Hoping to get one as an upgrade as well!

KnightStalker · 24 Jun 2016 at 10:04

I managed to grab one at my local Vodafone store, they didn't even know about it till asked, I like it a lot, I'm just wanting an unlock code do I can swap to my o2 sim.

insane200 · 27 Jun 2016 at 20:05

Little unboxing of the Ultra Smart 7

CorrectHorseBattery · 27 Jun 2016 at 20:17

This thread is about the Smart platinum 7 :rolleyes:

insane200 · 27 Jun 2016 at 20:20

Gigabit said:
This thread is about the Smart platinum 7

Myshra also mentioned the Smart Ultra 7 was coming so i thought I'd share the video in case someone was interested, So less of the :rolleyes:

thanks.

CorrectHorseBattery · 27 Jun 2016 at 20:23

insane200 said:
Myshra also mentioned the Smart Ultra 7 was coming so i thought I'd share the video in case someone was interested, So less of the thanks.

There's a thread for the Smart ultra 7. You can't have missed it :rolleyes:

insane200 · 27 Jun 2016 at 20:29

Myshra said:
Smart Ultra 7 is coming too - it's announced internally and some OpCos (not UK yet). Details are here:
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/what/devices/smartultra7.html

to be clear, this is not the plat but a successor(...ish) to the current SU6. LTE CAT 4 = 150mb down and I believe they mean 802.11 AC when it says A/N. 802.11a is a bit old now

Gigabit said:
There's a thread for the Smart ultra 7. You can't have missed it

Whats so bloody hard to understand, Myshra mentioned it in this thread , so i shared a video about it, if you don't like, back out the thread and be less of a knob.

There is no thread for the smart ultra 7 just the platinum 7 and prime 7.

KnightStalker · 27 Jun 2016 at 23:11

Right im on the hunt for an unlock code for this phone, sick of vodafone already l but i like the phone actually, I know its new but no idea how long before unlock codes become available.

insane200 · 28 Jun 2016 at 00:42

KnightStalker said:
Right im on the hunt for an unlock code for this phone, sick of vodafone already l but i like the phone actually, I know its new but no idea how long before unlock codes become available.

Who makes the phone ? If it's zte like the ultra 6 might be able to get s code from eBay.

Or try DC unlocker

Edit.

Looks like it's a Alcatel idol 4s rebranded so might be worth while trying to get a unlock code for that.

konicky · 28 Jun 2016 at 08:08

marc2003 said:
If I was forking out that much, I wouldn't want the vodafone branding. I have a SU6 which I'm happy with and don't mind the branding because it's dirt cheap. Maybe others aren't as petty as me??

Agree with this ! Apparently it's a rebranded Alcatel Idol 4s so I'd wait for that to be released.

KnightStalker · 28 Jun 2016 at 12:17

insane200 said:
Who makes the phone ? If it's zte like the ultra 6 might be able to get s code from eBay.

Or try DC unlocker

Edit.

Looks like it's a Alcatel idol 4s rebranded so might be worth while trying to get a unlock code for that.

Cheers, doesnt appear to be that much for it, maybe I'll have to wait a bit longer unfortunately, and to the people talking about the branding, the logo on the back is not that noticable, and all the apps bar 2 can be disabled so dont show up.

insane200 · 28 Jun 2016 at 12:39

KnightStalker said:
Cheers, doesnt appear to be that much for it, maybe I'll have to wait a bit longer unfortunately, and to the people talking about the branding, the logo on the back is not that noticable, and all the apps bar 2 can be disabled so dont show up.

You may be able to flash a stock Alcatel rom to remove the others, but it's probably not worth it.

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