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Will O2 be offering the Tornado?

Simple enough question.

o2 asia offer the Tornado as the o2 XDA Orion, but so far there has been no whispers of it coming to UK

Vodafone UK have it comming soon.

just found O2 UK are offering the tornado as XDA IQ from early April 2006

http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news2280.html
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=238721

http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news2280.html
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=238721

shadowman said:
just found O2 UK are offering the tornado as XDA IQ from early April 2006
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Yup - we'll be selling it from 14th April.
Which realistically means sometimes that following month.
Maybe.
Why they had to change the name from Orion to IQ is beyond me.

Details available from O2 now.......
http://xda.o2.co.uk/doesXdaIQ.aspx

XDAIQ pricing.....
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/portal/pls/portallive/docs/1/4389909.PDF

o2 XDA IQ Available now in UK!
http://shop.o2.co.uk/cgi-bin/o2uk-b...&model=business:O2:XDAIQ:GROUP&deviceType=Pda
O2 XDA IQ Alias the HTC Tornado is now available from O2 business and the price is.....
FREE!!

New XDAs from O2 in January 2007

Spoke with O2 CS this morning and they advised me that 2 new XDAs are due for release on 15 January 2007. They are currently named the XDA Zinc & XDA Graphite. I have the feeling they are O2's version of the HTC Trinity & HTC Artemis respctively. I have no further info and frankly, neither did they.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Someone must know something, or maybe not considering o2 have no idea about the handsets themselves. I was told that the XDA Atom is something that is being considered by O2 UK for release.

Zinc and Graphite are not the products that you state, they are from a differenet manufacturer. :wink:
Cheers
LB

O2 has severed all connections to HTC. Only O2 Germany are serving HTC products now.

At least the fact that O2 UK and HTC no longer have a trading relationship is very clear so we know not to rely on any of HTC's current and forthcoming models as pending releases on O2 UK. So who's handsets are being released?
Quanta and Gigabyte are the 2 I know have an involvement with O2 Asia so most likely will fill the gap in the UK but where can we see their handsets?
Plus is there anyone else to look at?

I believe a different company is responsible for the O2 XDA Stealth so there would be a good starting point.

Atom and Atom Exec are both manufactured by Quanta. The Stealth is manufactured by Gigabyte

Sunnychad said:
At least the fact that O2 UK and HTC no longer have a trading relationship is very clear so we know not to rely on any of HTC's current and forthcoming models as pending releases on O2 UK. So who's handsets are being released?
Your statement is not correct, O2 UK still have a trading relationship with HTC and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. There will be a new Xda device launched in the UK and Germany in Q4 from HTC.
Cheers
LB
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To the Lord,
Tell us what it is and when. Can you help shed any light on the Graphite and Zinc?
The basis of my comment with regard to O2 UK is that I have read in several places that HTC will no longer produce O2 XDA branded phones for O2 UK. I am well aware that O2 Germany continue to have a relationship, bearing in mind the XDA Cosmo and XDA Orbit

Zinc and Graphite will be 3G devices one smartphone one PPC device, neither from HTC, go here for pics and high level specs:
http://www.4winmobile.com/portal.php?topic_id=3300
As for a relationship between HTC and O2UK that will continue.
Regards
LB

O2 XDA Zinc and TyTN comparison
There are also some images of o2 xda zinc and a comparison with HTC TyTN at http://www.mypocketpcmobile.com/O2XDAZincAsusTekMarsII/tabid/159/Default.aspx

Artimis coming to O2 UK

I spoke to O2 UK customer services today and they confirmed the Xda Orbit (aka HTC Artimis/P3300) is now on their system and has a launch date of 27/11/2006. So not just O2 Germany, now O2 UK as well!!!!!

good news
good news, i was just thinking about upgrading to the xda exec. The orbit sounds much better for my needs. Did he mention any costs? execs are going for about 150 with new contract on o2, i hope the orbit is similarly priced.

Release date for T-Mobile UK?

Anyone know when this phone will be out on T-Mobile in the UK? I have seen references to an MDA Vario Compact 4 but no dates.

I spoke to someone about a weekago and they said the were no planned new releases in the MDA range. I just moved from them to o2 for the orbit2, much much better than the compact 2 I was using

I'm gonna leave Tmobile too. I wanted to upgrade from Vario II to Vario III, but being as I'm only a loyal customer who's been with them for 2 years, they wanted £270 for it!!! Very tempted by the Orbit 2 with the bolt on online upgrade promotion to web access. How is O2's web access compared to Tmobiles?

When in O2 UK?

Hi,
I think that after 3 years with HTC Universal(s)(3), it's a time to change my phone!
There is nothing even close to XDA Exec so Raphael is the only alternative...
Does anyone know when I can expect this phone to hit UK market (O2)?
I was told that HTC Diamond will hit O2 by end of this week (retentions agent)- but that might not be the full story. On the plus side he knew about Raphael but didn't know any dates
Many thanks!
Cheers
Chris

I to was wondering the same

O2 Germany said they release the Touch Pro in the week of 15th september.

Any idea what o2 are calling the phone?

In Germany it will be called "o2 Xda diamond pro", guess it will be the same in the UK.

Today i found it at the O2 Homepage. It´s very expensive. https://service.o2online.de/portal?$part=Productcatalog.content.detailView&hardwareId=4510%20070033%2000&commercializationId=NewCustomerWebshopPostpaid&tariffId=O-GEN-H-L

o2 just started selling their version of the diamond "XDA Ignito" http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news4232.html

It's definitely available via o2 customer services as of today in the UK as I phoned up but they want £35 a month for 18 months = £630 minimum term and the touch diamond is £399.99 sim free most places now so I would advise get a sim free one then get a o2 sim only (simplicity) 30 day rolling contract

AndyChecker said:
It's definitely available via o2 customer services as of today in the UK as I phoned up but they want £35 a month for 18 months = £630 minimum term and the touch diamond is £399.99 sim free most places now so I would advise get a sim free one then get a o2 sim only (simplicity) 30 day rolling contract
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thanks for the info mate

AndyChecker said:
It's definitely available via o2 customer services as of today in the UK as I phoned up but they want £35 a month for 18 months = £630 minimum term and the touch diamond is £399.99 sim free most places now so I would advise get a sim free one then get a o2 sim only (simplicity) 30 day rolling contract
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Woops I meant to post this in the touch diamond forum not the touch pro -sorry for any confusion