Yayyy Nokia, Boooo Vodafone
Posted on August 22, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Gadgets, Technology.
I was all excited for 20 minutes today. Nokia have released a free tool to enable you to upgrade your own phone firmware.
I grabbed the one for the N70, backed up the phone, installed the software and waited for it to analyse my phone. Result? I have the latest available Vodafone branded firmware so no upgrade is possible.
The Voda numbnuts haven’t released an upgrade since last September! Meanwhile I have a good phone which would be far far better with the improved firmware. And they all wonder why they have no customer loyalty.
Anyone know the name of a good dodgy phone unlocker in Munster?
tags: Nokia, Vodafone, Vodafone+Ireland, Firmware, N70
6 Replies to "Yayyy Nokia, Boooo Vodafone"
conor on August 22, 2006
I know older phones were pretty easy but I’m almost definite there is no shortcut on newer ones – it requires special cables and software to do. Lots of guys in the UK do it, not so sure about here.
Shockingly - Yayyy Vodafone » Conor’s Bandon Blog on September 7, 2006
[...] So I bitched about Voda (twice) and the fact that I couldn’t upgrade the software on my N70 mobile. Then Ciarán, an old workmate, pointed out that I could get the phone unlocked by just calling customer service. [...]
Tom Raftery on September 12, 2006
Boo Nokia – you can only do this from a PC with Windows installed.
conor on September 13, 2006
Awwww. I’m sure The Steve will release a nice white iFun that will make all other phones obselete with it’s built-in reality distortion field 
conor on September 13, 2006
I thought you were offline? A Winer river of feeds on your phone or internet cafe?
James on August 22, 2006
Have you googled for instructions on how to unlock that phone? I have unlocked vodafone phones before and it was just a case of finding the instructions for my phone online.