Topic: Vodafone customers fume over HTC Desire "upgrade"

[Simon]

Vodafone has infuriated customers after updating their HTC Desire handsets with the network's own irremovable apps.

The update, which many customers believed was the 'Froyo' Android 2.2 upgrade, instead delivered a series of Vodafone 360 apps and a new Vodafone-branded start-up screen, and added various web shortcuts to the home screen.  The Vodafone forums are swelling with complaints from customers who believe they were duped into downloading the "upgrade", with many complaining of impaired performance and crashing apps. What's more, the bundled applications cannot be removed.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/360055/vodafone-customers-fume-over-htc-desire-upgrade

[sam]

nice!!

[Simon]

Presumably yours indoors's isn't Vodafone? 

[sam]

Oh t'other one has hers with 3 and we looked up what should happen with the upgrade and it wasn't good news in that skype wouldn't work yet, so she held off... me I have some piece of s**te Canadian phone - they expect you to pay a fortune and sign up to a 3 year contract here for good phones. Really stupid, Canadian telecoms is very backwards.

[Simon]

3 years is a long time with one phone!

[Rik]

Beats your average by about 52x doesn't it. 

[Simon]