Vodafone is offering postpaid customers with Android phones the ability to add a McAfee Mobile Security subscription to their service for $3 a month. Is that a sensible investment?
We’re big fans of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0 to the rest of you), but right now it’s only available locally in the form of the Galaxy Nexus (and apparently random updates on the Nexus S). Vodafone is offering an email update service that will let customers know when ICS is made available on the phones it sells.
Never manage to answer your phone before it diverts to voicemail? You can alter the length of time it rings by dialling a simple number.
One of the side effects of the push towards greater transparency in phone charging has been a rise in the number of apps on offer for customers to track their usage. Vodafone is the latest entrant in this crowd, offering iOS and Android apps to track your balance.
Vodafone’s mobile broadband gear gets discounted pretty regularly. If you’re a hotspot fan, this is a good deal: Dick Smith has the prepaid Pocket Wifi 2 online for $39.50 including delivery, which is half the regular price. [Dick Smith via OzBargain]
Proof that it always pays to double-check the details: right now, Vodafone is offering the 32GB iPhone 4 with a handset charge of just $5 a month if you sign up to its $29 Cap over 24 months (that’s $816 in total). So what’s the sting?
There are dozens of prepaid plans on the market which offer “unlimited” calls in Australia without tying you to a contract, but which offer the best value? Planhacker rounds up every deal currently on offer.
Sadly it’s not a shift to Ice Cream Sandwich, but Vodafone is pushing out an over-the-air update for the Desire HD and Cha Cha to shift them to Android 2.3.5 and Sense 3.0, as well as smaller bug fix updates for the Sensation and Salsa, from 4pm today. You’ll get a notification on your device when the update is available. Not a concern if you’ve already shifted to a custom ROM, obviously.
Vodafone’s main response to the litany of complaints that kicked off late last year has been to spend up on network improvements of variable helpfulness. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has now ordered it to fix up the other element that led to massive dissatisfaction with Vodafone: the way it described network coverage and its processes for handling complaints.
