Who offers what?

So its been six whole months since we last wrote about who offers what. A lot has changed, the Lumina’s have hit and we have a 4G Windows Phone on the market. So if theres anyone looking for a device at the moment here’s where you can find which devices are on each carrier.

	Optus	Telstra	Vodafone
Current Devices	Nokia Lumia 900 Nokia Lumia 800 Nokia Lumia 710	HTC Titan 4G Nokia Lumia 800	Nokia Lumia 800 Nokia Lumia 610
Coming Devices	None Announced	None Announced	None Announced
Previous Devices	Samsung Omnia 7 LG Optimus 7	HTC HD7 HTC Mozart  LG Optimus 7Q Samsung Omnia W	HTC Trophy
Carrier WP Site	Page	Page	Page
Extra Services		TelstraOne Garmin Navigator  Foxtel Guide	My Vodafone

HTC Confirms Titan 2 for Australia

In an interview with Pocketlint, HTC has confirmed that the Titan 2 superphone will be heading down under. Being an LTE phone the handset will be made available on the Telstra network. A time frame has not been announced.

 

Source: Pocket-Lint

Optus Opens Pre-orders

Optus is the first carrier off the rank to offer pre-orders of the Nokia Lumia 800 & Lumia 710. Orders places before the 26th of February will be delivered on March 1. The Lumia 800 is available for $0 on the $49 cap and the Lumia 710 is available for $0 on the $29 cap.

Preorder your handset here: 800, 710

Source: Wmpoweruser

Telstra Releases Update

Great news everyone! Telstra has begun the rollout of the 7740 and 8107 update. It is a gradual rollout so people will begin to get notifications over the next few weeks! You can always force the update in the usual way. That means all three carriers have released the update on the eve of the Lumia launch.

Optus getting ready!

We get a Tesltra leak, we get an Optus leak, everything seems to be happening today!

Optus has been doing some work on the back end of its website and WPDownUnder is reporting that the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 preorder pages are ready to go live! Don’t get too excited, no pricing yet But we do have a “will be delivered after 1st of March” message clearly viable on the site.

Source: Windows Phone Down Under

 

We have a date … maybe?

So the Nokia Lumia 800 is coming to all major carriers at throughout March, but Gizmodo is reporting today it might be very early if not before if you’re a Telstra customer. An anonymous source that works in a Telstra store sent Gizmodo some information regarding to the release of new 4G devices on their network. Interestingly it was noted that the Nokia Lumia 810 would be coming to the network on the 28th of this month. Is the 810 just a typo? Is the date incorrect? We will find out in 12 days I guess!

Source: Gizmodo

A Late Christmas Gift from Vodafone

For those of us who are all too familliar with the keyboard bug that turned up in mango, some of us will get a little grin on their face when the ‘update is available’ alert pops up over the next few weeks. Vodafone has announced that its Australian HTC 7 Trophy will begin to recieve the update over the next few weeks as is usual with Windows Phone updates. Great work to Vodafone for getting the bug fix to its customers! How about you Telstra?

Source: Vodafone Blog

Lumia 710 heading to Optus and Virgin

Image Source: Nokia Australia

Yesterday it was announced that the Nokia Lumia 710 would be coming to Optus and Virgin in the coming weeks. The unlocked price of the Handset will be $379, so we can expect to see the handset in the $19/$29 cap ranges. The handset will also be available to purchase from a number of leading retail stores.

The Nokia lumia 710 is Nokia’s lower end Windows Phone handset which was announced alongside the Lumia 800. It has a 5MP camera, 8GB of storage and a 1MHz processor. The 710 stands out due to its physical buttons, with most other Windows Phones having capacitive buttons.

Source: Nokia Australia’s Facebook Page

A Window through the Sea of Robots

The Samsung Omnia W is now available on the Telstra Next G Network. It is the first second generation Windows Phone to the Australian market, and a refreshing surpise on a network that has been focusing their attention on Android.

The handset features a 1.4GHz processor, 5MP camera with LED flash and a front facing camera with 8GB of storage all displayed on a Super AMOLED screen.

Samsung’s US version of the Omnia W has had the benefit of a marketing blitz in the US, unfortunately we are yet to see any advertising for this phone from Telstra or Microsoft. Maybe we will just have to wait for Nokia?

Check out AT&T’s advertisement for the Samsung Focus Flash below.

 

AFL Live …. unless you use a Windows Phone

Telstra has announced their new service dubbed AFL Live, where AFL fans can watch games and videos on their smartphones. Unfortunately the service is limited to Anroid and IOS devices with Telstra making clear it does not include Windows Phones in its service.

“m.afl.com.au is not available on Windows Phone 7 devices.”

So bad news guys If you’re upset or just want Telstra to show some WP love jump on their feedback site or Crowd Support to show the demand.

Source: AFL LIVE/Telstra