{"id":1396,"date":"2009-12-20T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2009-12-20T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T11:21:13","slug":"nokia-n900-to-be-locked-to-vodafone-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Nokia N900 to be  locked to Vodafone network."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like all the previous vendors <i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expansys.com\/\">eXpansys<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\">Amazon UK<\/a> and other suppliers)<\/i> of the Unlocked <a href=\"http:\/\/maemo.nokia.com\/n900\/\">Nokia N900<\/a> have been consistently denied product to sell by Nokia. Now the word is, that the N900 will be exclusively the product of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carphonewarehouse.com\/\"> The Carphone Warehouse<\/a> (with a Vodafone ontract) and <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.vodafone.co.uk\/shop\/mobile-phone\/nokia-n900\">Vodafone UK<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>This means only one thing, there will be <strong>NO<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SIM_lock\"> SIM Unlocked<\/a> Nokia N900&#8217;s. They will all be locked to Vodafone SIMs and further <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Over-the-air_programming\">OTA<\/a> updates will be to Vodafone specifications. With the advent of <a href=\"http:\/\/info.vodafone360.com\/en\/experience\">Vodafone 360<\/a> they will be more and more tied to this service.  You really can reach no other conclusion, so much for Nokia&#8217;s commitment to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/\"> Open Source<\/a> and Open Source developers. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like all the previous vendors (eXpansys, Amazon UK and other suppliers) of the Unlocked Nokia N900 have been consistently denied product to sell by Nokia. Now the word is, that the N900 will be exclusively the product of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1396\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nokia N900 to be  locked to Vodafone network.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,18,75,296,132,52,281,80,78,62],"tags":[317,292,316],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-conspiracies","category-iphone","category-maemo","category-marketing","category-monopolies","category-n900","category-nokia","category-symbian","category-telecommunications","tag-carphone-warehouse","tag-nokia-n900","tag-vodafone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}