Omnia 7 sets are from SME, just that it is mostly distributed by telcos such as Maxis. Some of the stickers on the box also the same as what you get direct from SME.

That however means you have to find shops that have "relationships" with telco as such that they can sell you the set direct.

Hmm. Seriously have to check with Maxis Seremban guys. They were the ones who told me that when I got the sets from them last year.

Honestly, Nokia is the only way to go now with Windows Phone 7. SME don't even promote any of their WP7 phones to us, while HTC got only 1 phone to promo to us also.

Radar. Basically if you are looking for WP7, easily available models are Radar and Lumia from Nokia.

As I have said, need to have a little chat with my Maxis friends first. I've sold the sets and accompanying documents, so can't check who is actually giving out warranty on the Omnia 7.

I went back to iOS and the iPhone today.

Don't get me wrong, Lumia's are great phone, and the 710 is quite the seller. Relatively cheap, relatively new, sure you need more time to talk people through the use of the phone, but they get the hang of using it quite fast. The looks of the Lumia 800 gets people buying all the time, well, except for the 3 pink sets I still have. The keyboard of the 800 is on par with iPhone, in fact, if you were talking about the best soft keyboard, I'd say forget Android and get either iOS or Windows Phone.

The reason I switched back is because of little app niggles.

Sure, the app list is growing. But while some of the software providers are updating their software that you have bought, the big ones are lagging. Chief of them are Xbox Live branded games.

Take for example, the Angry Birds game.

The original Angry Birds game that I bought was at ver 1.6, Rovio has updated the game now to version 2.1, and I don't have to pay a cent more to get the update. I bought the same game when it first came out last year on my Mozart, and when I reinstalled the game on my lumia this week, guess what version it was on.

Yep. 1.6. No birthday cake for me. The kicker is the game itself is Xbox Live branded, suggesting a premier brand compared to the no name branded games floating around the markerplace. Heck, its in Space! But no birthday cake for you.

And still designers need to pay attention if you have devices with flush capacitive keys. Fruit ninja becomes fruit whoops I touched the windows key again and no matter what they tell you, if you have to show your splash screen that means you are loading the game again.

So who do I hang my hopes on? The only manufacturer with a chance to actually advance the platform forward is Nokia, everyone else pretty much hung everything on the Android OS already.

Oh, and no 3g videocall yet on Wp7 phones. Pretty much no one got a front facing camera anyway.

Its not a known bug. If you switch off data connection and wifi, whay you tap the notification area you should only see the signal bars, with any data indication such as 3G, H oe E, and when you try and surf you will get no cennection error.

Ok, Check your notification are. If there is any H, 3G, E or G sign beside the signal bars logo, then your Data line is on.

Even though you surf on Wifi, as long as there is H, 3G, E or G signal, it means that mobile data connection is still On.

Yeah, right. Try and see if you can get, or what you would get.