That is strange, I've never been charged for wifi access abroad. Are you sure it wasn't through one of their partners wifi hotspots?

On Vodafone here in the UK.

( Got phone thru CPW , Not vodafone )

Have unlimited Inet access, However even if i didnt, They wouldnt charge me for wifi.
When the N900 connects to wifi it disconnects the gprs / 3g internet .

I cant see how this would even get forwarded to vodafone on your usage either.

They would need some kind of software / hook listening to the wifi interface and forwarding its data use out to vodafone?

Luckily, The fone here has no custom stuff from them on here, so i know they are not snooping.

Would be interesting to install iptables and see what the phone sends and receives.

My organisation has a Vodafone business contract and I'm thinking of getting an N900 through that (so direct from Vodafone, not via CarphoneWarehouse or anyone else). Reading through this thread, I am unclear - are the Vodafone-supplied N900s definitely limited, in terms of repositories that can be accessed, and Skype, etc.?

just a question that came to my mind. Can I use skype througth a 3G connection? (with and/or without vodafone).

Vodafone N900 direct from vodafone business. No strings attached.

Have updated twice over wifi net. installed from extras-testing. no worries.

There is nothing Vodafone about the device at all.

vodafone UK have their own product code on the handset but its vanilla firmware (no branding , original nokia firmware). by setting their own the product means they could add something to future firmware but so far its clean.

So debranding Voda, leaves you with a generic AND unlocked handset?

Thx

the handset direct from vodafone is not locked, it just uses a firmware with a different number.

if OP got such a bill sounds like he roamed onto another network instead of using wifi.

there is no branding in the current vodafone version firmware that i can find, even fAPN lets you add other apn's as expected.

using wifi (ie a network to access internet) switches off gprs data network so does not count on your bill from vodafone.

the repositories work just fine, all of them apart from the current batch of apps with unsatisfied dependencies which should not be allowed in my opinion.

rgds

I was on the Vodafone eForums yesterday and people have been asking about flashing their N900's to the UK/Global firmware and whether that will invalidate the warranty. A Vodafone representative said that if the firmware downloaded is from a nokia approved site (any subdomain on nokia.com for example) and the phone is flashed with a Nokia approved flashing tool (again, like the ones available on the Nokia website) then debranding your phone will not void the warranty.

So my N900 is now on Global firmware, which I assume is unlocked (nothing but Vodafone sims in this house, so I have no way of knowing) and because it's on the Global firmware, it's generic too.

EDIT: http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.ph...ic=53991&st=20 Here's the thread I was looking at, look for posts by "MartinB_Vodafone" in particular. He says there that any firmware available on the Nokia website will not invalidate the warranty.

Vodafone continues to give problems.

I might need to flash mine to global too. I still havent got the latest firmware update. Im using version 2.2009.51-1.205.1

And I've lost one of my GPRS connections in my sim so now I only have Wap (in my previous sim (which i misplaced), I had "GPRS" too).
The problem I have here is connecting using Vodafone WAP means some sites (notably youtube) redirects me to m.youtube.com and nothing I do makes it go to the full youtube site. However when i use to connect using Vodafone GPRS i could use the full site. Dont ask how or what. I cant explain this behaviour.