Vodacom's Nokia Lumia 800 launch party in South Africa

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Vodacom simply held a really amazing launch party to welcome the Nokia Lumia 800 (and the 710 at a later stage) Windows Telephone to S Africa. This particular event was the one we previously spoke about being held in Midrand.

Nokia Southward Africa recently announced that the Lumia 800 would exist available from the 7th February. However yesterday we learned of a promotion starting tomorrow for the phone. The latter turns out to exist correct and will most probably mark the start of the rollout to stores nationwide.

Promotion

The details of the launch package for the Lumia 800 are as follows:

R279 per month on Business Phone call
Deal is available from the Vodacom Dome in Midrand
Includes 100MB data per month for the get-go two years
Includes 20 minutes for weekend calls per month
The commencement 200 customers will receive a 4GB XBOX 360 including Forza 3
Deal is valid for both new customers, and ones upgrading

There is a lot of adept news here besides the fact that the telephone is being launched though. Nokia Bulldoze has total support for South Africa and covers half a million KM of road. Nokia Music and Mix Radio is likewise supported, forth with the latter getting local playlists crafted by locals. This means S Africans will exist able to stream and cache music to their WP7's until there is local Zune support. And to become with the music, Nokia Purity By Monster headphones will be available at the same fourth dimension.

Nokia made it clear that they are pushing local content, and with that Mxit was mentioned equally coming to the platform. Mxit is i of the largest mobile chatting/social networks in South Africa, and many locals utilize information technology over competitors like WhatsApp. Unfortunately no timing was mentioned on the release.

Amazing cocktails

Tonight'south event has made it very articulate that Vodacom is going to be working hard to make the Nokia Lumia range successful. This is affirmed past Romeo Kumalo (CCO Vodacom) who said, "I have seen a lot of telephone launches, merely never one this big.". And with comments like "The first real WP7 phones" and "People are ready to move off of a platform who's UI comes from a 4 yr old pattern." beingness thrown around past the speakers, it is quite apparent that they (Microsoft, Nokia, and Vodacom) are excited for these phones - and excited for change.

Tomorrow is a big day for Windows Phone in South Africa...so get grab a new phone in back up!

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