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ZTE AXON 7 UK ;0(

tidyboy72

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Jun 7, 2015
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Hey there, I've been patiently waiting for the Axon 7 to land here in the UK and when it did it went on sale on amazon. Then as quickly as it appeared it disappeared again. I went along to the Zte tour UK today in Birmingham to try and get more info and found a bus with loud music playing and people kicking soccer balls through holes in a peice of card. When I went into the bus I started asking questions and it quickly became very apparent that I knew more about the phone than the person selling it! I asked where I could buy it and discovered that they now had an exclusive deal with carphone warehouse and the device was locked in with the 3 network.
So my question is, does anybody know if I will be able to buy an unlocked Axon 7 in the UK or were we dangled a carrot we can never chomp on?!
 
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I take it you didn't go and chat? The lady I spoke to first who was very pleasing on the eye had never even heard of axon 7 until that morning and didn't know much about android! I couldnt give the speakers a good listen because the music was so loud outside and even with headphones the music outside was loud. And when another guy came in asking questions like how much to buy one outright and what's the difference between this and the S6 they couldn't give him an answer. His response was "How can you be here selling a product you don't know anything about..." whilst looking at me in disbelief. I could've told him but I was too cheesed off by then.
I also had a really quick go on their VR headset. I put it on and it was just a menu in Chinese that I couldn't get to select anything. I asked for help and the same pretty lady said she didn't know much about it but isn't it amazing. Erm no, not really. That's when I decided to leave.
I'd travelled from Nottingham so as you can imagine I was pretty damn annoyed. And I've only just noticed that the Axon mini is pretty much identical to the Axon 7 so it may even have been that I picked up as I lost the will to live whilst there and didn't really have a proper play ;0(
 
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Thats interesting, as Carphone Warehouse doesn't sell Three devices at the moment.... Unless its iD (which is their MVNO which uses the Three Network in the Background)

(we had the clueless bus in Liverpool this week as well)
Well I thought I'd get my final grumble in. I contacted carphone warehouse and they indeed aren't stocking them and don't plan to. So not only did they not know much on the bus but what they did seem to know was wrong. Priceless!
 
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