Buy a HTC 7 Trophy, get a free XBOX 360 [mkt]

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Been working up the courage to ask your spouse if you can buy an XBOX 360? Now you don’t have to. Vodafone has a special until the end of March where if you buy a HTC 7 Trophy handset on a $49 or higher monthly plan, you’ll get a free XBOX plus either one of Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-tracking controllers or a copy of Fable III or Halo Reach.

Of course, there’s quite a few caveats to the deal — you have to be on a 24 month plan, yadda yadda yadda, and you’ll be signing up to a mobile phone network which is currently at the bottom of the pile in Australia when it comes to network reliability. Then there’s the dubious honour of owning a handset using the Windows Phone 7 platform, which has limited apps available for it just yet. Lastly, Gears of War is clearly a much better franchise than Halo, so clearly Vodafone stuffed up in that regard.

But we thought we’d show you the option and leave it to you whether you want to examine it more closely :)

Image credit: HTC

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    • The readers are going to come to the same conclusions anyway, even if Renai doesn’t state them himself.

      • Well I don’t know what the phone is like, but I’ve heard some people like the windows 7 mobile thing.
        I’m not a fan of 24 month contracts, but it is tempting with a free Xbox with Kinect. And I’m with vodafone and haven’t come across any where near as many issues with them as the vocal minority has….

  1. “you have to be on a 24 month plan, yadda yadda yadda, and you’ll be signing up to a mobile phone network which is currently at the bottom of the pile in Australia when it comes to network reliability. ”

    LOL. Such enthusiasm Renai! Particularly like the detailed “yadda yadda” explanation of the contract ;)

  2. If its anything like the Mozart, il pass.

    The Mozart i organised for someone has been back for repair 3 times in 3 months.

    Not to mention when it does work, Windows 7 is severely lacking. Cant search for ‘sent’ SMS messages, no custom ringtones.

    And… my previous dealings with HTC and warranty repairs for LCD screens hasn’t been good.

    Them.. “We wont repair that under warranty, you pressed the screen to hard”.
    Reply..”how hard can we press it, its a touch screen which you tap”
    Them.. “We cant say how hard you can press it, just dont press it to hard”.
    Reply..”so we cant touch the touch screen:
    Them…”we cant say, but we wont fix it”.

  3. My Opinion after playing both games~~~~~Halo better: a theater, forge, better custom games because of the forge, gears campain IS longer but longer might not mean better to everyone, matchmaking on Halo way a little faster (Gears 2 was UBER slow before the update a while back). firefight gets raped 5:1 against horde. and halo has about 6 games if you want to count ODST(a rip-off, only good 4 recon armor and Reach beta). I think halo is less glitchy/laggy. But I know many people who like Gears better so I repect that too.

  4. An xbox!! not an xbox game? Shame I got my windows phone in the UK then. great phone by the way, it’s just so fluid and fast nothing. Anyone with an iphone up for a test scrolling through webpages with me? By the end of the year will be the best OS with the 2 updates, couple of things missing right now but still a great handset

  5. As implied by the text at the top of this article… “This article is part of Delimiter’s Marketplace program. Through it, we promote a limited number of deals and specials from our partners.” … I hope for Vodafone’s sake that wasn’t a paid advertisement! If it was and I was Vodafone I’d be pissed!

  6. Man are there some seriously uninformed opinions on here or what! In chronological order Windows Phone 7 is revolutionary in its fluidity, accessibility, integration and speed. Anyone who uses it is immediately amazed at how far Windows mobile OD has advanced and at how outdated it makes iOS and Android look. Windows marketplace has all the major apps offerred on other OS’s from official facebook, twitter, foursquare, kindle, flickr etc and offers 10 thousand apps with a growth rate of 2000 apps per month. I bought a HTC Mozart outright from Telstra on release day in George St and it has run like silk since. Looking forward to the OS update this week. Why would you want to search sent SMSes when the SMSes are threaded and if you scroll up you can see the conversation history?? Vodafone network speed has been found to be inferior by about 25% to Optus’s and Telstra’s but I have been with Vodafone for about 12 years now and practically never experienced network failures except recently, which I imagine they are addressing currently. Mostly positive I think.

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