Vodafone 360 circles the HTC Legend and Sony Ericsson X10
Why mess with a good thing? Because you're Vodafone, and you're sticking apps for your pointless 360 service on the hottest new Android phones
We're already drooling over the HTC Legend and the Sony Ericsson X10, the Android smart phones that are coming to Vodafone this April. But we're not so hungry for Voda's special sauce of Vodafone 360, which is going to be sprinkled over the phones' Android deliciousness.
A music store could be handy -- although Android also offers the Amazon MP3 store -- but we don't think Vodafone 360's social-networking aspirations will find much purchase on the Legend. The phone already has the HTC Sense user interface, which includes a single inbox for your Gmail and Facebook contacts, and a friend-stream app that brings your tweets and status updates together in one widget.
Vodafone 360 was launched on two flagship phones -- the disappointing Samsung H1 and the Samsung M1 -- and various other phones support apps that give access to some parts of the service. But, like Nokia's Ovi thingumajig, it's failed to make much of an impression due to its lack of features compared to other social networks, and its inability to share data outside of its own walled garden.