ops: - To be honest, Ive had the phone a couple of weeks and only tried the cradle with the charger two days ago - I didn't even know about the blue thing b4 then.
this phone gets better every day, i had mine since launch but have only opened the box on friday. the network has some niggles but the phone is great and the network stuff is mostly forgiveable.
just called 3 and gave them my pac code from orange so there is my vote of confidence! (as always they answered the phones immediatley, not experienced any of the reported waiting)