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Orange have unveiled a new Android smart phone made by ZTE the San Srancisco for £99 running on Android 2.1. It features a 3.5 OLED capacitive touch screen,3.2 mega pixel camera with auto focus,Wi Fi etc & has a resemblance to a HTC phone. This is all for a mere £99 on pay & go & is now one of the many growing number of budget Android devices coming onto the market. See it here
http://www.recombu.com/reviews/orange/san-francisco/ I am wondering what the screen res is at that size but I am not really into Android no more & this will have Orange branding all over it
How come these companies can release such 2.1 devices at such a cheap price yet
dither over updates
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-09-21 18:59 ]
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Posted: 2010-09-21 19:46:14
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Because they're cheap handsets, worth around £9, the other £90 is for the Android licence ?
Why can SE do not do the same ? come on this is SE you're talking about, an old fashioned scared of change stick in the mud kinda company.
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Posted: 2010-09-21 20:41:08
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£9?? When you see the photo of the phone it looks like it says Sony Ericsson on the top of the handset
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-09-21 20:20 ]
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Posted: 2010-09-21 21:10:08
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Could it be that when SE began developing the UXP UI they only had 1.6 to work with, and so they made it for 854x480, Snapdragon hardware mix, 320x480, MSM hardware mix and 240x320, MSM hardware mix, all based on 1.6, put together the fact they are under resourced, and at the time low on cash they were not able to work on 2.1 at the time, i dont know, maybe im wrong.
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Posted: 2010-09-21 21:38:20
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Then why are their new models coming out like the X8 still not 2.1 or 2.2??
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Posted: 2010-09-21 21:43:04
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I was refering to the X8 when i said 320x480, they worked on all of them at once as they all use UXP, and then released them as they finished, so they must have started at X10, then the Minis then the X8, they wanted to make a bang with the X10. They basicaly did it backwards compared to the other manufacturers. e.g Moto started of with mid to low ends THEN they brought the flagship Milestone, Samsung did the same with the Spica, then Galaxy S, this is all just from what im seeing, i could be wrong,it just seems SE's timing and strategy was not in sync with Google's OS update intervals like the manufacturers were.
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Posted: 2010-09-21 22:03:05
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Not sure the screen res of this Orange Google phone but I did see a video of it somewhere but I forgot where. It looked sharp anyway & at 3.5 inches it must be high res. Also I wonder what's powering it CPU wise & ram??
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-09-22 17:53 ]
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Posted: 2010-09-21 22:14:24
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OK I tried to do the link to the video on Softpedia but it would not work
This is a screen shot anyway
OK just found out it runs on a 600mhz processor probably some cheap one unsure of battery.UPDATE: Screen res is 480x800
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-09-21 22:41 ]
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Posted: 2010-09-21 22:32:41
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Is this the LG optimus? Sold in Holland for €139
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Posted: 2010-09-22 00:23:42
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No it's not LG
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Posted: 2010-09-22 00:43:45
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