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Bonovox
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:05
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No cos it's not the topic
Phone?? What phone??
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:14
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Well it still beats the ZTE Racer and Huawei Ideos, which are both pure garbage. At least by the looks of it is better than the T-Mobile Pulse and Pulse Mini, which makes the phone pretty good
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:18
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It does indeed but lets hope it's reliable & of good software & hardware. Good battery life with decent performance overall. By the looks of the video the screen looks responsive
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:21
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...but it looks plasticy, crap and unstable. So I'm good with a Samsung Monte instead for only £20-£30 more even if the Monte does only have TouchWiz UI 2.0 its still better than Android filled with garbage orange branding. If I was orange I would rather price this £30 instead for its poor quality.
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:39
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How does it look buggy or look unusable. It's running on similar, or better specs than last year's high end Android crowd.
Would much rather get this, wait for the brilliant XDA community to jump to it, then install a vanilla ROM than get a TouchWiz phone.
Android is the future, and it wouldn't surprise me if this phone started a wave of cheap devices.
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:45
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On 2010-09-21 20:41:08, etaab wrote:
the other £90 is for the Android licence ?


Thats smells a bit funny to me, since it is Open Source?


On 2010-09-22 18:21:32, phonecrzy wrote:
...but it looks plasticy, crap and unstable. So I'm good with a Samsung Monte instead for only £20-£30 more even if the Monte does only have TouchWiz UI 2.0 its still better than Android filled with garbage orange branding. If I was orange I would rather price this £30 instead for its poor quality.




Oh, and I find it absuluty amazing you can LOOK at something and say its crap, don't judge a book by its cover. Ever


On 2010-09-22 18:39:56, weirdwilli wrote:
Would much rather get this, wait for the brilliant XDA community to jump to it, then install a vanilla ROM than get a TouchWiz phone.
Android is the future, and it wouldn't surprise me if this phone started a wave of cheap devices.


Agreed, and agreed
The guys over at XDA will have this suited, booted, and rooted near enough straight away
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:48
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How can you tell it looks buggy & unstable from a 1:36 video The screen looked responsive & it's made of plastic yes but you have not held one have you? So how can you say it looks plasticky?? Every phone in a photo which is plastic can look just plastic
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lukechris
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:49
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But bono, why don't you like Android, what went wrong, I have never known a person put a bad name to it?
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:53
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+1... ???
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Posted: 2010-09-22 18:58
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For goodness sake we are talking about THIS phone not my Android annoyances Anyway @phonecrzy how can you compare this to Samsung Monte Touchwiz?? The Samsung is not anywhere near what this phone can do. I think it will spark alot of cheap Android devices but some people are not happy about that I read somewhere
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Posted: 2010-09-22 19:48
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On 2010-09-22 18:45:45, lukechris wrote:

On 2010-09-21 20:41:08, etaab wrote:
the other £90 is for the Android licence ?


Thats smells a bit funny to me, since it is Open Source?


It was meant as a joke / sarcasm.


On 2010-09-22 18:05:59, Bonovox wrote:
No cos it's not the topic



But its your thread, you can change the topic anytime you like !

So please let us know your dislikes !

Anyway, this phone like all the other cheap mid to low range phones coming out is meant for people who want to dip their toe into the Android OS without having to pay for a top end smartphone. Its a good move by Android !
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Posted: 2010-09-22 21:48
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[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-09-22 20:48 ]
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etaab
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Posted: 2010-09-22 22:03
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Thats not saying anything, thats just going..

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Posted: 2010-09-22 22:24
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Posted: 2010-09-22 22:33
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You're clearly not getting the hang of this huh ?!
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