The New Budget smartphone of 2012

[shakerist]

The Huawei G300
Specs:
http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_g300-4594.php

Available from Vodafone for £110

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobi...-psmb-mod4-bt2

Its already been rooted, and there is a lot of interest at modacco, so I think we will have an amazing development community for this phone.
http://android.modaco.com/forum/650-...g300modacocom/

Looks promising, only thing putting me off is that you cant unlock it for free yet and I love my amoled screen on my orange san fransisco.

Thoughts?

[mrochester]

Any news on processor, GPU and RAM?

[shakerist]

Any news on processor, GPU and RAM?

From :http://android.modaco.com/page/news/...o-buy-100-r443

Android Gingerbread 2.3 (with ICS upgrade to follow)
1 GHz Qualcomm MSM7227A processor
2.5 GB Internal ROM
Quad band 2G (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) with dual band 3G (HSDPA 900/2100 7.2Mbps)
4" WVGA (800x480) Touchscreen
5 Megapixel camera with LED flash
802.11 b/g/n WiFi
Bluetooth 2.1
GPS
Dual mics with noise cancelation
microSD expansion
122.5 x 63 x 10.5
130g
512mb ram
and apparently its got Gorilla glass

[Saracen]

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Available from Vodafone for £110

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Thoughts?

My thought is if you call that a budget phone, we have a different definition of budget.

Last time I bought a phone I paid £10. And I bought two. Including £2 of inclusive calls. That was a budget phone.

Oh, and about 5 years later, they're both still working perfectly.

[dave87]

My thought is if you call that a budget phone, we have a different definition of budget.

Last time I bought a phone I paid £10. And I bought two. Including £2 of inclusive calls. That was a budget phone.

Oh, and about 5 years later, they're both still working perfectly.

Broadly speaking you have to actually use an item to wear it out

[Saracen]

Broadly speaking you have to actually use an item to wear it out

I knew I was doing something wrong. But anyway, I do use it. I made a call last week.

[Hicks12]

It should be "budget smartphone" , my old nokias and LG flip phones are still going strong... if you want reliable phones to actually do proper phone related things then yup you cant beat them at all!.

However for budget portable computing, this is looking like a sweet device and have been following it for a bit now so hopefully it will pick up . I believe vodafone have the rights for 3 months then it will be open to all to sell so we could see it being even cheaper!

[mikemikemi]

Santa Clara? Intel based android for Orange.

No price yet, but it's not expected to be expensive could be worth looking out for potentially.