News - Huawei Blaze coming in October for £100

[HEXUS]

The Chinese telco giant makes its UK move in the entry-level smartphone market.

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[shaithis]

Good spec for the price. My first smartphone was a Huwei 8220 (T-Mobile Pulse) and was also £100.

It definitely whetted my appetite for a better smartphone and I can see a lot of these getting bundled as "freebies" on £10pm budget contracts and probably besting the 3 or so current contenders in that area.

More market penetration for Android.

[Rave]

TBH it doesn't sound that impressive when the ZTE Blade (AKA Orange San Francisco) has been on sale at ~£100 for over a year now.

[Noli]

Re: ZTE Blade / Orange San Fran at £80 (if existing orange customer) for over a year - I wholeheartedly concur. Yes it's slow but despite hating the idea of smartphones, I got it and never looked back. Battery life is simply appalling on smartphones but once you learn to live with that, they are so incredibly useful. Can access any website, do gmail, google maps on the go + free sat nave with google nav or high quality with copilot (approx £30) and I'm terminally addicted to Galcon (free game just as addictive as couterstrike somehow). And a million other things (story books to amuse my kids etc).

What I really need now is a cheap 1GHz or dual core smartphone (or one with better battery) and I'm sold...

[MadduckUK]

Re: ZTE Blade / Orange San Fran at £80 (if existing orange customer) for over a year - I wholeheartedly concur. Yes it's slow but despite hating the idea of smartphones, I got it and never looked back. Battery life is simply appalling on smartphones but once you learn to live with that, they are so incredibly useful. Can access any website, do gmail, google maps on the go + free sat nave with google nav or high quality with copilot (approx £30) and I'm terminally addicted to Galcon (free game just as addictive as couterstrike somehow). And a million other things (story books to amuse my kids etc).

What I really need now is a cheap 1GHz or dual core smartphone (or one with better battery) and I'm sold...

i have seen Acer Liquid Metals at around £130 in the not too distant past, may have been quite the flop, but its a lot of phone for the money now the price has plummeted.

add RDP to your list of ace things too - good connection to a remote host and all of a sudden your phone is a ninja

[Noli]

Madduck, thanks for your response. RDP - remote desktop protocol? If so, I'm no expert though I use TeamViewer to remotely view desktops if that's likee what you mean? Find it too fiddly/slow from a smartphone though...

Re: Acer Liquid Metal - thanks for the heads up on this! Yes you can get it for £140 still. Does look like a solid improvement on the San Fran. Shame the screen isn't a little bigger and is curved. However, love the sound of that faster processor, auto android updates, noise cancelling mic, bigger battery and the wireless n, multi touch and 14Mbit 3G vs 7 on San Fran. Them some nice improvements! If I can still get £70 for my San Fran then it's an upgrade I'm close to pulling the trigger on... Thks!

[Funkstar]

Search the Android Market for RDP, there are loads of clients. Lets you remote desktop into a server just as you would from another Windows box. Incredibly handy!