The Vodafone Smart is one of a new breed of low price Android phones, offering up the Google smartphone experience in a handset with a pricetag in the realm of double digits, not triple.
But does it represent value for money, or is it in the bargain bin for a reason? Read our Vodafone Smart review to find out.
The big red network’s just announced a new Android smartphone, the Vodafone Smart. It’s a sequel of sorts to the rather woeful Vodafone 845, but this time it’s sporting much more spruced up specs: though the screen is a mere 2.8-inches wide with a 320×240 resolution, it is capacitive so it reacts to finger presses rather than a fusty stylus. It’s also running a more recent version of Android 2.2, and comes with various back plates you can switch in and out.
The Vodafone Smart will be available on Pay As You Go on release, though a launch date and price are still TBC. However, it’ll have to come in well under £90 if it’s to beat the ZTE-made Orange San Francisco, which packs more pixels per pound than any other handset we’ve ever tested. We’ll keep you posted, and in the meantime click the gallery for images.
Happy weekend Electricpiggys. As usual it’s been a busy week packed to the brim and spilling over with juicy tech stories. To help you catch up with what’s what we’ve rounded up some of the best photos to grace Electricpig this week. From hands-ons, to unboxings to heartfelt reviews, it’s all here.
This morning Electricpig had a pootle around London in Smart’s electric vehicle, the Fortwo. The car hasn’t been launched yet, but there’s a handful being trialled out on the roads. After Driving a G-Wiz last year, I must say, I wasn’t that excited. The G-wiz felt like driving round in a crap trainer. Thankfully, Smart’s take is much more like driving a normal car. Quentin Wilson, car journo and compere for today’s test drives, said as much, stating: “Nobody has done as much damage to the EV cause”. In this case then, he’d be right.
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It’s bang on halfway through the working week so it’s time to stop what you’re doing and tuck into all the latest headlines from around the world. They’re all rounded up for you in one condensed, ultra convenient post for you here in the lunchtime lowdown. Read on for the rundown!
The HTC Smart ought to be something of an oxymoron: instead of running smartphone software like Android or Windows Mobile 6.5, the tiny little phone runs Brew OS, Qualcomm’s mobile platform you might have seen powering an INQ phone or three – hardly one of the leading smartphone platforms. But HTC’s pasted its HTC Sense software over the top of it, which promises all the easy to use social networking skills of the HTC Tattoo or HTC HD Mini, and make up for a lack of apps by putting all your friends just a prod away. Read our HTC Smart review to find out just how smart it really is.
The HTC Smart is the cheapest new phone HTC’s served up in a long time, but it’s by no means the smallest: it’s almost identical in size and weight to the Android HTC Tattoo and Windows Mobile HTC Touch2. Does it improve on their plasticky feel, and does Brew OS make for better battery life than either smartphone operating system? Read on and find out in this section of our HTC Smart review.
The HTC Smart may be aimed at those who want a cheap phone for staying in touch with their mates online, but there’s no reason they should be left without proper media support when even the most bare bones handsets can play MP3s these days. How does the HTC Smart cope with your digital media library? Find out in this part of our HTC Smart review.
