UK network Three UK has just announced it’s stocking the Samsung Galaxy Portal – and its version of the middle-of-the-road Android phone will come pre-updated with the Eclair version of Android, AKA the much-desired Android 2.1 and all the enhancements it brings.
It’s a superb coup for Three UK – the Galaxy Portal is also being stocked by T-Mobile over here, but T’s version of Samsung’s latest Android phone is currently stuck with the default Android 1.5 it’s supplied with. And although Samsung has said it’ll bring 2.1 to the Portal, as it did with the Spica-badged overseas version, the update is yet to hit the UK.
Leaving Three UK sitting pretty with this:
Three currently has the black and white variants of the Galaxy Portal up on its ordering page, on tariffs for new customers starting at £20 per month. That’s a very good price for the Portal and Android 2.1 – the Portal’s a solid phone with a good 3.2″ capacitive screen, and the only thing holding back the T-Mobile version was its Android 1.5 status. Good work, Three.
And here’s the announcement, hot from Three today:
The Samsung Galaxy Portal is on 3
3UK is the first network operator in the UK to launch the Samsung Galaxy Portal, using the Google Android Éclair operating system.
Sylvia Chind Head of Branded Devices, 3UK “ The Samsung Galaxy Portal is all about letting people shape a phone and its functions to match how they want to use it. It allows users to customise one of the 10 home screens, contact friends using various social media internet services, and access any of the thousands of Android apps. It’s all about your phone, how you like it. Our customers have the added benefit of our high speed network, giving them the best experience on their Samsung Galaxy Portal.
The Samsung Galaxy Portal features Layar – the augmented reality application which combines your phone’s camera, compass and GPS data to gives you loads more information about where you are like your nearest Starbucks or cash machine. Just hold your camera up where you are and it will do the rest for you.
The Samsung Galaxy Portal is available in red & black or white & green from £20 a month with unlimited internet, texts and 200 anytime any network minutes on a 24month contract and costs £184 on Pay As You Go.
Available at www.three.co.uk and at 3 Stores.
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