The solid little LG Optimus One seems to be the new mass-market Android phone of choice for the UK networks, with prices for the Android 2.2 powered mobile continuing to drop as they compete for your money.
Previously you’ve been able to get an Optimus One for £18 through Three – now T-Mobile UK is undercutting that, offering a “free” Optimus One on a 24 month contract for the slightly odd, VAT-adjusted price of £15.32.
For your £15.32 you get a decent 300 minutes and you’re also able to select T-Mobile UK’s “unlimited” internet booster bundle for no extra cost. Which isn’t actually unlimited, but should be more than enough. Plus it’s the Navigation Edition of the phone, so you get a free car dock.
Check the deal out here. This is a proper good one.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
KevinR
/ January 6, 2011Its worth noting that these latest direct tariffs from T-Mobile _appear_ to include the “not-unlimited internet booster” AS WELL as a normal free booster. Which means that for many this will be picked as 300/lots of texts/lots of internet.
Ferreting in the small print also reveals that the bundled “internet plus” booster gives 3GB to an android phone, rather than the normal 1GB. Which all in all is kind of pleasant for their (new) android customers. http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/uk/fairuse/?WT.mc_id=fup#fup2
All the resellers seem to still only have access to a single free booster and thats capped to 1GB internet.