Orange UK has just put the Orange Barcelona Android phone up for sale on its web shop, with the new QWERTY mobile on offer for the same launch price as the excellent Orange San Francisco – £99.
In return for that you get a Huawei-made QWERTY phone running Android 2.2 on a 2.6″ screen, plus, quite a rarity in this age, the return of the physical joystick to aid text entry and navigation.
As well as the £99 asking price you’ll have to stick £10 of calling credit into your basket at checkout. So it’s really going to cost you £109.99, before you complain we’ve been deliberately misleading you all. Check it out here.
I’ve just bought one, for a laugh.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
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?
Neostar
/ July 5, 2011I hope you will review it
Gary C
/ July 5, 2011Probably not. My order was declined because Orange can’t post it to my address. Its system then suggested I provide another address, as if I might like to move house in order to buy a bloody telephone.
I therefore have no option but to assume it’s a rubbish phone and give it 3/10.
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/ September 1, 2011it is such a good phone what r u talking about!!!!???? :) im getting it for an upgrade in november!or do you think i should get a san francisco??? :p
hecatae
/ July 5, 2011that’s a better price than the Galaxy Pro.