£100 PAYG. Orange San Francisco?

Drake5 · 9 Nov 2010 at 13:43

Hi guys,

Considering buying a new mobile recently after having a crappy old LG for a while. I broke the screen on it though so I now have an excuse to buy a new phone.

I've looked at the Orange San Francisco and I like the look of them, are they good phones without having to mess about with ROMs as I'm not into that sort of stuff really.

Cheers

Scrutinize · 9 Nov 2010 at 14:09

They are fine assuming you are on orange and can live with the branding. However using sebastians debranding rom from over at modaco is so easy it is a crime not to and it will run quicker.

I found mine a bit laggy with the orange stuff but perfectly usable.

Drake5 · 9 Nov 2010 at 14:16

How's web browsing on these phones? Are they far off the iPhone 3G?

Django x2 · 9 Nov 2010 at 15:26

probably better. In terms of speed anyway. Some people don't find the browser that great at zoom in out. However, plenty of 3rd part browsers available in the appstore. Opera, Dolphin HD, etc

randal · 9 Nov 2010 at 15:27

2+ year iPhone user to SF, not looked back once. For £100 you really cannot get better brand new.

Django x2 · 9 Nov 2010 at 15:30

Plus, Orange are doing £110 cashback at the mo. Hmm, I wonder how that would work out!!!

Scrutinize · 9 Nov 2010 at 15:32

Lucero said:
Plus, Orange are doing £110 cashback at the mo. Hmm, I wonder how that would work out!!!

Only on contracts.

Re-web browsing, I do a lot on mine and you have pinch to zoom, auto resizing, and due to the excellent screen res you can read text even when well zoomed out.

I prefer the stock browser to Opera Mini.

Django x2 · 9 Nov 2010 at 15:33

Better screen res would actually make the text harder to read as it would be rendered smaller. Pinch to zoom is fine, but double tap is quicker and actually improves battery life as you are not overworking CPU.