Orange Monte Carlo

£129 for 800mhz sounds about right, and it's 4" screen so it will be loads better than the San Francisco. The wife had one, went faulty after 21 days so she got a refund....so I'm hoping the Monte Carlo is a bit better built!
 
hoping for 150 for one of these i wouldn't go for it if it was anything above that though, just waiting and waiting to replaced my iphone 3g....:(
 
Has it got the 800mhz Scorpion CPU with the Adreno 205 GPU? I cant tell.

If it has this will be very nice bargain and should be good for 1.5ghz on most handsets.
 
Some more detailed specs here

Just realised its got exactly the same CPU as the San Fransisco, its just clocked at 800mhz rather than the 600mhz of the San Fran.

Pretty sure it wont overclock much beyond the 800mhz

Its also got the Adreno 200 GPU

So its basically an Orange San Fransisco with better camera, bigger screen & slightly faster CPU.
 
so after all the only advantage seems to be the screen? which for some is too large.. also the camera might be just as rubbish as the SF one is just higher res.. i mean cmon i have a 2MP sony erricsson and that camera is better than my gf's 5.0MP nokia..
 
Will wait for a review of one of these and if it is decent and it is below £110, I might get one for the time being until the next nexus device comes out.

I would be sold on it straight away though if it was AMOLED and supported flash, but then obviously it would cost more :(
 
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Poor show on that front then.
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Considering that Gingerbread is not exactly light on resource usage and the hardware is not particularly new architecture I fear it may not be a great recipe.

Also Orange will spoil any chance of it running smoothly with whatever pointless software customisations they decide to destroy 2.3 with.

Still at the right price this could still be a decent bargain but I can see this being £150+.
 
Some previews of the ZTE skate here:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...es/hands-on-zte-skate-review-929021?artc_pg=2

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/zte-skate-review-50002729/

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/16/zte-skate-4-3-review-first-look/

Although CNET mention support for flash player in the skate browser :confused:, the processor is ARMV6, so unless they have built a workaround or something in the browser (like skyfire browser), I can't see how that is possible. I think they are wrong.

It seems decent anyway and the screen looks pretty damn good quality as well (almost AMOLED nearly), although terribly laggy as expected, but a good ROM should sort that out.

Of course it will also depend on how much development will happen, can see it being quite popular though if priced right.
 
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It isn't actually that much bigger than the sensation or the GS 2 though, just depends if you have girly hands :p, also it is lighter than the sensation and a lot lighter than the desire HD and only 4g heavier than the GS 2.

TBH I would consider it a pretty decent step up from the SF, screen size, 2.3 out of the box, LED flash, better camera (hopefully), higher CPU clock, slightly bigger battery (it is needed though for the bigger screen size and so battery life will probably be similar to the SF) and I also think it looks better than the SF in terms of design and looks.

If they added any more features, the price would increase a fair bit.
 
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The Huawei X5 is the new ZTE blade!

Shame it's not available in the UK (yet?) Ebay imports shouldn't be more than £160, v.cheep for something can hit 1.8GHz ;)
 
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