The new Orange Android phone (San Francisco) £99...but a Question??

Jacob (: · 27 Jun 2011 at 21:55

Installed sims 3 on my sisters earlier and was amazed that it worked fine o: Really is good value for what it can do!

englishpremier · 28 Jun 2011 at 11:51

MURDEROUS G said:
Just finished charging via USB, and voltage seems to be in the right ballpark.

I might look into this later. I'm only using a small handful of very common apps (LauncherPro, eBuddy, AndChat, Opera Mini etc) which I've been using as long as I've had the phone, and these battery problems are very recent - but still, it couldn't hurt to be certain that it is not a rogue application. I'd be surprised if it were, but stranger things have happened I guess

Well the battery looks good. So the problem is something using the phone.

If you've only downloaded apps via the market then i doubt you have anything untoward going on.

grudas · 28 Jun 2011 at 21:43

ZTE SKATE as ORANGE MONTE CARLO - http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/orange-monte-carlo

too big for my liking.. while 4.3" screen is nice im sure it will feel to big in hand... wonder how much it will cost.. guessing around ~£150 mark

Delvis · 28 Jun 2011 at 21:47

grudas said:
ZTE SKATE as ORANGE MONTE CARLO - http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/orange-monte-carlo

too big for my liking.. while 4.3" screen is nice im sure it will feel to big in hand... wonder how much it will cost.. guessing around ~£150 mark

Pretty cool, same thing just bigger. No idea on the specs i can't be bothered to compare them at the moment

Wicksta · 29 Jun 2011 at 09:05

grudas said:
ZTE SKATE as ORANGE MONTE CARLO - http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/orange-monte-carlo

too big for my liking.. while 4.3" screen is nice im sure it will feel to big in hand... wonder how much it will cost.. guessing around ~£150 mark

ZTE brought these to work the other week. The screen was nice but the menus seemed pretty slow/jerky, I can only imagine it's worse with Orange's bloatware.

I think it will be priced at about £129.

tbz_ck · 29 Jun 2011 at 09:41

Wicksta said:
ZTE brought these to work the other week. The screen was nice but the menus seemed pretty slow/jerky, I can only imagine it's worse with Orange's bloatware.

I think it will be priced at about £129.

Nothing a custom rom can't fix

Nymins · 29 Jun 2011 at 10:54

Look pretty nice. 800mhz processor and same 512mb ram. So the speed will be a bit better, but not that much really.

grudas · 29 Jun 2011 at 13:32

Nymins said:
Look pretty nice. 800mhz processor and same 512mb ram. So the speed will be a bit better, but not that much really.

well we should be able to overclock it to around 900 i hope..

Murray · 1 Jul 2011 at 10:11

My Battery has been running out really fast lately with nothing on except texting?

tomk11 · 1 Jul 2011 at 10:17

Delvis said:
Pretty cool, same thing just bigger. No idea on the specs i can't be bothered to compare them at the moment

Not quite, 5 mega pixel camera with LED flash, hopefully it has a decent sensor unlike our blades. Also 800 mhz cpu and UMA technology which allows you to use wifi as signal, only on orange though?

Pav89 · 5 Jul 2011 at 20:24

I bought the OSF a while ago, mate insisted that I go with the Modaco ROM, went ahead, got it done...

Android was impressive, however, the phone was awful - unresponsive, slow, battery life vanished within a day of hardly any use. SMS app kept crashing every time I used it, keyboards were awful to use. I was left unimpressed. Time to sell it on eBay...

Decided to go with Swedish Spring as a fresh install...I cannot believe it. It now feels like a whole different phone altogether! Very fast and responsive, everything opens in a flash and battery life can last about 70 hours in standby. I am astonished how much a difference firmware makes! I have decided to keep the phone for now

Just a heads up to anyone who hasn't got Swedish Spring...GET IT!!!

Delvis · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:01

Pav89 said:
I bought the OSF a while ago, mate insisted that I go with the Modaco ROM, went ahead, got it done...

Android was impressive, however, the phone was awful - unresponsive, slow, battery life vanished within a day of hardly any use. SMS app kept crashing every time I used it, keyboards were awful to use. I was left unimpressed. Time to sell it on eBay...

Decided to go with Swedish Spring as a fresh install...I cannot believe it. It now feels like a whole different phone altogether! Very fast and responsive, everything opens in a flash and battery life can last about 70 hours in standby. I am astonished how much a difference firmware makes! I have decided to keep the phone for now Just a heads up to anyone who hasn't got Swedish Spring...GET IT!!!

Need to try it really....On a custom rom from someone on here, so may give Swedish a go, got the links you used? Anything I need to make sure of or can I go straight over my current one?

Pav89 · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:11

Delvis said:
Need to try it really....On a custom rom from someone on here, so may give Swedish a go, got the links you used? Anything I need to make sure of or can I go straight over my current one?

I just followed the guide at orangesanfrancisco.co.uk

ROM used is the first link of step 2. I went straight over my old one, just follow the whole guide from the introduction page on that website.

gambitt · 6 Jul 2011 at 16:21

Would this phone be ok for a grandma?

She wants a smartphone under £100 with a big screen (like this one) mostly for calls and texts, but it has to be reliable and have a qwerty keyboard. So no crashing or random reboots otherwise she'll be calling me to fix it

. I've heard this phone crashes a lot and the texting is poor. Is that still true or have these issues been fixed with the latest ROMs?

NightSt@lk3r · 6 Jul 2011 at 19:08

gambitt said:
She wants a smartphone under £100 with a big screen (like this one) mostly for calls and texts, but it has to be reliable and have a qwerty keyboard. So no crashing or random reboots otherwise she'll be calling me to fix it . I've heard this phone crashes a lot and the texting is poor. Is that still true or have these issues been fixed with the latest ROMs?

Never had any issues with random crashing or texting, anyone who does has done something wrong...

grudas · 6 Jul 2011 at 19:18

NightSt@lk3r said:
Never had any issues with random crashing or texting, anyone who does has done something wrong...

same here.. running SSRLS5.. haven't had a single crash in ages.. :O

SexyGreyFox · 6 Jul 2011 at 19:57

gambitt said:
Would this phone be ok for a grandma?

She wants a smartphone under £100 with a big screen (like this one) mostly for calls and texts, but it has to be reliable and have a qwerty keyboard. So no crashing or random reboots otherwise she'll be calling me to fix it . I've heard this phone crashes a lot and the texting is poor. Is that still true or have these issues been fixed with the latest ROMs?

We have 2 SF's in the house that have not crashed or misbehaved because they are on the ROM that it came with.
Don't mess with it and it will be fine.
Some posters in here make it sound like it's an empty phone but it's fine as it comes.

gambitt · 6 Jul 2011 at 21:17

Wonderful! Thanks fellas

loltim · 6 Jul 2011 at 21:57

dmpoole said:
We have 2 SF's in the house that have not crashed or misbehaved because they are on the ROM that it came with.
Don't mess with it and it will be fine.
Some posters in here make it sound like it's an empty phone but it's fine as it comes.

It's a dreadful phone on 2.1 tbh and it can't really handle 2.3 comfortably. Stick a decent froyo rom on it or don't bother IMO, I got annoyed with mine, needed 1ghz snapdragon goodness :cool:

SB118 · 6 Jul 2011 at 21:58

gambitt said:
I've heard this phone crashes a lot and the texting is poor. Is that still true or have these issues been fixed with the latest ROMs?

Where did you hear that?