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

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While this phone is clearly good bang4buck, am I being over concerned that this phone might be stuck on Android 2.1, with Android 3 expected next quarter. Also, what other low price Android phones (or Windows Phone 7!) are likely to follow in the very near future... Orange has said that this is first in a series of Android phone releases.

That said, this phone is making me hesitate on my original plan to buy a 4th gen iPod Touch 64GB (£250 from US). I will probably not use 3G much, as I am a very low PAYG user, but I want a touch multimedia device - the iPod is clearly more powerful (especially for video) and offers much more storage, but there is a significant price difference.
 
Stu said:
While this phone is clearly good bang4buck, am I being over concerned that this phone might be stuck on Android 2.1
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Most probably, but what you have to consider is the price margin.

Stu said:
Also, what other low price Android phones (or Windows Phone 7!) are likely to follow in the very near future... Orange has said that this is first in a series of Android phone releases.
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That's the same with any product.. including ipods. For the price nobody can complain at all.
 
This phone will never get Android 3.x as that has a requirement of 1GHz processor as a minimum. We can hope for possible upgrades in the 2.x version of Android though.
 
Stu said:
While this phone is clearly good bang4buck, am I being over concerned that this phone might be stuck on Android 2.1, with Android 3 expected next quarter. Also, what other low price Android phones (or Windows Phone 7!) are likely to follow in the very near future... Orange has said that this is first in a series of Android phone releases.

That said, this phone is making me hesitate on my original plan to buy a 4th gen iPod Touch 64GB (£250 from US). I will probably not use 3G much, as I am a very low PAYG user, but I want a touch multimedia device - the iPod is clearly more powerful (especially for video) and offers much more storage, but there is a significant price difference.
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I am in exactly the same position as you mate, £250 for a 64gb touch :confused: how?

even from US.
 
I feel quite satisfied with 2.1 and looks like I would be happy with 2.2 as well if we get it. Not so bothered about 3.x really as I think I will get at least a year out of this phone as is.
 
Cob said:
R4 is in the Modaco kitchen.


Pre-baked R4 due shortly.
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Interesting, I'm still on R2. I might sign up to the ad free so I can get into the kitchens and bake up an R4 without the hardware acceleration because I'm still not convinced about that.
 
dasyad said:
Interesting, I'm still on R2. I might sign up to the ad free so I can get into the kitchens and bake up an R4 without the hardware acceleration because I'm still not convinced about that.
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It's not especially hard to turn off hardware acceleration on an installed rom.

Root explorer:
copy /system/build.conf
paste to /sdcard/
open astro (or a normal file manager) - I used this because I didn't immediately see how it would work in Root Explorer.
Browse to /sdcard/
Open build.conf (might see it as just "build") as text
Use the file editor to open it.

Change the setting near the end (something to do with hw.accel.debug but not exactly that) from 1 to 0, save.
Root explorer, copy the file back to /system/build.conf
change permissions to RW for all three rows.
 
osc89er said:
It's not especially hard to turn off hardware acceleration on an installed rom.

Root explorer:
copy /system/build.conf
paste to /sdcard/
open astro (or a normal file manager) - I used this because I didn't immediately see how it would work in Root Explorer.
Browse to /sdcard/
Open build.conf (might see it as just "build") as text
Use the file editor to open it.

Change the setting near the end (something to do with hw.accel.debug but not exactly that) from 1 to 0, save.
Root explorer, copy the file back to /system/build.conf
change permissions to RW for all three rows.
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Ahhh nice one thanks :)
 
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