The Cheap Android Phone Is Here, But It's Not What You'd Expect
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Aug 2011 14:35 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless While US Android users are all full of glee that they're finally getting the Samsung Galaxy S II in the United States, a far more significant Android smartphone is being developed... In China. It's faster than any other smartphone, has a beautiful and fluid user interface, top-notch hardware quality, a dual-partition setup so you can keep using the phone while it updates... And will sell for a mere $310, no contract or whatever other nonsense. Hello Xiaomi Phone.
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oh hi!
by jarkkot on Wed 31st Aug 2011 16:24 UTC
jarkkot
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2010-01-14

Heard that you like icons so we put lots of icons into it to many screens so you can move them around, with both hands!

but.. does it come with a phone?

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RE: oh hi!
by dnebdal on Thu 1st Sep 2011 01:12 in reply to "oh hi!"
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2008-08-27

Heard that you like icons so we put lots of icons into it to many screens so you can move them around, with both hands!

but.. does it come with a phone?


My current fancy large-screen, dual core, 3D-accelerated android phone actually has excellent call quality - they've even bothered to put in a second microphone on the back, and use it to filter out background noise when I talk. So yeah, there is still phone functionality in there, and (perhaps surprisingly) it's really quite good at it.

I have no idea how the phone in the article will fare, obviously - but it's possible to get both.

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