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You can get decent Android phones like the T-Mobile Pulse Mini for £79 now here in the UK, on PAYG. Or you can spend a little more - £99 - and get an Orange Sa

You can get decent Android phones like the T-Mobile Pulse Mini for £79 now here in the UK, on PAYG. Or you can spend a little more - £99 - and get an Orange San Francisco with an OLED display and capacitive touchscreen. The prices have really come down over the last few months.

bad_user 16y ago
Well, yeah I know, I think I'm going to buy a HTC Wildfire next week. But these cheaper phones are cutting down on processing power / memory and Android 3 will require good hardware to receive an update, which kind of turns me off. Still, that wasn't my point: Nokia still has over 34% of the global mobile phones marketshare (and this includes everyone selling phones, like Motorola, Samsung, Sony-Erricsson, Sagem, etc...), and while it has had declined in recent quarters they have a talent for coming back. All I'm saying is that they can leverage their huge customers base with phones that are cheaper than the iPhone or high-end Android phones. I would also prefer to develop for MeGoo rather than the alternatives, but the SDK quality matters less than everything else: like having a good marketplace for developers or having customers that are paying for apps.
- blub 16y ago
  Indeed, processing power is the issue: "What's odd is that there's a decent amount of RAM on offer here, and a 600MHz Qualcomm processor - but this phone is juddery, slow and prone to freezing so often you'll want to throw it in a canal." "Simple things like opening the contacts menu or trying to shuffle between home screens can take an age, and if you leave the phone asleep for too long it will simply freeze at times, meaning no alarms, texts or phone calls." (from Techradar). "Unfortunately, the Mini's anaemic processor often struggles to keep pace with the software. If you have several apps running at once, as well as the animated wallpapers, the handset will be reduced to a pitiful crawl." (CNET)
  - stcredzero 16y ago
    Is it processing power or too much code bloat? The device in this video is an 8 bit AVR: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/8-bit_touch-sensitive_handheld.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/8-bit_touch-sensiti...

bad_user 16y ago

Well, yeah I know, I think I'm going to buy a HTC Wildfire next week. But these cheaper phones are cutting down on processing power / memory and Android 3 will require good hardware to receive an update, which kind of turns me off. Still, that wasn't my point: Nokia still has over 34% of the global mobile phones marketshare (and this includes everyone selling phones, like Motorola, Samsung, Sony-Erricsson, Sagem, etc...), and while it has had declined in recent quarters they have a talent for coming back. All I'm saying is that they can leverage their huge customers base with phones that are cheaper than the iPhone or high-end Android phones. I would also prefer to develop for MeGoo rather than the alternatives, but the SDK quality matters less than everything else: like having a good marketplace for developers or having customers that are paying for apps.

blub 16y ago
Indeed, processing power is the issue: "What's odd is that there's a decent amount of RAM on offer here, and a 600MHz Qualcomm processor - but this phone is juddery, slow and prone to freezing so often you'll want to throw it in a canal." "Simple things like opening the contacts menu or trying to shuffle between home screens can take an age, and if you leave the phone asleep for too long it will simply freeze at times, meaning no alarms, texts or phone calls." (from Techradar). "Unfortunately, the Mini's anaemic processor often struggles to keep pace with the software. If you have several apps running at once, as well as the animated wallpapers, the handset will be reduced to a pitiful crawl." (CNET)
- stcredzero 16y ago
  Is it processing power or too much code bloat? The device in this video is an 8 bit AVR: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/8-bit_touch-sensitive_handheld.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/8-bit_touch-sensiti...