Re: [LUG] minimalist android phone

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 I've just bought a Huawei Ascend G300 on Ebay, unlocked, for just 
under Â100 inc PnP.  New they go for about Â130 again on Ebay.  Not got 
my hands on it yet, but they have a very nice spec for the price and the 
Â130 ones generally are unlocked - Vodafone have an exclusive contract 
for them for a couple of months more, but after that they'll be on other 
networks too.

Julian

On 21/08/2012 12:49, Steven CÃtà wrote:
> I just picked up a HTC Explorer a few weeks ago and I'd hapily 
> recommend it. Cost me Â80 to buy outright (still locked to Vodafone 
> though) and it does everything I expect from a smartphone. The camera 
> isn't great, but you won't get a good camera in a cheap smartphone. 
> The only real downside I'd say is that the internal memory is really 
> small, a problem exasperated by Vodafone filling what little you have 
> with stupid demos for games that you can't uninstall by default.
>
> Having said that, once you root your phone, you can rip all that 
> nonsense off and install "link2sd" which allows you to create a 
> partition on your SD card and treat it as internal memory.
>
> On 21 August 2012 12:05, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Managed to smash my current mobile screen and am toying with
>     getting an android phone. But a cheap one without a package.
>     Any ideas?
>     Tom
>
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