The Orange Vegas is the smallest and cheapest touchscreen phone in the UK
Covet your costly and feature-rich touchscreen phones as you wish but in this day and age, forking over big bucks for a phone just isn’t always the smart way to go. While this may be one of the facts of life, carriers such as Orange are doing their best to deliver feature-rich handsets at low prices. One such device is the newly announced Orange Vegas. Available in both black and pink, the dual-band GPRS touchscreen device features a 2.4-inch display, 1.3 megapixel camera, FM radio, MP3 playback, 128MB of internal memory and support for a microSD card up to 4GB — all packed into a handset that weighs 84g. The price? A totally affordable £48.50 ($71 USD) on pay-as-you-go. The best part? When a Vegas user tops up his or her account with £10, it comes along with 300 free texts, a £10 credit and unlimited access to Bebo, Facebook and MySpace. Something tells us this thing will sell pretty darn well. The only thing we might take issue with is the choice of name — Vegas is anything but cheap and sensible.
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GPRS? I understand leaving out 3G, but how much do they really save going GPRS over EDGE?
Looks kind of like an HTC touch- and is that a front-facing camera?
Wow, its even less expensive than that sweet nokia n97i.
Even Matt’s mom could afford one of these.
@EPS
I think it is an Orange branded ZTE-G X760 or something very similar. That is not a front facing camera – it’s a front facing earpiece
. I think the Chinese domestic market drove the specs, but who knows.
T-Mobile have been doing this handset for a month, as the Vairy Touch. It’s about 30p more expensive but comes with 1GB Micro SD card. Being such a rubbish handset T-Mobile didn’t feel the need for a press release, but seriously! FAIL on Orange’s part.
Ah, if it is that the phone was designed for the Chinese domestic market- that makes a lot more sense, as if I recall EDGE isn’t deployed as well there, and touch-screens are quite common due to handwriting recognition…
I should have guessed it was an earpiece- I guess there’s really not much reason to have a front-facing camera on a phone with just GPRS, unless you really like taking pictures of yourself…
is it worth buying one ?
is this phone any good ?
Does anyone actually have this phone?
And is it any good?
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i hav this phone its realy good and comfertable when typing but im not sure about gprs where is it if it has one
how can I add a italian language in this phone??specially for the text!!
where can i purchase it
when is it goin to release? and what operating system does it use?
i have this phone it is really good and easy to use. its pretty basic, being small it fits into most phone socks and deffo into all pockets. the pictures arnt fab but there alright. dumb question but wots gprs?