After months of speculation on the web, the Android-toting Vodafone 845 has finally stepped into the spotlight.
This is the first Vodafone-branded handset to run on Android, and comes with some pretty bog-standard specs as befits its budget category.
TechRadar brought you news of this phone a month or so ago, with a mooted price tag of £130 - although there's no official price tag on the Vodafone 845 despite being heralded as budget.
Éclair in the box
We're talking a 2.8-inch resistive screen, a 3.2MP camera and a 'suite' of Vodafone 360 Apps meaning you can socially network with your buddies and get access to unlimited tunes with Vodafone Music.
However, the Vodafone 845 is starting from the right point: from release it will be running Android 2.1, meaning integrated Exchange support and (hopefully) live wallpapers.
Still, at least we've got a May UK release date, so if you've been yearning for a cheap Android buddy and aren't enamoured by the T-Mobile Pulse, then perhaps this is the phone for you - go check it out now.
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charbax
April 29th 2010
1. I'm guessing £99 on pre-paid plan?
I like the: "2. Vodafone’s proprietary pre-pay balance indicator permanently displays the customer’s latest balance status – it is updated after each voice call, SMS, start up, and also every 12 hrs when idle mode. There is also a soft-key configured for convenient top up."
It totally makes sense that a user of a cheap pre-paid Android phone should easily have overview of balance, full history of usage and also have an easy one-click top up service. It would be even more impressive if they allowed premium data usage for VOIP, simply charge by the megabyte, something like £0.01 per megabyte of fully open VOIP usage would be fair.
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