Yeah it's £30 if you sign up for *two years* of committment. In two years this phone will be a dinosaur - do you really want to be stuck with paying for something long after it's been superceded?
Those kinds of contracts are great for the kind of person who's happy with their 'dials a number and sends a couple of texts' type phones (who wouldn't be interested in this anyway) - but for the more demanding users who'll be upgrading every 6 months or so, they're a huge red flag.
I'll wait for it to turn up on ebay.. got my G1 like that for £150 no contract.
I'll buy a new phone when HTC put Android on a phone with a decent keyboard. Like the touch pro 2. All (both?) the Android phones to date are clunky or limited
It's great advertising that you can buy now, but why would I buy it now without the tried and trusted el-reg review?
I'm quite sold with the phone (google fan), and it's the cheap man's iPhone, but still waiting for the reg review before I decide it is the phone I want.
2 years is a long time for a phone contract, but on the pricing, TCO (I think) is cheaper than a iPhone on 2 year contract (for a similar text+minute package), even if you include the price of a 16gig memory card.
Tony Hoyle
24 months??? #
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 23:09 GMT
Yeah it's £30 if you sign up for *two years* of committment. In two years this phone will be a dinosaur - do you really want to be stuck with paying for something long after it's been superceded?
Those kinds of contracts are great for the kind of person who's happy with their 'dials a number and sends a couple of texts' type phones (who wouldn't be interested in this anyway) - but for the more demanding users who'll be upgrading every 6 months or so, they're a huge red flag.
I'll wait for it to turn up on ebay.. got my G1 like that for £150 no contract.
Sam Crawley
Nice advert.. #
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 23:09 GMT
..for Voda!
"Buy now and save..."!
Anonymous Coward
Did I read the spec correctly? #
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 23:09 GMT
Sync on PC
Contacts and stuff with Outlook = No
Contacts on Mac = No
<Shrugs shoulders and shuffles away>
pixel
Android on decent hardware? #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
I'll buy a new phone when HTC put Android on a phone with a decent keyboard. Like the touch pro 2. All (both?) the Android phones to date are clunky or limited
Shonko Kid
It's a bit 'Meh'... #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
It looks just like the G1, but without the cool slidey-out keyboard. Are HTC's design team on holiday or something?
Andy
Had a play with it.... #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
Someone I know had a demo model and it was quite good.
I think the form is better suited for females, but a nice phone all the same.
James Dunmore
No Review #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
It's great advertising that you can buy now, but why would I buy it now without the tried and trusted el-reg review?
I'm quite sold with the phone (google fan), and it's the cheap man's iPhone, but still waiting for the reg review before I decide it is the phone I want.
2 years is a long time for a phone contract, but on the pricing, TCO (I think) is cheaper than a iPhone on 2 year contract (for a similar text+minute package), even if you include the price of a 16gig memory card.
Phil Cooke
@AC 21:23 #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
It's a googlephone, so it will only sync with google - you don't need all that outlook stuff when you can trust it all to the mighty googleplex!
Anonymous Coward
@AC #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
Android syncs OTA with your google services. Contacts and Calendars are pulled from Gmail and Gcal, respectively.
Tom Chiverton
Android 1.5 ? #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
No hardware keyboard according to the spec, so this'll be the first v1.5 device too...
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