Vodafone Smart Mini is a £50 Jelly Bean Phone

[JMcEntegart]

Vodafone says its own brand Smart Mini is the cheapest Jelly Bean in town.

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[Guest]

I wonder what the community support would be like, I would love to buy a cheap phone so I can test out custom ROMs and overclocking, I rely on my tablet heavily and I can't afford to take the risk incase something goes wrong, but if something happened to this, I wouldnt need to worry

 

[samwelaye]

I wish I could get a 3.5" android device with atleast 1 gig of ram, preferbly 2, and a dual-core processor. Moving from a dual to a quad core doesnt make a noticeable difference in usability, but the 2 gigs of ram definately does.

 

[nevilence]

its good to see that devices like these are coming out of the wood works, I wouldnt mind a device such as this

 

[digiex]

One week of standby power, 200 minutes talk time, 2 days of music?

 

[smeezekitty]

Windows XP could run comfortable on these specs.
The problem nowadays is software and OSes are far heavier then they should be. Expecting too much HW power from such a small device

 

[CrArC]

Looks great! Shame it couldn't be 1GB of RAM, but at £50 something has to give way. I doubt the screen is very high res or particularly nice to look at either, but hey.. £50.

 

[olaf]

Somehow with 1ghz MTK processor i doubt it will work well.

 

[gruntlord6]

[quotemsg=10975986,0,919443]Windows XP could run comfortable on these specs.
The problem nowadays is software and OSes are far heavier then they should be. Expecting too much HW power from such a small device[/quotemsg]

Might be a bit hard for XP to work with 4 GB storage.

 

[smeezekitty]

[quotemsg=10987577,0,325118][quotemsg=10975986,0,919443]Windows XP could run comfortable on these specs.
The problem nowadays is software and OSes are far heavier then they should be. Expecting too much HW power from such a small device[/quotemsg]

Might be a bit hard for XP to work with 4 GB storage.[/quotemsg]
It would work. Just barely. I have installed XP on 6 GB disks. It takes about 2 GB.

But of course it wouldn't work because it is not X86 based. I was just commenting on the absurdity of smartphone OSes taking more resources then that.

 

[wrath62]

I just bought a Vodafone Smart Mini week ago and it actually works pretty good.
I couldnt find any app/game that wouldnt run on it even Need for speed most wanted runs on it without a bit of lagg.
it performs better what i expected and i really like it

 

[steevez]

$100 in New Zealand and unlike all their other phones, this one is locked. (Can be unlocked for $30).
It looks like this is the start of the end for "feature" phones.
www.vodafone.co.nz/smartmini/

 

[olaf]

[quotemsg=11082606,0,1352789]$100 in New Zealand and unlike all their other phones, this one is locked. (Can be unlocked for $30).
It looks like this is the start of the end for "feature" phones.
www.vodafone.co.nz/smartmini/
[/quotemsg]


yeah when smartphones will last over 1 week at least then yeah till then ... not happening ...