Pulse killer is finally here!

[Guest Holograph]

we have orange in france of course but no sight of zte blade here :lol:

Strange, as Orange is a french company (I guess!)

[Guest flip360]

thanks god for our devs :lol:

i think i never missed an sms with the pulse and i would gladly put my hands on a HTC Desire or the new T-MOB G2, but... :)

Edited September 23, 2010 by flip360

[Guest Epic-Emodude]

How does the Blade compare to the Ideos?

[Guest Chaserse]

No gps on it?

[Guest tabor56]

says sat nav so would have GPS, has anyone used one of the sim unlockers such as turbo sim in a phone?

[Guest Rem1x]

says sat nav so would have GPS, has anyone used one of the sim unlockers such as turbo sim in a phone?

Yes, and they work :lol:

[Guest DanWilson]

says sat nav so would have GPS, has anyone used one of the sim unlockers such as turbo sim in a Orange SF?

Fixed that there. Who knows what could have happened.

[Guest tabor56]

i've never seen them before so was a little sceptical about them, but yeah would be good to know what ones work in orange sf. then ill go get one unless i actually recieve my galaxy apollo (ebay sucks)

[Guest DanWilson]

i've never seen them before so was a little sceptical about them, but yeah would be good to know what ones work in orange sf. then ill go get one unless i actually recieve my galaxy apollo (ebay sucks)

If I'm right (hopefully) they should work in the SF if they work in another phone.

At least another ZTE phone would be the best I think.

[Guest biron_w]

I'm keeping my eye on this. Waiting to see if it gets unlocked then I may buy one. Although i'm on virgin which runs on the t-mobile network so it's possible that with the merger it may work straight away.

[Guest SA160N]

i think it does not make really sense to change a cheap Eclair handy with another cheap handy with the same OS

[Guest chris9181]

Why the hell did somebody decide to call it San Fransisco!!! Doesn't exactly look great on front of what otherwise looks a really cool phone

[Guest BigBearMDC]

Damn. Just ... damn :lol:

[Guest Simon O]

Damn. Just ... damn :)

Tempted? :lol:

[Guest Daz555]

Why the hell did somebody decide to call it San Fransisco!!! Doesn't exactly look great on front of what otherwise looks a really cool phone

Aside from the fact I'm not interested in getting one of these it is clear to all that Blade is a far cooler name to have stamped on the front of your phone.

[Guest Simon O]

Why the hell did somebody decide to call it San Francisco!!!

I blame Scott McKenzie.

[Guest WallOfSound]

It looks like a great bargain phone but apart from the ram my biggest problem with the pulse is the 3.5 inch screen. Was happy with it until I spent the day with a galaxy s and now I've got screen envy! It's amazing how much better web browsing and typing get with just half an inch more.

[Guest rjm2k]

might pick one up, it's just such a shame it's 2.1 and not 2.2 - is the chipset supported for 2.2?

[Guest Totyasrác]

Wish it'd be available in Hungary (also for the same price :lol:) - I'd buy one right now!

[Guest Simon O]

might pick one up, it's just such a shame it's 2.1 and not 2.2 - is the chipset supported for 2.2?

Yep, 2.2 will support the chipset.

Some more features have been discovered:

HSDPA

Ambient light sensor

Proximity sensor

[Guest rjm2k]

I see the LG E720 Optimus Chic uses the same chipset and already has 2.2 available

[Guest 205er]

I want that phone.

Why is it just sold in the UK! It's too far away for me to get one... :-/

[Guest bindi]

Interesting developments on the ZTE Blade (Orange San Francisco) over on this thread..

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...s-i-go-in-here/

Spec wise this phone kills the Pulse and at £99 it's a steal!

Get donating so that Fib can buy one and start developing FLB for it!!!

Specs are great but I wouldn't expect great "after support and near future upgrades" for this phone coming from the manufacturer. Not sure how is HTC but it can't be worse than Huawei or may be ZTE now!

Edited September 24, 2010 by bindi

[Guest gusthy]

It looks like a great bargain phone but apart from the ram my biggest problem with the pulse is the 3.5 inch screen. Was happy with it until I spent the day with a galaxy s and now I've got screen envy! It's amazing how much better web browsing and typing get with just half an inch more.

you are right, but.... the phones of the price category of pulse (and this zte thing) have 2.8-3.2 in screens. 3.5 is the same as iPhone 3g/gs, the smallest usable.

[Guest Simon Taylor]

It looks like a great bargain phone but apart from the ram my biggest problem with the pulse is the 3.5 inch screen. Was happy with it until I spent the day with a galaxy s and now I've got screen envy! It's amazing how much better web browsing and typing get with just half an inch more.

They're not the only things that get better with half an inch more!