The days are long gone when smartphones were reserved for the rich and famous, nowadays they’re becoming positively commonplace. None more so than the new raft of Chinese Android handsets we’re starting to see appear from those busy busy Far East factories (or in my case, Far North). The coming of Android has changed everything. By providing thousands of easily accessible apps and a familiar cross device user-experience it has the potential to breathe new life into the multitude of unbranded phones, and to create a veritable storm of competition across the globe. So what are these low end handsets likely to be like? Are they worth buying, and more importantly, are they really smartphones, or just dumb ones dressed up as Einstein? Chinese wholesalers Chinavasion recently sent me a Robot phone to look at, their first foray into Android-based smartphones. It’s a neat looking first-generation GSM/GPRS-only (2.5G) handset running Android 1.5 (Cupcake). I’ve been using it for a couple of we...
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