Telstra Smart Touch Android™ Pre-Paid Mobile $99 - Does this look any good?

chloden on 23/03/2011 - 17:21

http://dicksmith.com.au/product/E6848/telstra-smart-touch-an…

Powered by Android™ - provides a rich mobile web browsing experience on your Smartphone, as well as access to Google services such as Google Search, Gmail™, Google Maps™, Calendar and YouTube™

Stylish and compact design with a 2.8” Resistive touch screen and available in two superbly finished colours

Multimedia on go - Capture your favourite moments with a 3.2 mega-pixel camera , Listen to your music with an integrated MP3 player and store all these on the included 2GB MicroSD card which can be expanded to support up to 32GB

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Comments

  • scrimshaw on 23/03/2011 - 17:42

    No reviews yet, but the screen is resistive — generally a fail in my regard, since even the $99 Huawei Ideos U8150 has a capacitive touchscreen and Android 2.2 to boot.

    • chloden on 23/03/2011 - 17:46

      thanks for that but can you dumb it down a bit, lol.

      • scrimshaw on 23/03/2011 - 17:50

        There are 2 types of touchscreens, capacitive and resistive.

        Capacitive is better (and more expensive to produce) compared to a resistive touchscreen.
        It supports multi-touch — you can use more than 1 finger to interact with the screen, such as pinch to zoom, or multi-touch swiping gestures.

        Resistive touchscreens work by having 2 sheets of plastic very close to each other. When you press down on the screen, the plastic sheets contact each other and this is registered as a touch.
        The downside of resistive screens is that they generally only accept 1 finger input — the upside however is that they can use a stylus for handwriting. But you don't see styluses on smartphones nowadays as many people prefer to operate their phone one-handed.

        • chloden on 23/03/2011 - 17:53

          Thanks for that, maybe I will wait to see what else comes out. I'm not in any hurry.

        • quickling on 24/03/2011 - 12:00

          except the 8150 does not accept multitouch anyway.

  • [Deactivated] on 23/03/2011 - 17:59

    yep, resistive is not good

  • ESEMCE on 24/03/2011 - 10:17

    The Samsung Galaxy 5 can be had on Telstra Prepaid $179 including $50 credit…
    It ticks all the boxes for a low end Android Handset.

    If you're not in any hurry, wait another 4-6 months… High end handsets will be in runout, probably not at $99, but conceiveably at $199

  • altomic on 24/03/2011 - 14:02

    I wonder which company makes this phone?

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