Interesting little note for those adventurers among you who fancy picking up a cheap unlocked Chinese mobile phone. There’s a new trend springing up which involves labelling phones as ‘Google Android Interface’.
These are not Android handsets, they are typically phones with an Asian operating system installed – like this SciPhone G15 – which have an Android skin bolted on to make them look and feel like the Google standard. No app support or anything like that. Caveat emptor, peeps, especially when you could be spending up to $200 for the privilege of unpacking a pony.
Quadband Dual Sim GPS Wifi Sciphone G15 Phone with Analog TV Trackball Java Google Android Interface – Free 2GB TF Cards. This is the newest Sciphone – G15 which adopt latest Hi-technology. With 208Mhz CPU speed, WiFi, GPS, Analog TV, Orientation sensor, 3.2″ HVGA LCD with 320 x 480 resolution and capacitive touch screen…
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Have you given consideration to adding a SMS interface to the existing … Will you be using Google maps? I'm just going off of the images and your use of android.