Vodafone signals own-brand handset refresh
World's cheapest touchscreen phone?
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MWC 2011 Vodafone has refreshed the range of handsets it puts out under its own name, offering three options for the shallow-pocketed mobile user.
The Vodafone 252 is a cheap-as-chips handset with minimal spec, boosted by the presence of M-PESA - a system for making payments with a phone. That system is only active in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Fiji, although India will join that list in the near future.
Vodafone 252, 351 and 455
The 351 is the company's most affordable mobile internet phone. It comes with Opera Mini, an FM radio, a 0.3Mp camera and MicroSD expansion.
The Vodafone 455 is apparently the most affordable touchscreen on the market. It also runs Opera and comes with a 2.4in screen, 1.3Mp camera, FM radio and music player.
World's cheapest touchscreen phone? Perhaps, but there's no word on prices or availability as yet. ®
COMMENTS
Made in China?
Probably - IIRC, the previous Vodafone branded devices were all made by Huawei, a Chinese company.
Eating, phoning, talking, sharing.
They get special cheap phones and I get expensive food.
Micro-USB chargers
It's good to see that the 351 (so presumably the others too) have a micro-USB charging socket. Maybe these devices are made by a Chinese company; the Chinese government mandated a single charging standard as way back as 2007.
I remember lots of the big players signing a Memorandum of Understanding to switch to micro-USB a few years ago but still some of them are still using propriety charging standards, it's about time they got their act together.
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