Attention, Orange and the random supplier who's manufacturing these ripoffs: the world has moved on from the original
HTC Touch's design language. Hell, we've actually moved on
twice now; once to the
Touch Diamond, and once to the
Touch Diamond2. On that note, we're not sure what's possessing a Western European carrier to release a cheesy rip of a such a well-known late model phone -- whose manufacturer Orange has a great relationship with, no less -- other than the fact that they're looking to give entry-level customers a really inexpensive way to get into the touchscreen game. Indeed, the prepaid device will apparently run just £48.50 (about $71) when it launches, but in return, you're only getting a 1.3 megapixel camera, presumably EDGE data, and the mocking of everyone you've ever known -- including your own mother, who we understand uses an actual HTC Touch.
[Via
mobile-review]
Update: If T-Mobile UK is more your style, turns out they're offering the very same device as the
Vairy Touch. Thanks, everyone!
posted April 24th 2009 12:28PM
I always liked very very much the design of the old HTC touch.
I have never actually tried it so I have no idea of how good or how bad it was as a phone , but on a purely aesthetic point of view I like it much more than the Diamond and maybe even than the Diamond2 (maybe).
HTC too seems to have realized that the form factor is a winner, in fact they resuscitated it many times, as the touch 3G, touch viva, etc.
The makers of this Vegas undoubtly got their inspiration (and probably something more) from the HTC's design , but at least when they decided to copy a telephone they choosed a nice one.
Dunno how true this is, but i heard that this abomination was actually made by ZTE.
couldn't help but laugh at the comment about the mother....i converted her to windows mobile 4 years ago, and she took one look at this thing and just laughed!!!