Kogan announces the second Android-powered handset, the Agora

[4thephil]

$399 for that? no thank you.

and resistive? did palm tell them to do this? hehe

[Jet]

Screen is also smallish and esht.

[fellonblackdays]

Looks like crap.

Why resistive touch screen? That's a shame.

Not impressed by specs...waiting for LG/Samsung and Moto to all come out with their android phones in February.

[ghoonk]

Looks like I'm not alone in this. I'm no big fan of the resistive touchscreen, and it looks like screen real estate just got halved. This pretty much gives me the form factor of the BB, the screen size of a BB, without the benefit of corporate push email, and what I suspect will be a much poorer web browsing experience compared to the G1's.

If someone out there wants to improve on the G1, build a device that has a larger screen size, better video resolution, improved graphics processor, a larger slide-out keyboard with better key pitch and depth, and battery life that would last 2 days with WiFi always-on and GPS running 25% of the time.

I'd happily pay USD600 for a device like that

[ghoonk]

Looks like crap.

Why resistive touch screen? That's a shame.

Not impressed by specs...waiting for LG/Samsung and Moto to all come out with their android phones in February.

Assuming they don't go down the line of resistive touchscreens themselves

[KoukiFC3S]

Looks pretty nice but I'll stick with my G1.

The more Android devices out there the better.

[montalbert]

phone is actually made in china- this guy just imports them from there- which means that soon some of them will show up on ebay after making their way out the back door of the factory........ not sure on how well it will be made.... and remember people, the prices seem steep to you but remember the aussie dollar is about 65c US! so effectively the agora pro is $399AUD, which is around $250USD! that is without a contract and everything.... outright.....

[dfarted]

the only feature that i like is the headphone jack but with a small screen, 2 meg cam no flash, no thank you.

[johnsto]

Hmm, from the picture it seems like it's having problems deciding what the time is...

[Rakoun]

Seem to be a good alternative. But I would like to see a demo of this handset.

Rakoun
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