Comments on: Yuhua Android Phone, Xphone-SDK Announced

By: dnm

dnm — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:58:59 +0000

Just in case someone comes across this article and its fallacious comments, I thought I’d clarify a few things.

This phone is out and has been for some time. It runs Cupcake, and there are currently betas of Donut.

I own the Sciphone N21. Exact same phone (not a knock-off, *SAME PHONE*). It’s cheaper. Difference being it comes with only one battery, no desktop charger, and a 1GB TF card instead of a 4GB.

The camera is a 5.0MP Sony, the screen is a Sharp resistive touchscreen, no 3G, it *DOES* have FM radio, takes two sims, and handles them pretty cleanly.

No GPS or accelerometer, but does have a tilt sensor so the screen can flip modes when rotated.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:43:20 +0000

I am looking for a mobile with linux O.S. Really good feedback. Thanks to all who left comments. =)

By: Froogloid

Froogloid — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:30:41 +0000

No accelerometer?
No GPS?
256 mb of internal memory?

Sorry, this phone is not going to make the cut. At least not for android.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:37:01 +0000

3 mega pixel camera & no flash is it still 2008??? % mega pixel & flash (xenon)????

By: solid

solid — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:09:37 +0000

What? no FM receiver? With multi-wireless systems available within a single chip, (Broadcom BCM4325 and BCM2075) it is unacceptable to keep delivering products that do not have radios.

By: DeeDeND

DeeDeND — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:40:55 +0000

But… No GPS??

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:26:50 +0000

1) not quadband GSM
2) no keyboard
3) chinese phone with only 1 SIM card? … I call shenanigans!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:38:34 +0000

Looks like vaporware to me. Until I see photos of the product in the wild running Android, I don’t think it will ever see the light of day. There will be some revisions to the original concept and possibly die off slowly from the media and never make it to the market. From what I read, Kogan hit a bump with the lack of a physical menu button and had to redesign quite abit to make it work with Android hence the holdup. I see that this device may lack some physical features that even Cupcake won’t address.

Lets asume the middle button could be either one of these items: Home Key, back button, menu butoon, or some type of directional pad with an enter key. Eliminating any one of those features will make navigating the device that much harder. Without the physical menu button you could not bring up additional options, without the home key how would you get back to the main screen, and so forth.

Android was designed to have some physical key presence. I don’t see how this device can successfully navigate Android and at this piont its probably just hype for investors.

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:34:48 +0000

Would certainly like to see this … but obviously it’s pointless until there is a fully functional image of cupcake since there is no keyboard. I really don’t mind the cheap chinese knock off … $100 for a phone running android that looks this slick is fine with me.