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Chris Beckwith 7 March 2011
Good: Price, Display
Bad: Build Quality
Comment: If you use the phone how it is sold, it is not exactly a brilliant phone. The default Android 2.1 rom is sluggish, and filled with bugs. Remove 2.1 and install a 2.2 ROM from modaco and you unlock the phone with one of the best Price/Performance ratios available at the moment.
Using the original OLED version, the display is great. Colours are rich, detail is sharp, couldn't really ask for more. The more recent LCD version is slightly different, but still a brilliant display.
In the few months I have owned it, the only real problem I have come across is the build quality. The default rom would cause the phone to switch itself off (This is easily fixed with a custom ROM), and at times the power button would become difficult to press. However this is just a small problem - even with this problem the phone thrashes the similarly priced HTC wildfire.
charls 3 March 2011
Good: UMM... touchscreen?
Bad: I DONT KNOW HOW TO SEND SONGS !!?
Comment: pIECE O SHIIIIIIII C: TTTTTTT
Camera is ok but rather annoying
Matt Butterfield 16 February 2011
Good: Cheap, reliable,
Bad: Processor to weak to support Flash, Cheap case
Comment: Great budget phone!
Sean Spence 8 February 2011
Good: its only £99 and has a 3.5inch OLED touch screen
Bad: battery life
Comment: amazing phone
av2606 28 January 2011
Good: Amazing value for money.
Bad: Bloatware, but can be sorted.
Comment: This phone is simply phenomenal. Excellent value for money, and installing Android 2.2 makes it a whole lot faster. I recommend installing Android 2.2 from scratch - you can follow this beginner friendly guide to do so, and it takes less than 10 minutes.
orangesanfrancisco.co.uk/android/how-to-unlock-the-orange-san-francisco-zte-blade-for-free
gavster 12 January 2011
Good: display
Bad: most everything else
Comment: I don't understand the glowing reviews of this phone here. I find it hugely frustrating to do most things. It's teeth-grindingly slow, never seems happy with the signal strength (which tends to be weaker than other Orange network phones in the same spot), and even Android turns out not to be all it's cracked up to be - I keep being asked to sign into Gmail, even for unconnected services like Twitter, but this always fails (same account works fine on Windows PC).
I used to use a basic pay-as-you-go phone, but thought this would let me do a whole lot more. In theory it should do, but in practice not at all.
Skirrid 6 January 2011
Good: Beautiful OLED display, easily unlocked and rooted for free, the best value out there
Bad: Nothing significant for the price
Comment: This phone is easily unlocked and rooted for free within minutes. Once this is done you can upgrade the OS or just remove the Orange branding/software easily... so why concentrate the review around these easily removed components? It's like saying "my car came with rubbish floor mats, so the car must be useless". Only a fool would say this.
I like the fact that the review says the camera is good. What?! The camera is by far the worst thing about the phone, but if you are like me, then that won't bother you. Battery life is poor, but I understand that is par for the course with Android.
I only joined C-net because I felt this review was so ridiculous. I will now close my account.
Tim Scott 29 December 2010
Good: Fast, cheap, feels good in the hand, easy to root and softmod
Bad: The Orange kack, the fact that all Shootme shots are upside-down, the horrendously low battery life (only lasts half a day of full use)
Comment: A brilliant little phone, this is my first foray into the world of Android, and a damn fine one it is too. I'm glad I read a review before purchasing or else I'd be stuck with Orange's bloatware and without Android 'Froyo'. Sadly, with Froyo, YouTube videos all have a horrifying green bar at the top of them and the colours are all weird.
An excellent product - I feel I've made a good purchase here. For £120, you can't go wrong, especially considering that a HTC Desire is about £300 for the same stuff, only a bit faster.
Craig Dean 26 December 2010
Good: The screen is stunning for the price, extremely easy to unlock for free, a great community at MODACO providing custom ROMS (including 2.2), fast, fluid and packing almost all of the features my friend has on his Samsung Galaxy S
Bad: Video camera, orange branding is everywhere (however, once rooted it is extremely easy to remove), slightly sluggish processor but great for the price and only struggles when you pile more than 2 graphic intensive games on top of one another
Comment: I find it very silly that this phone has been rated *** and it is clear that the reviewer has not their research. "Orange" didn't make this phone, ZTE did, and to get a 800x400 OLED capacative screen display on a phone is a commendable achievement and it will take a long time before this is matched by ANY other company. Yes, the Orange branding gets in the way initially but this is easily dealt with and once cleared this phone could very easily and accurately be priced at £200.
David Andrew 23 December 2010
Good: quick sleek cheap light weight
Bad: battery life
Comment: Good wee phone sleek design battery life is not what am used to but this is my first android phone
very fast
Wi fi great and the package u get on payg is ok but i say get sim only after u get it canary 12 month plan u can find it at orange and that is cheap like the phone plus pay and extra fiver u get a wopping 500 mb internet
To summerise its a good wee cheap yet brilliant phone
And i posted this using the phone its self so if u want a cheap yet good android phone look no further.