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Most remarkable of all though is price. For such a cheap handset build quality is excellent. Squeezing the sides hard can elicit the smallest of creaks, but in truth there is little to choose between it and flagship phones like the original Google Nexus One and HTC Desire. The San Francisco also sports the same matt finish as these illustrious models so the only finger marks you collect will be on the screen.
Meanwhile everything is sensibly located with volume buttons on the right side and a headphone jack on the top. So far so very good. The Orange San Francisco runs Android 2. Yes Android 2. The problem is when you first start the San Francisco it is hard to tell the phone uses Android at all.
Orange is famous infamous? It does nothing to enhance user experience and reduces the chance of official firmware upgrades. More positively, once you have taken the time to clear out all this rubbish or better yet followed one of the numerous guides on how to root it with Android 2.
Colours are vivid, text is sharp and it is extremely responsive. With 7. Battery life? Not world shaking, but you will get a full day out of it with moderate usage. They do exist. The MHz processor in the San Francisco means it is snappier than the HTC Wildfire, but you will notice some lag when zooming in and out of complex web pages, roaming GoogleMaps, and even just scrolling through menus sometimes.
The 3. There's an FM radio on-board but it's not particularly user friendly. There doesn't seem to be a way of playing music through the loudspeaker for a start, and you can't autoscan channels. The best you can do on that front is to seek and then save each channel individually. There's no RDS and no way to name channels manually. The saving grace is a sleep timer. Video playback is handled by a separate app and the screen's high resolution helps with quality. This time the loudspeaker works too, thank goodness!
You've also got access to Orange TV, which is one of the apps Orange has peppered onto the handset. We found the streaming to be perfectly acceptable, though it's not live TV that you get but news, pop videos, movie trailers and other snippety stuff.
With a mAh battery on-board, the Orange San Francisco isn't going to last you several days between charges. Gauging battery life is always a bit of a tricky thing to do, because depletion will depend on how heavily you use particularly power draining aspects of the handset. We got through a day's pretty heavy usage with some juice left in the tank, but we'd expect to be charging every day.
When it comes to apps, there's quite a lot here in addition to the Android staple fare. We found the GPS was pretty efficient at getting and retaining a signal, and having two mapping options to hand means you can choose which you like best right out of the box.
Orange adds its own App Shop for games, apps and ringtones. It doesn't work over Wi-Fi, but you may find it a useful companion to the application-filled Android Market. Orange has filled the phone with its own apps, as you'd sadly expect, with the Orange Wednesdays app for Android two for one deals on cinema ticket the headliner.
And there's a little weather app that does what its name suggests. The Orange San Francisco impressed us a lot more than we expected it to. It has Android 2. The build quality also punches somewhat above its weight, and while we can't really forgive the somewhat lacklustre camera and poorly featured FM radio, it's a small price to pay for what are, generally, some pretty neat features.
Oh, there's something we've not mentioned thus far and we think we'll just drop it in here. And we like it more than we liked the ZTE Racer. TechRadar aims to produce the most helpful phone reviews on the web, so you're able to make a more informed buying decision. Part of this testing process includes benchmarking. It's a good way of measuring the overall performance of a product's internal hardware components. We use Antutu System Benchmark to test tablets.
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There are some budget Android handsets that we think let Android down. They don't show off the operating system in a good light and could easily turn people away because of that.
The Orange San Francisco is a different kettle of fish. Yes, it has a MHz CPU, which is far from the fastest, but it didn't falter at the first hurdle, coped well with video playback and only really stumbled when we asked it to do a lot of stuff at once.
But Orange has come up trumps where it really matters, with good build quality and an excellent screen considering the price of this handset. With those factors in mind we think it would be a great intro to Android for the more cash-strapped among us. Smashing screen.
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