Orange Vegas

50% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Following popular convention, the four points on the navigation button are shortcuts to various services. Out of the box, these are contacts, inbox, SMS creation, music and profiles. I couldn't see a way to change the settings to a personal preference.

Low price ; Touchscreen operation ; Compact design ; MicroSD card support ; Music player and camera onboard

Small display and limited user interface ; Limited quality 1.3-megapixel camera ; Low quality music player performance ; No 3G connectivity ; Low internal user storage capacity ; Texting can be fiddly

The limitations of the Orange Vegas should, however, be taken in context of the low-cost price-tag. It provides a taster of fashionable touch control, albeit in a very limited way, and has few pretensions in the additional features department. Its...

The Vegas is small, cheap and cute, but the touch experience is severely underwhelming

As a low cost handset with few pretensions the Vegas is a reasonable effort. However, its poor battery life really lets it down.

Pros Compact and cute design, bargain price and decent touch performance

Fiddly text input, below average camera and rough sounding music player

Touch-screen handsets don't come cheaper than the Vegas. A great 'my first touch-phone'.

For touchscreens, the Vegas is the cheapest game in town, and with touch control the hottest mobile must-have, there’s bound to be interest from bargain-hunting buyers. The handset's attractively compact and mostly simple enough to use.

This mobile phone flaunts a 60.96mm TFT resistive touchscreen display that showcases images, photos and wallpapers in 262,000 colours. Right below the touchscreen is a set of four keys, as well as a five-way navigation tool. It also comes with four...

Nor does the Vegas sport Wi-Fi or GPS. It is a dual band device with GPRS but not 3G, and its camera is very much below average at just 1.3 megapixels.

ideal for my 12 year old as a first mobile

no faults to report after 2 months so far

its a all round good phone

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