An Aussie Android Phone, Pre-Order Available!

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Dec 04 2008

Not that I’m writing a Christmas wish list or anything [*cough* Ahem] but earlier on in the year I talked a bit skeptically about an Australian company that promised an Android flavoured device by Christmas, for a phenomenally low price. Well it seems like they have sort of, in a round about way, done it.

I think this is cheating just a little bit, you can pre-order now, “Before Christmas” but the phone won’t ship until the end of January…   Clever bit of spin really

So in a way Kogan Technologies have delivered on their promise to make available an android phone before Christmas, but what do we know about it at the moment, not a lot. Following on from the companies strategy of cutting out the middleman, they have obviously sourced manufacturers that could come up with a budget device to plant the OS on, the device

is  full QWERTY keyboard equipped, with a 320/240 touch screen. There’s a low and high end model. The high ender includes a 2 megapixel camera and WiFi, and is retailing for AU$ 399. There is a decidedly defensive lack of specifications detailed for the phone, dubbed the Agora, which makes it even more enticing, or yes,a potentially large disappointment. We don’t know what’s under the hood at the moment, but it is well priced, and that alone could ward off the Agoraphobia!

The Kogan Agora. Australian Gphone

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