I picked up the new at&t go phone for my E5 sim. $149 in the at&t store. 3.5" screen. 2.3.4 gingerbread. 600mhz processor with adreno 200 GPU. So far, great little phone. Screen isnt as perfect when it comes to keyboard accuracy but nothing bad. Has awesome screen colors and very crisp and vibrant. All the creen senors unlike thrive. 5 MP camera which takes great detailed photos. Its snappy, not as good as thrive. But once someone gets a way to root it, and trash the crapware apps that keeps loading it would be alot better.
I think once i get it rooted and delete all the at&t bloatware on it, cause ther is alot, more than they stick on the thrive, it will be just as good as the thrive. It also has more storage space than thrive.
I bought this phone ($129 on AT&T's website) for my mom at the beginning of the year and, provided my migration from Go Phone to Straight Talk goes without major headaches, I'll be moving her to Straight Talk next month. If the Avail had a hardware keyboard, I would've gotten one for me. Yes, the phone is very responsive for a 600 MHz phone. Camera takes really nice pictures. Audio quality is really good. I find the keyboard quite responsive. It doesn't have Swype but has T9 Trace, which accomplishes the same thing. The only test that has failed is h264-compresseed MP4 video playback but MPEG2-compressed MP4's play just fine.
For what is worth, the AT&T Avail is less branded than my Sharp FX Plus, though I still resent none of the bloatware can be uninstalled.
I have one of these and I agree that the sound quality is very good. The speakerphone is very loud and the call quality is as good as my E71 was. The only thing I have found is that Netflix does not play well. Everything else works great. I think this is the cheapest way to get into Android.
I bought this phone ($129 on AT&T's website) for my mom at the beginning of the year and, provided my migration from Go Phone to Straight Talk goes without major headaches, I'll be moving her to Straight Talk next month. If the Avail had a hardware keyboard, I would've gotten one for me. Yes, the phone is very responsive for a 600 MHz phone. Camera takes really nice pictures. Audio quality is really good. I find the keyboard quite responsive. It doesn't have Swype but has T9 Trace, which accomplishes the same thing. The only test that has failed is h264-compresseed MP4 video playback but MPEG2-compressed MP4's play just fine.
For what is worth, the AT&T Avail is less branded than my Sharp FX Plus, though I still resent none of the bloatware can be uninstalled.
Samsung Captivate Glide (Samsung Galaxy S2 Family) or HTC Status (Blackberry Android)
None of these are Go Phone devices. These are postpaid devices sold at their no-contact prices. And honestly, other than the Captivate Glide, none of the others are worth what they cost. AT&T doesn't have an equivalent to the Optimus Q (sub $200 Android with keyboard).
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