T-Mobile UK announces the Android-powered Pulse

By on Sep 3, 2009 at 4:18 PM
General September 3, 2009

To all of the companies with intentions to pump out cheap and readily available devices: It’s time to get a move on because Huawei has just schooled you. Announced today is the T-Mobile Pulse, a prepaid-capable Android smartphone that utilizes a UI overlay known as Canvas. In terms of specs, the Pulse is quite capable with a 3.5-inch HVGA display, 3.2 megapixel camera, 2GB internal memory, 528MHz along with HSDPA, Wi-Fi and GPS radios. There are two features notably absent however; a flash for the camera and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Both T-Mobile and Huawei insist that their exclusion was necessary to keep the Pulse’s dimensions slim and trim at 160mm x 62.5mm x 13.5mm. Like it or not, the 3.5mm-less and flash-less Pulse will be as cheap as chips when it goes on sale this October: £179.99 ($293 USD) — or as low as 4.95€ in Germany with a 2-year agreement.

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  • tino72

    i like the looks of it..sleek looking!

  • JoeTour

    poor TMO nobody bothers to even leave a comment. look at your neighbor, a post about APPLE, where hell broke loose.
    –at least 2 comments now——

  • BDot

    I…for the life of me cannot figure why handset manufacturers insist on leaving out COMMON SENSE features. Let’s not play coy here, we all know that cell phones will one day cannibalize the mp3 player, and digital camera markets.

    So stop dancing around it. 3.5mm headset jacks, and flash/zoom should be standard on EVERY cell phone nowadays. Anything less is just an annoyance to the consumer.

    “Smart” or “dumb” phone, it doesn’t even matter. No one wants to buy additional adapters, attachments, or wait for the next model just to gain features that would cost your pennies (literally) to add right now.

    Am I the only one irked by this? I’m sure the lack of sleep lately isn’t helping…

  • stormtrooper

    @ BDot:

    Well said. My BB 8900 has both & its a must…

  • James

    Poor Tmo? First this phone is launching for the UK market and second, you will finally be able to send mms messages on your iPhone WOW a feature even the cheapest phone can do..yeah that’s BIG news. Stick to to your BB’s my man.

  • glyco

    @BDot: 3.5mm jack will eventually become obsolete as bluetooth stereo headphones will replace the unecessary physical connection to the device. i agree with you, though, at present it is pretty redic. that’s precisely why i avoided the Tmo my touch. i still like my old pair of ear buds, march of technology be damned!

  • http://www.dsr4.nl r4 kaarten

    Hi..
    I like to play the games on the mobile and mostly find some info about mobile…
    Because i am fond of mobile gaming so this article is really helpful for me…

  • JL

    @glyco

    myTouch 3G comes with mini usb to 3.5mm inline mic adaptor so you can use whatever headphones, earbuds etc and still talk as well when using the phone.. I own a mt3g, love it!

  • glyco

    @JL:
    I know, I currently have an old HTC with that same deficiency. i’ve always found that annoying, but i know some people don’t mind it. needing to carry around an extra piece of hardware is bad design, imo.

  • http://www.r4dump.nl r4 kaart

    What a nice phone, can’t wait to get one myself :)

  • http://www.jardim.nl buitenkeuken

    Love the design of the phone, had a htc touch before and really liked it so i might consider this one

  • http://www.chinaqualitydirect.com Wholesale

    ook at your neighbor, a post about APPLE, where hell broke loose.

  • http://nudefightclub.fembattle.com/ catfight video

    I like the look of it but i love my iphone they can not match that.

  • http://www.subsidie.co subsidie

    A really nice telephone but unfortunate no match for the iphone

  • http://www.gamesync.nl PS3 gamer

    i don’t really like it :(

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