RSSAustralia's Agora Android phone to ship worldwide in January
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published December 5, 2008, 8:24 PM
The world's second Android phone, the Agora, is on the way from Australian-based Kogan, and the device -- which features a full QWERTY keyboard -- will be available globally early next year.
Australia-based Kogan Technologies is now accepting pre-orders for the Agora mobile phone -- the second Android phone after HTC's G1 -- with worldwide shipments to start on January 29, 2009.
"The Kogan Agora will work on networks around the world, and is not restricted to customers in Australia and New Zealand," according to information posted on Kogan's Web site.
In contrast to HTC's G1, which is being sold by T-Mobile and Wal-Mart in the US, the Agora is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard.
Other specifications include a 2.5-inch, 320-by-240 touch screen; FM radio; Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate; a microSD slot for memory expansion; and a customizable home screen with instant e-mail, text message, and IM notifications. An Agora Pro model adds Wi-Fi, GPS, and a 2 Mp camera.
Priced at the US equivalents of about $225 for the Agora and $295 for the Agora Pro, the phones are being sold unlocked and without SIM cards. US and other international customers must pay additional shipping charges which are figured in at checkout on Kogan's Web site.
Yawn, are we suppose to care about this? The USA can make just as good.
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|Well so where is the USA made one for the same price.
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|The USA one is still waiting to be made in Taiwan or China. The only thing that the USA can make that it leads the world in is a mess e.g. the world economic collapse, Iraq, ignorance in global warming, hurricane disaster response, and the list goes on. Although I'm impressed that there is apparently one american, @ LakotaElf, who knows the name of a different country outside of it's own boarders, although whether he could point to it on a map is debatable.
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|This one has a resistive, not capacitive, touch screen. That alone should knock another $100 off the price. No T-Mobile 3G bands, $100 more off the price -- for $99, I might buy it.
1 step forward, 2 steps back ;)
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|"In contrast to HTC's G1... the Agora is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard."
I'm sorry -- what? The G1 DOES have a qwerty keyboard
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|Touchscreen only.
-Bah...wrong. That was the iPhone.
*sheepish grin*
I'll just leave now. My bad.
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