We’ve long been spreading the cut price love for Orange’s long reigning Budget Belle, the ultra cheap San Francisco, and the network looks set to unleash another bargain Android handset in the shape of the Monte Carlo.
The soon-come smartphone improves on the ‘Frisco specs by upping the the processor to a snappier 800MHz number, slipping in a 5MP camera and upgrading the screen to a generous 4.3-inches.
Running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and packing a FM radio, the handset measures up at 10.4mm x 125.9mm x 67.8mm.
There’s been no prices announced yet, but if it’s priced as competitively as its predecessor, we expect Orange to have a winner on its hand.
Spec-feast
5-megapixel camera
HD Voice
Signal Boost (UMA)
Android™ 2.3 Gingerbread
4.3-inch capacitive touch screen
WiFi
micro USB v2.0
FM radio and MP3 player
video messaging
video recorder
video playback
email
pop3/imap4 email
Orange Wednesday apps
Orange App Store
HSDPA
3G+
music player
3G
camera
touch screen
photo messaging
dimensions
depth:10.4mmlength:125.9mmwidth:67.8mm
battery life
talk time:5 hoursstandby:12 days
And the screen resolution is…
Here’s all the specs you could wish for:
GENERAL 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
Announced 2011, February
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2011, Q3
SIZE Dimensions 125.9 x 67.8 x 10.4 mm
Weight 120 g
DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches
– Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
– Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
– Multi-touch input method
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 512 MB RAM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB
DATA GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
3G HSDPA, HSUPA
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
Infrared port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes
Secondary No
FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
CPU 800MHz processor
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games Yes
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
– Digital compass
– SNS integration
– MP4/H.264/H.263 player
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
– Google Search, Maps, Gmail
– YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
– Organizer
– Voice memo
– Predictive text input
BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh
Stand-by Up to 288 h
Talk time Up to 5 h
And an LED flash too! At last!