Tip UsVodafone announced earlier today that they have started to sell their Vodafone 555 smartphone.
The mobile phone giants revealed the phone back in July, as the first prepay handset with a dedicated Facebook button. However since then HTC have already released the very similar HTC ChaCha which also has a Facebook button; the form factor and color are also similar but that’s pretty much all the smartphones have in common.
The Vodafone 555 Blue is very much a budget phone aimed at the lower end of the market. It is built by Alcatel, has a 2.4-inch QVGA display (non-touchscreen), full QWERTY keyboard and 2 megapixel camera. With 2G built-in the best you can expect is to browse the web using EDGE. It runs on a proprietary OS and uses Opera Mini as an internet browser.
The phone will go on sale for £70, that price includes a £15 top up which provides the customer with 200 minutes, 600 texts and 100MB web access on top of the regular top up amount. It can also be purchased without a SIM for £62.50 locked to Vodafone.
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