Smartphones may indeed enhance your ability to take charge of personal information. These mobile tools are supposedly designed to help you become more organized, more efficient than before you purchased these phones. However, these phones cost so much, they can drive you to the poorhouse.
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| The Smart from HTC, one of the most affordable smartphones in the market |
Coming with prices that range between Php25,000 and Php45,000, these smartphones also would require budget-draining monthly fees that you have to pay for you to enjoy their full range of smarty features.
However, nobody said that buying and owning a smartphone need be this expensive. You can choose from these smartphone models. As capable as their more pricy siblings and cousins, these smartphones cost much less and will not require you to break your piggy bank.
HTC Smart
Say hello to the HTC Smart. Affordably priced below Php13,000, this HTC smartphone comes with the smart styling and elegance of its pricier siblings. This 100-gram, 104 x 55 x 12.8mm beauty, however, is a lot easier to handle than its bulkier stablemates.
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| Smartphones need not be expensive |
The HTC Smart’s touch screen might not be the best in the market, but it is also far from being the worst. Although you would wish it had a faster response time, it is just the way resistive touch screens are. The phone, however, more than makes up for this sluggishness with how fast it handles menu transition and navigation, which it accomplishes much faster than a phone with 256MB of RAM and a 300MHz processor normally does.
Samsung Galaxy 5
Samsung’s Galaxy 5 had been dubbed the cheapest Android phone in the country, for a while at least. A suggested retail price of Php10,980 makes the Samsung beauty a very affordable Android 2.1 phone. An added bonus would be the Social Hub user interface technology from Samsung.
The Galaxy 5, the smaller brother of the Galaxy S, includes a 2-megapixel camera and is capable of playing back video and music files. It includes an FM tuner and a 3.5mm audio jack.
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| The Galaxy 5 from Samsung: Smaller than the Galaxy S, but not less glamorous |
Unlike the HTC Smart, however, the Galaxy 5 comes with a touch screen that boasts of the touch-sensitive capacitive technology.
The phone’s wireless connectivity options are WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and 3G. The package comes with 1GB card for its microSD slot, which complements the phone’s 170MB internal memory.
Cherry Mobile Eclipse
You should not let this phone’s low-cost status fool you. This dual-SIM, 416MHz-processor-driven Windows smartphone is everything that smartphones ought to be. Except for its price, this phone covers all areas of the smartphone universe.
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| The Cherry Mobile Eclipse: Low-cost, but not cheap in quality |
And if you can live with a smartphone that runs on a mobile operating system that is not actually the latest in the market, then the Eclipse, a Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone from Cherry Mobile, would be perfect for you. It cost Php9,999 when it was released several months back (and probably at lot less by now).
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| Just as capable as its pricier rivals, the Cherry Mobile Eclipse |
Its being friendly with Microsoft’s mobile platform allows the Eclipse phone’s owners to use PC-based Windows applications, such as Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Office in a portable multimedia device. The phone’s high-tech features include a 3.2-inch touch screen, WiFi, Bluetooth, threaded messaging, and a pre-installed Facebook Mobile application.
So, anybody can be a proud owner of a smartphone these days. And nobody has to become a pauper while doing so.
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