Orange UK has announced the launch of its latest touchscreen mobile phone for the customers. Dubbed as Vegas, the touchscreen phone is packed with several useful features to cater the needs of the UK customers.
According to Orange, the Orange Vegas is the cheapest and smallest touch screen phone in UK. Being small, the handset does not mean that it is small when we look at its features. The touch screen handset has a trendy design to woo the customers, who want to enhance their lifestyle with trendy gadgets.
The Orange Vegas is available in two colors, black and pick. It has an impressive one-touch interface, so that the users will enjoy utmost comfort while making or receiving a call or accessing to other features.
Coming to the features, the smallest phone sports a 1.3 megapixel camera using which you can capture images and save them in your device. The handset also brings cool music for the music lovers. The handset is loaded with MP3, media player and FM radio. All these components keep you entertaining all the time.
Francois Mahieu, Director of Devices, Orange UK has commented, “The Vegas is the perfect handset for customers who wish to have the touch screen experience without breaking the bank. It provides a good functionality with a touch screen at a cheap and affordable price”.
The handset enables you to access popular social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook and MySpace. However, the customers must opt for Dolphin package to access social networking services. The Dolphin package costs only £10. It provides 300 free texts . The access to social networking sites is unlimited and free.
Coming to other features, the tiny mobile gadget comes with 2.4 inch touchscreen. Its memory capacity is 128MB. You can expand it upto 4GB by using a microSD card solt. The Orange Vegas is now available. Its price is just £48.50.
14 Comments on “Orange launches UK’s cheapest touchscreen phone”
Jemmawrote on 3 May, 2009, 21:37
Hey everyone.
I think this phone it awsome! I got it yesterday and i cant get off it, I lvoe it so much. Its deffently worth your money and i advise you to buy it!! *you will need a memory card, it had RUBBISH memory!*
Tenguewrote on 9 July, 2009, 12:43
The design is hideous.
kaylawrote on 9 July, 2009, 13:07
i’ve brought this phone and my problems are… as far as i can see you cannot use your own music as a ringtone and text tone. also you cannot just resize pictures to fit the screen, you stuck with a huge clock at all times my last phone was a sony ericsson W880i and other than the coolness of a touch screen the w880i was by far more advanced i’m tempted to even get my money back due to the ginormity of my disappointment!!
Benwrote on 1 September, 2009, 9:37
This is a good cheap touch screen phone
Pros-Plays music, camera (2mp), touch screen, £48.50 great price, great battery life.
Cons- the screen is very dim, you can only text with your fingers if you’re under about 15 otherwise you’ll have to use the horrible stylus, you have to wipe the screen every two minutes. you HAVE to have a memory card . This is a phone a phone is for calling and texting anything other than that is a bonus
nellewrote on 4 September, 2009, 12:17
OKayy i have had this phone 4 about a few months. I’ve only had a few problems with it you cant resize your background and u cant see the background as the time and date is in the way but other than that the phone is great. Okay tu change ur ring tone
click on contacts, then caller group than click on any1 (Friends family bussiness ect) after group ring tone and thenclick change then click on where ever u save the ringtone and click on the song!! REmber to save itt tho!
elliewrote on 21 September, 2009, 19:32
I have bought a 4gb memory card but can’t seem to work out how to get music from friends phones to mine! Keeps saying disc full!! Help – I love the phone apart from this little frustration!
i like it its a good cheap touchscreen phone i mean its not that bad of a phone shoot at least its a touch phone
roxannewrote on 13 December, 2009, 12:22
I have had this phone for about 3 weeks now and i am starting to notice a few minor problems which are when i put music onto my mp3 player if my phone dies i have to then put them back on again because it gets wiped clean also using the touch screen without the stylus means the phone takes much longer to respond and the last problem is that the phone tends to freeze when i go onto facebook and it takes forever to load which by then my 3 month old daughter will either wake up or start crying so i end up not going on now maybe they need to take this phone off the market give us back our money alter some of the problems stated then bring it back out and see what kind of comments they receive then but until then the phone is crap but on a good note to the person who said you can’t make a song your ringtone you can but just not your text tone i done it all you do is go to settings then go to profiles then click options and then customise then go into incomin calls then change it to what ever you want
becciwrote on 25 December, 2009, 22:25
i got this phone for a christmas present and i am pleased with it because it is neat compact and pretty. i am dissapointed that you cannot change its background but that is not a huge proble. does anyone know how to put music on it from itunes ?
becciwrote on 25 December, 2009, 22:26
does anyone know how to put music from itunes on it?
i got this phone from my son’s for christmas,like some said you can’t use music i have for ring tone’s why is this.
is there a way of doing this help is needed
Roxannewrote on 12 January, 2010, 18:57
I got this fone for my birthday. I love the phone but havent got time to find out much about it because i am 8 months pregnant and dont have time. Its a really good small handy touch phone easy 2 use. i love the phone alot, and dont really have alot of problems with it. Luv Roxanne xxxxxxxx lol
berniewrote on 15 January, 2010, 17:06
Bought phone for son’s xmas turnd off to go to school now can get it to turn on even with charger plugged in.Not sure if they’re not good or just got a bad one.Worked out how to do music ,not straight forward though.
Tim Bellwrote on 17 January, 2010, 22:38
For the money this touch phone is very good value.
One major functionality missed by all reviews I have read so far is that, once attached to a PC, the phone is firstly charged, then 3 options are presented (if the phone is already switched on)…a storage device utilising any flash card used (a 4gb works perfectly once it was recognised & formatted…see further below), or as a COM port for modem usage to the internet although this is NOT a 3G phone so would be mega slow – although I have not tested this yet)…But the major and final function when plugged into a PC is amazingly it has the otion to work as a web-cam…yep this is the first phone that I have seen working as a web cam. Okay the camera is bad quality, granted at 1.3mp and the lens is not of good quality either, however it’s very adequate in good daylight for webcam work. Not sure of sound through it yet but I will try this later. As mentioned it did take a bit of work to get my new sandisk 4gb mem-card to be recognised. Firstly I installed it into the phone. The Phone didn’t see it at all as a location. I plugged the phone itno the pc and selected mass storage. The laptop picked up the card as a separate drive of approx. 4gb. After this I created a directory on the drive using the PC onto the card direct. After uplugging the phone from the PC, I accessed the file-manager function on the phone and the mem-card was recognised. I then used the format function in the phone to finally format the 4gb card. Job done. I’m well please so far… I know this might seem like a bit of effort but hey what do you expect from a sub £50 phone?
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Orange UK has announced the launch of its latest touchscreen mobile phone for the customers. Dubbed as Vegas, the touchscreen phone is packed with several useful features to cater the needs of the UK customers.
Hey everyone.
I think this phone it awsome! I got it yesterday and i cant get off it, I lvoe it so much. Its deffently worth your money and i advise you to buy it!! *you will need a memory card, it had RUBBISH memory!*
The design is hideous.
i’ve brought this phone and my problems are… as far as i can see you cannot use your own music as a ringtone and text tone. also you cannot just resize pictures to fit the screen, you stuck with a huge clock at all times my last phone was a sony ericsson W880i and other than the coolness of a touch screen the w880i was by far more advanced i’m tempted to even get my money back due to the ginormity of my disappointment!!
This is a good cheap touch screen phone
Pros-Plays music, camera (2mp), touch screen, £48.50 great price, great battery life.
Cons- the screen is very dim, you can only text with your fingers if you’re under about 15 otherwise you’ll have to use the horrible stylus, you have to wipe the screen every two minutes. you HAVE to have a memory card . This is a phone a phone is for calling and texting anything other than that is a bonus
OKayy i have had this phone 4 about a few months. I’ve only had a few problems with it you cant resize your background and u cant see the background as the time and date is in the way but other than that the phone is great. Okay tu change ur ring tone
click on contacts, then caller group than click on any1 (Friends family bussiness ect) after group ring tone and thenclick change then click on where ever u save the ringtone and click on the song!! REmber to save itt tho!
I have bought a 4gb memory card but can’t seem to work out how to get music from friends phones to mine! Keeps saying disc full!! Help – I love the phone apart from this little frustration!
i like it its a good cheap touchscreen phone i mean its not that bad of a phone shoot at least its a touch phone
I have had this phone for about 3 weeks now and i am starting to notice a few minor problems which are when i put music onto my mp3 player if my phone dies i have to then put them back on again because it gets wiped clean also using the touch screen without the stylus means the phone takes much longer to respond and the last problem is that the phone tends to freeze when i go onto facebook and it takes forever to load which by then my 3 month old daughter will either wake up or start crying so i end up not going on now maybe they need to take this phone off the market give us back our money alter some of the problems stated then bring it back out and see what kind of comments they receive then but until then the phone is crap but on a good note to the person who said you can’t make a song your ringtone you can but just not your text tone i done it all you do is go to settings then go to profiles then click options and then customise then go into incomin calls then change it to what ever you want
i got this phone for a christmas present and i am pleased with it because it is neat compact and pretty. i am dissapointed that you cannot change its background but that is not a huge proble. does anyone know how to put music on it from itunes ?
does anyone know how to put music from itunes on it?
i got this phone from my son’s for christmas,like some said you can’t use music i have for ring tone’s why is this.
is there a way of doing this help is needed
I got this fone for my birthday. I love the phone but havent got time to find out much about it because i am 8 months pregnant and dont have time. Its a really good small handy touch phone easy 2 use. i love the phone alot, and dont really have alot of problems with it. Luv Roxanne xxxxxxxx lol
Bought phone for son’s xmas turnd off to go to school now can get it to turn on even with charger plugged in.Not sure if they’re not good or just got a bad one.Worked out how to do music ,not straight forward though.
For the money this touch phone is very good value.
One major functionality missed by all reviews I have read so far is that, once attached to a PC, the phone is firstly charged, then 3 options are presented (if the phone is already switched on)…a storage device utilising any flash card used (a 4gb works perfectly once it was recognised & formatted…see further below), or as a COM port for modem usage to the internet although this is NOT a 3G phone so would be mega slow – although I have not tested this yet)…But the major and final function when plugged into a PC is amazingly it has the otion to work as a web-cam…yep this is the first phone that I have seen working as a web cam. Okay the camera is bad quality, granted at 1.3mp and the lens is not of good quality either, however it’s very adequate in good daylight for webcam work. Not sure of sound through it yet but I will try this later. As mentioned it did take a bit of work to get my new sandisk 4gb mem-card to be recognised. Firstly I installed it into the phone. The Phone didn’t see it at all as a location. I plugged the phone itno the pc and selected mass storage. The laptop picked up the card as a separate drive of approx. 4gb. After this I created a directory on the drive using the PC onto the card direct. After uplugging the phone from the PC, I accessed the file-manager function on the phone and the mem-card was recognised. I then used the format function in the phone to finally format the 4gb card. Job done. I’m well please so far… I know this might seem like a bit of effort but hey what do you expect from a sub £50 phone?