ZTE Blade

“The Orange San Francisco is a staggeringly well featured handset which simply has no peer when it comes to value for money. Orange has done its very best to make a mess of the user experience by riddling the phone with bloatware, but it is nothing some enthusiastic uninstalling can't fix. If you have been reluctant to spend the money to join the smartphone revolution, you'd be dummer than your dumb phone to miss out on this.”

“The Orange San Francisco is something of a surprise package. Pitched at the entry level, it sets a new standard for displays, outstripping its rivals by a large margin. It isn’t a powerful handset, so isn’t as snappy as more expensive rivals, and you don’t get all the multimedia skills you do elsewhere. You get access to Android with plenty of features for a price that won’t break the bank, and given that you get a fully-featured 3G smartphone, it’s an enticing proposition.”

“Every operator has its budget Android offering and you can also get several SIM free.The Orange San Francisco is the best of the bunch because Orange seems to have got the bottom line features right.Good, large, high-resolution screen, nice solid hardware design, neat array of Orange widgets, a processor that doesn't get challenged till you start to thrash it. Thumbs up!”

“We'd like to give Orange a big hug for bringing us a decent-looking, powerful Android phone with a capacitive touchscreen for under £100 on a pay as you go deal. Then we'd like to give Orange a punch in the face for covering the phone in bloatware and messing up its email in a bid to recoup its pennies.”