You don't have to go to Sweden to buy an affordable Android smart phone, but Orange is conjuring up thoughts of award-winning fjords, meatballs and cheerful socialism with the Stockholm. The budget Android phone has been revealed on the Orange website.
The Stockholm packs Android 2.2 Froyo, the last-but-one version of Google's mobile-phone software. Froyo may not be the latest version but you can still grab apps from the Android Market.
The phone is made by Huawei. On the front is a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen. Inside is an FM radio, MP3 player and 3.2-megapixel camera. Orange reckons you'll get a full 4 hours of talk time and a whopping 14 days on standby before you'll need to charge the phone.
The Stockholm is compatible with Orange Signal Boost, which pairs the phone with your home Wi-Fi to boost your signal, should your phone struggle indoors.
Last year, Orange joined forces with T-Mobile to form Everything Everywhere, so you'll get to use T-Mobile's network too. Also, an Orange Wednesdays app will sort you out with a free ticket to the pictures every week.
Orange likes naming phones after cities. We're not sure why. Previous budget phones include the San Francisco, perhaps named after the dynamic technology scene in California, and the Barcelona, perhaps named after the annual phone fest that is Mobile World Congress. We've also seen the Rio, perhaps named as a reminder of the hellish torture of the recent macaw-squawking cinema adverts
Stockholm is the largest city in Sweden, fact fans, as well as the capital and home to the Swedish parliament. It's also the home of the Pirate Party, which campaigns for copyright reform. The Pirate Party recently planned to host file-sharing Pirate Bay servers within the parliament building itself, but sadly lost the election.
The Stockholm is listed as 'coming soon'. Are you in the market for some budget Android action, or do cheap phones do your Swede in? Take stock of the Stockholm in the comments section below or on our Facebook page.
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Anonymous 5 July, 2011 12:25
The Orange Rio already exists.
anonymous 5 July, 2011 13:14
You're right anonymous, how could we forget. We've fixed that
Matt Mach 33 6 July, 2011 10:48
2.8", so unlikely to be anything higher than 480*320..
Why not just keep selling the fantastic San Francisco, or at least that body with updated internals?
anonymous 27 September, 2011 07:25
Just one thing...
Playing with words is one thing, but there are no fjords in Stockholm (or anywhere else in Sweden).
Fjords is a Norwegian expression, and Norway hasn't been a pert of Sweden for a long time...
I would've expected this kind of error from the people "on the other side of the pond" who normally care for nothing less than their territory, but from an uk site? Next thing you know we're gonna have polar bears walking around on the streets of Stockholm as well...
Rich Trenholm 27 September, 2011 14:23
You mean you don't have polar bears in Stockholm?!
Don't worry, we know you don't have fjords in Sweden (I was there just the other week, it's a lovely place) but we never let geographical details get in the way of a good pun
poolkid 27 November, 2011 19:54
To anonymous that posted 27, september at 07.25 i have to let you know fjords DO exist in sweden and in norway and denmark!!!! The word "fjord" describes a narrow and elongated inlet of water into an area of land. Askims fjord is located on the western coast of Sweden. It is located south of Goteborg. Also "Gullmarsfjorden", the largest of the fjords in Bohuslän and the only genuine fjord in Sweden if you look at the specifications for a fjord. Polar bears do exist in sweden at Polar World, the world's largest polar bear park, opened in 2009 in Dalarna in middle Sweden :)
anonymous 14 September, 2012 17:53
Talk time and standby times quoted by Orange are rubbish...needs charging every night.