Vodafone are a company we’ve grown to love, especially as a network, but we aren’t very familiar with their skills in smartphone manufacturing, so when we heard they were releasing a new model – the Vodafone Smart 858 – we were quite excited to see what the results would be. The network itself is reliable and one of the UK’s favourites, but can it perform to such a high standard when making their own mobile phones?
Marketed as a budget Android handset the Smart 858 is incredibly tiny and comes for an incredibly tiny price – at £70 there’s not really much you can complain about. We found the handset to be a lightweight, compact and comfortable phone, feeling great in the hand as well as being incredibly pocket-friendly.
It runs on Android 2.2 Froyo, which although is not the most recent version of the operating system, is a great addition that can provide you with the opportunity of experiencing the latest apps and games. With the addition of Froyo the Vodafone Smart is also capable of being turned into a Wi-Fi hotspot or USB dongle, which is impressive for a phone of this price, and damned near perfect for students off to university.
The memory of the phone isn’t very big, however you are able to expand this up to 32GB via microSD. The media player is pretty bare bones but you are able to upload plenty of tracks from your music library onto the Smart 858.
Overall we found the Vodafone Smart 858 to be a cheap and cheerful phone and little else. We loved the fact that we could personalise our phone cover and if we’re honest it’s the ideal phone for the younger generation. It would be the ultimate schoolyard phone, so if you’re an adult professional you should steer well clear.
Vodafone has a lot of low cost phones but certainly practical as they are highly usable are available mostly in Vodafone Smart 858 contracts. It's best to check the web occasionally and you might be able to get a free Vodafone Smart 858 cashback offer which is a better deal than on the high streets.
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