Haier launches budget Android phone and Chinese manufacturer jumps into the Google game, the phone has a slightly small 2.8-inch touchscreen, a 2MP camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, expandable memory through microSD . The chassis looks ever-so-slightly / very like the HTC Magic, with trackball, thin function buttons and call / terminate placed in very similar positions. However, the phone is going to be slanted heavily for the budget masses, coming in at just $150, around £90, according to the stand hosts which would make it a rather affordable Android handset.

HAIER H7 BUDGET ANDROID NEW HANDSET:SPEC, INFO AND PRICE – CHEAP ANDROID FROM CHINA AROUND RM 600

The latest name to the Android game is a Chinese one, Haier, which launched its H7 phone at CommunicAsia 2009.

The new phone, which was only a mock-up on display, will apparently launch in September, although apparently only in France.

It will be packing the Android 1.5 Cupcake upgrade, although should Donut, AKA Android update 2.0 with a whole host of whizzbang features, be ready then it will stuff that under the hood instead.

Spec attack

Some preliminary specs —

- 2.8″ TFT touchscreen
- Mini USB
- WiFi / Bluetooth / FM radio
- 2.0MP camera (with an on-board flash!)
- GPRS

- Android OS 1.5 (but will ship with 2.0 if it’s available)

According to the latest news on the Web, there is at least one more mobile phone powered by Google’s Android operating system that is getting ready to see the light of the sun, namely the H7, coming from the Chinese electronics maker Haier. The device has been showcased at the CommunicAsia 2009 expo held in Singapore this week.

It seems that the new handset the company showed off at the expo is expected to come to the market with a 2.8-inch touchscreen display, while also including an FM Radio, as well as GPS receiver, Bluetooth connectivity, Wi-Fi capabilities and mini USB port, not to mention a 2-megapixel photo snapper with onboard flashlight. While only a mockup of the actual device was showed at CommunicAsia, Haier seems pretty confident that its first Android-powered mobile phone will soon come to the market.

Some more details that can be provided in regard to the new Haier H7 show that the handset should come to the market with a trackball for directional control, GPRS and, probably, EDGE connectivity. In addition, the device should also feature a microSD memory card slot for additional storage space. Unfortunately, other details on what the phone should come with were not unveiled so far.

For the time being, the company says that the smartphone will come to the market with the Android 1.5 operating system (aka Cupcake), though it might feature the Android 2.0 iteration of the platform in case it becomes available before the handset is released into the wild. At the same time, the news points towards a September launch for the Haier H7, which should happen in France, though it might hit other markets as well later on.

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