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Fortunately I did not wait for Kogan’s Agora but got a Nokia E71 instead. APC Mag: Second Google Android phone — Kogan Agora — “Delayed Indefinitely”, due to some technical short-sightness in Agora’s design, i.e. its QVGA screen, which might not be compatible with future Android applications. That leaves HTC/T Mobile’s G1 as the only [...]

It’s all over the news yesterday and today. Kogan, a relatively-small electronics shop in Melbourne famous for re-branded cheap Chinese goods, has pre-released their Google Android powered mobile phone. It can now be ordered online but won’t be shipping until late Jan 2009. There will be two models: Kogan Agora for AUD$299, and Kogan Agora [...]