Vodafone launches the £50 Smart Mini

By Alex Dobie
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Vodafone UK has just launched a new smartphone for the budget-conscious, and it's available for just £50 on PAYG with no subscription. The Vodafone Smart Mini packs vanilla Android (Jelly Bean) UI onto a 3.5-inch HVGA (320x480) display, running on a 1GHz single-core MediaTek CPU. That's backed up by 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and a microSD slot. Around the back there's a 2-megapixel camera. 

So the Vodafone Smart Mini isn't going to win any awards for cutting-edge technology, but it is impressive that you can pick up a fully functional (if basic) smartphone for a tenth of the cost of the latest high-enders. The Smart Mini will be available from Vodafone.co.uk (opens in new tab) later today in black and white, with a pink version to follow.

Alex Dobie
Alex Dobie
Executive Editor

Alex was with Android Central for over a decade, producing written and video content for the site, and served as global Executive Editor from 2016 to 2022.

2 Comments
  • Nice to see that you don't have to be rich to have a smartphone. Damn that thing is faster then my old phone. (Galaxy Ace)I will probably recommend that to my grandparents as they are looking for a good cheap phone.
  • its an alcatel sPop smartphone, its a really good phone, a real bang for the buck.