Well what do we have here? Yes, it's the [Orange San Diego][3] we [first saw][4] at [Mobile World Congress][5] and it's going on sale in the UK today for £200. This isn't just yet another Android smartphone, but one of the first Medfield-based handsets on the market. We caught this pre-production unit chilling out at the Intel booth here at [Computex 2012][6] and decided to go up close and personal. First impressions? It's thin, light and feels great in the hand thanks to a pleasant soft-touch back. The [Gigabyte][7]-made device packs a 4-inch glass-capacitive 1024x600-pixel LCD (that's 300dpi), an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z2460 CPU, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage.
While the screen looks decent enough, it falls somewhere in the middle of the pack in terms of contrast and viewing angles. The phone features Android 2.3.7 ([Gingerbread][8]) and runs most apps from the [Google Play store][9] directly via an emulation layer. Performance was on-par with current mid-range ARM-based Android handsets -- the experience was mostly smooth, but we noticed some lag when scrolling and zooming pages in the web browser. Battery life remains a mystery and the major outsanding question when it comes to Medfield handsets, so expect more details once we have our very own review unit. In the meantime, check out the gallery below and stay tuned for our hands-on video.
**Gallery: [Orange San Diego hands-on][10]**
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[Orange San Diego Medfield phone: a closer look at Computex 2012][2] originally appeared on [Engadget][21] on Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:05:00 EDT. Please see our [terms for use of feeds][22].
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