Where to get a smartphone *NOT* under contract?

[Charles Philip Chan]

Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Something to consider about Archos: their models are cheaper, but they
> do that by cutting some corners.  Their compromises are often fairly
> reasonable, but it's worth reading the reviews and realizing that a
> number of their models have resistive (rather than capacitive) touch,
> and the screens sometimes look very bad off-angle.

I am very happy with my Archos 101[1] (capacitive touch screen) with the
developer's firmware installed, dual booting Android and Debian[2].

Charles

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/index.html?lang=en 

[2] http://www.debian-archos.com/download-debian-for-archos-gen8 

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