Kogan Agora Pro indefinitely delayed for Android incompatibilities

I was impressed with the Blackberry-like Kogan Agora when it was first announced. Unlike the G1, it wasn't an ungainly brick of a phone slapped on top of Google's hot new OS. It had lines and curves and QWERTY, with reasonably impressive specs: a 2.5 inch touchscreen, 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS... powered by a 624MHz processor and 128MB of RAM. All good.

Or, rather, all not so good. The Kogan Agora designers appear not to have read the Android spec docs particularly carefully before designing their phone. According to Ruslan Kogan, they discovered that the Agora's 2.5-inch touchscreen was too small and not high resolution enough to ensure future Android compatibility with all apps... days before they started shipping orders out. Jeez, guys.

Back to the drawing board. If you ordered a Kogan, don't fret: your money will be refunded in full. Let's hope the next Agora design actually gets to market... it still looks like a great little phone.

Kogan Agora, the Australian Android Phone, Delayed Indefinitely [Gizmodo]

[#1 posted by zuzu , January 16, 2009 1:32 PM]

According to Ruslan Kogan, they discovered that the Agora's 2.5-inch touchscreen was too small and not high resolution enough to ensure future Android compatibility with all apps... days before they started shipping orders out.

So, what happens to all those manufactured phones sitting in warehouses?