Drakhyrr: Plus they may be useful when I actually get a gaming-capable android phone.
With Android phones, at least the cheap ones, you never know for sure what you are getting.
I bought two cheapo Chinese Android phones early January, ZTE Blade and Huawei U8800. They were in the same price range, about 100€ here, albeit I had to pay more for the ZTE. They are both currently running Android 2.3.5 (beta on Huawei, newest they have on their home page currently).
At first I thought they are pretty much the same featurewise, but in the end the Huawei clearly wins especially for Android gamers:
- All the Android games I've tried so far work on the Huawei device great, including all the games in the earlier Humble Android Bundle, and e.g. Minecraft Pocket Edition demo I got from Google Play (formerly known as Android Market).
- On ZTE Blade, e.g. Osmos and World of Goo crashed upon launch from the earlier bundle, and Minecraft demo was apparently not working either. Other games in the bundle seemed to work fine.
- Besides gaming, I noticed only later that ZTE Blade didn't even have a flash for the camera, while Huawei U8800 does.
So all in all, if you are looking for a cheapo Android phone, I can wholeheartedly recommend Huawei U8800, but not ZTE Blade. For some freaky reason I've read mostly praises for ZTE Blade before so I personally thought it would be superior of the two. In fact I bought the Huawei only because the store had run out of SIM-free ZTE Blades, so I got Huawei instead. Now I wish I would have gotten two of them.