Vodafone’s 555 budget phone for Facebook lovers

Who knew Vodafone had its own OS? Today marks the launch of its super-cheap 555 handset, a QWERTY phone complete with optical trackpad, 2MP camera with flash and FM radio, sporting its very own proprietary operating system. Its main party trick is the integrated button for instant access to Facebook. The more eagle-eyed will notice it’s taken its design cues from HTC’s ChaCha – silver and white body, QWERTY keyboard, dedicated Facebook button etc.

With no 3G or Wi-Fi aboard this ship, you’ll have to make do with EDGE data speeds. Perfect if being frugal is your main priority, but you think you won’t be able to cope without your daily Facebook fix.

Interested? You can pick one up online for £63 on its own, or head on over to your local Vodafone store and pick up a handset for £70 with a £15 Freedom Freebee bundle for an extra 200 minutes, 600 texts and 100MB of internet use.

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home