Android-powered Kogan Agora meets Mr. Blurrycam on way to CES debut

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jan 5th 2009 at 10:42PM

Okay, yes, we were mad skeptical that the Agora would ever see the light of day, and you know what? This is one situation where we're absolutely delighted to be proven wrong. Kogan's homegrown Android handset just got pictured in the wild -- the first time we've seen anything but a render -- on its way to a supposed CES debut. Rest assured: if it's really going to be meandering around Vegas this week, we will hunt it down.

Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android

Tags: agora, android, breaking news, BreakingNews, ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, kogan

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Alex @ Jan 5th 2009 10:50PM

The image on the screen is not aligned with the actual screen border. WTF?

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Student Driver @ Jan 6th 2009 9:49AM

The icon on the desktop doesn't look like it's properly aligned either; like the text is partially below that mirrored border. Strange.

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jd @ Jan 5th 2009 11:35PM

Are you talking about how it looks like there's stuff on the bottom of the screen? That's the apps tab and when in landscape mode like that you have to draw your finger up to show the other applications.

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Vuki @ Jan 7th 2009 12:40AM

Just to confirm, the Kogan Agora in these pictures is in fact a pre-production model. The production model will have a black bezel, not the silver that you can see here.

You should be able to see some video footage of it in use running Android very shortly. Stay tuned!

Vuki
Media representative for Kogan Technologies

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chicco @ Jan 7th 2009 6:41AM

Its not aligned cause that is the sliding menu that has poped out from the left :) You hit that arrow tab and it will slide back. Thats how it is on even the android emu. Need a device....

Speaking about Slide'ing.. everyone (globally) should be able to buy/download apps via their SAM from SlideME.org by next week as they are opening up their store internationally. Just hope we start seeing more apps being developed.