Orange San Diego Intel Android mobile phone review From free on a £15.50 24-month contract The San Diego looks like many other Apple-inspired mobile phones, but inside it is a unique and special beast. This is the debut European mobile with Intel inside. Exclusive to Orange, and originally announced as the Santa Clara, the first thing you notice when you turn on the San Diego is the network's logo, followed by Intel's classy equivalent. After that, however, consumers need never know what chip powers the device. Indeed, this is a mid-range phone where cheaper equivalents are available, such as Huawei's perfectly decent G300. Intel's initial aims are modest. The San Diego does, however, bode well for the future. While its battery life is not exceptional, it is better than average for an Android smartphone. This means it lasts the day in my very unscientific tests of using it for nearly a week, and although it has a single core processor it runs Android Gingerbread more than adequately. An update to Ice Cream Sandwich is apparently coming later in the year. The phone also comes with an 8mp camera that offers a "burst mode" to take 10 shots in a single second. Although colours indoors were somewhat washed out, the device is better than many of its peers, and the screen on the phone is excellent. With 16GB of memory, a matte black casing and 1080p video, it would be easy to say the San Diego is just another phone of its type. But it's a particularly good example, in part thanks to HSPA+ networking allowing fast data download speeds, and it shows just how seriously Intel is taking its push to get into the mobile market. If Intel can do a top-of-the-range phone as well as it does this mid-market model, then established manufacturers should note the arrival of a new challenger. Specifications: 123 x 63 x 9.9 mm 117g 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor 8 megapixel camera 4.03" touchscreen Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) internal flash memory 16GB HD video recording