Kogan to ship cut-price Agora 50 Android phablet in February

Australian hardware maker Kogan has announced a low-cost five-inch Android phone. Dubbed the <a href="http://macnn.com/rd/277051==http://www.kogan.com/ii/buy/agora-50-dual-core-smartphone/" rel='nofollow'>Agora 50</a>, the phablet is claimed by company founder Ruslan Kogan to be a way for to "make technology more affordable for everyone," and manages to pack a budget handset's specifications list into a phone that is a quarter of the price of the Samsung Galaxy Note II. <br />
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Powered by a 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor with 512MB of RAM, the Agora 50 has a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing version, while its 4GB of internal storage is supported by a microSD card slot. Running on Ice Cream Sandwich, the Agora also manages to offer support for dual SIM cards, and houses a 2,000 mAh battery.

The Agora 50 is available to pre-order from Kogan's website for $150 internationally and &pound;120 <a href="http://macnn.com/rd/277052==http://www.kogan.com/uk/buy/agora-50-dual-core-smartphone/" rel='nofollow'>in the UK</a>, and expects to ship on February 14th.