Orange is about to introduce its new Lisbon and Rio in pink mobile phones to mobile subscribers in the UK. The Orange Lisbon is an entry-level touchscreen mobile phone while the Rio is a QWERTY messaging phone which could easily qualify as a Blackberry Clone.

The Orange Lisbon comes with a touchscreen display, a 1.3 megapixel camera while the Rio in pink has a QWERTY keyboard, a 2 megapixel camera with both handset having Bluetooth, an FM Radio and support for microSD memory card. The Lisbon is available from GBP35 on pay as you go and the Rio from GBP55.

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If you are a citizen of the UK and is desperately in need of an iPhone but don’t want to go to O2, then you might be happy to hear that Orange UK has recently signed an iPhone Deal with Apple to allow it to start selling the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S in the UK.

According to Gadget Venue:

This is a great move as a number of people haven’t been too pleased with how O2 handle customer service. Also there have been a few network issues where coverage is concerned and people say they haven’t been able to get the best coverage on the O2 network. Hopefully Orange’s network will prove to be better on that front.

Orange, which has the largest 3G network covering more people in the UK than any other operator, will sell iPhone in all Orange direct channels including Orange shops, the Orange webshop and Orange telesales channels, as well as selected high street partners. A pre-registration site for customers to log their interest has been launched at www.Orange.co.uk/iPhone

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Above is a photo of the LG Watch Phone that was released a few months ago. The Watch design handset is finally available from Orange, the UK mobile phone carrier for a really hefty price.

Orange has signed up to sell the Dick Tracey-inspired ‘watch phone’ at a staggering £1,000 per device. The Korean manufacturer unveiled the touch-screen watch phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week although photos of the phone has been available for a while from gadgets blogs all over.

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