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hello tech fans I'm Luke we're straight to see net here at Mobile World Congress in 2014 checking out a smartphone with a unique twist on Android it's the Emporia Emporia smart let's take a look so the idea with this phone has been to make it as simple as possible it's running Android version of 4.3 but you wouldn't know it to look at it because it's been so heavily customized the interface as you can see it's just these really simple blocks and I'm told that this phone was built on the premise of what you press is what you get so for example if I tap the battery you get a little in-depth analysis of how much power is left and if I press over here on the signal you get a little breakdown of that as well it comes with a stylus and it also has hardware keys along the bottom here for call answering and for ending your calls if I spin it round on to the side you can see here there's a button with a little light bulb on it and what that does is trigger the flash so that you can use the phone as a flashlight so some nice touches then and another one is this plastic prong on the end of the charging cable now what that means is that you're not able to plug the microUSB prong in the wrong way apart from that you get a 4.5 inch screen with a 640 by 560 pixel resolution it's got an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a 1 megapixel camera on the front it has a 1.2 gigahertz quad-core processor - so it should be reasonably powerful it's gonna cost 200 euros when it comes out in Europe towards the end of this year I'm told that there are plans for us launch but it's not going to happen in 2014 what do you think of the Android customization and are you tempted to buy let me know and check out cnet.com for loads more from mobile or Congress 2014 you