Android phone question

[Steve G.]

Only marginally Linux related.

I recently returned for a long stay and quickly realized my phone does not
speak Hebrew - SMS is reduced to numbers, commas and periods. Well, it was
not a smart phone to begin with, and the culture shock just killed it.

So I am thinking switching my Orange number to a new phone, perhaps an
older model (cheaper, that's why - I don't want a phone that would make my
laptop jealous). I won't do apple, as they are too restrictive in what they
let me do. I may do minor app development - I am not a coder, but still
would like to be able to share waypoints from the GPS through an online
database with other people, so I may write something that can do that, in a
few years... Or play with other easy things to code, perhaps.

I hear Samsung Galaxy 2 is good, but I don't know if it has a GPS or
whether programming for it is the same as for the later models (can it take
the latest dessert-OS from Google?) - any better suggestions?

Any recommended calling plan (remember, the 054 number probably limits me
to Orange)? Any way to do it without breaking the bank?

Thanks,

Z.
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