You have to hand it to Kogan. You can criticise this part, or that part, of the company's self-branded products (and we will in the full review, no doubt) but at the end of the day, very few can delivery decent technology products as cheaply.For the price (UK£119/US$154/AU$149), we weren't 100-percent sure of the quality of product we were to see when the Agora phone landed on our desk. Kogan has dabbled in tablets before now, and the results have been mixed. Early efforts were dismal, with too many corners cut to make them worth your time or money. But more recent tablets have managed to surprise us.Take NoteThe Agora 5-inch phone is perhaps the best surprise yet. For a third of the price you'd pay to buy a first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note, you get a smartphone which is remarkably similar. And by that, we mean a near carbon copy.For better or worse, the Agora looks and feels nearly identical to the first Note. It has a very similar textured battery cover, similar button placement, and a very familiar face with two soft-buttons either side of a mechanical home button. One important difference is the size and quality of the screen, though. At 5-inches diagonally, the screen on the Agora is slightly smaller than the Note, but when comparing the quality of the screens, the two phones are leagues apart, especially given that the Agora has a much lower 800x600 pixel resolution. If you are looking to maintain two phone accounts simultaneously though, on
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