Compared to many Android phones released at the time it was relatively low cost - originally selling for £185 in the UK, the Pulse achieved a minimum price of £19.99 + £10 top up on PAYG before being discontinued in April 2011.

The Pulse was originally released with Android 1.5 heavily customized and branded by T-Mobile.

It came with its own Home screen app, as well as various non-stock applications, including Documents To Go and RoadSync from DataViz.

[5] Official firmware from the manufacturer, have been independently released by As of June 2010, T-Mobile has provided some firmware releases for the Pulse:[6] It is possible to root the Pulse, using software developed by the Android community.

[9] Several custom ROMs have been created adding various features, including EXT2/3/4 file system support and Busybox pre-installation.