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iPhone Clone €100ish
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05-11-2007 5:42am#1Someone sold one of these on adverts the other day so i thought i'd let you guys know of this place www.dealextreme.com
I've order 4 things off them already, and everything has arrived quickly enough.
Everything on the site is free shipping.
Anyway heres the iPhone clone, it works out at around €100 shipped
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5179
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7820
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edit: And what the hells this nonsense about the iPhone not supporting MMS? Surely that could not be true...
Looking at reviews (example: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/apple-iphone-8gb-at/4505-6452_7-32309245.html )
it seems that there is NO MMS support alright. You have to take your pic and attach it to an e-mail to send. Also, no 3G. Only certain songs purchased from itunes can be used as ringtones (Songs ripped from CD CANNOT be used)
Looks like the dog's bo**ocks....... SEEMS to be ACTUAL bo**ocks....... imo 0 -
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Fighting Irish wrote: »
Same here, i know i'll only use it for a few days but still
Which shipping did you use? Whats the difference?0 -
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howdy all
I bought one of these phones about a month ago (am using it on meteor but tested it fine on vodafone and 02 (no 3g test)[ I did a good bit of research on it beforehand and wasnt altogether impressed with it but went ahead and bought it anyway. I posted a review link of it below.
http://cectp168.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=668
Ok… heres my take on the cect phone.
First, a small bit of background to show where I was coming from. I am an Irish user, Mid-20s who has used an n-gage for the last few years. I like the n-gage, particularly for two reasons 1. Nokia is really easy to use, chargers are everywhere 2. I love the symbian OS i.e. that you can choose from a wide variety of software available.
The phone took approx 5 days to arrive in Ireland. I can confirm that it works with both meteor and Vodafone, no confirmation on 02 yet. The phone arrives partially charged whereby you just hold the red hangup button for approx. 20 seconds to turn it on (be warned it can be loud depending on where you are). First impressions of the phone were very good, solid build etc. I won’t go into detail on that as I feel it has been covered in other posts.
The first thing I tried to do was place a call, that was no problem, you simply tap the phone icon at the bottom of the screen and type in your number (You can record phone calls using the In-call options menu). The hands free was clear enough too. I would argue that reception is not as good as with the ngage as where I would normally get a signal no problem with the ngage, I was having a problem with the p168. It also notes when you are “roaming”, i.e. where you are handed off to Vodafone or O2 by the appearance of a small icon at the top of the screen. I would argue also that since this device’s primary use is as a phone, they really should have made the phone icon at the bottom of the screen significantly bigger or at least put it in the corner. That was my second impression of the phone, i.e. not well thought through as I figured something like that would be obvious enough.
If you use the phonebook (or any other interface) requiring scrolling to find what you are looking for, be weary as the scroll bars can be very small if using your fingers. I realise that the stylus is available for such things but I feel you should be able to use one or the other at any give time and shouldn’t have to flick back and forth.
The second thing I tried to do was send a text message…. Using the touch screen to type a message is definitely different. The keyboard for example is QWERTY and the keys are tiny but I can see myself getting faster with practise. You have the option of writing on screen using hand writing recognition and that’s not bad but I’m just going to talk about the onscreen keyboard. One annoying thing is when you add numbers to a message ie. meet at 730 you have to go to a different screen. This in itself is fine as you would have to do that on any phone but to get back to the text screen you have to cycle through approx half dozen other keyboard layouts to get back to your original. Granted a lot of the keyboards are very similar in layout but the point here is consistency. The user should really be allowed to define one layout in the settings and go with that rather than have to jump through german, arabic, chinese. e tc.
The imageviewer built in is a nice feature allowing you to look at photos but that seems to be just about it. You cannot zoom in or turn the image to landscape, it only displays portrait. Also, there is no onscreen menu for moving through images (even if it was semi transparent it would be brilliant). You can however resize photos, add frames, save etc
There is a feature to record sound on the phone but I have not tested that yet.
The headphones are very bad so be prepared to use the loudspeakers if you want to listen to music.
On the upside, the phone can quickly navigate through menus (i realise this is subjective as i had come from a bloated ngage background , no noticeable delay. The screen is pretty amazing re quality. The dual sim is brilliant as it displays the sim card (1 OR 2) and the name of the carrier. The phone is very cool and is definitely a conversation starter. One caveat I will give to anyone reading this, is that I have the phone two days so I am still relatively new to it and am open to any corrections anyone might have. What I am attempting to do is 1. Inform people as best I can for what my hopes and concerns were (see background above) and 2. to encourage the designers/manufacturers of the phone to incorporate some of these features (where possible) into any future versions.
I believe by all means in borrowing the style of the iphone i.e. touchscreen etc as that is probably the direction that phones are heading in but trading on its name without offering comparable service and features is a different story. My ultimate advice (take it or leave it) regarding this phone is not to pay a bundle for it ie. Greater than 120-150 euros…you may be considered one of the early adaptors but if the phone is not for you then you just wasted a load of money but at least you have a PMP (portable media player) and an emergency phone if you need it.
That site has tons of other peoples reviews and ideas as well
On a side note, i have found that the reception on the phone is terrible... seriously bad.. i was in mayo and dublin 15 and couldnt get a signal in either. I bought some of those signal enhancement stickers (which seem to work well on my ngage) but not on this phone at all.
All in all, i would say buy it if you want A) a portable media player and
backup phone. The headphones that come with the phone are really really bad (if you dont believe me check out what others were saying about it above)
ps the phone arrived marked as a gift.0 -
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