Chinese Android Phones

rovoagho · 27-03-2014 9:13pm

You might as well be comparing a duck with a flock of geese.

seanin4711 · 27-03-2014 9:42pm

love my a830 but this could be the one to take me to octocore.
http://www.etotalk.com/lenovo-a850_p5571.html
yes baby yes!
cameras might be a tad low spec,but what a price!

tallaghtmick · 27-03-2014 9:51pm

seanin4711 wrote: »

love my a830 but this could be the one to take me to octocore.
http://www.etotalk.com/lenovo-a850_p5571.html
yes baby yes!
cameras might be a tad low spec,but what a price!

ooooh just a tad too big

seanin4711 · 27-03-2014 9:53pm

tallaghtmick wrote: »

ooooh just a tad too big

a830 is 5inch this is 5.5.
or this
http://www.etotalk.com/thl-w200s_p5342.html

or even better
http://www.etotalk.com/elephone-p9_p5458.html

might as well spend the extra
I think this ticks all boxes

http://www.etotalk.com/zopo-zp980-32g_p5022.html

review of latter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y01Bp8Zlb-E

eamonnq · 27-03-2014 10:39pm

MT6592M is 1.4ghz octacore, MT6592 is 1.7ghz.

I would be inclined to go with the W200S (8mp camera as well) 32gb ROM, and better screen (for 20 dollars extra).

tallaghtmick · 27-03-2014 10:53pm

seanin4711 wrote: »

a830 is 5inch this is 5.5.
or this
http://www.etotalk.com/thl-w200s_p5342.html

or even better
http://www.etotalk.com/elephone-p9_p5458.html

might as well spend the extra
I think this ticks all boxes

http://www.etotalk.com/zopo-zp980-32g_p5022.html

review of latter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y01Bp8Zlb-E

I know but I find anything over 5 inches too big.

rovoagho · 27-03-2014 10:57pm

That's what she said.

seanin4711 · 27-03-2014 10:59pm

rovoagho wrote: »

That's what she said.

Oh a side note, 5-6 inch would be the standard screen size for any octocores I have seen.

Barr · 27-03-2014 11:03pm

There seems to be a trend to phones over 5" screens at the moment. I would have to agree that anything over 5" is just too big for a phone.

eamonnq · 27-03-2014 11:11pm

Barr wrote: »

There seems to be a trend to phones over 5" screens at the moment. I would have to agree that anything over 5" is just too big for a phone.

I think the 6 inch is fine, not too big at all. (That is also what she said).

Takes a little getting used to, but don't think I would go down (in size!!)

seanin4711 · 27-03-2014 11:12pm

Barr wrote: »

There seems to be a trend to phones over 5" screens at the moment. I would have to agree that anything over 5" is just too big for a phone.

To get octocore smaller than 5 inch

tallaghtmick · 27-03-2014 11:52pm

seanin4711 wrote: »

To get octocore smaller than 5 inch

Jiayu G4 octa core is coming soon 4.7 inch

tallaghtmick · 28-03-2014 12:48am

Has anyone here flashed gapps before? I flashed it there, it said it was a success but no play store or anything

abarkie · 28-03-2014 12:53am

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Jiayu G4 octa core is coming soon 4.7 inch

Have you got a link please

tallaghtmick · 28-03-2014 1:18am

abarkie wrote: »

Have you got a link please

Its not out yet,somebody posted a link a few pages back.

seannash · 28-03-2014 11:58am

seanin4711 wrote: »

love my a830 but this could be the one to take me to octocore.
http://www.etotalk.com/lenovo-a850_p5571.html
yes baby yes!
cameras might be a tad low spec,but what a price!

Wouldnt be convinced to be honest.
Screen resolution isn't the best (Probably acceptable)
Dont think you'll see much overall difference in performance with a octacore phone with 1gig of ram versus an quad core with 2 gigs of Ram
Camera is pretty poor

Barr · 28-03-2014 12:28pm

5MP camera on an octocore phone – I thought it was a mistake when I read it first :eek:

Lenovo should be doing far better. They seem to be one step behind these days.

Barr · 28-03-2014 12:31pm

Ibood have the Acer Liquid E3 Duo dualsim on offer at the moment. No import taxes through them. Not bad value I guess.

http://www.ibood.com/ie/en/product_specs/46097/Acer_Liuid_E3_Duo_dualsim_smartphone_with_front_camera_with_LED_flash/

90sBla · 28-03-2014 2:31pm

I wish i had the money for that ibood offer right now. I just received this after opening a dispute on aliexpress:

Emily Wang
Thu Mar 27 23:27:54 PDT 2014
Dear friend.

Sorry for the shipping delay.

We had send your parcel out and the status of it will update online once it pass the customs.

Please be more patient, you will get it soon.

Hope you can cancel the dispute for us, we will appreciate for your friendly action.

Regards.

Billy-ETstar

Does this mean customs in Dublin have it and I have to wait for a letter from them demanding I pay X amount? New to this process.

tallaghtmick · 28-03-2014 2:49pm

90sBla wrote: »

I wish i had the money for that ibood offer right now. I just received this after opening a dispute on aliexpress:

Emily Wang
Thu Mar 27 23:27:54 PDT 2014
Dear friend.

Sorry for the shipping delay.

We had send your parcel out and the status of it will update online once it pass the customs.

Please be more patient, you will get it soon.

Hope you can cancel the dispute for us, we will appreciate for your friendly action.

Regards.

Billy-ETstar

Does this mean customs in Dublin have it and I have to wait for a letter from them demanding I pay X amount? New to this process.

Sounds confusing....but seems to be the case that when customs get it you'll know.

eamonnq · 28-03-2014 3:05pm

90sBla wrote: »

I wish i had the money for that ibood offer right now. I just received this after opening a dispute on aliexpress:

Emily Wang
Thu Mar 27 23:27:54 PDT 2014
Dear friend.

Sorry for the shipping delay.

We had send your parcel out and the status of it will update online once it pass the customs.

Please be more patient, you will get it soon.

Hope you can cancel the dispute for us, we will appreciate for your friendly action.

Regards.

Billy-ETstar

Does this mean customs in Dublin have it and I have to wait for a letter from them demanding I pay X amount? New to this process.

I think this means it has not passed customs in China, they check parcels before releasing them for delivery outside the country, once DHL get it you should be able to track it.

They could just be stalling also.

Lucas Hood · 28-03-2014 3:11pm

Can never seem to get these chinese phones to work with an Aux in cable in the car. Annoying.

Stallingrad · 28-03-2014 3:13pm

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Can never seem to get these chinese phones to work with an Aux in cable in the car. Annoying.

My Xiaocai and Zopo both work fine.

90sBla · 28-03-2014 3:15pm

8 days is a long time to spend in their customs especially as delivery said 5-8 days to ireland. i'll email back and post reply if i have any luck

Riesen_Meal · 28-03-2014 5:25pm

Having my doubts about the oul Chinese phones these days, long story short, got my missus a Jiayu G3ST there a while back, phone going grand other than the ****ty GPS, one morning we woke up to 10 emails from Play Store saying thank you for your purchase at 5am!

We were asleep and had not purchased anything!

Someone obviously got her gmail login details from one of the apps on the phone, my suspicions was the (MTKTool app) logged into play store on her account and bought 500 us dollars worth of gold coins for some Chinese game... :O

Luckily, the card she had on there was an old one and had since expired, so they put someone else's details there and made the purchase...

I would say if her card had not been expired then they would have used her card...

Got onto Google who were quick enough to sort it in fairness, after that we enabled 2 step verification on her account and it happened again 3 or 4 days later....

That was the last straw so I flashed a new ROM onto it and its been fine since, but just a word of warning for Chinese phone enthusiasts... :-)

tallaghtmick · 28-03-2014 5:40pm

Fieldog wrote: »

Having my doubts about the oul Chinese phones these days, long story short, got my missus a Jiayu G3ST there a while back, phone going grand other than the ****ty GPS, one morning we woke up to 10 emails from Play Store saying thank you for your purchase at 5am!

We were asleep and had not purchased anything!

Someone obviously got her gmail login details from one of the apps on the phone, my suspicions was the (MTKTool app) logged into play store on her account and bought 500 us dollars worth of gold coins for some Chinese game... :O

Luckily, the card she had on there was an old one and had since expired, so they put someone else's details there and made the purchase...

I would say if her card had not been expired then they would have used her card...

Got onto Google who were quick enough to sort it in fairness, after that we enabled 2 step verification on her account and it happened again 3 or 4 days later....

That was the last straw so I flashed a new ROM onto it and its been fine since, but just a word of warning for Chinese phone enthusiasts... :-)

She could have had a virus on the phone.

Stallingrad · 28-03-2014 5:50pm

tallaghtmick wrote: »

She could have had a virus on the phone.

What's a good way to check?

Riesen_Meal · 28-03-2014 7:01pm

tallaghtmick wrote: »

She could have had a virus on the phone.

No such thing as a "proper" virus on android phone, ive worked in phone repair for years and I've only ever seen a virus once, a Bluetooth one on an old Nokia been rooting and flashing androids since 1.6 and have yet to see one other than an app that did similar to it, there dodgy software installed definitely preinstalled....

horse7 · 29-03-2014 8:55pm

Looking at this one http://www.etotalk.com/lenove-a850-white_p5515.html lenovo850, just some questions,can i stick my o2 sim in it without any unlocking?(is it already unlocked, or do i need to buy unlock and root) . I think i have to buy google play store,and then i should be able to get apps like skype etc. Why would i need etotalk mod rom? and when my rom is full ,from updates etc will the sd card be sufficent for storage, aslo can i move apps from internal memory to sd card? thanks. cost plus 27$ to post.

pauleoin · 29-03-2014 11:42pm

horse7 wrote: »

Looking at this one http://www.etotalk.com/lenove-a850-white_p5515.html lenovo850, just some questions,can i stick my o2 sim in it without any unlocking?(is it already unlocked, or do i need to buy unlock and root) . I think i have to buy google play store,and then i should be able to get apps like skype etc. Why would i need etotalk mod rom? and when my rom is full ,from updates etc will the sd card be sufficent for storage, aslo can i move apps from internal memory to sd card? thanks. cost plus 27$ to post.

Most Chinese phones come from the manufactuer with roms that have a lot of Chinese Apps & text characters, the etotalk rom removes the majority of these and replaces them with English (other languages available to select) Apps & text characters. The etotalk rom also roots the phone although this is easy to do with Android. Google play is a free app and came installed on mine.

The phone will come unlocked for any network (you may require a different sim from your network depending on what type you have, this is normally free).

You can buy a micro sd card from etotalk or you can get one from a local supplier, if you have to pay customs charges the value of the card and any other accesories you purchase from etotalk will be part of their cost calculations.

You can use a free app called link2sd to move apps to a micro sd card, info on that here: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/guide-on-increasing-application-storage-with-link2sd/. there are also many other similar apps

I have bought twice from etotalk without problem, I would recommend paying the extra for threir rom unless you are happy to install a rom yourself, you do not need any of the other options listed except a case & you may get a better one elsewhere.

Chinese Android Phones

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