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Digital Solitude

eamonnq wrote: »

Newer chips are less power-hungry I think ?

Pushing a 5" screen though, it's not very much battery

Digital Solitude

eamonnq wrote: »

Newer chips are less power-hungry I think ?

Pushing a 5" screen though, it's not very much battery

Iseedeadpixels

eamonnq wrote: »

Newer chips are less power-hungry I think ?

Ive found its the other way round, hence why I went through 3 different phones until I stopped on the THL 5000, snapdragon processors are the best for consumption.

eamonnq

I had a ULEFONE BE PRO for a while and found the battery life was excellent, 5.5inch screen with a 2600ma battery. Am currently using a TCL M2U which has a 3500mah battery (5.5in screen) and again the battery life is great.

Iseedeadpixels

eamonnq wrote: »

I had a ULEFONE BE PRO for a while and found the battery life was excellent, 5.5inch screen with a 2600ma battery. Am currently using a TCL M2U which has a 3500mah battery (5.5in screen) and again the battery life is great.

What processors have they got?

eamonnq

MT6752M on the TCL M2U, MT6732 on the Ulefone.

pajor

I know the infamous Mediatek GPS issues been fixed for the latest chips, but does that include quad core?

messinkiapina

Trying to decide between the meizu m2 and the Vodafone smart prime ultra... Which is the better phone?

pajor

messinkiapina wrote: »

Trying to decide between the meizu m2 and the Vodafone smart prime ultra... Which is the better phone?

Comparing the two on gsmarena.com, there's hardly anything between the 2 on paper. Except for the Meizu being dual sim.

But with the Vodafone you can just walk into a shop and get one!

ED E

Any recommendations for Chinese handsets with LTE-A (300Mbps vs 150Mbps)? I might have use of an LTE-A service soon and may as well make the most of it.

Digital Solitude

http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/zuk-z1-2861

Backed by Lenovo
Snapdragon 801
3gb RAM
64gb ROM
Lollipop
13mp and 8mp cameras
4100mah battery

Digi wants one.

International version goes on sale at the end of the month!

CantGetNoSleep

Digital Solitude wrote: »

http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/zuk-z1-2861

Backed by Lenovo
Snapdragon 801
3gb RAM
64gb ROM
Lollipop
13mp and 8mp cameras
4100mah battery

Digi wants one.

International version goes on sale at the end of the month!

Any idea how much?

horse7

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Any idea how much?

No radio?

horse7

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Any idea how much?

478euro a bit steep at igogo.es

CantGetNoSleep

horse7 wrote: »

478euro a bit steep at igogo.es

I'd go for it at 300 or so but don't think it is worth it for that

Iseedeadpixels

Looking like phone companies are starting to put better batteries in the phones, I wont touch anything below 3000 and even then they can be crap.

Harika

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Any idea how much?

280 bucks - http://www.androidauthority.com/zuk-z1-affordable-633054/ but will be hard to get as only for the chinese market.

Digital Solitude

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Any idea how much?

$286 so close to €300 I'd say

Harika

Aliexpress has it on preorder for 275 Euro.

Digital Solitude

Harika wrote: »

Aliexpress has it on preorder for 275 Euro.

So it'll be roughly that. There's an international version at the end of the month, sold from Zuks website

Padraig Mor

stevenmu wrote: »

I got a K3 last week, and from reading around it's always recommended to flash a new ROM. Apparently the default Chinese ROMs come with some malware built in, and many shops load their own on top of that too.

I flashed it to the latest international ROM (ROW) which is supposedly malware free, and it works great.

Really is an amazing phone for €150.

Hi steven, do you have a link for that ROM please? I have the K3 Note several weeks at this stage and I'm generally happy with it. However, there was a lot of bloat / malware on it - whether this was loaded by Lenovo or Antelife I don't know. I eventually got rid of most of it and battery life shot up. However, there is still the frequent annoyance of SyncIt popping up reminders (**** off I don't want you!). Then the other day something popped up just as I went to tap something in Facebook and I ended up tapping that instead (no, really!) with the result that I now get pop up 'girly' ads in Facebook as well as similar apps installing. And they keep installing even when I delete them. A few other apps also regularly re-install themselves, without my permission. From what I've seen, AOSP seems popular but I've also heard this can be bundled with malware. There is a CyanogenMod ROM available but I've heard it's unstable. So any reliable, malware free ROM is welcome!

Bacon and Cabbage

Howye lads, customs sent me out a letter there, they want to see the purchase invoice so they can add on Import duties. The phone cost $220, how much am I likely to have to pay?

Digital Solitude

Bacon and Cabbage wrote: »

Howye lads, customs sent me out a letter there, they want to see the purchase invoice so they can add on Import duties. The phone cost $220, how much am I likely to have to pay?

About €27

digitaldr

Still waiting for my K3 - will be flashing a new ROM as soon as I get it. Lots of good info here (checkout the wiki) and here and this guy has a video about malware removal & a couple of other K3 ones too.

Bacon and Cabbage

ah not too bad so

Bacon and Cabbage

They emailed me back there, 52 ****ing euros

Digital Solitude

Bacon and Cabbage wrote: »

They emailed me back there, 52 ****ing euros

Ask them how thats been calculated

Nonoperational

The VAT alone is 23%. Sounds about right to me.

Bacon and Cabbage

Yeah 23% vat + 7 euro "an post fee". Bollox anyway, ordered from some lad on aliexpress who was recommended here as being vat free. Luck of the draw I suppose! Live and learn

Digital Solitude

Ah crap yeah, I subtracted the dollar price instead of the euro one Sorry Bacon

Tell the seller you were caught for vat and see what he says