Chinese Android Phones 2 - Read First Post!

SM01

The International version is on pre-order from GizChina shop now with orders being processed from the 25th September.

Including delivery it would cost me £234 (I'm in Scotland at the moment).

RossieMan

It's a pity they've used such an old processor. It's still very decent, but not worth its price for me.

Mourinho

I still can't get a verifiable source on whether the international ZUK will have band 20 for LTE

Harika

Mourinho wrote: »

I still can't get a verifiable source on whether the international ZUK will have band 20 for LTE

http://www.zuk.hk/product/c/z1/specs

delph09

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

I was looking at that but Android 4.2 and a battery of 2500 put me off.

yes, these also put me off, and I concern that not all games are applicable for its air touch function, maybe user needs to download special games from some platform.

aaronm13

Sorry in advance for a kinda stupid question but here it goes. Never had a dual Sim phone till now, have the Meizu MX5. I'm heading to the states at the weekend and will be using my American Sim. I usually just put my Irish Sim in an old phone but I haven't received my nano Sim adapter from Gearbest yet and don't fancy my chances to having it before I go. Will I be able to use my Irish Sim for just receiving texts and calls from home and then my American Sim for all calls text and data. Can't find anything in settings for bypassing my Irish Sim for everything. Meteor want 10 euro for an adapter so don't fancy shelling out that much for one but don't think I can use my phone for what I want.

RossieMan

Received my xiaomi redmi note 2 yesterday. After a few hours using it, seriously impressed with it performance wise. Very light phone for the size of it. Camera is good enough for me, wouldn't be a major point for me when buying a phone. GPS was shocking on my first run out, I've tweaked a few things so will try again this evening. Will give a proper review after a few days use.

delph09

RossieMan wrote: »

Received my xiaomi redmi note 2 yesterday. After a few hours using it, seriously impressed with it performance wise. Very light phone for the size of it. Camera is good enough for me, wouldn't be a major point for me when buying a phone. GPS was shocking on my first run out, I've tweaked a few things so will try again this evening. Will give a proper review after a few days use.

wow, great, wait for your review, how about the performance of MTK6795 processor and MIUI 7

RossieMan

It's seriously impressive. Faster than anything I've ever had. I've got the 2.2ghz model. Haven't put miui 7 on it yet, running some sort of modified stock at the minute, was the only download o could get working yesterday. The mi site is a shambles at the minute, can't even get onto it.

Redriddick

Lads,
I have a thread started here for a new dual sim phone.I had kinda ruled out a chinese one but may change my mind.I had a moto g 2nd gen but it was kinda giving me guff now and again.
Is there any phone ye would recommend??
5" screen
dual sim
4g maybe
good battery
Quick delivery as I lost the moto and have an aul acer z1 at the mo.
Cheers guys.

eamonnq

aaronm13 wrote: »

Sorry in advance for a kinda stupid question but here it goes. Never had a dual Sim phone till now, have the Meizu MX5. I'm heading to the states at the weekend and will be using my American Sim. I usually just put my Irish Sim in an old phone but I haven't received my nano Sim adapter from Gearbest yet and don't fancy my chances to having it before I go. Will I be able to use my Irish Sim for just receiving texts and calls from home and then my American Sim for all calls text and data. Can't find anything in settings for bypassing my Irish Sim for everything. Meteor want 10 euro for an adapter so don't fancy shelling out that much for one but don't think I can use my phone for what I want.

I think the settings in SIM management should allow you change it as you need.

Harika

Redriddick wrote: »

Lads,
I have a thread started here for a new dual sim phone.I had kinda ruled out a chinese one but may change my mind.I had a moto g 2nd gen but it was kinda giving me guff now and again.
Is there any phone ye would recommend??
5" screen
dual sim
4g maybe
good battery
Quick delivery as I lost the moto and have an aul acer z1 at the mo.
Cheers guys.

Maybe the ZTE Nubia http://www.androidauthority.com/nubia-z9-review-622177/ ?

Padraig Mor

Got a Lenovo K3 Note a couple of months ago and have laboured away with its crappy, malware infested, ROM since. Had good intentions to change the ROM quickly but finally got around to it a few days ago. Put on the Google Nexus 5.1 ROM and gotta say it's great! Notification LED doesn't work but no biggie. Phone flies - and no annoying pop ups any more!

digitaldr

I'm in the same boat - got a K5 for my son and actually tried a few ROMs that I found on XDA - ended up going back to the one it shipped with as the ones I tried has even more malware! I used a root delete program to get rid of all the malware but there's still a few pop ups according to my son. The nexus 5.1 rom is tempting but don't want to loose the double tap to wake. Is the battery life better?

aaronm13

eamonnq wrote: »

I think the settings in SIM management should allow you change it as you need.

There's nothing there at the minute but maybe when the second card is inserted that type of setting becomes active. Downloaded an app called dual sim selector which seems to do what I need, won't know if it works till I get there though. Worst case scenario I'll go into a Tmobile store and get an adapter

baingal nancer

Looking at this phone as my first venture into chinese phone market, anybody recommend it

http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_204055.html?wid=3

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baingal nancer wrote: »

Looking at this phone as my first venture into chinese phone market, anybody recommend it

http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_204055.html?wid=3

You won't go wrong with xiaomi
There are a number of EU sellers as well.

baingal nancer

Steven Numerous Flare wrote: »

You won't go wrong with xiaomi
There are a number of EU sellers as well.

Cheers, i presume i can just put my 3 sim into this and fire away?

Ten Pin

baingal nancer wrote: »

Cheers, i presume i can just put my 3 sim into this and fire away?

Only thing with xiaomi is no LTE 800MHz band, they do have 1800MHz so they will work but 800 used for rural areas, see this for explanation.

Padraig Mor

digitaldr wrote: »

I'm in the same boat - got a K5 for my son and actually tried a few ROMs that I found on XDA - ended up going back to the one it shipped with as the ones I tried has even more malware! I used a root delete program to get rid of all the malware but there's still a few pop ups according to my son. The nexus 5.1 rom is tempting but don't want to loose the double tap to wake. Is the battery life better?

No double tap - but I didn't even know it had that functionality originally so won't miss it! Battery is good - unplugged about 7 hours ago and now at 90% with some moderate usage.

Iseedeadpixels

Anyone ever see this?http://merimobiles.com/lenovo-k80m-lemon-k8-5-5inch-fhd-intel-atom-z3560-32gb-lte.htm

Good battery and intel processor, I may take a punt on it.

Redriddick

WHat about the be touch 2?????

Iseedeadpixels

Redriddick wrote: »

WHat about the be touch 2?????

Keeping my options open until I get paid.

Redriddick

I still dont know,I have the following:
Be touch 2
Lenovo k3
Jiayu s3
Nubi z9 maybe.

Iseedeadpixels

Redriddick wrote: »

I still dont know,I have the following:
Be touch 2
Lenovo k3
Jiayu s3
Nubi z9 maybe.

My biggest annoyance with phones lately are the bad batteries as I now use my phone more than ever, I would have used my laptop for browsing before but not now. I might still flash a new rom on the THL 5000 freshen it up a little.

eamonnq

Slightly off-topic but relevant, the REVOLUT pre-paid credit card is very handy for purchasing from China, there are no charges applied for currency exchange so you can order in USD (prices in Euro on most websites are a bit dearer), and you can use it on Aliexpress, if you are concerned about giving them your 'main' credit card details.

eamonnq

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

My biggest annoyance with phones lately are the bad batteries as I now use my phone more than ever, I would have used my laptop for browsing before but not now. I might still flash a new rom on the THL 5000 freshen it up a little.

TCL M2U

http://www.antelife.com/tcl-m2u-mtk6752m-64bit-octa-core-5-5-inch-ips-ogs-hd-screen-android-4-4-4g-lte-smartphone-white.html

:eek::eek::eek:

Redriddick

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

My biggest annoyance with phones lately are the bad batteries as I now use my phone more than ever, I would have used my laptop for browsing before but not now. I might still flash a new rom on the THL 5000 freshen it up a little.

I hear ya about the batteries although its been awhile since I had a chinese one.
I will have to pull the trigger shortly as I am going cross eyed looking st this acer z130:D:D:D:D:D

Iseedeadpixels

eamonnq wrote: »

TCL M2U

http://www.antelife.com/tcl-m2u-mtk6752m-64bit-octa-core-5-5-inch-ips-ogs-hd-screen-android-4-4-4g-lte-smartphone-white.html

:eek::eek::eek:

Great price doubt it will be the same by next wednesday :pac:

eamonnq

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Great price doubt it will be the same by next wednesday :pac:

Makes me think there must be something wrong with it!!!