i bought a beautiful 1:1 galaxy s4 clone with a cheap price its name is I9500 Original Size S4.Mod edit: commercial links removed. now let me share some picture and my feelings of this mobilephone with you.
First, it is used with MTK 6589 CPU, and Quad Core, it is the trend of mobilephone in nowdays; it make the phone operate very very fast, you know a quad core phone with 140USD already make make amazing.. and it equippment with a 4.7 inch display screen, everytime when i use it to play game or watch movie, the feeling is wonderful.
Second, the important thing and which i like most is the high pixels resolution of this mobilephone,, maybe next time when you see the beatiful scene, you needn't to use your camera, only use this phone to take a photograph.
Third, the battery of this phone is 2800mAh, my phone 's standby time is 2-3days, if i play game or watch movie, it could 1-1.5 day, the battary is quite well.not like other cheap chinese android phone with cheap battery,and the phone is support with multiple languages, it uses Android 4.2 operate system.
Fourth, the price of this mobilephone is very affordable, it is high performance to price ratio, and it is 1：1 copy Samsung S4, you could use original S4 case to protect your mobiephone.i ask the seller send me a case they agree with me and the case is nice work very well.
I will make a video and upload on youtube and will share with you laterly.
These china phones areee just use and throw
Im interested in the lifespan of that phone. Probably right on the throw n go
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probably no gorilla glass
of course it isn't gorilla glass screen,such a lowest quadcore phone if the factory still offer gorilla glass screen they don't have money to earn.
well nothing better than the original devices from their manufacturer
did u manage to root it ?
how abouth sound, signal and overall audio quality, does it makes decent pictures?
I readed alot of reviews of chines phones/replicas but didn't actualy came to touch one of those, I know that the case build is with cheapest plastic(I hope it doesn't have that bad smell as all chinese plastics)
cheers for your aquirement
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does it have some os bugs ? does have any other bugs hardware/software related ?
share some of yours experience with this device
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MEDIATEK chipsets are used by many producers, along with PowerVR SGX gpu that makes pretty decent figure in syntetic benchmarks
the problem with chinese phones is that they do not have a fan group to cheer them, but many people want's the devices produced there
but that it will change in the future: HUAWEI, ZTE, XIAOMI, MEIZU and other will come in front line, Huawei and ZTE had maneged to make their own designs, not just copy of some famous with many fans phones, also Iphone design was taken from an little chinese producer,
but this doesn't state that every chinese phone made/copy is good, that is why we need you to share your experience and thougths about this one, real impresions not just first wow, it looks like SGS 4 and that is all that matters, SAMSUNG is No1 and it is because they worked theyr a..es to be in top and gather fans for theyr devices, delivering top performance and top experience and afterall it is a shame to try to make your own name by useig/copying something that is allready no 1 and belongs to someone else without theyr agreement, for free, that is named theft, but China is China and maybe they will sell more if they will manage to find theyr identity, but for now China is a copy of something else that is not them, identity crisys, pretty bad, because they have potential, and when they will face with that and feel shame maybe then will realise
I also interested with this cheap copy phone since it's compatible with original battery and case. But, another thing that I want to know is custom ROM support, root solution, spare part supplier( I have copy of S3, drop by my son and cracked touchscreen and broke the LCD - cannot find any supplier for the spare part).
For the price It may be something interesting to play with.
Did you pay customs charges ?
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Sorry for my english
How can it be 1:1 when the S4 uses a 5inch screen and this uses 4.7...
Expect the quality you pay for.. that's basically it. But I am a bit intrigue with the 2800Mah battery, if that would be compatible with the real S4 then I want one.
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brady56 said:
i bought a beautiful 1:1 galaxy s4 clone with a cheap price its name is I9500 Original Size S4.http://androidexport.com/i9500-orig...ore-47-inch-screen-single-microsim-p-553.html now let me share some picture and my feelings of this mobilephone with you.
First, it is used with MTK 6589 CPU, and Quad Core, it is the trend of mobilephone in nowdays; it make the phone operate very very fast, you know a quad core phone with 140USD already make make amazing.. and it equippment with a 4.7 inch display screen, everytime when i use it to play game or watch movie, the feeling is wonderful.
Second, the important thing and which i like most is the high pixels resolution of this mobilephone,, maybe next time when you see the beatiful scene, you needn't to use your camera, only use this phone to take a photograph.
Third, the battery of this phone is 2800mAh, my phone 's standby time is 2-3days, if i play game or watch movie, it could 1-1.5 day, the battary is quite well.not like other cheap chinese android phone with cheap battery,and the phone is support with multiple languages, it uses Android 4.2 operate system.
Fourth, the price of this mobilephone is very affordable, it is high performance to price ratio, and it is 1：1 copy Samsung S4, you could use original S4 case to protect your mobiephone.i ask the seller send me a case they agree with me and the case is nice work very well.
I will make a video and upload on youtube and will share with you laterly.
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I have very same phone it lasted almost 2 months before shutting down and not powering back up, i have to send it back to fct as soon as possible
crap like the other china phones
The attention to detail some of these fakes have can be astonishing.
Is it just me or do posts like this seem to be written by the people making these knock offs? They include a link to be sure to send everyone to their product. Chinese manufacturers trying to fool tech consumers by writing what I see as a poor excuse for a review written by an English speaking consumer who just happens to not care a thing about build quality and just wants a phone that's fast because "that's enough" for them.
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I have one too...
Google play not work, can not using hangout.
Phone storage only few MB not 2 GB. Running fast but less memory.
Can you root it? please share.
THanks
to me 1:1 means "identical" and yet this phone is smaller, has bigger bezels, looks uglier and looks very different from the s4, so i'm not sure how it's a "1:1 clone"
also not sure how long can that big-number 2800 mah battery will last
and megabytes of phone storage is enough for you to have a few songs on there
it looks similar but kinda different...interesting, but most of the time there will be poor support for the product..
any benchmarking test image you can share?
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Did you pay customs charges ?
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Sorry for my english
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no i won't.becasue most of the chinese company will know write a low value on the package and mark as a gift to help us avoid pay for tax.if you worry about it you can tell the website owner after you order it
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Yeah anyways, I was on youtube and found some guy who a touch diamond clone from this site. The phone actually looked like the touch diamond and it ran windows mobile with touch flo(I think) in his video review. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ga-D15eqw
The site also sells that Touch HD clone too, and alot of other clones including stuff running windows mobile. I might want to buy something on there one day, so I just came here to see if it's a good site.
It isn't clones but device with similar layout.
D'rath
Are these phones good?
Lied to me about Ciphone C6A CPU (really K3 360mhz)
I recently (11/17/09) purchased an iPhone clone from fastcardtech.com. After doing a good deal of research on the forums I could read (english) I decided this was a good smartphone to purchase and fastcardtech had a fairly competitive price.
Before buying the phone I sent several messages asking for more details about it and one of my big concerns was the CPU processor speed. To run Windows Mobile 6.1 app smoothly you need to have a decent CPU in your phone. At this point in time that to me would be 400mhz or faster. They assured me more than once that it comes with a Samsung 2443c 450mhz processor. And to get a CPU that fast at the price they were offering was a pretty good deal so I made the purchase. Incidentally the CPU speed is boldly advertised on their site:
http://www.fastcardtech.com/goods.php?id=2623
Phoned arrived fairly quickly from the factory in China and it came with all advertised accessories looking brand new so high scores for this company right out of the gate. I went ahead and put some of my favorite apps on the phone which include SK Tools so I could run their CPU benchmark tool. Basically it compares the phones CPU to a list of other already indexed CPUs from other phones. And guess what my CPU ends up scoring lower than the Samsung 2442 (400mhz) processor! Unsure what to make of this score I go the device information panel on the phone at it does indeed tell me I have a Samsung 2443c 450mhz inside. Still I am obviously suspicious based on the score so I decide to join a few forums in Chinese and wade through the translated threads to see what I can dig up.
After a great deal of research I uncover that pretty much everyone in China who owns a Ciphone C6 knows that it comes with a Hisilicon-K3 360mhz CPU! Unbelievably the manufacturers of this phone have blatantly modified the device info panel to mislead someone about the real CPU. So I ended up with a CPU that is not only considered inferior in quality to the Samsung CPU, but also runs almost 100mhz (25%) slower. Another trick I discovered is that some of these companies are starting to overclock the CPU inside so it will meet the expected speed advertised, but it is still not the advertised CPU inside and clearly overclocking any CPU is going to reduce its life expectancy and that of the battery.
A few of the forums I am referring to are:
http://bbs.shanzhaiji.cn/forumdisplay.php?fid=37
http://www.mobileuncle.com/forum-59-1.html
http://www.cifans.com/forum/ ( this one has an english speaking section)
What really upsets me about this whole process with fastcardtech is how willing they were to lie to me and 1000's of other customers. They post responses to the questions they are asked on the main page so everyone can read them. However they only post public responses that they WANT to be seen. This where I asked my CPU question and where they publicly responded yes it is a Samsung 2443c CPU inside. Because so many folks in China know what the real processor is in this phone I do not for a minute believe fastcardtech when they tell me they were not aware of this fact. And since they have yet to update their listings to reflect the truth about the K3 process they willingly continue to keep the lie going for profit.
BTW if anyone is interested have added a YouTube video showing how to upgrade the memory for this phone in which I also warn people about the real CPU inside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnSFL4pB2ns
In the end I did get a great smartphone but it does not run at the speed advertised and therefore will never run some of the apps I had planned on installing. And that type of blatant misrepresentation cannot go unanswered as I am certain it is happening with other phones being sold on the fastcardtech site.
At the end it goes without saying but here it comes anyway, buyer beware! Do thorough research before buying a Chinese smartphone including on sites in Chinese using a tool like Google translator.
Thanks, Mike
yes, HiSilicon Hi3611 360Mhz.. it's nice actually and i have one
DONT TRUST THE BENCHMARK ON SK TOOLS lol IT TOLD ME MY TOUCH HD HAS A LOWER INDEX SCORE THAN A HTC WIZARD WICH IS OBVIOUSLY CRAP
How's the overall performance on this phone? The only reason I like this phone is the screen size and it GPS. Does the Ciphone C6A have any screen issue? Is playback smooth for Real Video RMVB? I saw some comments on the board that the speaker sound pretty scratchy.
dadicer that is sad indeed... But as I am looking to buy a T3232+ and got to fastcardtech, searching through their listings made me want to trust them. They do have a T3232 claiming to be 624MHz, but they clearly state that it is faked by the manufacturer and runs at 460MHz. They also have another, saying it's a true PXA310 624MHz. (Here forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5198223 you can see it's in fact faster than a Fujitsu-Siemens N560 (it's a PXA270 624MHz). So, I believe it's true.
I have seen them saying the same thing about real speeds lower than claimed on other phones, too. I hope it was just the one you bought, though even that is bad!
Overall, I hope it's trustworthy enough, cause I'm gonna use it real soon... Only thing that gets on my nerves is they don't accept PayPal for $300+ orders...
C6A is the best of all.. 3.5" very smooth.. with GPS(working with garmin too ) 360Mhz with default driver.. 460Mhz with modified driver.. working with wm 6.5 28005 build.. rmvb, wmv, avi is real smooth even with 360Mhz.. yes sound is scratchy if you max out the setting in wm registry and volume unless you reduce the wm registry setting
Sunno s880
I have a sunno s880 from Fastcardtech and it is ferry basic phone.
camera is 3M pixel not 5, gps and wifi works well, comes only with wm6.5 no other software included, so i have installed SPB Mobile Shell TomTom core player and opera with runs well, littelbit slow now and then.
hardware info says it has a Marvell PXA310 cpu at 1GHz
but i don't believe that, is there a tool to check this.
case feels a bit cheap and the sound is not very loud, screen is ok a little bit dark in sunlight.
it has Marvell on 806MHz
Dirk38 said:
I have a sunno s880 from Fastcardtech and it is ferry basic phone.
camera is 3M pixel not 5, gps and wifi works well, comes only with wm6.5 no other software included, so i have installed SPB Mobile Shell TomTom core player and opera with runs well, littelbit slow now and then.
hardware info says it has a Marvell PXA310 cpu at 1GHz
but i don't believe that, is there a tool to check this.
case feels a bit cheap and the sound is not very loud, screen is ok a little bit dark in sunlight.
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You can use SKTool as stated in the 2nd post of this thread...although it was said the benchmark is not totally reliable.
Question about the phone though, does it has a light senor, proximity sensor and g-sensor/accelerometer??
do not buy clones, buy original!!!
Avoid future problems
nice phone
I bought a iphone clone from fastcardtech.com,many classmates of mine thought it is a real iphone,lol.I really like this phone.
Good site
I HAVE BOUGHT a Yophone V3 PHONE " on their website and it is a good phone
From the guys 3 days ago.
I 'm so excited abou that !!!
I like it very much.It has TOM CAT WASH SEXY
They promised to send me some gifts too,
nice site
this website is cool. I have been bought a cellphone here before. Onmatter the sales services ,shipment,quality,or price ect., are satisfactory to me. If I have some problem of the prduct, just I make a phonecall or send a message, the missionary can solve the problem for me at once.because they offer 24hours sercives
How is M 98 ?
I just see the "M 98 " of this site ,it looks nice ,I would like to read throughly understanding of this phone .Have someone ever bought this phone ?
Could you please tell me your shopping experience about it if you have bought it ?
Thanks a lot .
Yes
I just saw some nice ,cheap phones on fastcardtech.com
And they are many Android phones ,
Anyone who want to go with me?
Comparing with other sites ,this site is better .I think .
tablet
I ordered a tablet from fastcardtech.com,the price is low.it runs fast,I downloaded my games in it,I enjoy this tablet.
nice site
i got a phone from them before, at first, i worried about my phone, is it can come to my house safety? the quality is good? are they a cheater..many image on my mind. but after goting the phone, it was worth buying, as it was cheaper for me and the quality is alse good for me. althought it was a little late to come to my house. i like it
Has anybody seen this
Ipad Looking Andropad
The price is pretty cheap and has HDMi output. The seller seems to have good reviews too. Unfortunately I don't have enough spare money to try this out. But if anybody here is interested
Lot of chinese companies have shown interest in ANDROID devices, so I guess this was coming.
If its running 1.6 how does it have, "Browser comes with Flash Lite version 3.1 and supports playback of SWF contents up to Flash 9 and ActionScript 2.0"
Isn't that what the Hero's browser has?
It does look like a good device though
OWIE
mommy i know whaT i want for my birthday
Nice, though it's a rip-off and I would prefer a more expensive one that really has competitive hardware to the iPad.
Not sure I want Android on a Slate, though. I think I'll wait for the HP Slate, since I want to be productive on the thing.
But I would prefer this over an ebook reader.
EnTourage Edge
You ought to go over to the Entourage site to see my new enTourage eDGe! Look it up!
Sethos II said:
But I would prefer this over an ebook reader.
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Isn't that what the Nook is for?
I recently asked a similar question!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=660767
guyjack said:
You ought to go over to the Entourage site to see my new enTourage eDGe! Look it up!
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Im looking for more of a tablet,not ebook reader..i'm not a fan of the clamshell-touchscreen shape..very odd device imo..
Also you guys should check out enso-now.com they sell the 'zenPad'..its a pretty cool 5'' android tablet starting at $155, you can add gps for $25 and it has decent hardware specs..
Does anybody know anything about the Rockchip processor in it? I read somewhere that it was an ARM9 processor. That would be pretty old and slow. Wikipedia says it's based on Cortex-A8.
I am placing an order for one of these this next week. I contacted a different seller and they said that there are a few different versions. I am getting one with all the specs on that page except 4 gig nand and 512 ram. Now hopefully someone that knows alot more than I do will start releasing roms for it so I can get it running the way my G1 is.
can you please post a link/price to the one you bought? I'd love to see custom roms for these...
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i would much rather support Google than apple i hate apple
Sethos II said:
Nice, though it's a rip-off and I would prefer a more expensive one that really has competitive hardware to the iPad.
Not sure I want Android on a Slate, though. I think I'll wait for the HP Slate, since I want to be productive on the thing.
But I would prefer this over an ebook reader.
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the hard ware on the one i saw ( and want) it a 1.2ghz, sorry to bring up an old thread but has anyone got one of these thinking of getting either this the ipad rip off or the other fully white one
cool
Hi
I receive this tablet, that cool, but just under android 1.5. 2gb flash memory. Autonomy not very large with wifi, but with no wifi that cool. With mp3 active I listen music about 3 hours and I past 100 % to 70 %, that cool.
Now I would like to past to 1.6 or 2.1, seller says me that will arrive but when I do not know (like him...).
So if dev can give support, I take it.
yoman74 said:
Hi
I receive this tablet, that cool, but just under android 1.5. 2gb flash memory. Autonomy not very large with wifi, but with no wifi that cool. With mp3 active I listen music about 3 hours and I past 100 % to 70 %, that cool.
Now I would like to past to 1.6 or 2.1, seller says me that will arrive but when I do not know (like him...).
So if dev can give support, I take it.
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You sound foreign. As if you are the seller of this crappy 7 inch tablet (from HK).
Are you trying to save face after another poster said that the processor was ancient?
Your also trying to see if someone will hack away and make this tablet Android 2.1.
Fat Chance.
This processor would choke on Droid 2.1.
Spammer
I put in an order for one of these yesterday, I'm definitely interested to see how well it preforms. If it is a fairly obvious process I'll crack mine open and take some shots of the internals for you guys. I'm guessing it will take about 2 weeks shipping though so don't expect anything soon.
As for getting a newer kernel onto these I would happily offer any assistance I can.
I think the biggest issues for me are
Marketplace access
Video benchmarking (bitrates and container formats)
Uniformity of these devices. These are offered by a few hundred sellers under at least 4 names hopefully they all are identical hardware wise as it will make drivers easier to write.
slaming These have a 600MHz ARM core and a 550MHz DSP for video decoding. Some sellers are adding these together and rounding up to claim a 1.2GHz clock speed. Its an old and regrettable tactic.
arashed31 This is the product page for the Rockchip 2808 en.rock-chips.com/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/ProductInfoExhibit.html?ProductInfoExhibit_ProductID=c373e9216b8b10d58f7e977394a65d1d&ProductInfoExhibit_isRefreshParent=false
Sorry can't post links my account isn't verified
Also mattrb you really need to take a chill pill "You sound foreign. As if you are the seller of this crappy 7 inch tablet (from HK)." is just about the most bigoted thing I've heard this week. The guy was being helpful telling you his experiences with battery endurance and you insult him, don't be childish.
BTW a little more info about the Rockchip 2808. From the research I have done it looks like this chip is based around the arm926 core. It isn't the fastest thing out there but it gets the job done. If the Rockchip version has onchip cache it should be quite decent indeed. Supposedly this core produces 220MIPs at 200MHz in the stock configuration so we should expect roughly 660MIPs at 600MHz. For comparison a Motorola Droid is based on the Cortex A8 at 600MHz which makes about 1200MIPs. The actual iPad uses the Cortex A9 core clocked at 1Ghz and produces about 2500MIPs (surely as we are without all of apple's crappy code we will have a serious advantage ). Also I have seen a few notes about a this chip being used in some devices at 886Mhz (google the Tongfang-q5). I doubt that there are different versions of the chip produced and I doubt even more the manufacturer would be overclocking the chip without some testing that it remained reliable. Hopefully this means we can squeeze some more cycles out of these tablets. This will obviously be at the expense of battery life and to some degree longevity. But at this price who cares *lmao*.
A little update: I confirmed that the Rockchip 2808 is a licensed ARM926EJ-S derivative wwwdotarm.com/community/partners/display_product/rw/ProductId/4010/ stupid link blocking
Second update: I just started a wikipedia page for the rockchip family. Any info you can provide would be most helpful. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip
Let us know how well it works. I might get one just to show off ppls with ipad.
White slate
I bought the white slaie (M001) yesterday. Spent around 60 minutes on it so far. I have a few isues, but hopefully tonight I will download and insdtall updated software. For 150.00, can't complain. That is what my ereader cost me in Dec, which I will probably now sell.
is this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Slim-Tabl...t=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item3a5a793c51
the same thing you guys are talking about?
If so £70 (price & delivery) seems ludicrously cheap. At that price even if it's not brilliant it's got to be worth it right?
Hey XDA,
My beloved Omnia 7 has sailed off into my sister's hands, and I was left stranded on an island of sadness, phoneless.
But no matter, as the power of the intertubes brought me here, and much other places.
I am looking for a savior budget phone.
And I found one.
No, folks, it's not a WP7 device as you may have anticipated, ala the shining turd that is the Nokia Lumia 610 (or some other
generic, faecal device). I have ventured to the lands of china and have explored options I would have not dared to before due to fear
of SARS, rape, and being casually ripped off by scamers.
And guess what, brotha? It appears like the Hero 9300+ is my guy.
Yeah, yeah, I know. A clone, not to mention a modified one. But if this is a turd, it's a sparkling one, worth a whole $200 dollars.
Some specs (the most important + drawbacks):
-CPU: MTK6577, two cores running at a generic 1GHz. Seems like a piece of ****, but one that flies pretty fast. Antutu scores look rather promising.
-GPU: SGX-531. The old cousin of our modern SGX-540's and 544's. Not bad, not great. It does the job for me given I can play
generic time wasters like Dead Trigger at a solid 30fps with next to no lag.
--OS: Android 4.0.4 (marketed off as 4.1 JellyBean; the developers thought they could fool us English folks by editing the SDK during ROM creation, har har har. ******s.)
-RAM: 512MB. This may be a problem given ICS takes up what, 300MB? Plus I want to run a launcher (Why? Because **** you, that's why) which will take up additional memory space.
-Camera a world class piece of ****. 5MP marketed as 8MP, records video at who knows what resolution. (I will be installing another ROM for this bad boy which will enable 1080p recording unless you guys have better suggestions how to pimp this thing up).
BEST PART: Gorgeous 5.3 inch display.
Anyways, that's that for specs.
Price is $210, with Fedex delivery, from Pandawill (Safe? Not safe? Hm, got PayPal covering my ass anyway).
THE ULTIMATE QUESTION:
Is there anything around this price that beats the **** out of this but has a display which is not too small?
Am I making the right decision here?
Thanks matey for giving this your two cents. It's all appreciated.
LINK:
http://www.pandawill.com/i9300-smar...oid-40-mtk6577-1g-ram-3g-gps-wifi-p66034.html
I highly doubt you would find another phone that isn't from china that has those specifications and price tag, however, I still wouldn't buy the phone because...well it's from china and not of a legitimate/recognised phones manufacturer. I would instead pass this phone and maybe save up another 100 dollars and get a phone of similar specs (maybe not the same screen size) from htc, sony, samsung etc. just for the security, support, safety and the mods
jman2131 said:
I highly doubt you would find another phone that isn't from china that has those specifications and price tag, however, I still wouldn't buy the phone because...well it's from china and not of a legitimate/recognised phones manufacturer. I would instead pass this phone and maybe save up another 100 dollars and get a phone of similar specs (maybe not the same screen size) from htc, sony, samsung etc. just for the security, support, safety and the mods
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Hey matey, thanks for the reply.
I don't think I can agree with you more. This is a huge risk and I know it, although review have been rather positive (which, I must say, is encouraging).
Given the price point and the fact that I need a phone ASAP, I am not so sure I can bang out another $100 bucks for an imaginary phone with similar specs; I mean, this thing performs closely to the galaxy nexus- a ~$500 device. I also found out that Chinese phones are going to be blessed with new quad and oct core processors in Q4 2012 and Q2 2013, respectively. Going to be an insane jump, but I bet they will be price accordingly.
Thanks for your response nonetheless, I'll definitely go ahead and snoop around for brand devices right now.
Israeleet said:
Hey matey, thanks for the reply.
I don't think I can agree with you more. This is a huge risk and I know it, although review have been rather positive (which, I must say, is encouraging).
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Glad to see you coming around in your mindset... imho, buying some Chinese knockoff is only asking for trouble. If it were my decision to make, I'd find a friend with an old Android you can use and buy a real phone with a warranty, a little support, and some quality behind it. The specs may be one thing, but if I know Chinese knockoffs, everything about the case/finish/etc will be absolute junk.
I'd rather use a non-Android for a while, personally...
SparkyXI said:
Glad to see you coming around in your mindset... imho, buying some Chinese knockoff is only asking for trouble. If it were my decision to make, I'd find a friend with an old Android you can use and buy a real phone with a warranty, a little support, and some quality behind it. The specs may be one thing, but if I know Chinese knockoffs, everything about the case/finish/etc will be absolute junk.
I'd rather use a non-Android for a while, personally...
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I was actually looking into WP7 devices earlier because my previous device was one. I am sad to note that nothing compares other than an old Samsung Focus (much like my Omnia) from the US for $170. I mean, it's not too bad, but I feel it's time for an upgrade. I snooped around other shops, nothing comes close to the Hero, but your suggestions have shaken me up a bit. I'll be wary as this online buying thing is no game of tag- they can disappear on you.
What did you eventually purchase?
I have X710D and did have a bad experience with the seller, but eventually found another seller who I have now purchased many phones from with great success.
In relation to Chinese phones, I have to say walk with care as many fiddle the OS version number and it always pays to ask as many questions as possible prior to purchase. If there are features that you want then ask for confirmation, if they don't know then treat this as a warning about the seller.
Quality: I have no problem with the quality of build of Chinese phones. I do however have an issue with some stupid design decisions - like the 3.5mm headphone jack on the X710D - can't take standard headphones.
Just found out that the X710D has stopped manufacture, so hope that a better design is coming.
9300+ looks promising.
Hi all.
I too was in the market for a new phone and purchased a 9300+ from a site called Android for cheap and I can tell you it's a great phone. It's zippy and handles anything you can throw at it. I'm running wp8 custom on mine and it looks beautiful on the big screen. I'd recommend this phone to others as have I already. Gaming on it has no lag and due to the multi touch screen its really responsive.
I've had mine for 3 months and I think when I eventually purchase a new phone it will probably be a newer model of the same phone..... If they are still in existence then lol.
All in all its an awesome phone. I don't think you will be disappointed
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Hello,
I'm looking for Android phone up to 200$.
Not sure if should I buy something kinda outdated (like htc desire with old android) or rather fairly new construct like chineese clones (something like hdc i9300 or something else on mtk6575/6577). with recent android version Those chineese phones have quite good specs, but it's a lot of mess with them (sometime they claim to have ips screen, sometime the vary same model say it's amoled, even single alieexpress auction in one place is stated that it has ips screen while few lines lower says its amoled).
Very hard for me too choose. Are there any reputable reviews of those clones? Lots of reviews look more like commercials saying only good thigs about phone.
What would you choose?
I just want pretty standard things like :
responsive UI (hate lagging)
wifi (really working not just 1m away router)
good screen usable in sunlight (perfect would be ips) between 3.5 and 4.8 inches.
web browsing option
capable of runinng few apps at the time (browser, calendard etc) - don't care about games, although it would be nice to view movies.
and pretty decent battery (so like 2days at least of working)
GPS
decent camera which could replace separate compact camera.
Phone must be new.
Is anyone really happy with clone bought from china? Not only after buying but also after few months of use?
Could you point sellers you've been satisfied with? I know there are ratings with aliexpress, but many users buying barely know what they are buying, and even if phone is lot worse then specs say they give good feedback. E.g. Few months ago on polish auction site (like ebay) there was a guy selling fake pendrives (256mb capacity while claiming to have 32gb - altered somehow to show fake capacity) and most users left him positive feedback.
thanks in advance
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First of all Not sure if this is where it should be i thought putting this in off topic was too far from the point and reading through other threads it didn't seem to fit anywhere, Anyway i'll post it here anyway i would like to think most people on this website would appreciate this and see if i have to valid points and some cool things to show you maybe.
I would firstly like to start with some cool Android game consoles being developed by a company called JXD http://www.jxd.hk/ they're other companies doing this (not as good and more expensive) in my opinion but i'll supply information for you do to your own researched at the bottom of this thread.
Anyway This is the newest console released the S7300 just released a day ago it's quite amazing system and extremely cheap ( older models if you have a budget to test these out starting as low as $20 - $40 USD) This latest one is about $150 it's android the specs are listed here
As you can see the device has possibility for some good gaming and a start to some innovative ideas and maybe bigger companies creating devices similar to this.
What is the point?
Well i was a huge user of my Xperia play and Galaxy s3 which i recently sold for a Android iphone 5 rip off mainly because it looked good worked great and was light enough to go jogging without it annoying me, but this gave me a lack of gaming which i love about my android mobile so i decided to look for an android gaming device it took an hour or so but i found hundreds some on ebay some on random websites, after separating the over priced devices and the ones with poor design and bad hardware i found a website or 2 with the device i was going to purchase, and after looking all day i found there is a good start to this android gaming, but how come it hasn't set off bigger or faster yet, i find it a shame.
What to do?
Well many may disagree but this is the only website i use for anything remotely android related, but i was thinking if XDA could add apart of the forum for unpopular devices such as these underground branded ( Non rip off android devices and the emerging gaming android console and devices ) to increase the speed it picks up i believe if we have people talking about it more and helping sharing in customized apps themes etc... it might help set off the community to use it more which may encourage developers to add more support.
I mean Why Not! we have tablets but everything seems to be big brands Sony, Samsung, Apple, Nokia, i thought this was a website for unlocking your device for better use and doing things with it the majority of us think is "Cool".
I might add more later But for now i'll leave some links to a few devices i looked through and website to purchase or compare prices for your curiosity.
Developer jxe website all their devices are listed there but no purchasing options but good to get the names to Google
Another product i thought would be good to mention just for the hell of it if you go jogging like me or like high quality sound with less wires and cheap at the same time would be to purchase a MW600 it's a Bluetooth headset and you just plug your headphone into it and it connects wirelessly to you phone.
http://www.willgoo.com/ - This website seems to sell any modded gaming android devices from all the companys making them at the moment at the cheapest price and a vast collection to choose from.
The latest device out is http://www.willgoo.com/jxd-s7300-du...ons-8gb-p-306.html?referrer=CNWR_771331638507
Reason i liked this among the rest?
for one the touch screen isn't the out dated touch resistant most others use.
First to have an actual dual analog joysticks! and not like the xperia play with the stupid touch slide which i found tedious after a day of use.
2 back buttons and simple nice thin design.
highest resolution offered.
and does say it has 3G i don't know if it's via a sim card or it means through wifi tethering with another device who knows but i'm happy either way
another product i thought would be good to mention just for the hell of it if you go jogging like me or like high quality sound with less wires and cheap at the same time would be to purchase a MW600 it's a Bluetooth headset and you just plug your headphone into it and it connects wirelessly to you phone.
Unmarked android phones.
I'll list a few android phones i think are semi decent and can be cheap and stilll good looking on a budget here is the top 2 websites i trust and can be cheap if you search well
eForChina and Dhgate
These 2 websites have plenty mobile phones people could check out at a cheap price, the one i purchased because i wanted a decent phone that runs android but looks like an iphone 5 is zophone 5
It's a little more steep in price than the others but i managed to get it for £120 off ebay but its light and does what i need it to do.
Done more research the website most china branded (unbranded) mobiles are released to http://android-sale.com/
this website's most famous brand seems to be the goophone for the iphone 5 android clones but they also make some really good unique none clone designs packing quad core 2gb ram models, would be good if you're looking for some unique designed phone you won't see any friends using.
That thing looks slick. Will do more research.
Yeah it would be nice to see games compatible
liamguest said:
Yeah it would be nice to see games compatible
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It has a dual core mali 400, and a dual core a9 clocked at 1.5, it should run most games other mali 400 devices run. I pre ordered one and now waiting for it. I hope it gets popular enough to have a community and a few custom rom builds. It has quite decent specs for emulation(main purpose its being promoted for) and should run almost every game on the android market. The main issue with JDX devices is battery life (is why I hope for custom roms), but the device claims to come pre rooted, you can see pictures of it supposedly having play store support, so if a community does surge for it it could be as popular as the kindle in terms of a dedicated community interested in custom android builds that support better battery use and remove some of its bloatware. im replacing the free 8g card ill get for pre ordering with a 32(64 if it takes it) card and have a decent 40gig snes/ps1 emulation device with touch controls that will let me do the basic things i do on my phone. Since i plan to tether it from my phone, I'm aiming to keep my phone pocketed the whole time, Headset calls, redirect texts to the JXD, and play/browse on the 7 inch screen so if a call comes in my gaming wont be interrupted something that ruins some games that reboot when a call comes in.
Maybe Padone 2 ? over 7k mAh, four core etc... Nothing but fine gaming devices with possibilities
They should make a special section in the forum for JXD Devices. Especially for developers that wants to help with making the device easier to use.
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