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[REVIEW] Star S9500

If you are interested in this phone, you can found it here:
http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Star...mera-Android-4-2-1-OS-3G-GPS-Grey-316069.html​
This thread is ONLY a review of the Star S9500!
The Support topic is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45918412#post45918412​
The Review​
The Star S9500 call me to attention because of the Quad Core processor and the 12.6MP camera only with 123€!
In that time I was searching for a new phone, but I won't spend more money than 150€. So I searched a bit, and I wont buy some phone in Portugal because of the low specs at the same price. I was looking to an SmartPhone that I could play great games at low price and with long battery life.
I saw the specs of the Star S9500, and I saw that included MTK6589 1.2GHz x4 processor with a great camera, large display and the 2800mAh battery, which for me was a great buy.
In some reviews of the Star cellphones the general people said that they have an overall good quality. So I bought this phone.
The problem started here: I waited for 3 months to receive the phone! It isn't GeekBuying's fault at all, was my country's customs. I had to pay an extra fee (35€) for the S9500. That wasn't a problem, it was very cheeper than any phone here.
I don't have the box in this city (I received in my holydays), so I can't show some pictures. But here is a picture from the GeekBuying's website:
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It came with quite good Earphones (if you enable Bass Boost it has great quality for stock phones), with a average quality USB cable, an EU USB charger, two 2800mAh batteries and this case, which it seems to be good quality:
I turned it on with my SIM card, and it was easy to configure. Even the 3G network is configured. The MMS service is configured, but I don't know why it isn't working, but I don't bother with that.
There is some pictures taken in my home:
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Don't focus on the GeekBuying's AnTuTu score! The real score is this, which is average, as I installed all my apps and I removed the china apps with MTKDroidTools (I will teach in the support topic):
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It doesn't compare to an Quad Core Cortex-A9, but it is quite good for a Cortex-A7.
The screen resolution helps to the performance. As it is only FWVGA instead of HD, it has a difference of 1000 points, and some FPS improvements in general gaming, as if you change the resolution to 720p in Star S9500 it only decreases 500 points, as I will show later.
As you can see, the front camera is 4.9MP instead of 2MP as claimed in the GeekBuying.
It is very smooth. The battery gets drown if you play more than 12h of Real Racing without stopping, and it can last 2-3 days only with SMS and net browsing, and that makes me satisfied.
The bad point is the ROM. It only has 4GB of rom, which you only can use 1.5GB of them for internal storage and 1GB for apps, and the rest for system. That can be solved with a 32GB Micro SD Class 10 card, which I would buy from 22€.
NOTE: The camera came pre-set at 8MP, but in the camera options you can change to 12.6MP, as I will show in support topic!
Here is two pictures with the rear camera, one at day light (1,16MB) and other at night with flashlight (2,29MB):
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I didn't take any pictures with the front camera, but I used it many times to do video calls from Skype and it has very good quality has expected for a 5MP camera.
Now about the apps. If you don't remove the china apps, it will appear a folder called mtklog in the internal memory that will be raising the size minute after minute, only with system logs until you run out of space! It's secure to remove, but it will appear in less than an hour.
After I solve all my problems with the phone, I can see that I have a good product, but without any support.
You can post here questions about the phone!
I will create a topic for support for the Star S9500, but you can do questions while it isn't created!​
Best regards,
Ivan Santos.

Malware on S9500 at time of shipment!
Hello, I bought my S9500 in Dec-2013. I installed AVG and was immediately warned that OperaService was malware. I thought this cannot be true and ignored the warning. Recently it has been reported that the Star N9500 has been proven to ship with Malware. I have been in touch with G-Data (the company that reported on the N9500), they are almost certain that my phone, S9500 was shipped with Malware installed at the factory.
Bummer, it is a great phone for the money.
So, I got my money back from Amazon, and I think I get to keep the phone. Score!!!
My question (note that I'm new to digging into phones).
If I root the phone, will I be able to remove the OperaService (cannot remove it right now as phone is NOT rooted). I don't care about support anymore, that has obviously gone...
I understand that I may ruin the phone. But with advice from the Forum, I hope to keep it at give it to my daughter.
FYI, I replaced the S9500 with a Nexus 5. Wow, what a great device.

MikeQu said:
Hello, I bought my S9500 in Dec-2013. I installed AVG and was immediately warned that OperaService was malware. I thought this cannot be true and ignored the warning. Recently it has been reported that the Star N9500 has been proven to ship with Malware. I have been in touch with G-Data (the company that reported on the N9500), they are almost certain that my phone, S9500 was shipped with Malware installed at the factory.
Bummer, it is a great phone for the money.
So, I got my money back from Amazon, and I think I get to keep the phone. Score!!!
My question (note that I'm new to digging into phones).
If I root the phone, will I be able to remove the OperaService (cannot remove it right now as phone is NOT rooted). I don't care about support anymore, that has obviously gone...
I understand that I may ruin the phone. But with advice from the Forum, I hope to keep it at give it to my daughter.
FYI, I replaced the S9500 with a Nexus 5. Wow, what a great device.
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HEllo, just the 3 most important points on chinaphones:
1-Flash Led Power (Compare with another phone if you can, a samsung, an iphone or eben a huawey)
2-Loudspeaker for music/handfree phonecalls
3-GPS (maybe after a root and GPSFix, since 99%of chinaphones are setted on chinese GPS server)
Thank you very much.
I should add that now that you can find a Samsung 3 Neo for €170 I don't know if I would pay more than €100 for this phone

Diomorgan said:
HEllo, just the 3 most important points on chinaphones:
1-Flash Led Power (Compare with another phone if you can, a samsung, an iphone or eben a huawey)
2-Loudspeaker for music/handfree phonecalls
3-GPS (maybe after a root and GPSFix, since 99%of chinaphones are setted on chinese GPS server)
Thank you very much.
I should add that now that you can find a Samsung 3 Neo for €170 I don't know if I would pay more than €100 for this phone
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my phone is hard brick please help me,
HDC S4 S9500 owns a 5.0-inch FWVGA screen with 8 pixel display, and MTK6589 Quad Core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and 4GB storage. HDC S4 S9500 installs Android 4.2.1 OS.
Driver OK
FlashTool OK
Download only preloader_e2006_v89_jbla768_asx.bin OK
but other not download

Hdc s4 s9500
my phone is hard brick please help me, only white light
Driver OK
FlashTool OK
Download only preloader_e2006_v89_jbla768_asx.bin OK
but other not download
HDC S4 S9500- MTK6589 Quad Core 1.2GHz 5.0inch FWVGA Screen Android 4.2.1 Phone
Memory
Built-in Memory: 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM
General
Manufacturer: HDC
Model: HDC S4 S9500
Phone Style: Bar, multi-touch screen, 5.0 inch Capacitive touchscreen
Operating System: Android 4.2.1 OS
Processor: MTK6589 Quad Core 1.2GHz
Google Play Store: Support
Display
Screen Size:5.0 inch FWVGA touchscreen
Display reulotion: 854*480 pixel
Color Support: 16 million colors
Screen Technology: Multi-touch screen
Camera
Camera Resulotion: 12.6MP rear camera + 4.9MP front camera, digital zoom
Connectivity
Connectivity Technology: GSM + WCDMA(Dual Simcard)
Network Band: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz + WCDMA 850/2100MHz
Data Technology: EDGE, GPRS
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
WLan: Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
USB: USB 2.0
GPS: GPS/A-GPS (Built-in GPS chipset)

Full Review: THL T11, really fast with 2GB RAM to liberate MTK6892 8-Core CPU

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The good: 2GB RAM perfectly unleashes the potential of MT6592, so in terms of gaming, THL T11 is the one of the fastest 8-core smartphone I’ve ever experienced (the other is Huawei Honor 3X). Good craftsmanship as on previous THL handsets. The protective case is smart with automatic wake-up and can be used as a stand.
The bad: The protective case frequently flip open itself. The camera is disappointing.
Bottom line: Though it is 20 US dollars above the que-limit price for a Chinese phone, THL T11 is still worth the price, because it is very close to a high-end stuff in many aspects.
Price has long been my first concern if it comes to talking about a Chinese cell phone, so I didn’t mean to do much about the USD220 THL T11 when the cheapest phone with the Octa-core MTK6592 CPU has been 70 US dollars cheaper, namely, Mijue M10.
Fortunately the 2GB RAM drew my attention and made me wonder if it would help make a difference. Well, it did, and I saw something that stunned me quite a lot, like what you would see in the video below.
Yep, the cars of NFS Most Wanted flied! That gave me confidence to try Real Racing 3, which, seems not bad on the T11, too. And such a phone – I can call it a beast – of course deserves a full review. So here it is.
1. Design:
THL T11 is generally a copy of Xiaomi M3, or you may say both the 2 Chinese-brand phones stole the design language of Nokia Lumia 920, including a long rectangle face with sharp corners, curved-out left and right edges, as well as flat top and bottom.
As the T11 has a user-replaceable battery, there are inevitably seams on its edges for opening of the back cover. That aside, the handset inherits the good craftsmanship from its THL predecessors.
The rear side of THL T11 delivers a soft feel like that from a velvet blanket -- quite different from stock hard plastics covers; being a little bit narrower but thicker, the smartphone looks more compact than Xiaomi Mi3; and it has a neat appearance with no redundant buttons or holes besides a volume rocker, a power starter, a micro USB port, and a 3.5mm jack.
A bonus point could be the protective case which is composed of an extra back cover and a foldable piece of leather. You can flip the front cover open and close to wake up the display and let it sleep. And like the Smart Case of iPad, the T11 case can be used as a stand for video watching, too.
Perhaps the condition is just for the very T11 I hold in hand -- the front cover open itself due to a tensile force, so I have to let the face of the handset down when I put it on a table.
2. Display:
This week I tried three Chinese mobile phones with 5-inch 720p screens, namely, Cubot X6, Mijue M10, THL T11. Of them, Cubot X6 and THL T11 have the worst and best displays, respectively.
On the T11, you can see all the details of an image that should be shown with the resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels, and the mild and lively colors are quite eye pleasing.
3. Camera:
If THL T11 had a good camera, I would be willing to spend 30 US dollars more --- USD250 for a cellphone with no major drawback is quite a deal. Unfortunately, THL would rather save the money for a lower price.
The back camera is just a little bit better than a total disaster with low real resolution and pale colors, while the front camera is somewhat heartening. By the way, remember to peel off the piece of blue protective film on the lens of the rear camera, or you’ll get a more blurry picture.
Normal light:
Low light:
With flash:
Under fluorescent lamp:
Selfie:
4. OS:
The T11 runs on the pure Android 4.2.2 with Google Play store pre-installed. People on XDA-developers may not be android purists, but I think this hardware would set your mind at ease for development.
5. Performance
With the gaming experience aforementioned, I knew the T11 would have high scores on benchmark apps. And it did. Antutu gives the smartphone a high score of 27196 and GFX Bench 3.0 says it is able to deal with 41 pictures of 720p resolution in a second.
Not only gaming, every operation on the THL stuff is fast, such as switch across apps trays, open and close of apps, slide of pictures. However, I still feel hiccups during the switch between widget trays – the same problem with all Android 4.2.2 Chinese phones I’ve tested.
It seems that the MTK6592 Octa-core CPU and Mali450 MP4 quad-core GPU make a real fine chipset allocation, which, however, needs a big random access memory (RAM) to liberate itself from fetters. According to my memory, THL T11 should be as fast as Huawei Honor 3X, and the latter, worth more than USD300, happens to contain a 2GB RAM, too.
6. Battery:
Just like what I did on Cubot X6 and Mijue M10, I let a 720p music video loop on the T11 till the battery dies, and at the same time, the Battery Monitor Widget watched out the power consumption. Finally, the 2750mAh lasted the smartphone for about 6 hours of playback.
7. Others:
Though I don’t feel NFC is very useful, at least for now, this module on the T11 is quite responsive -- it connects very quickly to Nexus 4 and transfers files quite smoothly -- have a look at the video above.
8. Conclusion:
Of all cheap Chinese phones, THL T11 may be the first one that I think is a worthy opponent against some internationally known brands. Except camera, the T11 is fine by all means, and in terms of speed, it should’ve been one of the fastest of all 8-core phones by far.

Awesome review. Thanks for info. I am really interested now.

zerogun said:
Awesome review. Thanks for info. I am really interested now.
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It's just one week experience, so it may or may not be as good after long-time use. You need to see some consumer reviews for more fair judgement.

Which website did you order your phone from? How long did it take to reach you?
Thanks

Sunsamg said:
Which website did you order your phone from? How long did it take to reach you?
Thanks
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Hey, i didn't order it. I'm in China and get the phone from a friend who sell phones.

mohammad ahamad
nice review man.
How about facebook? Does it crash? Some people said that fb version 7 runs ok.
Thank you.

Great review indeed. Especially the battery performance verification method. My T11 is on the way (should arrive within the next week).
People claim that the notification led only works when charging.. Is it true? Is there any way to fix it without installing another ROM?

TUPAC_RIP said:
mohammad ahamad
nice review man.
How about facebook? Does it crash? Some people said that fb version 7 runs ok.
Thank you.
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I'm in China, where facebook is blocked by the government. It seems i need to use VPN next time.

mead6302 said:
Great review indeed. Especially the battery performance verification method. My T11 is on the way (should arrive within the next week).
People claim that the notification led only works when charging.. Is it true? Is there any way to fix it without installing another ROM?
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Sorry i didn't notice such details, but i'll check when the handset is available again. About the battery performance verification, it was learned from a guy on XDA.

mead6302 said:
Great review indeed. Especially the battery performance verification method. My T11 is on the way (should arrive within the next week).
People claim that the notification led only works when charging.. Is it true? Is there any way to fix it without installing another ROM?
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Led doesn't work but there is a fix. I don't remember where to search.
Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk 2

Wooot.
Is 220 bucks a great deal for this device? Free shipping btw..

abihakim said:
Wooot.
Is 220 bucks a great deal for this device? Free shipping btw..
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I think so. T11 is the best mediocre Chinese phone by far, in terms of craftsmanship, smoothness, display and comprehensive strength.

THL 4000, Longer Standby time than THL 5000

THL has unveiled a new smartphone, the THL 4000 , a nearly identical version of the THL 5000, THL 4400 but it will come with Android 4.4 KitKat and a spectacular 4000 mAh battery which makes us think that this smartphone could eventually be used up to a week with moderate use. What's more, due to with MT6582, instead of MT6592 from THL 5000, it comes with longer Standby time, while much cheaper price than THL 5000, only $99 which will be another highlight for this new hot spot.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THL 4000:
4.7-inch IPS display on an HD resolution (960 x 540 pixels)
MediaTek MT6582 SoC Processor @ 1.30 GHz (Cortex-A7 4x + Mali-400 MP2 @ 500MHz)
1 GB of RAM
8 GB of internal storage (expandable by microSD 32 GB extra)
Sony Rear Camera 5 megapixel front camera and 2 MP.
Dual SIM 3G connectivity (850/900/2100 MHz)
WiFi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth, GPS, OTG
Battery 4000 mAh
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I also noticed the appearance of this phone. It seems to be the cheapest option with decent specs including battery for now, if only Chinese manufacturers didn't cheat with numbers as it sometimes happen. Will wait and see when people get hands on it to know if there are any major harware or firmware issues.

nice
the battery is nice,4000mah,but the ROM is small.if can be 16G will be good

Ordered....
Hi,
I have ordered this phone, 'till I received it I can make a little review if you want !

bob nguala said:
the battery is nice,4000mah,but the ROM is small.if can be 16G will be good
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yes, to make it as best price, but a extra TF card will help, it support Extention card, up to 32GB.

yes, quite interested it, so i search its review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSfprUyT65Y

yannou75 said:
Hi,
I have ordered this phone, 'till I received it I can make a little review if you want !
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Yes, I think that some people will appreciate a text review here. Please, can you highlight if there are any firmware or hardware issues and test how really long will this phone work?
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bob nguala said:
the battery is nice,4000mah,but the ROM is small.if can be 16G will be good
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I believe if the ROM was insreased it's price would rise, too. And personally for me the 8Gb will do well, I don't plan to install some heavy games with cache or upload any videos to the phone. And for the essential programms it's more than enough. And of couse there's an SD slot

Zoealandy, I just noticed that you write
5-inch IPS display on an HD resolution (1280 x 720 pixels)
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in description, but the manufacturer's pictures say it's 4.7'' qHD 540p, maybe you should change this?
P.S. Sorry, I can't find how to quote the original post with the user name stated

i have noticed this one is not available on thlmobilestore.
what is the difference between thl 4400 and 4000 if you know? Thanks

FallenAngela said:
Zoealandy, I just noticed that you write
in description, but the manufacturer's pictures say it's 4.7'' qHD 540p, maybe you should change this?
P.S. Sorry, I can't find how to quote the original post with the user name stated
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Yes, thanks, you're right, and I just correct it.

METAL66 said:
i have noticed this one is not available on thlmobilestore.
what is the difference between thl 4400 and 4000 if you know? Thanks
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$99.99 at most resellers, such as coolicool, vifocal, tinydeal, link: http://bit.ly/1toz1u7
For THL 4400, with 4400mAh battery, powered by MTK 6582 but with much higher price at around $167, see detailed review at Gizchina: http://bit.ly/1v0RHVu

I've been following this phone prices in some shops and promotions, also.
I don't know what to do... I just received my THL t6 pro new phone and preparing a review for it, but I'm looking at this phone as a much longer battery life option

Zoealandy said:
$99.99 at most resellers, such as coolicool, vifocal, tinydeal, link: http://bit.ly/1toz1u7
For THL 4400, with 4400mAh battery, powered by MTK 6582 but with much higher price at around $167, see detailed review at Gizchina: http://bit.ly/1v0RHVu
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i am really worried about tinydeal and focalprice, they have been selling me used phones!!

Camera
I've been using the THL W100S for over a year now and I'm quite satisfied. However lately the batterylife is decreasing severe. This THL 4000 seems like a great next option to me, but I'm just wondering if the 5MP camera would do the job... Does anyone has some reviews/experience about the camera? Gr Raizy

Need a comprehensive review
Hiiii, I really need this phone but I need a comprehensive hands-on review of this device.
THANKS.

Just got the THL 4000 from tinydeal. Phone is lovely was able to root it with vroot. Good build, phone is handsome, screen is nice.
I'm having a problem with recording video with the frame rate is only around 15fps. Makes the recorded videos un-watchable. Tried to tweak the camera, used "open camera". messed a little with the build.prop tweaks to force 30fps and nothing. helped.
Any thoughts how to get higher fps? at least 24.

@qwe123a
Great to hear youre in possession of the THL 4000! Would you be so nice to place some pictures taken with it on this forum, so I can watch the quality of it. I'm really interested in it!
Thanks in advance! Gr Raizy

Arrived also to me yesterday
rom 4.4.2 14-10-27.
Excellent general fluidity, mammoth battery and long to recharge ..
smartphone heavy and full-bodied, good assembly, good cover with surface grain, very good touch & feel.
very good screen, touch with 5 touches, led top notification (only red), soft touch buttons backlit (a rarity for this kind of phones and price range).
Root succesfull with Vroot 1.7.9.2, put supersu, putting recovery CWM with MTK droid tools, modified the internal partition going from 2Gb App + 4Gb internal memory to 4Gb App + 2Gb internal via EBR taken in the network.
Put Xposed framework + gravity box KK,.
Gps tested with cold fix, 52 seconds and 7 satellites, not bad!
* Edit 2:
just weighed on precision balance ..
185g phone + battery + sim and only battery weight 75g
* Edit 3:
I had the battery to 97% 28 hours of standby time, 1 hour of GPS on, four hours of Wifi, BT 20 minutes to transfer files and various tweakability with 2 hours of screen on auto brightness ... and the battery is still at 83% (first charge) ...
and consider that i have activated the double tap to wake, that should consume a little ..
OK for OTG function and recharging ability for other smartphone (in fact i have recharged my nexus 5 with 60% of the THL battery).
Only bad things regarding Flash led (blue casting and poor light/power) and camera quality/speed

Need help on rooting dis phone
plz @megthebest, can u give a comprehensive tutorial on how to root dis phone n how to port cwm to it?
THANKS so much.
NB: seems ur own ba3 lasts longer than mine cos I jst lost 20% ba3 in 2hrs on ONLY browsing on "edge" network not 3g.

callydon said:
plz @megthebest, can u give a comprehensive tutorial on how to root dis phone n how to port cwm to it?
THANKS so much.
NB: seems ur own ba3 lasts longer than mine cos I jst lost 20% ba3 in 2hrs on ONLY browsing on "edge" network not 3g.
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Used last version of vroot for rooting the phone. After that, i install supersu, remove vroot apps with system app remover, connected the phone to pc in debug usb mode and used mtk droid tool for creating and injecting cwm recovery. U can found guides in this forum.

Cubot X9-iphone 6 clone Hands on, unboxing, antutu, game, battery, dual camera review

Cubot has released the first iPhone 6 clone, Cubot X9, last time, i have written the review about No.1 v Phone i6 as iphone 6 clone, now i choose to let you know more about Cubot X9. From the price and specs, it can really beat doogee Octa core smartphone, doogee dg550. Facing fierce competition, Cubot X9 must have the outstanding features to attract the users. Therefore, check with me to see what Cubot X9 will bring you.
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5.0 Inch 1280 * 720 Pixel HD IPS Screen
Cubot X9 is the best clone of iPhone 6, this exquisite and trendy smartphone has 5inch HD IPS screen with 1280 * 720 Pixel. The clear-cut screen quality, 6.9mm ultra-thin body design and comfortable hands feeling meet your nice needs. It uses LDS antenna technology to let you experience it better. By the way, LDS means Laser Direct Structuring which is a professional laser processing, injection and electroplating 3D-MID production technology.
MTK6592 Octa Core 1.4GHz 1G Ram 16G Rom
Powered by the latest MTK6592 Octa Core 1.4GHz processor, it runs faster than Quad core smartphones. Extremely swift speed makes you experience to download apps, search the Internet, watch videos, play games and do other applications perfectly.
dual camera
It supports dual camera with 8.0MP Rear Camera ( interpolated 13.0MP) 5.0MP Front Camera ( interpolated 8.0MP), which helps you memorize every romantic and beautiful moment by taking photos according to this dual camera using Sony CMOS technology.
Android 4.4 os phone
It runs the latest android4.4 kitkat OS, which performs better, faster, more efficient, and bring simpler interface.
Areospace titanium alloys Body
Cubot X9 has areospace titanium alloys body, the quality is stable, solid and strong.
Dual SIM Slot
It supports dual sim cards, dual standby, which let you insert a 3G sim card, a GSM card to call freely, you will never miss a call.
HOTKNOT
Cubot X9 has an unique function that it supports Hotknot, a wireless transmission technology designed by MediaTek. You can just touch the screen to exchange the data. It's very convenient to use it when take a bus, take a subway, or shop in the supermarket.
Cubot X9 is a 5inch HD Phone as the best Iphone 6 clone, whether the exquisite design, hardware or other features, of course, including price can make us love it deeply.
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Looks amazing! Love its solid build. How much doest it cost now?

Ordered one here Cubot X9
code CUBOTX9LG, get the price down to $132.99 FS Hope to get it soon

The price is actually down to 129.99 FS with the same coupon code
I'm really curious as to how the battery life is on this bad boy. 2200 mAh isn't great.

cubot x9 purchase
Got this phone when it was pre order @ $150 got a discount coupon 5% less. The phone is quite good for me, its light & fast, I ask the seller to takeout all the chinese apps and install playstore. As they did when I received the item. The phone has two freebies a plastic transparent back cover protector and 2 screen protector (1 pre-installed), that's it , hope soon a tempered glass and an earphone to be well as add on would be nice. I am getting antutu scoremark upto 29K+ with everything off including wifi, antivirus, weather, but except network reception. Reception is strong so as the wifi strength. The cons I find is that there apps like weather that is limited to certain countries mostly asia, since I am working here at middle east its lacking instead I installed accuweather to solve the weather thing. I also notice a notification of overheat issue when I benchmark this phone twice consecutively, prompting the phone to shut down itself to prevent any problem, I then restart after 5 mins, and its ok already. I am hoping the quality to last me at least more than a year.
Here's a picture of my purchase:

I bought the Cubot X9, and I'm real anxious for it to arrive. I was expecting that if people didn't have any complaints about quality control, the screen, bugs, or other detractors, they'd be glowing about how awesome the phone is for the price. I've read that FramaRoot works to unlock it, and you can install the Play Store. How can we get this phone added to XDA, because it could become the new hot phone if we can get a custom bootloader on it.
Right now I have an Amazon Fire Phone, and I'm ready to sell it and stick with this one if it is as good as it appears to be in the few reviews and YouTube videos available.

Cubot X9：The Slimmest Smartphone in the History CUBOT
Cubot X9 is the best clone of iPhone 6, this exquisite and trendy smartphone has 5inch HD IPS screen with 1280 * 720 Pixel. The clear-cut screen quality, 6.9mm ultra-thin body design and comfortable hands feeling meet your nice needs. The Slimmest Smartphone in the History CUBOT With Space Titanium Alloy As a New Flagship cubot-x9.com .It uses LDS antenna technology to let you experience it better. By the way, LDS means Laser Direct Structuring which is a professional laser processing, injection and electroplating 3D-MID production technology.

Ican doit said:
Cubot X9 is the best clone of iPhone 6, this exquisite and trendy smartphone has 5inch HD IPS screen with 1280 * 720 Pixel. The clear-cut screen quality, 6.9mm ultra-thin body design and comfortable hands feeling meet your nice needs. The Slimmest Smartphone in the History CUBOT With Space Titanium Alloy As a New Flagship cubot-x9.com .It uses LDS antenna technology to let you experience it better. By the way, LDS means Laser Direct Structuring which is a professional laser processing, injection and electroplating 3D-MID production technology.
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I ordered one from DX. hope the phone will come soon. looking great device.

my cubto x9 antutu scores
It is not much antutu around 29K less

I ordered mine of GearBest on January 8th... Not so patiently awaiting its arrival. It left the Netherlands (yay for shipping from China via PostNL!) so will hopefully be here sooner rather than later. I'll be posting an unboxing when I get it, and a review once I've used it for a bit.

It says X9 has 16gb ROM, can anyone tell me how it is partitioned?
Is it 16gb (minus OS space) one partition, or 2 partitions as on X6 and older phones?
Becouse I need dual sim, and if it is 1gb + 15 gb, then it is useless without memory card.
Thanks for reply.

krikesha said:
It says X9 has 16gb ROM, can anyone tell me how it is partitioned?
Is it 16gb (minus OS space) one partition, or 2 partitions as on X6 and older phones?
Becouse I need dual sim, and if it is 1gb + 15 gb, then it is useless without memory card.
Thanks for reply.
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System: 904MB
Cache: 128MB
Data: 13.5GB

Nice

What are the drawbacks, even small!
Looking to replace my DG310 and this phone seems to get good reviews! Thanks in advance!

nagy
Hello
The phone is great.
How can I change on Cubot X9 the lock screen background and how can I add widget or buttons to ?
Tkx

yeah is cool
You Can change it but with other launcher but I don't know how change it with the default launcher and the phone is nice is fast and the battery no is bad just that the temperature is a little high , and not more this phone with the 3g not during 8 hour but with the 2g during 17- 25 hour or more how you use it. I wait the lollipop for this phone .

Just saw this thread - it looks as if the X9 can have two SIMs *or* one SIM and a microSD card, but *not* two SIMs and a microSD card. Is that right? It's not useful to me if so.

That's right.
http://www.cubot.net/Data/Uploads/image/2014/11/26/x909.jpg

Cubot X9 review
Hi,
I've just published the review of Cubot X9 with tests results and full size sample photos. Unfortunately, I can't post the outside links yet, but if you are interested, you can find the review here: androidtablets com ua

it's fantastic

Mlais M7 1.7GHz MT6752 3GB RAM 13mp IMX135 camera :D

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Mlais just released their Mlais M7 which comes with some awesome specs for just under $190 dollar. Looks like a decent piece of equipment, though I don't have any idea how the Mlais smartphones normally perform (never had one) and my biggest concern is the battery, will it be enough? What do you guys think, is this a good buy or not?
Specifications
5.5" inch 720p IPS
1.7GHz Octa-core MT6752
3GB RAM
16GB ROM
13 megapixel Sony IMX135
4G
Fingerprint ID
2,600mAh battery
Source: Chinese-smartphones.com Mlais M7 article

Looks pretty much like the Ulephone Be Touch and in the same way seems to be trying to compete with Elephone's current time market dominator or rather "pioneer" P7000.
Pricewise, you pay for what you get in terms of sacrificing battery life (only thing ive spotted so far - so maybe 1 or 2 more things) to get it a bit cheaper than current price of P7000.
Personally I'd skip this and try my luck with the P7000 as they have sales on wednesdays or something.
this article sums things up nicely as they stand at the moment:fingers-crossed:
http://www.gizchina.com/2015/05/11/elephone-p7000-vs-mlais-m7-vs-ulefone-be-touch/

Ordered one in presale. When it arrives, I will let you know how it stands against Be Touch.

some recovery modded for this phone?

@mesang OP could you add the video to post #1?
Here my FULL REVIEW of the MLAiS M7
(Timestamps are in the video description on Youtube)
Camera samples:
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/ibl218hjzp74l/MLAiS_M7_Camera_Samples
AnTuTu score:
47.200
MLAiS M7 ROM update here:
http://www.mlais.com/html/201506/content_183.html
Source: MLAiS
Source: s7yler

I also got this phone
Camera sample pictures / Geekbench 3 Battery Test: http://colonelzap.blogspot.de/2015/06/mlais-m7-review-mt6752-64-bit-octa-core.html

@s7yler : hi I saw you're tested P7000, and can you tell us, if there is a great gap between these phones about the camera? Also about the battery. Thanks
"Envoyé depuis mon CUBOT ONE avec Tapatalk"

fennec91 said:
@s7yler : hi I saw you're tested P7000, and can you tell us, if there is a great gap between these phones about the camera? Also about the battery. Thanks
"Envoyé depuis mon CUBOT ONE avec Tapatalk"
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One thing I can clearly say is that the battery is much better in the P7000, I think it lasts double the time of the M7. Regarding the cameras, the gap is not that big. On the P7000 they still need to optimize the camera (imx214) some more, and on the M7, the sensor is a smaller version (imx135), but still does take some decent pictures.

I liked this phone.

@styler : thanks for your analyze. I like the M7 because dimensions are smaller than P7000 for the same screen size. But, if battery seems to be not efficient, I am prefer waiting an other model.
"Envoyé depuis mon CUBOT ONE avec Tapatalk"

Is it already available for delivery and where's the best shop to buy it ?
Sent from my A0001 using XDA Free mobile app

phones to buy....
Good to everyone ;
I hereby request information, to solve what to buy to replace my UMIZERO, which as everyone knows has problems with battery (up to 12 hours of normal use);
the My phones are like now:
Elephone p 7000;
ulefone be touch;
mlais M7 ...
I intend;
1º- battery,
2º- photography,
3º-screen....
I ask the help of someone who has, and who has already reviews ....
thanks to the help , and the phone is to PORTUGAL,,,....I have to buy in eu warehouse.....

Does Mlais M7 supports 3G/4G on both SIM1/SIM2 card slots?

Hi guys, what you get as SOT on this phone? 4/5hours maybe? is the battery fake in this one or not?
How is the support for customs roms and such? any issues with touch responsiveness and updates from Mlas?

Own one
Phone is great, looks really good, I think it's one of the smallest 5.5" phones, like there is a difference yet still it gives us nice screen to body ratio, also thickness is very, very comfortable you can carry it in tight jeans in front pocket. Design and dimensions of this phone are it's biggest pro.
Display is HD resolution 720x1280 covered by gorilla glass 3, yes you can get higher resolution screens but they will put more stress on cpu&gpu, lower resolution is better performance and that equals less power needed from 2600mAh battery, so in my opinion (almost three weeks) it's not that bad (could be better, as usual). Front facing camera 5Mp works, 13Mp sensor of back camera is paired with LED flash and can shoot great photos and videos (samples provided).
Specs are as expected MT6752 64Bit octa-core with 3Gigs of ram, splitted in two partitions 16gb memory and Mali T760 GPU. Multitasking on this device is sweet, you can have 20+! apps open in memory without any problems! Actually I don’t have enough apps to use all memory! GPU is fast, hmm I've played some games, games work with high frame rate, without problems. LTE works on both sim slots, (probably not at the same time did not tested). I don't know what's the highest supported capacity of MicroSD card slot, 64-128 maybe more? Fingerprint sensor is present and works without any problems phone unlocks fast. Did not noticed any problems with any wireless connectivity Wi-Fi, bluetooth, LTE (in europe)...
Also happened that I've opened M7 it looks like it shares P7000 motherboard. And that bring us to only one problem with this device. It sucks and it’s lollipop I'm looking for a way to port KitKat to it or find fix for current version. Phone works great but problem is that it's performance is inconsistent. Mlais M7 sometimes start loosing frames in UI elements animation, then reboot or patience helps, I don't have installed any apps on this device (problem testing) and concluded that software needs help.

There is new firmware that removes internal sd card so memory is merged. . Battery sucks but I didn't have any problems so far.
Firmware can be downloaded form mlais support site or can be downloaded from their forum
Sent from my M7 using Tapatalk

a very very small battery. physically M7 is too close with my P7000

The new M7 Plus looks promising.

strange torch and camera problem
SirDigitalKnight said:
The new M7 Plus looks promising.
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Hello, a friend of mine have buyied this phone two weeks ago. From the very first moment he have a strange problem: if turn on the torch the led light it's norma. But after using the torch if he try to take any picture with the main camera the screen look totally black. But the frontal camera work normally. He need to reset the phone with a factory reset. If he nenver use the torch both the cameras work well with andwithout the led flash opened. But the first time he need to turn on the torch ...boom! The camera phone became crazy! Now he have done all the OTA updates (now it's at the last version M7-20150727 with android 5.0) but the problem persist.
The phone is under warranty but if anyone know an alternative rom that can resolve the problem, please give us an hand! Thankyou!

Hey Guys i Just relased my Custom rom for Mlais M7 based on Android 5.1.1 (real SDK 22)
You can find more info there
5.1 Rom
Hope to see you with my rom
SpaceX