Hello, everyone!
I live in Romania and was interested in buying Idol 3 through my phone provider, Orange. I can see that Idol 3 5.5" is already up to buy in most countries from Orange, but in Romania I only have seen the 4.7" weak version so far.
Anyone has any info on when it is going to be available to buy from Orange?
Nope, seems that Idol 3 will not come to romania in 5.5" shape. Only 4.7... Orange did a mistake in this decision, the 5.5" would have been much better, they do not offer solutions as they should to users need of a mid range, inexpensive phablet. Now my only options for something with a big screen are note 4 and htc 820;
Did you try to buy it SIM-Unlocked, directly from Amazon France, UK or Germany ? Germany might be cheaper regarding shipping costs to Romania.
I have already bought it from Orange (free of contract) for about 1.000 RON (4.7 inch). Nobody else sells it. This is the best smartphone I've ever had in years. And I've tried them all (Note 3, M4, M4, Honor 6, Ascend P6, X1 xtreme mini, X1 soul mini, G2, G3s, Spirit, Z3c, Redmi 2 and so on...). Good luck!
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Oops!!! Today I'm gonna to tell you a good new that I have to share with you all.
ZTE has announced that it is launching the Blade S6 Plus globally, exclusively on eBay. Featuring a 5.5-inch 720p display powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core chipset, clocked at 1.5gHz, and comes with a LTE radio. The ZTE Blade S6 Plus runs ZTE's customizable MiFavor 3.0 user interface on top of Android 5.0 Lollipop.
The phone is priced at $299.99, or £199.99 and €276.99 for the United Kingdom and Europe, respectively. But now, it is priced at $269.99, $30 off, only one week in The US, £182.99, £17 off, only for 10 days in the UK, €252.99, €24 off, only one week in the Europe.
You don't have to pay the full price if you're eager enough to snatch one up right away.
And I hope it can help those who'er looking forward to owning one.
Such a bummer I paid the same for blade s6 5" LTE and now there's a 5'5" grrrrr
Bought value for money. Very good fast phone with decent build quality.
Looks to be some massive bargains around at Gearbest in the upcoming sale on 11/11/16 (that is a date where format doesnt matter which helps)
http://www.gearbest.com/m-promotion-active-261.html
The three phones that looked most interesting to me are the :-
ASUS ZenPhone 2 (ZE551ML 4GB/16GB) @ £117.99 although not all UK LTE Frequencies are supported if it is suitable for you it's a very high spec device - http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_230531.html
ZTE Axon Mini - This does have all UK LTE bands and a decent mid range SD615 @ £117.99 - http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_247009.html?wid=11
XiaoMi Mi4 International 3G Version - if you are down with 3G only then this is a beast with an SD801 and a lovely 5inch FHD screen @ £102.09 - http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_452985.html?wid=4
You are not going to get anything like this kind of bang for buck at UK retailers and in the renewed spirit of international free trade then I thought, why not
If you as me is loving the design of the Mate 9 Porsche but not the price, there is good news. The Mate 9 Pro has been released today in Scandinavia at a event held in Copenhagen. The Mate 9 Pro is basically the Mate 9 Porsche without the Porsche branding, and at around half the price.
The Mate 9 Pro was released in China a few weeks ago, but it is great to see it released in Europe.
Avalible for preorder now, delivery starts on 20. of december.
Price 5.999 DKK (appx. 800 EUR) for 128 GB version. Preorders includes a pair of Huawei AM185 Active Noise Cancelling earphones.
Full specs: http://consumer.huawei.com/dk/support/products/technicalspecs/mate9pro-dk.htm
It's a nice phone but the screen size is to small for my tastes. Hopefully they will still release the same specs with a 5.9 inch form factor.
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Yep, 5.9 a must have!
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If you as me is loving the design of the Mate 9 Porsche but not the price, there is good news. The Mate 9 Pro has been released today in Scandinavia at a event held in Copenhagen. The Mate 9 Pro is basically the Mate 9 Porsche without the Porsche branding, and at around half the price.
The Mate 9 Pro was released in China a few weeks ago, but it is great to see it released in Europe.
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At what price ?
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At what price ?
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5.999 DKK list price (about 800 EUR).
I have preordered with a 6 month contract a about 4.750 DKK / 640 EUR.
It is 128GB only + slot for SD card or a second sim (which I am going to use it for)
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5.999 DKK list price (about 800 EUR).
I have preordered with a 6 month contract a about 4.750 DKK / 640 EUR.
It is 128GB only + slot for SD card or a second sim (which I am going to use it for)
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Please post sample photos when you receive it [emoji6]
I like a Mate series screen to be big ha ha
Quad HD would have been nice but full HD is good too in real life if you don`t use VR.
Any online shop taking preorders?
EMF said:
If you as me is loving the design of the Mate 9 Porsche but not the price, there is good news. The Mate 9 Pro has been released today in Scandinavia at a event held in Copenhagen. The Mate 9 Pro is basically the Mate 9 Porsche without the Porsche branding, and at around half the price.
The Mate 9 Pro was released in China a few weeks ago, but it is great to see it released in Europe.
Avalible for preorder now, delivery starts on 20. of december.
Price 5.999 DKK (appx. 800 EUR) for 128 GB version. Preorders includes a pair of Huawei AM185 Active Noise Cancelling earphones.
Full specs: http://consumer.huawei.com/dk/support/products/technicalspecs/mate9pro-dk.htm
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Please can you provide us the website to order this mobile ?
I second the motion. @EMF
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Please can you provide us the website to order this mobile ?
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Currently it is only available for pre-order. It will be delivered from december 20. It can be pre-ordered from most of the mobile service providers and a few tech-shops like http://www.elgiganten.dk/product/mo...T9PGY/huawei-mate-9-pro-smartphone-128-gb-gra and http://www.wupti.com/produkter/mobil,-gps-og-foto/mobiltelefoner/huawei/huawei-mate-9-pro-gold. I don't think they ship internationally thu, and the mobile service providers definitely dont.
The phone will probably be available from more shops after it becomes available for delivery.
It doesn't support SD card slot though. Neither does the Porsche edition apparently. They claim it's due to support for 3G/4G on the second SIM but from what I understand the regular Mate 9 does support both. Just wanted to throw that out there.
I'm currently strongly considering picking it up but I'm deeply concerned about dev support considering the Kirin SoC, multiple SKUs with varying specs and potentially few devs picking up the device due to price and availability.
The pro variant including porsche design scored less in performance and graphics compared to the full fledged Mate 9.
So choose what you want in your Mate 9. Performance or Looks.
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The pro variant including porsche design scored less in performance and graphics compared to the full fledged Mate 9.
So choose what you want in your Mate 9. Performance or Looks.
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That's a given. HIgher resolution display and the same chip in a bigger device usually gives a higher thermal headroom resulting in better benchmark scores but the difference should be negligible.
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That's a given. HIgher resolution display and the same chip in a bigger device usually gives a higher thermal headroom resulting in better benchmark scores but the difference should be negligible.
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You know , I sold my Mate 9 for the only purpose of buying the Pro variant with 6gb/128 configuration.
Well until someone confirms that we can get a pro with Google play installed officially.
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You know , I sold my Mate 9 for the only purpose of buying the Pro variant with 6gb/128 configuration.
Well until someone confirms that we can get a pro with Google play installed officially.
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Well, as this thread indicates, the Pro can be bought with Google Play installed
(However, it will be released on December 20th, so that's a long way to go if you intend to install the Scandinavian ROM on what I assume is a Chinese variant?)
In fact, If I buy the Mate 9, I can only buy the Pro unless I buy from another EU country. The regular Mate 9 has not been launched in Scandinavia which disappointed many and they said at the time that they had no intentions of bringing it here. Fast forward three weeks and the Pro was announced to launch and the Pro will be the only Mate 9 variant in the Scandinavian market. So I'm guessing that the Pro might only be on the market in China and Scandinavia which makes me question the development for the device :/
It saddens me a bit that the Pro will actually be a step back in some regards compared to the regular variant: no SD card slot and slightly decreased SoC performance (as you mention), fewer color variants (only two colors for this market: gold and grey) - and some would say the fingerprint scanner moving to the front is a downgrade as well. I also saw some disappointment in the AMOLED display not being a 6" (or larger) one; the complaint being they wanted an actual big phone but I don't mind too much personally. I have a 5.2" device now and it already slips out of some of my pockets due to the size, so a 6" behemoth wouldn't help in that department
They probably couldn't source a decent AMOLED display at that size although I'm curious as to how well calibrated the display is. Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers haven't been known for their attention to that kind of detail. Samsung, the Pixel and the OnePlus 3(T) have well calibrated AMOLED displays but the rest of the market seems to neglect that.
Call me guilty, I put my Pixel XL for sale and bought a Mate 9 (second time after the gold M9) with my favorite color Space Grey (no more silly black borders).
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Call me guilty, I put my Pixel XL for sale and bought a Mate 9 (second time after the gold M9) with my favorite color Space Grey (no more silly black borders).
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Congratz! I knew you would come back...
Well, I bit the bullet and pre-ordered the Huawei Mate 9 Pro in Space Grey. So I'll be getting a nice Christmas present.
I just hope development for this device will pick up because it will certainly prolong the life of the device; however it does seem from reviews that it's a great device.
I'm coming from an LG G2 which has been somewhat of an underground success with a fantastic developer community around it, so I doubt any non-Samsung/Nexus/Pixel/OnePlus device can live up to that but hopefully it will be enough
I have the Porsche Design and placed alongside my mate 9 the screen size difference is negligible due to the on screen navigation buttons on the mate 9.
This looks to be the ideal 'compact' flagship phone.
Will update thread when resellers have it.
Chinese version available from GeekBuying - https://www.geekbuying.com/search?keyword=Xiaomi 12
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Chinese version available from GeekBuying - https://www.geekbuying.com/search?keyword=Xiaomi 12
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They're so expensive. Damn
Yea youd be a fool to buy from geekbuying
Trading Shenzhen: https://tradingshenzhen.com/en/xiaomi-12-12x-xiaomi-12-pro/xiaomi-12-8gb128gb
Is it bad to buy a Chinese if I live in Europe? How is costum rom support on Xiaomi? I like Roms like crdroid.
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Is it bad to buy a Chinese if I live in Europe? How is costum rom support on Xiaomi? I like Roms like crdroid.
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That's probably you're only option unless there is a global release. Custom roms are good with popular Xiaomi phones.
I would have already ordered if it had all LTE bands .. but some are missing (for Germany)
so I will skip the Mi12 and stay with my Mi11.
The Global device will cost to much in germany... thats why I always buy a CN import device
Cheapest at AliExpress - https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesal...lesale&SortType=price_desc&page=1&groupsort=1
More availability to Australia than EU/UK/US though, like the 12X - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003744772674.html
tradingshenzen is much more cheaper
and you will get it faster
797 Euro
Xiaomi 12 Pro - 8GB/128GB - Snapdragon 8Gen1 - 120 Hz AMOLED
The Xiaomi 12 Pro impresses with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, a 6.73-inch 2K Amoled display with 120Hz LTPO 2.0 technology, 8GB/128GB, 50-megapixel wide-angle Sony IMX707 with Cyber Focus Mode, 4600mAh battery with 120W Super Charging including Surge P1 power chip, Harman Kardon Pro Audio speakers and...
tradingshenzhen.com
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Yea youd be a fool to buy from geekbuying
Trading Shenzhen: https://tradingshenzhen.com/en/xiaomi-12-12x-xiaomi-12-pro/xiaomi-12-8gb128gb
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tradingshenzen is much more cheaper
and you will get it faster
797 Euro
Xiaomi 12 Pro - 8GB/128GB - Snapdragon 8Gen1 - 120 Hz AMOLED
The Xiaomi 12 Pro impresses with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, a 6.73-inch 2K Amoled display with 120Hz LTPO 2.0 technology, 8GB/128GB, 50-megapixel wide-angle Sony IMX707 with Cyber Focus Mode, 4600mAh battery with 120W Super Charging including Surge P1 power chip, Harman Kardon Pro Audio speakers and...
tradingshenzhen.com
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You used them before? How long was delivery to your location?
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I would have already ordered if it had all LTE bands .. but some are missing (for Germany)
so I will skip the Mi12 and stay with my Mi11.
The Global device will cost to much in germany... thats why I always buy a CN import device
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Where did you see the list of bands?
Giztop had the lowest price. Use code alexwang for 3.5% discount.
Just got email phone was dispatched today.
I have Xiaomi 12 pro, but I don't know how to sell it to people in other countries. Maybe ebay is a good choice，I can put it on ebay if you need it
got mine today from tradingshenzen delivered to a suburban of germany/berlin
I purchased some from a Retail store in China. So far they've been really great....I just need to change to global version as Im not a fan of the CN one.
I got mine from a seller on eBay UK. CN rom with Google apps side loaded. Got the phone plus 3 cases. It cost me £450 after eBay gave me a discount.
I agree with eshlad about the CN rom, especially the Chinese notifications plus it doesn't connect to my car.
It has one plus point though, better signal reception than my Mi 11.
Trading-ShenZen
12s Ultra 8/256 - 935 Euro
12s Ultra 12/256 - 1002 Euro
12s Ultra 12/512 - 1072 Euro
Huawei P50 Pro and P50 Pocket global rollout officially starts
Both smartphones are powered by 4G versions of the Snapdragon 888. Today Huawei officially announced the start of the global availability of its recent...
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Personally I'm waiting to see if there's a GMS sideload method. I rely too much on google unfortunately. I had a P40 Pro for a while but back then it was possible to sideload Google services so there weren't any major issues... Unfortunately the Mate 40 Pro (global version) users cannot install Google Play Services TO THIS DAY, and I'm afraid it will be the same with the P50 Pro. The only "solution" is to buy a Chinese variant from China. For whatever reason, the LZPlay/Googlefier apps work on Chinese variants but not on Global ones. Not ideal!
Also the price is kinda high. €1199 in France. Freebuds Pro included for a short time. I was hoping it would be below €1k but I was deluding myself.
Price is 1199€ in Germany stores also, not very competitive pricing, but I guess some people will still buy it.
By pre-order, I bought a Huawei P50 Pro (JAD--LX9, Snapdragon 888 4G) in Russia on February 8 for 1025 euros. According to the promotion, Huawei Watch 3 Active LTE 46mm (305 euros) was received as a gift with the order.
I think it's a great price. Taking into account the fact that Samsung S22+ we have 1100 euros on pre-order, and S22 Ultra 1420. And as a bonus, there are only Galaxy Buds Pro (160 euros)