Hi Android pips,
So as Chinese Smartphones becomes more and more popular and are pretty cheap with a decent specs I was wondering how does such market of a cheap and decent smartphones affects a security side of it and no I'm not talking about System Updates but viruses/backdoors itself placed in such devices if there are any ? I myself had recently to buy a new smartphone and didn't had much money so I have decided to go for Chinese smartphone and I got Cubot x12. The company seems pretty legit. What do you guys think about all of this ?
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Hi i wanting to buy a cheap chinese android tablet for games and work but curious with the durability,because i will use it for long maybe 2 year so, anyone who have experience with cheap chinese tablet since 2010 please share your experience.Does it durable enough and lasting for 1 or 2 year maybe? or ussually have problem after using for few months?
My target was Ainol elf 2,ainol is known top chinese tablet maker so i think the quality surely good compared to cheap OEM tablet.My uncle said that chinese tablet ussually broke with in few month due to low quality battery and become junk after that because cant be repaired(no service for china tablet in my country). And well ..... used ainol elf 2 sold at 80$ here and 80$ in my country is quite amount of money.I dont want my 80$ become useless after few month.
so if anyone have opinion or experience please share it
i am looking into this name brand "DOOGEE" as a cheap way to get into the game (unless you can help me unhardbrick a S4,yeah ouch)
they have seemingly amazing deals, yet i am not finding a chat forum anywhere on the nets for them
this is a list of thier phones ( doogee.cc/en/gb/products.asp?cid=32 ) i am looking at the dg500 because of financial reasons
i figure if i could drop 350 i'd just get another S4 (which is what i want) but i just dropped 350 on the one i got, right before it bricked
SO ! anyone with knowledge as to where i can find a doogee chat forum (preferably with modding a highpoint) PLEAS link it for me!!!
On the Dutch website Tweakers.net a few people already got Doogee phones and to me it looks like a good brand when you want a bang for buck Chinese smartphone with an mt6582 chipset.
On the moment the DOOGEE PIXELS DG350 is on presale by Focalprice and I bought one for € 71,30 and that's a really good price for such a phone. And this brand seems to sponsor a Spanish football club orso. But ofcourse its a small brand, just like UMI, Jiayu, iNew, iOcean, etc and some off these brands sell the same phone, but then rebranded.
Recently I have been thinking if I should get a new tablet brands ppl usually never heard of or get those big names, like Samsung or nexus.
The advantage of buying a tablet from big companies is the quality and service, but I have using my iPad for many years and never enjoyed any service benefit. Besides the price of an iPad is enough for me to get 2 Android tablet.
I have been working on the research of some new brands, like Neu, ProntoTec and RecPad. I found that they actually offers much better value than those big names, especially RecPad(rectonics.com), they offer a 9'' 1.8GHz quad-core high performance tablet for only 199.
What kind of tablet should I choose?
ryan_hong said:
Recently I have been thinking if I should get a new tablet brands ppl usually never heard of or get those big names, like Samsung or nexus.
The advantage of buying a tablet from big companies is the quality and service, but I have using my iPad for many years and never enjoyed any service benefit. Besides the price of an iPad is enough for me to get 2 Android tablet.
I have been working on the research of some new brands, like Neu, ProntoTec and RecPad. I found that they actually offers much better value than those big names, especially RecPad(rectonics.com), they offer a 9'' 1.8GHz quad-core high performance tablet for only 199.
What kind of tablet should I choose?
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if you have money and you want to try them ...then try the new stuff
if you don't have all that money then buy your tablet from known companies cuz you know what and how is the performance in it
Both new and big brands provide godd phones at an affordable price range
If you are looking for services big brands provide better service than the new brands
But some new brands are providing phones with same specifications that big brands provide,at a lower price....
Anyway you must ensure quality before purchasing....
If you want to save money, buy a tablet from a known brand, but from a generation or two previous. You can get a Samsung Tab Pro 8.4 for $235 with Snapdragon 800 2.3GHz and 2gb RAM, or the 10.1" for $320.
The RecPad looks interesting, but can you trust that it'll be worth what you're paying, even with the low price? What kind of processor is it? Mediatek? Rocketchip? Intel? What about service/repair? It just all seems like a gamble to me, without any history or reviews to assuage the apprehension of dropping $200.
As per my view if you change your gadget often then you should go for cheaper one, but if you are looking for a long term device then you should go for brands. I have noticed that you may get more features in cheaper tabs but the quality and processing of a branded tab is better than it. rest depends on your choice.
Do you guys trust the privacy or security of cheap phones? I am in the market for sub-$200 phones and while a lot of the Chinese ones seem like bargains, I'm not suure about trusting my data to places like Xiaomi or Huawei, let alone no-names like Doogee or Covia.
I've heard of backdoors being placed on used grey market phones, but I am also concerned about Superfish-style corporate backdoors. Do you think the cheapest phones are being subsidized by collecting/selling user data, the way Lenovo was doing with laptops?
Please share your stories if you've had experience with dodgy preinstalled software on phones.
no, even expensive ones.
Hey guys,
So I'm thinking about getting a new mid range phone, and while I asked earlier on this subreddit about a Xiaomi phone, I got the feeling that most people would rather go after another phone as a budget phone. I have stumpled upoen the Huawei M10 Lite, Motorola G6 Play and even the Huawei P20 lite, but wonder if I should pick any of those, or even another phone as a mid range phone?
Now the story: I have an iPhone 6S, which is more or less dead. The antenna is garbage (even worse than my GF's, which also have an 6S, so my phone is somewhat damaged apparently), and the battery life is not what its used to be, and since I am done with expensive phones (which is why I go for a mid range Android), I was thinking about getting a new one. The Android market is a little more complext than the iPhone market, since theres usually 2-3 iPhone models that comes out every year, which make the choice easier, but the Android market is a jungle for someone who doesn't really know the market well. The reason I've chosen M10 Lite, G6 Play and Huawei p20 Lite as choices is because the budget doesnt break my bank, and even though they all have flaws, they seem like good phones for the price. I live in Denmark, where prices are somewhat high on the phones. Right now most of them are on sale, and the prices range like this:
Huawei M10 Lite : 266 USD (On Sale, normal price 313 USD) Moto G6 Play: 235 USD Huawei P20 Lite: 360 USD (On Sale, normal price (438)
What's important for me is a phone thats not sluggish, and has a decent camera. I know these mid range phones has pretty bad cameras, with some better than other. But none of them can match my iphone 6S in that regard.
Are any of these phones worth it, or is it worth digging up an old flagship from the previous years, and in which case, which one?
Hi! We have a dedicated thread for these types of questions, https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620179
So I'll close this one. Good luck! :good: