Chinese Phones

ave said:
hey you got it. Good stuff! how much did customs end up being if you don't mind me asking?
how you enjoying it now that you've had a few days to play?
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Not a cent, it actually pitched up at home on the 10th from RAM and in DHL packaging. No customs whatsoever. It is a good choise to pay that extra R10 and tell them to put the phone in an unmarked box. Customs don't look into it then.

Since I've had it, its been really really good, I just got caught up with tests and I completely forgot about this thread. I ended up installing Nova Launcher and that just made it pretty much perfect. It has a very stock android feel about it too, even without Nova.

The Camera is decent as a quick point and shoot but nothing anywhere close to the standards that the big brands have set.

The screen is simply astoundingly good! Excellent colour representation and HD looks gorgeous.

Call quality is very good, can't really notice a difference between my stolen iPhone and this.

In terms of gaming, I've been able to play Real Racing 3 and FIFA 14 with no lag at all. All the other less graphic intense games work with no problems anyway.

The battery life is decent. I can get about 12 hours on the battery when just using it for messaging and calling, and the occasional game. I want to get the 3000MAh battery before it goes out of production though because I somehow feel it would help a lot, especially with it having to power a 5 inch screen.

It comes with a tiny 4GB built in memory but I put a 64GB memory card in it. Anyone know how I can force apps to install on the memory card by default, and get the email app to save them on the memory card and not the internal memory?

The other thing I've noticed is they printed a multitasking button on the capacitive buttons, but it functions as a menu button, anyone with an idea of how to force it to multitasking?

The gigabyte of RAM is handling the device nicely for now.

All in all, I have to say that I'm quite pleased with the phone, it works, it does what I want it to, and I haven't seen any instabilities in the ROM. Although I would say that I want to install KitKat onto it, because the ROM does hide some options and installs apps to control them, which is annoying when I've gone and deleted them. Does anyone know if chinese phones ever get updates to the android os?

I'll try and post a couple of pics over the weekend and feel free to ask anything else.
 
I've been trying to make sense of all the phones mentioned in this thread - and a few others - but it may just be the time of night, so forgive my ignorance please :o

But would anyone mind linking to options, at R2k incl shipping to anything worthwhile please?
 
BhAvZzZ said:
Anyone know how I can force apps to install on the memory card by default, and get the email app to save them on the memory card and not the internal memory?

The other thing I've noticed is they printed a multitasking button on the capacitive buttons, but it functions as a menu button, anyone with an idea of how to force it to multitasking?

The gigabyte of RAM is handling the device nicely for now.
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Titanium backup can help you with moving to SD but you need root, you will need root and I am sure you will find something to change buttons
 
I have moved all apps to SD on a Chinese phone I bought last month so I know it works perfect although it will give u a warning. I have heard about xposed framework that can help with buttons but don't know what devices it works on
 
I may be mistaken but 3G/WCDMA : 900/2100 should be fine in SA as per this link http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html . The biggest problem for me was when I received the phone there was no imei on it and I could not register on any network, it took me a few days to figure this out but once I did I found a toll to add imei manually. Lucky there seems to be a few tools to help you out on the mediatek chips used on most of these phones.
 
Shake&Bake said:
Thanks.
How are you handling the 3G data though?
I notice that the bands supported are:

Code: 
2G	GSM: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
3G	WCDMA: 900 / 2100 MHz

Or am I mistaken?

Got those deets from the following link: http://www.etotalk.com/iocean-x7-hd_p5044.html
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Yea don't stress. I did a crapload of research before I bought this phone. those 3G bands work on Cell C (900), Vodacom and MTN (2100). Just double check all the phones that you look at on other sources as well to make sure that they really operate on those bands and you should be good to go.
 
BhAvZzZ said:
Yea don't stress. I did a crapload of research before I bought this phone. those 3G bands work on Cell C (900), Vodacom and MTN (2100). Just double check all the phones that you look at on other sources as well to make sure that they really operate on those bands and you should be good to go.
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Cheers and thanks :D
I like the look of that X7 - ticks all the boxes for me :)
 
Dang - great specs and prices (the $99.99 being out of stock though)
Can't seem to see if they ship here directly...
 
Forgot about this link. Yeah I would definitely be interested in seeing some photos.
I can't believe it only cost R2200. You can probably get something just a little better than a samsung pocket for that!
Did you figure out how to install to the SD card yet? You usually just go into google play store and select the option under settings as far as I know. (unfortunately I only have a nexus 7, which doesn't have additional card support) It doesn't install everything to sd card though.
 
I bought a Cubot X6 from rtayob. Got it this morning and just been installing a few apps and stuff. Plan is to set it up exactly like my S4 and see if it's possible for a ~R2300 Chinese phone to replace a ~R5000+ south African network cartel endorsed phone.

So far no issues but I haven't done much, just chucked in my 8.ta 10gb data sim for now.
 
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