The Official Chinese Phones Thread

Upgrade · 2 Sep 2015 at 00:27

I shall do

Upgrade · 2 Sep 2015 at 13:40

The phone is amazing. I bought a Moto 4g 3 months ago for £95 and it doesn't even come close to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 that is £102...

I can't wait to properly use it, but first impressions are really, really good. It is on the big side, but I'll get used to it fairly quickly.

Here's a few pictures taken by my tablet and the current phone, so the quality isn't great! Last picture was taken with the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 to show how good the camera is. It was just a quick picture, so I'm sure I could get better quality out of it (I'm not so great with photography

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http://imgur.com/a/5zUn7

If anyone is interested, I bought it from http://www.oppomart.com/xiaomi/xiaomi-redmi-note-2.html - it was £12 delivery and it took just over a week (ordered on 24th August and it came today).

MoBo · 2 Sep 2015 at 16:22

King4aDay said:
It was pretty straight forward, although I wasn't terribly organised in the way I went about it.

Root guide here - http://gadgetunlocker.com/how-to-root-lenovo-k3-note-k50-t5/

Then installed ESET anti virus and Jumobile system app remover and uninstalled anything that ESET flagged after doing a full scan, and anything else that looked like bloatware and basically anything that had Chinese characters in the name. Then installed a new launcher, dialer, etc etc but those are obviously personal choice.

There are still one or two system apps that I'm not 100 percent sure what they do, but ESET isn't finding anything to complain about and I'll look at them more closely when I can be bothered.

Did you have any trouble with cellular data or camera not working?

neocon · 2 Sep 2015 at 18:06

What network are you on? Just wondering if this will work on Three 4G?

Upgrade said:
The phone is amazing. I bought a Moto 4g 3 months ago for £95 and it doesn't even come close to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 that is £102...

I can't wait to properly use it, but first impressions are really, really good. It is on the big side, but I'll get used to it fairly quickly.

Here's a few pictures taken by my tablet and the current phone, so the quality isn't great! Last picture was taken with the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 to show how good the camera is. It was just a quick picture, so I'm sure I could get better quality out of it (I'm not so great with photography )

http://imgur.com/a/5zUn7

If anyone is interested, I bought it from http://www.oppomart.com/xiaomi/xiaomi-redmi-note-2.html - it was £12 delivery and it took just over a week (ordered on 24th August and it came today).

fish_dan · 2 Sep 2015 at 18:09

Is the oneplusone any good??

Mobius 1 · 2 Sep 2015 at 18:20

Looks good! Tempted to buy one at that price. Let us know how you get on with the battery life.

Darey · 2 Sep 2015 at 19:45

Upgrade said:
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2

Looks very nice. It does look big.

What's android like on this?
What's it like to hold?

Just as I was nearly buying one of the note 2's, Huawei announce a new phone today. They seem to release new phones almost monthly.

horrorwood · 2 Sep 2015 at 20:54

Darey said:
Looks very nice. It does look big.

What's android like on this?
What's it like to hold?

Just as I was nearly buying one of the note 2's, Huawei announce a new phone today. They seem to release new phones almost monthly.

It's android...

It is pretty much as you'd expect really. Apart from there is no app drawer, you just swipe to the right for all of your apps. One annoying thing at first is that it did warn me about data usage on a lot of things until I disabled it. But there really is nothing bad about it, the amount of customisation you can do is really quite surprising.

Honestly it is slightly slippy to hold at first, but you do get used to it and then it is fine. I do have a very thin cheapo gel type case that came with mine, I have been using that about 50% of the time.

On another note I have just order a OnePlus 2 today. I have a problem.

Darey · 2 Sep 2015 at 21:45

horrorwood said:
It's android... It is pretty much as you'd expect really. Apart from there is no app drawer, you just swipe to the right for all of your apps. One annoying thing at first is that it did warn me about data usage on a lot of things until I disabled it. But there really is nothing bad about it, the amount of customisation you can do is really quite surprising.

Honestly it is slightly slippy to hold at first, but you do get used to it and then it is fine. I do have a very thin cheapo gel type case that came with mine, I have been using that about 50% of the time.

On another note I have just order a OnePlus 2 today. I have a problem.

Thanks for the info.

Haha. It's not a problem. People collect stamps, you collect phones :cool:

Upgrade · 3 Sep 2015 at 00:08

neocon said:
What network are you on? Just wondering if this will work on Three 4G?

I'm on three, but theres no 4g coverage in my area, but I don't see why it wouldn't work for you.

mithrandir · 3 Sep 2015 at 00:47

The Xiaomi looks great; well spec for the money.
What sort of usage time do you get from the battery?

King4aDay · 3 Sep 2015 at 01:42

MoBo said:
Did you have any trouble with cellular data or camera not working?

Nope. Data connection has been really good (albeit only 3g in my area) and the camera works fine.

Using Limoncello 5.1 ROM now which is pretty solid.

horrorwood · 3 Sep 2015 at 08:21

mithrandir said:
The Xiaomi looks great; well spec for the money.
What sort of usage time do you get from the battery?

I have not measured it but I can get home from work with 40 to 50% of battery left, where as the S6 would be pretty much dead.

4g works fine on Three, I did a speedtest and got 55mbit down and 18mbit up.

sanaxe1 · 3 Sep 2015 at 10:38

Just purchased a Meizu M2 Note. Should be here sometime next week hopefully. Got it for Sat-Nav and as a backup phone so hopefully theres no problem with the GPS like some phones from China.

neocon · 3 Sep 2015 at 11:14

Which phones have the best ROMs available?

Mp4 · 3 Sep 2015 at 11:19

where is the best place to get a one plus 2?

Mobius 1 · 3 Sep 2015 at 12:18

sanaxe1 said:
Just purchased a Meizu M2 Note. Should be here sometime next week hopefully. Got it for Sat-Nav and as a backup phone so hopefully theres no problem with the GPS like some phones from China.

I had no issue with the gps on my Chinese phone (it was a much lesser brand too)

The m2 note looks great. Love the blue colour option!

sanaxe1 · 3 Sep 2015 at 12:24

Tauren said:
I had no issue with the gps on my Chinese phone (it was a much lesser brand too)

The m2 note looks great. Love the blue colour option!

I wanted the Blue but could only get it in the Black/Grey.

Mobius 1 · 3 Sep 2015 at 12:28

Ah yeah. I see Amazon are getting stock of the blue on the 7th of this month. It seems to be slow hitting the market.

Glaucus · 3 Sep 2015 at 12:33

Coming to the dark side, we'll trying the dark side. Just ordered th Xiaomi Redmi Note 2.
As I damaged my Lumias aerial somehow when changing the charging port. Works fine until reception gets low, then says it has reception but doesn't work.
So will give android a try for a few months, then decide between 950xl, Sony z5 premium or something else.

Will need lots if help customising the UI. To something that isn't totally gash, can't stand the out of box experience. Don't really want to customise but will have to. Makes life easier with MS putting all their apps on all platforms.
Sony z5 and amazon prime download app, have made me at least consider android.

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