64GB is the max. What made you get that phone, Im curious.
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64GB is the max. What made you get that phone, Im curious.
Thanks. I am really totally ignorant in respect of mobiles. What impressed me with this phone was the wide range of frequencies available (Naturally 4g )perhaps as wide as its possible to get. The reports appeared reasonable as "perhaps" the price $169. Now looking for a suitable satnav maybee Co Pilot? The phone appears ok - but then it only appeared today via DHL pushed thru the letterbox without a signature. I particularly like the feature by which one can speak the name of where on wishes to go in web browser ie daily mail or bargain forum and it goes in immediately
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Go to the download folder then top right 3 little dots ... tap that and then settings, download size limit and set it to unlimited.
I have to say it's a pain in the butt to find.
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The elephone vowney is up for pre sale from http://www.elephone.cc/
I'm going to get mine from merimobile if it has band 20(800).
I'm going to get mine from merimobile if it has band 20(800).
Another rom for the redmi note 2 http://en.miui.com/thread-163858-1-1.html
Got these today, they're great for a £1 each
Been using my Note 2 for a week and no crashes
Developer Rom is great
Wish I could get Hangouts to update when messages are sent
Amazon uk are starting to stock a lot of better branded chinese phones as of late. They stock a variety of meizu, and now i've just checked latest arrivals in mobile phone sold by amazon, and they've added a couple of xiaomi phones too (the mi4i to be exact) the price seems a little steep, but maybe its just a placeholder. This is good news, as they will start stocking more and more from now on 
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Same here just ordered the 32gb version from geekbuying, do you have any eta info ?
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Just a quick review. I bought the elephone P8000 from antelife. On paper I thought it sounded good and the large battery was a big attraction.
Firstly the tracking information sent was wrong. But in fairness as it came from HK they were good enough to put "sample" on the customs label. This kept the charges down. That said I probably wouldn't deal with antelife again.
On to the phone:
It was a massive beast of a thing. I currently run a Nexus 5 and thought that 5 to 5.5 inch wouldn't be that big but was massive. Second the weight of it was heavy. I couldn't imagine holding it for long periods of time. I managed to root it and install eragon ROM which made it a lot nicer. But as with many Chinese phones the back button is on the right of the home button which I don't like. Also I couldn't get browsers like Chrome to work properly with it. The stock browser that comes with eragon is a busy mess but the swipe down to show address bar in chrome/ chrome beta would not work. I didn't personally test the mobile signal but after deciding I couldn't get in with it I gave it to a friend who is on the EE network in London and he has it working no problem. Oh and the camera was pants - very noisy photographs.
Also and maybe this is common but there is no paper manual on how to use the phone. Only a manual about Google android. If this was your first ever phone that would be very off putting. Also even though antelife said they would ship a UK adaptor they sent it with a European plug only.
So my conclusion is yes it was cheap to buy but I would probably stick to the better known brands if going grey market again.
Firstly the tracking information sent was wrong. But in fairness as it came from HK they were good enough to put "sample" on the customs label. This kept the charges down. That said I probably wouldn't deal with antelife again.
On to the phone:
It was a massive beast of a thing. I currently run a Nexus 5 and thought that 5 to 5.5 inch wouldn't be that big but was massive. Second the weight of it was heavy. I couldn't imagine holding it for long periods of time. I managed to root it and install eragon ROM which made it a lot nicer. But as with many Chinese phones the back button is on the right of the home button which I don't like. Also I couldn't get browsers like Chrome to work properly with it. The stock browser that comes with eragon is a busy mess but the swipe down to show address bar in chrome/ chrome beta would not work. I didn't personally test the mobile signal but after deciding I couldn't get in with it I gave it to a friend who is on the EE network in London and he has it working no problem. Oh and the camera was pants - very noisy photographs.
Also and maybe this is common but there is no paper manual on how to use the phone. Only a manual about Google android. If this was your first ever phone that would be very off putting. Also even though antelife said they would ship a UK adaptor they sent it with a European plug only.
So my conclusion is yes it was cheap to buy but I would probably stick to the better known brands if going grey market again.
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I'm getting the Elephone Vowney 4GB when it comes out. It's got everything I want and cheap to boot
I'm getting the Elephone Vowney 4GB when it comes out. It's got everything I want and cheap to boot
It's cheap for a reason as others have stated.
I won't know till I get it. I do know that Huawei\Samsung\oneplus\Nokia are crap as I've had those.
I don't care about the rom as it will be off the day I get it
Ha ha, an interesting comment. So you ignore reviews/opinion of others to choose a phone, but then given you opinions here, maybe it's for the best as you clearly have some different taste/preferences to most.