The Official Chinese Phones Thread

deuse · 15 Oct 2015 at 18:55

Where are you guys buying your Chinese phones from? also has anyone dealt with shop.gizchina.com?

elrasho · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:02

Gearbest.com

Try and get it from the UK warehouse as it comes from Bristol and only takes 3 days from ordering.

Mobius 1 · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:05

Gizchina is good. As is gearbest. A fair few ppl on here have bought from oppomart with success too.

Glaucus · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:07

After owning it a few months, I would not recommend the redmi note 2, get something better, that doesn't lag especially when using Bluetooth, as well as many other niggling things that all add up.

deuse · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:28

elrasho said:
Gearbest.com

Try and get it from the UK warehouse as it comes from Bristol and only takes 3 days from ordering.

Thanks. They haven't got the 32gb version of the letv max

Tauren said:
Gizchina is good. As is gearbest. A fair few ppl on here have bought from oppomart with success too.

I looked at Gizchina for the Letv max 32gb. They have them and say it's in their EU warehouse.
Then a bit further down the page in red it says from the china warehouse? I did email them a day or two back but heard nothing yet.

Mobius 1 · 15 Oct 2015 at 20:44

Have you got an account? And have you tried going as far as shipping? It might let you select eu warehouse when you've got that far. I haven't got an account yet or I'd check for ya. Tempted by the letv one for $199.

deuse · 15 Oct 2015 at 21:12

Tauren said:
Have you got an account? And have you tried going as far as shipping? It might let you select eu warehouse when you've got that far. I haven't got an account yet or cheid ck for ya. Tempted by the letv one for $199.

I can add delivery from the EU($42) in the basket. But want to make sure first.
I did get my cash from merrimobile today, so that's something

Mobius 1 · 15 Oct 2015 at 21:26

Wow my android typing skills are getting worse. Haha.

I guess the only thing to do would be wait for an email reply from gizchina. Or you could pop onto the forums to ask maybe.

Good to hear you got your money back though! I had a similar issue with gear best. And they refunded me the same day. Thankfully.

deuse · 15 Oct 2015 at 21:27

Tauren said:
Wow my android typing skills are getting worse. Haha.

I guess the only thing to do would be wait for an email reply from gizchina. Or you could pop onto the forums to ask maybe.

Good to hear you got your money back though! I had a similar issue with gear best. And they refunded me the same day. Thankfully.

Have you seen gizchina forum? http://www.gizchina.com/forums/

Mobius 1 · 15 Oct 2015 at 21:48

There's nothing there? There used to be!

I used to post there a couple of times a week. Hmm

deuse · 16 Oct 2015 at 08:28

Tauren said:
There's nothing there? There used to be! I used to post there a couple of times a week. Hmm

I've put in an order from their EU shop. It cost a bit more then the Chinese websites but the coms from giz was good.

edGfaCTor · 16 Oct 2015 at 11:05

Glaucus said:
After owning it a few months, I would not recommend the redmi note 2, get something better, that doesn't lag especially when using Bluetooth, as well as many other niggling things that all add up.

Could you explain a bit more all these issues you are having and are you sure it's not some software or the version of android you are running?

AndyCr15 · 16 Oct 2015 at 11:13

I'd be interested too, not noticed any lag yet? Bluetooth stream in my car for example seems fine.

scrivz69 · 16 Oct 2015 at 11:27

As above, I have had no problems with mine at all and it's running great.

benparker · 16 Oct 2015 at 18:47

scrivz69 said:
Cancel it and buy from some were else.

I got mine from here http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...a-Core-5-5-1920X1080P/311331_32436849319.html

He has been selling Xiaomi stuff for a few years and apart from the rom having a few bits of bloat, which is soon sorted. If you choose free shipping it comes via NLpost and not Singapore post as stated. The tracking given works on the NL website. I got mine in under 2 weeks.

Any idea who's going the best price for a Black 32GB Mi 4C?

scrivz69 · 17 Oct 2015 at 10:09

Have a look on here, http://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphone-prices usually tells you who is the cheapest.

thep02 · 17 Oct 2015 at 10:37

AndyCr15 said:
Really impressed with this Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 so far. Using 'performance mode' it's not far of the Note 5 on Geekbench 3 and even though it warns of more battery use (annoying persistent notification) I'm still on 100% almost an hour off charge. (Oh, just dropped to 99%)

Nice battery, it was good to see nearly 8000!!!! Subscribers to your youtube channel too dude, good vids on't page as well.

AndyCr15 · 17 Oct 2015 at 20:59

Thanks, just filmed my review of it, might not get round to editing it until Tuesday though. Device will likely be on MM within the next couple of hours/days.

PicassoPigeon · 18 Oct 2015 at 12:22

My Redmi Note 2 Prime 32gb is now in Singapore shipped on Wednesday from Gearbest, with an estimated delivery of Thursday 22nd Oct.
Sick of running out of space on my 8gb Moto G 2014 :/

Looking forward to the end of the week

benparker · 18 Oct 2015 at 21:52

PicassoPigeon said:
My Redmi Note 2 Prime 32gb is now in Singapore shipped on Wednesday from Gearbest, with an estimated delivery of Thursday 22nd Oct.
Sick of running out of space on my 8gb Moto G 2014 :/

Looking forward to the end of the week

Do they refund customs charge?

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