**** The Official Chinese Phones Thread ****

Been having a play around with the Cubot Note S. Really good phone for £65.
Missing a notification LED, the hardware buttons don't light up & not the best camera. The wife has a MiBand for notifications so no worries over not having notification light :D

It does have dual sim and micro sd slot. Included in the box is a silicone cover, a tempered glass screen protector is already applied. Also has double tap to wake and gesture wake, so you can write on the screen to open a certain app :) All for £65 I'm rather impressed
 
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Still rocking my Letv (now LeEco) Le 1s.

Had some issues where clicking on web links, youtube links and google maps locations on whatsapp would auto open the blocked Baidu chinese browser.

But I spent an hour on a plane the other week playing around with apps/settings, blocking things, hiding things and playing around with defaults and it's miraculously sorted itself. I'd done everything properly before when choosing default permissions, but something was causing the chinese browser to open in these circumstances.

Pone is working as it should now, no problems now other than BBC media player freezing at 9secs in. Can live with that :D
 
Picked up a Siswoo Cooper i7 for a play, £60, proper octa core MT6752 (8 x ARM cortex A53 cpu, with Mali T-760 GPU).

5" 720p screen, dual sim, SD Card and 2GB RAM (16GB storage).

it got 44000 on antutu, and camera aside its astonishingly good! Happy to answer any questions on it.
 
Got my Xiomi redmi note 3 pro yesterday and i'm loving it so far :)

Only issue i've found so far is that Miui only supports Fat32 sdcards, tested exFat and ntfs both do not work :<

This is a neat video on some of the somewhat hidden features in Miui:

 
After seemingly bricking my Nexus 5 during an update, I am now on the lookout for a good value replacement. Over the next 9 months I'm due to spend a few months away from home in a place I'm likely to damage it, so the timing is right for me to go for something a little more "disposable".

There appears to be an absolutely crazy amount of choice when it comes to these lesser known brands, it's quite dizzying coming from only really knowing the usual Samsung/Apple/Sony/HTC/Motorola/LG lot. At the moment, the Cubot Note S looks like a decent contender, and as it's dirt cheap I could just use it as a standby phone if it turns out not to be up to scratch. From what I can see, the next step up from the Cubot Note S is the Cubot x15/17, or something from Xiaomi @ £100+. Is there anything sort of inbetween, popular enough to have a decent amount of reviews?

Help me OcUK, you're my only hope!
 
Cubot have been known to have trojans on them. Just be careful buying lesser branded chinese phones. infact, i'd just outright avoid them.


Although it'll cost you a little more (not much tbh) i'd stick with the main chinese brands such as huawei, xiaomi, meizu, ulefone and LeEco. And i'd probably be looking to purchase one from the honorbuy EU warehouse.
 
Thanks very much for that guys, I didn't realise just how popular these handsets had become!

The Redmi Note 2 does look perfect, if a little more expensive than the Cubot. I do appreciate that it's in another league in terms of hardware, however, and I also would rather not run the risk of being shipped something with in-built nasties.

Tauren said:
I'd probably be looking to purchase one from the honorbuy EU warehouse.
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Any reason why I should do this over, say, buying from a UK seller on eBay tonight and making use of the 20% off code?
 
Looking to buy the Xiaomi Mi4c and Honorbuy are selling for $298 (£208) but on Aliexpress from Top One it can be had for £162.

Top One claim that no VAT or duty would be payable with the DHL service they use.. can anyone confirm that is true?
 
I got stung import duty around £20 something when I got two phones from Focal (£170ish)


Does anyones Chinese handset play FIFA 16 well? they are laggy as hell on my Lenovo K3
 
@BaldJedi impressive video and phone, I've shared it with 6 mates & family who buy at that kind of price point, when my kid's Notes 3&4 run their course I'm gona be buying them Chinese from that point on.
 
BaldJedi said:
Looking to buy the Xiaomi Mi4c and Honorbuy are selling for $298 (£208) but on Aliexpress from Top One it can be had for £162.

Top One claim that no VAT or duty would be payable with the DHL service they use.. can anyone confirm that is true?
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Bought a couple of things from honorbuy and shipping with DHL, duty was always payable before receiving item.

I'd choose a different shipping vendor if at all possible.

Also why choose the mi4c? is it the the screen size?
 
w1lliam said:
Bought a couple of things from honorbuy and shipping with DHL, duty was always payable before receiving item.

I'd choose a different shipping vendor if at all possible.

Also why choose the mi4c? is it the the screen size?
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Never tried any of the chinese phones and the reviews for this suggest it's a solidly built phone and with 3gb ram and snapdragon 808 it won't be too slow either.

Currently use a nexus 5 and lumia 735.. lumia screen just a fraction too small and the nexus suits me fine. My partner's moto x play is slightly too big so the mi4c should be ideal and if there are no custom charges as they claim, then £165 is a cheap enough price too :)
 
I think you pay Duty if the phone is sent via DHL Express which I think what mine was as I was/am impatient lol I think it was put down as $100, but guess that Honorbuy one will send as gift or under $50?
 
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