Chinese Smartphone, 130€, help and tips.

[omega4]

Hi, after mine Samsung galaxy s3 mini stop charge i decided to buy another smartphone rather than spend 110€ for s3. I was looking for those 3 smartphone:

• Cubot S222
• Blackview crown Android
• Uhappy UP550

Do you have somethings to say about those Smartphone? Are good? Some tips, somethings that i have to know? Other good Smartphone under 130€?
Thanks all.

 

[ImDonly1]

Doubt anyone here has used them as they are generic Chinese smartphones.
They all have Mediatek CPUs which IMO are crap and I wouldn't buy one.
Seems the price for any of them is $150+ USD, I would rather get a nice used phone for that much (Moto G, Moto X, LG G2, or other).

 

[lopri]

Strongly advise against it unless you are sure of the compatibility and performance of those phones in forums by multiple credible user reviews. (Do not bother with fabricated reviews on the websites that sell those products)

I bought one Android phone that looks exactly like iPhone 5 for fun a year ago and it was not usable at all. Hardware looked fine but its cellular modem did not function normally (I've got "occasional" EDGE signals on AT&T/T-Mobile networks). But most importantly the ROM was messed up and there was no way to fix it on my end. And even after selecting English as the default language, Chinese were all over the places which made operation impossible. (I do not read Chinese.)

 

[truckerCLOCK]

Have you looked at any of the Doogee phones? Oppo, Xiaomi, Lenovo or Huawei have some pretty decent phones.

check here General Android & Windows Phone Forums for reviews, rooting and general goodness.