The LCD was great looking and the price was excellent for the specs.
Eleven months ago iNew changed the game with their evolutionary release — the iNew V3. The iNew V3, at the time, was one of the slickest looking mobiles on the market, and that included putting it up stylewise against the popular name brands as well. (more…)
With Gearbest coupon code “gizbeatv81”, the iNew V8 is now only $180. I’ve now used this phone for a couple of months and can say that it’s easily one of the most solid China phones ever released. It can hold it’s own build quality wise with any of the big name mobiles.
Today we will be taking a look at the newly released Canon G7X vs the iNew V8 in a simple photo comparison. This is not meant to be an extensive test, as it’s clear a standalone camera has multiple benefits over a typical smartphone.
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All images are in the same order, that is image 1,3,5,7,9 are from camera A and 2,4,7,8,10 are from camera B. Try to guess which is which. After taking a look at the images here in the blog post, click over to page 2 to check if you guessed correctly.
Of course if you don’t want to play around, you can jump right in and see the images at full size here on Flickr.
Unfortunately in the China phone market there are quite a few fakes. Often phones that have MT6572 SoC will be cleverly disguised to look like MT6582 or MT6592. Recently there has been a clone iNew V8 put out on the market that goes by “Alps V8Y”. The phone is MT6582 1GB RAM/8GB ROM. (more…)
There has been a new iNew V8 official ROM released. This ROM fixes the toast notification bug that popped up when switching between E, H and H+ data modes. Other bugs may have been fixed. (more…)
There was a lot of complaining a couple of months back about KitKat not arriving to China brand phones. Many accused them of being ‘behind the times’ (more…)
Just this month Google released their Google Camera on the play store. The good news is that we will no longer have to wait for OS changes to get the upgrades and changes Google implements. The bad news is that it is for KitKat devices only. (more…)
iNew mostly came to fame with the release of the sleek iNew V3. As great and original looking as the iNew V3 was, it was significantly crippled by a charging system that only charged the battery to 88%, leaving an already smallish battery even further weakened. (more…)
NOTE: If you’re looking for the KitKat article, please click here. We apologize for the incorrect link in the Newsletter.
Several months back, iNew released the revolutionary, but flawed iNew V3. For the price, it was and is an excellent bargain. At the time of the V3’s release, there was nothing else like it out there in that price bracket. (more…)
Hot on the heals of the Doogee DG550 Dagger announcement, iNew has already released a demo models of their iNew v5. So far, this is what we know about the iNew V5: (more…)
Doogee will be taking a page out of the iNew V3 looks book.
The Doogee Dagger will have a 5.5″ LCD and use the MT6592 SoC. Other than that not much is known. This recent photo was posted on Doogee’s Facebook page and shows they’ve more or less copied the exact design of the iNew V3, but added a half inch to the LCD. (more…)
We’ve posted a couple of threads recently comparing daytime shots from the H9008, Zopo ZP980+ and iNew V3. There have been some requests for night time shots, and so we decided to oblige. (more…)