Just a short time ago Lenovo purchased Motorola from Google. During it’s short time under Google’s control it lay mostly silent and forgotten. The only thing of any interest that came out of it was a reaffirmation that software optimization can truly do great things to an average phone. The Moto X was the proof. (more…)
Always good to receive a THL phone for review. This unit was no exception. We previewed the THL W200S a few days ago. Let’s see what the unboxing holds for us.
The accessories were fairly standard except for the earphones which had a ribbon style cable as opposed to your standard skimpy round style. We liked that. It added a little extra element of class to the phone. (more…)
Many users have been waiting for the Jiayu G2F. It’s low-cost and very good brand name have kept it at the top of the short-list for many people considering a China phone. Unfortunately, as hard as it is to believe, they have yet to release a phone with WCDMA (more…)
About a month back, we put a preview up of the Umi X3. Well now it’s ready to be sold and shops are starting to have it available for shipping. Unfortunately, some of the touted features we wrote about in the first preview are not to be. What it looks like is that there will be at least two different versions of the Umi X3. (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…)
While the last couple weeks have been spent reviewing 1080p phones – the Zopo ZP980+ and H9008, we now have a couple of 720p offerings on the way. We recently did a THL T200C review of specifications. Now on to the W200S. (more…)
A few weeks backs we posted about the possibility of the MT6290 LTE modem being compatible with SoC other than MT6595. That is to say, that MT6290 will be backwards compatible with MT6582 and MT6592 SoC. (more…)
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While the last couple weeks have been spent reviewing 1080p phones – the Zopo ZP980+ and H9008, we now have a couple of 720p offerings on the way. The first of which is the newly released THL T200C. (more…)
We recently reviewed the ZP980+ and were left a bit disappointed by the phone. On many levels, the phone was excellent. All the components were proper, but the touch issues and keyboard disappearing left blemishes on our memories with the phone. Though these problems are likely to be addressed in software updates. (more…)
Today we’ll be taking a look at the Android benchmarks scores of the MT6592 Zopo ZP980+, MT6592 H9008 / Mlais MX69T Pro and MT6582 iNew v3.
First up is infamous Antutu. Let’s take a look and see what we can glean from the results. (more…)
Yesterday we reviewed WiFi, LCD, speaker and external build with the MT6592 Zopo zp980+. It presented a very good first impression. Read on to see whether the charisma translated to character. (more…)
A couple days ago we posted our first photo war between these three phones. We’ve taken a few new pics. This time of a very nice scene including some buffaloes and mountains. I told them to stay still, but they refused to listen. All of the shot have been hit with a Picasa auto-contrast. Other than that they were unedited. (more…)