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It's fun to follow the rip off phone market from China, where all that phones look fairly decent on features, but in reality they are often so bad they are impo
by kokey 14y ago
It's fun to follow the rip off phone market from China, where all that phones look fairly decent on features, but in reality they are often so bad they are impossible to use. One iPhone knock off I bought for fun, had a radio tuner, and dual sim support. The touch screen was so bad, it required a stylus to operate and even with that it was almost impossible to use. The software was also really bad. For example, if you were composing an SMS and made a mistake, which would happen due to the bad screen, you had to hit two buttons to correct it. Both options were right next to the option to cancel the entire message, which you would inevitably hit. It also would answer the call if anything was touching the screen when a call came in, which was always unless it was on a table. Video playback was at 12fps. It shipped with two batteries, which I thought was nice, until it turns out that they die after a few charges.
- tluyben2 14y agoIt goes for most rip off stuff indeed; and not only that. The white label companies ship stuff which is simply unusable as you say. You have to be a hacker/modder to make it work. Which then actually works fine for the price. Out of the box however it's pure crap. If it has a custom OS (not android/linux) then you really need to look out; Android usually is already bad with the wrong/non working drivers etc, but when they made something themselves it's usually so bad that you cannot use it at all. It's stuff to experiment with to try out different cases and such, but for real day to day use, you would not buy it.