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I'm seriously considering ordering this phone, the specs are great but what's driving me is better battery life. I've got a Moto G, which is very nice; however, my battery life has never been good. (My first Android phone was an Huawei and I like the brand very much--my little ole Huawei is still running strong and serves as a cordless VOIP phone in the house.) Has Huawei made any announcements about rolling out KitKat to this phone? TIA
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I'm seriously considering ordering this phone, the specs are great but what's driving me is better battery life. I've got a Moto G, which is very nice; however, my battery life has never been good. (My first Android phone was an Huawei and I like the brand very much--my little ole Huawei is still running strong and serves as a cordless VOIP phone in the house.) Has Huawei made any announcements about rolling out KitKat to this phone? TIA
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Huawei Device USA will not give a date because the big boys in China will not allow them to. But I know the Chinese Version of the HAM2 is already on KitKat.
kk isn't a deal breaker for me.
Right now, the Mate2 is performing without issues, lockups etc. Once/if kk is released, I'm going to hold off until reports
come back. I am getting to cranky to deal with bugs.
Thanks for the info. The lack of KitKat isn't a deal breaker for me, I was just wondering. I really want decent battery performance, good specs and a decent price and the HAM2 seems to fit the bill. The build quality of my old Huawei was good and from what I'm reading in reviews, this phone seems well built. I'm just about to pull the trigger on Amazon once I decide on color. (I suspect it will be the black one.)
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Thanks for the info. The lack of KitKat isn't a deal breaker for me, I was just wondering. I really want decent battery performance, good specs and a decent price and the HAM2 seems to fit the bill. The build quality of my old Huawei was good and from what I'm reading in reviews, this phone seems well built. I'm just about to pull the trigger on Amazon once I decide on color. (I suspect it will be the black one.)
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Unless you watch video over LTE 24/7, using it as a phone, web browser etc....I get 2-3 days EASY on one charge. That, and the price are what
sold me.
As elpc has said, there is a KitKat version but it's for the Chinese model at the moment.
When I read the phone reviews on Amazon, one of the reviewers said he was told by Huawei reps that KitKat for the US models would come in either July or August.
I don't know if we'll get it, or when, but I do hope we get L!
There are better chioces than huawei,never huawei products
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There are better chioces than huawei,never huawei products
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Since Huawei is the 3rd largest smartphone maker in the world, why not?
Some friends of mine said you bought a Huawei? Yuck, it's a Chinese phone, they have spyware that sends stuff to China.
I simply answer...what ISN'T made in China, and what company, government DOESN'T spy and send data to someone?
I bought it do to the value, the battery life and the screen. No bloatware, unlocked for $300. Bang for the buck, that's what
I look for.
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Some friends of mine said you bought a Huawei? Yuck, it's a Chinese phone, they have spyware that sends stuff to China.
I simply answer...what ISN'T made in China, and what company, government DOESN'T spy and send data to someone?
I bought it do to the value, the battery life and the screen. No bloatware, unlocked for $300. Bang for the buck, that's what
I look for.
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Exactly this. I'm pretty sure Apple and Google do the same thing. In fact, Apple just admitted to storing data in its Chinese servers. And some guy was arrested for illegal pornography in his Gmail account as well.
Hell, there's the US and German secretaries phone call spying thing too. Everyone spies on everyone nowadays. You can't avoid it.
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abczhou said:
There are better chioces than huawei,never huawei products
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Samsung $700? Battery sucks, went to downtown San Francisco 8am before even 12 from full battery to low battery warning, I returned it the next day it is been to me for a week so battery is well charge up.
HAM2 I tried watching Netflix yesterday just to test the battery over 4g, it sucks that I just got almost 10hrs may be 15mins short before battery is 10% left and it is just $299, did I made the wrong choice?
But if they don't update to KITKAT before September 11 I will consider returning this. Good thing I bought this on amazon, they pay back shipping you can't go wrong on what you buy.
I entered a chat support from Huawei and they told me KitKat was on the way but they coulndt commit to a date...
Aand as for L they toldme they would make an statement when its out :/
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I entered a chat support from Huawei and they told me KitKat was on the way but they coulndt commit to a date...
Aand as for L they toldme they would make an statement when its out :/
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Really hope we get L afterwards. If not, hopefully we'll have custom ROMs by then.
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This is probably the best phone I have ever owned. I too had some friends ask about it judging it before knowing what it was all about, after showing them, I teased them for their overpriced phones with inferior battery life.
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This is probably the best phone I have ever owned. I too had some friends ask about it judging it before knowing what it was all about, after showing them, I teased them for their overpriced phones with inferior battery life.
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Agreed, awesome phone, now with the US release I expect them to sell a lot of their phones in North America. I certainly love mine !!
ScoobSTi said:
Since Huawei is the 3rd largest smartphone maker in the world, why not?
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First , I am a Chinese, so I am supposed to encourage you to buy a phone made by Chinese company, BUT I don't.
Why? Because Huawei is really not a company to support , if you speak chinese, you can get a lot of negative messages from chinese forum about how they do business, bad business ethic, bribe everywhere,etc. You will know how we dislike Huawei.
China development bank provides a huge financial support to huawei , so that they can offer you a smartphone or network devices with very low price, the money actually is from all chinese people,
of course, it is your choice ,but as for me and my friends, we will never buy any products from Huawei in life.
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First , I am a Chinese, so I am supposed to encourage you to buy a phone made by Chinese company, BUT I don't.
Why? Because Huawei is really not a company to support , if you speak chinese, you can get a lot of negative messages from chinese forum about how they do business, bad business ethic, bribe everywhere,etc. You will know how we dislike Huawei.
China development bank provides a huge financial support to huawei , so that they can offer you a smartphone or network devices with very low price, the money actually is from all chinese people,
of course, it is your choice ,but as for me and my friends, we will never buy any products from Huawei in life.
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I'm Chinese too, I didn't know that; I'm sorry about that.
If I knew that I would've picked something else.
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It's funny, I never even gave this phone a thought when I saw the specs, but (now here is the really funny part) after reading reviews of it on the OnePlus One user forum, and the price, I bought one and was really surprised how well it works for having "substandard" specs. It's fast, screen is bright, snappy, no lag, works quite well and that 2-3 day battery is REALLY nice. I could give two hoots if it has the latest greatest OS. JB4.3 is good, not buggy and works. Smartphones are my lifeblood for work and 4 weeks in, this thing has yet to let me down.
I use about 1500-2000 minutes per month on the phone, lots of web use, email, text and photos, and it's great! People are getting hoodwinked by thinking they "have to have" a device with the 2k screens, latest OS to do anything, but all they are doing is wasting money and getting 1/2 a day battery life. Hey, it's your money, but me, personally, I'd rather have some value for my money.
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First , I am a Chinese, so I am supposed to encourage you to buy a phone made by Chinese company, BUT I don't.
Why? Because Huawei is really not a company to support , if you speak chinese, you can get a lot of negative messages from chinese forum about how they do business, bad business ethic, bribe everywhere,etc. You will know how we dislike Huawei.
China development bank provides a huge financial support to huawei , so that they can offer you a smartphone or network devices with very low price, the money actually is from all chinese people,
of course, it is your choice ,but as for me and my friends, we will never buy any products from Huawei in life.
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Which brand is popular there in China?
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Which brand is popular there in China?
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there are a few. Xiaomi, coolpad, Lenovo, but to obey an unofficial command from government, all mobilephone based on android remove Google framework and apps in China
So I just recently heard of another smartphone who has blowing specs, Veerne Apollo Lite is a deca-core smartphone with 4GB of ram and 32GB of storage.
BUT HEY IS JUST LIKE A COPY OF THE HONOR 5X!!!
And no the photo is a Veerne not a 5X
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So I just recently heard of another smartphone who has blowing specs, Veerne Apollo Lite is a deca-core smartphone with 4GB of ram and 32GB of storage.
BUT HEY IS JUST LIKE A COPY OF THE HONOR 5X!!!
And no the photo is a Veerne not a 5X
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looks like honor 5x rip off...
A 100% ripoff
venom007 said:
looks like honor 5x rip off...
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Yesss totally
PalakMi said:
A 100% ripoff
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Tell me! Mannn its identically.
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Tell me! Mannn its identically.
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Anyone will say the same
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Anyone will say the same
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Only thing is that its faster with its deca corw processor and has more ram.
Many phones have the same look these days...
About this one:
Powerful at first glance, but rather poor build quality, many users are reporting connectivity issues.
Advice: avoid it.
mooms said:
Many phones have the same look these days...
About this one:
Powerful at first glance, but rather poor build quality, many users are reporting connectivity issues.
Advice: avoid it.
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Mmmmmm thanks for info, there needed to be something bad about it.
Lots of phones look a like these days, especially with all the smartphones floating around these days, you'll run into some look a likes here and there.
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Lots of phones look a like these days, especially with all the smartphones floating around these days, you'll run into some look a likes here and there.
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Agree but this one looks just the same but with another Name.
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Only thing is that its faster with its deca corw processor and has more ram.
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Its a knockoff so its probably poorly optimized so it will probably be very slow.
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Vernee like most Chinese smartphone manufacturers doesn't have any specific budget for paying international patents or specific design (including Xiaomi) so they can "share or borrow" their ressources one another including the mold... ^^
The SOC is based on Mediatek, so cheaper than Qualcomm and the phone is sold mainly on the Chinese domestic market with no international after sale services !
If you have any hardware problems, you'll have to send the device back to China, wait for some weeks and you'll most probably have to pay for shipping fees back and forth.
When you see the trouble to get official updates from Huawei, I don't think you can expect any regular updates from Vernee or any other Chinese manufacturers.
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Agree, so I wont be getting it but it would be good to see some bench or speed tests from it. The lack of software updates probably kills this phone has you said.
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Its a knockoff so its probably poorly optimized so it will probably be very slow.
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Yes, but let us see first what it can do, probably slow has you said.
Hi, I'm from Australia and I'm wondering where would I be able to buy the LeEco Le Max 2?
Cheers,
Jeff
http://www.letvmobilestore.com/leeco-le-max-2.html
This is a link directly to the Letv official store.
I ordered one last week with an estimated delivery time of 3- 8 business days.
Seems only 4GB ram 32Gb storage models are still in stock for very cheap $259 if you don't mind the Rose Gold color.
128 GB version is also available but for a fairly high price.
The price for this device on nay other website is greatly inflated so I recommend buying directly through LETV using Paypal.
One issue is that they will not communicate with you / very poor customer service.
NGP-1001 said:
http://www.letvmobilestore.com/leeco-le-max-2.html
This is a link directly to the Letv official store.
I ordered one last week with an estimated delivery time of 3- 8 business days.
Seems only 4GB ram 32Gb storage models are still in stock for very cheap $259 if you don't mind the Rose Gold color.
128 GB version is also available but for a fairly high price.
The price for this device on nay other website is greatly inflated so I recommend buying directly through LETV using Paypal.
One issue is that they will not communicate with you / very poor customer service.
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This is NOT the "official store" of Letv, this just one reseller...I don't know how you ever got the idea this was the official letv smartphone store.
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This is NOT the "official store" of Letv, this just one reseller...I don't know how you ever got the idea this was the official letv smartphone store.
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They listed themselves as an official reseller. I guess I just assumed they would work kind of like Xiaomi and have a different official store for every region.
Again do not order from these guys if you want any service at all, they will never respond to you even if you open a claim with PayPal.
I guess I over reacted , they never told me the phone had shipped but it was sitting in the mail when I got off work.
I buy me lemax2 in spemall.com
got mine on geekbuying came pretty fast to the UK with TNT airmail just about a week for me.
Mine was from AliExpress - $230 with free shipping (took a couple of weeks)
Good customer service in spemall
ParasiTe_RemiX said:
I buy me lemax2 in spemall.com
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i also bought one from spemall. they are great . they have the good customer service. unlike the letv official shop. no one replied. anyway. the phone runs well so far.
Got mine from Android enjoyed,australian dealer shipping from Hong Kong. Quick delivery.
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i also bought one from spemall. they are great . they have the good customer service. unlike the letv official shop. no one replied. anyway. the phone runs well so far.
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How's the phone?
The phone is around 220usd on ali for rose gold and only ten bucks more for the grey version now. Must be the best buy of the year.. When the Le Pro 3 release I bet the phone will go even lower
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Mine was from AliExpress - $230 with free shipping (took a couple of weeks)
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What about rom?
Was it Chinese?
Also can you tell more about bloatware which can be removed?
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What about rom?
Was it Chinese?
Also can you tell more about bloatware which can be removed?
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Was a debloated, multi-language and Google-installed version of the Chinese 16S firmware that the seller had put on there. But I flashed stock pretty soon. Can't remove much bloat unless you root, but that is thankfully easy.
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Was a debloated, multi-language and Google-installed version of the Chinese 16S firmware that the seller had put on there. But I flashed stock pretty soon. Can't remove much bloat unless you root, but that is thankfully easy.
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If you are saying it was debloated and already had play store then why did you flash rom?
Am i missing something here?
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If you are saying it was debloated and already had play store then why did you flash rom?
Am i missing something here?
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Several reasons - it was Chinese 16S so now out of date a little, it had strange scaling so icons were too small and some of them looked strange, and mainly just didn't really want software that had been set up by someone else.
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Several reasons - it was Chinese 16S so now out of date a little, it had strange scaling so icons were too small and some of them looked strange, and mainly just didn't really want software that had been set up by someone else.
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Thanks mate it clears up a bit.
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Thanks mate it clears up a bit.
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If you flash the Indian official firmware, it is all in English, already has Google services / play store / apps properly installed and integrated, and doesn't have that much bloat.
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If you flash the Indian official firmware, it is all in English, already has Google services / play store / apps properly installed and integrated, and doesn't have that much bloat.
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What about updates, do you have to flash whole size rom?
jenkoaz, I believe LeEco had just lowered the price of the phone recently, perhaps you may wait a week or two when the new lowered prices are settled in the market.
I'm looking to replace mine but looking for recommendations that work well with the onscreen fingerprint scanner?
Im also looking for tempered glass fully glued. Oppo isnt famous company. So its hard to find proper. Ive tryed many all ****ty. Im still looking. It would be great to have "white stone dome glass"
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Oppo isnt famous company.
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Am i wrong ? Famous means not popular. Maybe in India or China is but not in europe.
klisza1993 said:
Am i wrong ? Famous means not popular. Maybe in India or China is but not in europe.
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Apple has pathetic sales in India, so apple is more popular in USA and Europe but not in India?
Doesn't mean Apple is any less famous.
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Am i wrong ? Famous means not popular. Maybe in India or China is but not in europe.
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Oppo is very famous the world round. It's been in the mobile market since 2011 (from around the birth of Android) and they are a big player in the electronics world (mainly audio).
The problem we have is that too many are brainwashed by the "ideal" of Samsung and Apple. The two companies are highly adept in marketing and as such, their prices are sky high. Then we have better options from the Chinese market (big boys Huawei and Oneplus with the very quickly up and coming Xiaomi and Oppo brands).
Mention you have an Oppo Reno 10x Zoom to an iPhone 11 owner... you are laughed at and mocked. Mention it to a savvy person who knows technology...you are fist bumped and utterly respected.
Hey folks,
I am interested in this phone but since I live in the USA, its practically impossible to find a global variant. I see AlieExpress has various versions but they all seem to be the China variant with the option of having them install the global rom and/or google services. Is it worth going this route?
I saw on here a few folks are converting the china version to the global version, would getting it with global rom installed be considered the same thing?
I have a pixel 7 pro but I am not a fan of the curved screen and dont really use the camera much. However I would prefer the ability to get a custom rom such as Lineage but thats not a deal breaker.
Thanks
morphius88 said:
Hey folks,
I am interested in this phone but since I live in the USA, its practically impossible to find a global variant. I see AlieExpress has various versions but they all seem to be the China variant with the option of having them install the global rom and/or google services. Is it worth going this route?
I saw on here a few folks are converting the china version to the global version, would getting it with global rom installed be considered the same thing?
I have a pixel 7 pro but I am not a fan of the curved screen and dont really use the camera much. However I would prefer the ability to get a custom rom such as Lineage but thats not a deal breaker.
Thanks
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If you accept Widevine L3 so it's good choice
The converted Chinese version works without problems. Some people bought the Chinese version because it was cheaper and made it a global version with a bit of fun.
morphius88 said:
dont really use the camera much
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I'll be honest with you.
Realme GT2 (SD888) or GT2 Neo 2 (SD870) may be a better choice - better pricing, SoC doesn't heat that much (if you play games). I like my GT2 Pro, but I also had an extremely good price.
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ability to get a custom rom such as Lineage but thats not a deal breaker.
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If you like custom ROMs, Xiaomi is choice no 1.
drdr321 said:
I'll be honest with you.
Realme GT2 (SD888) or GT2 Neo 2 (SD870) may be a better choice - better pricing, SoC doesn't heat that much (if you play games). I like my GT2 Pro, but I also had an extremely good price.
If you like custom ROMs, Xiaomi is choice no 1.
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I have had a couple SD888 phones and they were pretty hot and throttled a decent bit because of that.
There are some options for under $450 (although not for the paper white or paper green) that has 12gb ram and 256gb storage. Id love the 512gb one but I dont really need it (definitely not worth the price jump to $600+).
I sue verizon so its possible this phone wont even work but it has all the needed frequency bands as far as I can tell and I am already set up as CDMA-Less.
Xiaomi is another good option but I havent really liked any of their offerings per se.