Thread: Bye Apple and good riddance!

THANKS Happy!! Great tip!

Originally Posted by baldrick

Xiaomi mi max 3

Great phone, but spend an extra several hundred baht and get a TPU case to put on the phone as the metal case is a bit slippery.

Originally Posted by happynz

Hick, whatever you decide to purchase make sure it has bands B4, B5, and/or B17 so you are able to get LTE service in the US.

That is the trick isn't because a lot of those Chinese brands do not have them.

Originally Posted by happynz

You can order the Mi Max 3 on Lazada for about 9,900

I looked at them , but I want the 6gig ram and 128 gig storage

I also will upgrade my old asus tablet ( crap ) to a mi pad 4

Originally Posted by happynz

and get a TPU case to put on the phone

I always put a protective case on the phone to protect the corners in case of drop

Originally Posted by Neverna

it was that the phone had no password to access it

the fingerprint reader on the back of my Xiaomi max 2 has performed its task flawlessly for the last year

not to mention that just about all the Xiaomi phones have an IR transmitter with which you can scare all the televisions and air conditioners in range

Waste of money

Originally Posted by Lost Farlang

Waste of money *burp*

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aliexpress has an amazing selection of phones. Many are brands that sound odd to western ears -- bluboo, leagoo, meizu, meiigoo...who knows, maybe igloo...

Originally Posted by happynz

Mi Max 3 is a good phone for media consumption, but be aware that it has a 6.9 inch screen.

Every time I go bigger it just seems normal.

I remember looking at a 5.2 inch Note version 1 in 2012 and thinking it looked comical.

Now my 6.4 inch Mi Max 2 seems normal.

I am sure I will get used to the Mi Max 3 when it comes out.

Originally Posted by happynz

Mi Max 3 is a good phone for media consumption, but be aware that it has a 6.9 inch screen

Thats a tablet not a phone. You wouldn't wanna answer that on the BTS

Agree with Dilly that is too big. Specs are not that impressive either. A 12mp camera and only 1080p on that big screen. I will stick with my LG V30+.

Originally Posted by jabir

Mate recently bought a Chinese brand for around 8-9k, said it does everything Apple can but not into trusting unknown chink brands just yet.

Speed and function wise you wont notice hardly any difference in a mid range phone compared to the flagship models.

You will notice a huge difference in your camera though, which is the main thing I personally look for in a phone.

I had a Nokia 930 with windows 8.1. It was reliable and I found the UI easy. The battery life now (4 years old) is starting to go so I now have a Samsung S7 (for about 5 months) with the latest Android. Works well battery life is very good. Camera is good and the sound is quite good for a phone. Have to say I still prefer the Windows phone software but sadly Microsoft chose to get out. I think the lack of apps killed it but for me that uses it as a phone, a camera and a bit of social media it was fine. I liked Cortana as well which I now have on Android. If you like Android I would reccomend the Samsung S7 as it is cheaper than the S8 and still can do pretty well everything an S8 will do.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Thats a tablet not a phone. You wouldn't wanna answer that on the BTS

I barely use mine as an actual phone - I would rather text

Originally Posted by bsnub

A 12mp camera and only 1080p on that big screen

it lacks OIS , but the camera is fine - and the 1080p resolution is more than good enough with the added bonus of power saving vs the QHD screened devices

this design is on purpose , no power hungy screen or processor equals long power on times

I have no problem handling the mi max 2 as I do not possess drumpf hands

Originally Posted by bsnub

Agree with Dilly that is too big. Specs are not that impressive either. A 12mp camera and only 1080p on that big screen. I will stick with my LG V30+.

Get the Open Camera App at Google Play and you'll be sorted.

Originally Posted by happynz

aliexpress has an amazing selection of phones. Many are brands that sound odd to western ears -- bluboo, leagoo, meizu, meiigoo...who knows, maybe igloo...

And many of these weird brand names have an amazing selection of malware, spyware and adware on them.

Originally Posted by baldrick

this design is on purpose

Its a compromise

You're compromising a great camera for a shit one and average battery life for a big gay looking phone.

Send us a photo in low light that you've took of your new manbag that you need to carry the big gay Chinese piece of shit around in

If you still want to look like a iPrat....

Counterfeit iPhone X Discovered Running iOS-Skinned Android Riddled With Backdoors And Malware



If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Smartphone users know that there are hordes of counterfeit devices and apps out there that are meant to give nefarious parties access to your device and personal information. In the case of counterfeit devices, they often have the same general appearance as their intended target, but often miss the mark in some glaring areas. Such is the case with this Apple iPhone X counterfeit device that was discovered for sale in China at a low, low price of $100 (compared to the $999 starting MSRP for the real deal).

At that price, you would assume that something is amiss, but the device looked so much like an iPhone in style and in software, that it was hard to tell, at first glance. Ultimately, security researchers took the device and probed it to find out what made it tick and just how secure it was. The device arrived in a white box that looked like an iPhone box, but with images and text said to be a little blurry.
The alleged iPhone X has the same volume rockers, the same side buttons, a working Lightning port, and what appeared to be the same pentalobe screws that a real iPhone has (they weren’t). It even had instructions telling users how to setup Face ID and an IMEI number that resolved as an iPhone X.
Apple logos show when the device boots and the menus look very much like iPhone menus according to reports. At some point in fiddling with the device, Motherboard notes that the “App Store” on the faux iPhone X crashed and the error message given said that “Google Play” had crashed and the infamous notch was software-generated.
A comprehensive probe of the phone revealed that the device ran a version of Android with code from several unidentified sources. The researchers also noted that the device was riddled with backdoors and malicious apps. Researchers found fake stock iOS apps on the device like Compass, Stocks, and Clock that asked for invasive permissions like the ability to read texts. The researchers weren’t sure if that means the developers were just not that good at what they did or if the device was intentionally malicious.
The “mishmash” of default apps are “horribly insecure” and the researchers noted that they could be outright malicious. Evidence was also found of a “wide range of backdoors” that could have been written by several developers. The fake Safari app, for instance, uses custom libraries to open a backdoor and allow code to be run on the device remotely. Another software package called ADUPSmade by a Chinese firm provides OTA updates and is widely considered a backdoor.
If you enter your iCloud username and password into the device, that info can be read by any service or application. The device has interesting features though, like being the only Android device that changes and connects to a PC with a Lightning cable. The moral of the story, however, is don’t expect security or an actual quality device when you purchase a $100 iPhone X clone.

I'm a big fan of xiaomi. Love it. Only about 3k and it does everything I need.

I've got an Huawei at the moment desk top mode is a good feature but the phone will have issues in the USA.

I bought one of those mi phones years ago in Malaysia..Mi3 I think it was. It looked just like an iPhone and the Chinese app store that was on it, had the theme and ringtone for every iphone thats been made.

I think i did manage to put googles app store on there after rooting it on Xiaomi's website if I remember right.

It wasnt a bad phone tbh for the money, apart from the camera.

If you're gonna scrimp on a phone, you'd be better off doing like Hugh Cow says and buying last years or the year before's flagship model imho.

Originally Posted by armstrong

I'm a big fan of xiaomi. Love it. Only about 3k and it does everything I need

Can it wash your underpants, or turn flowers into bulbs?