Cheap for such features. I'll get one later this week.

@Faudel

Cool, it seems like they also have one for my Newman K2, can try it later.

Exynos CPU? Hopefully not also Sudden Death Syndrom (SDS). All android phones where Samsung has built in Exynos were affected with the hard-brick danger.

It seems like forums fears spread widely and are greatly exaggerated.

http://www.sammobile.com/2012/12/16/major-vulnerability-found-on-exynos-4-devices/

It seems like simple kernel issue that had been fixed for long time.

Android 4.1, that's stonage..

LOL. In fact, it makes no real difference mostly if you really use the phone and not measuring dicks.

Plus it has bunch of heavy modified things if you like, including CyanogenMod, MIUI and such.

It depends, as it's a cheap smartphone, the ideal target could be people would like to just try it for the first time

I have very little words here, it just make me smile :-). It is not cheap phone, it is discounted phone :-)

The 4.2 interface is faster and once you turn back to the 4.1, you feel you must have the drawer "inside".

I doubt that we need mobile phones flame here.

As the guy who had various phones before me at the same time, I can tell you - no one really cares or notices except flame lovers on forums.

http://www.pandawill.com/mobile-phone-c1/android-os-phone-c551.html?quad_core=259&resolutions=187&standby=132

Usually most MTK based phones has such feature.

I know this might be personal, but I'm really curious to know whether @Vitaliy_Kiselev is running Google services on his phone...

Since I'm using Chrome mostly everywhere, I know that Google is much more invasive to my digital life than just what goes inside my Android phone. Most people are unaware, but they just might one day snap out of it when they figure out they spend so much time on the internet that Google knows more about them than their wives, children or even their closest friends. Or maybe it they won't just bother until ultimately the day they get their life insurance application rejected because Google sold the insurance company personal information where they deduct that you have a 50% chance to get lung cancer. Most people I know don't even suspect that Google reads their emails, their SMSs, their tweets/posts and just about anything else that can be traced back to them, and that they have built profiles for every human being on the planet that has a minimal internet presence.

Android has become Google's frontline in this information fishnet and since I can't fit on the Apple user profile, I'm eager to see some serious Ubuntu incursions into smartphones and how they can compete with pure Cyanogens.

know this might be personal, but I'm really curious to know whether @Vitaliy_Kiselev is running Google services on his phone...

I have Nokia 920 :-) Not much google services. :-)

http://www.pandawill.com/mobile-phone-c1/android-os-phone-c551/cubot-gt90-smartphone-android-42-mtk6572w-3g-gps-40-inch-black-p81967.html should be dual sim I think...

@brianl Get something with MTK6592 instead. The price difference is nothing to write home about.

This is featuring an Octacore configuration with Cortex A7 @1.7Ghz, instead of the 1.2/1.5 Ghz on the MTK6589.

It's not any less or more power efficient than MTK6589 (the cores are from the same family) but at least you'll get faster core clocks (and thus better single thread performance). Multi core performance will also be much higher (close to double) if the apps you are running scale linearly.

OMG I never saw so many different smart phones in my life. So confusing, I don't ever know what MTK means. Looking for something the size of an iphone 4 or 5, with dual SIM, memory card slot and decent quality.

Another example of discounted phone

• 5.7"
• 1280x720 IPS sceeen
• MTK6589 quad core

http://www.pandawill.com/inew-i2000-basic-smart-phone-mtk6589-quad-core-1g-4g-57-inch-hd-ips-screen-android-41-white-p72369.html

I ordered one from this site. These phones come pre installed with a lot of chinese apps that aren't easy to remove.

LOL. You can just remove all their icons in under a minute or even just move to other screen.

Plus you can remove all of them without any "root explorer". :-)