Anyone using any of the chinese phone can use this app "Z - Device Test" and find out if the camera MegaPixel stated is legit and not interpolated?

This post has been edited by neuro4869: Jul 11 2013, 03:19 PM

Does anybody know if there are any highly anticipated soc's (cheap ones.. not tegra4/sd800) coming soon? Or is there something in the market that's already really good?

Well, considering the current MT6589T has scores about equivalent with the Exynos 4412 in the S3, you can still target that.

Or wait for the MT6592 phone launch (estimated by end of this year)

joytest: thanks for your quality replies..

ok, mind suggesting a chinastock phone that has these attributes/possible attributes (with hacking)

"customizable, bare, minimal, software updated regularly (newer/testing branch), better than usual battery life, english"

at the moment im still clueless with smartphones but im sure by picking one up for the first time and toying around with it ill wont ask too many silly questions by then

Decide for me

You're welcome but phones don't work with "let's fork this and add on to my own github".

This is all due to the proprietary binaries especially with the radio and GPU.

I don't think ANY phone lets you do this, except for the dev kit SoC BOARDS that are not phones.

So I don't have a recommendation for you except to trawl around abit, and this guy here:

http://www.cnx-software.com/

can help you choose. He's an embedded linux engineer whose blog I've been following for a while.

lol ok

So... I need to get off my dumbphone and get started on something smart...

What would you suggest then that is closest to my profile?

budget?

No budget.. value for money.

if $a = y performance
$b = 2x $a = 1.5y
$c = 1/2 $a = 0.9y

then i buy c

NOT* going to play game, watch movie

just want longer battery life, wahtsapp, email, general purpose and hopefully be able to write some custom apps to make life easier

You really know what I want but I afraid the price really a huge burden for me... 5MP it's tempting for me

what is SOC?

something on my mind recently about china phones....

Have you tried Google? The first hit I get for soc is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip

With regards to phones exploding, do you refer to this > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/g..._n_3567977.html
That hasn't stopped Samsung from being the world no #1

Any chinastock phones to recommend that use this soc?

Quite a few, since a lot of the earlier versions were using the non-T version. The refreshes should be using the T.

You could read the gizchina.com blog which tracks this stuff. You come across as a capable power user, so I trust you can also check it out yourself.

Mediatek phone tends to have GPS problem, any one having one that can lock in to GPS like the branded stuff? My UMI X1 also have this problem & I read that the X2 also same.

I did several weeks ago, but wanna hear the guru's recommendations to cross-check my list and be biased more towards a specific model.......

how much for Oppo Find 5?

You need to enable the A-GPS and GPS EPO assistance. My Mediatek phone detect within 1 minute.

btl ke harge Neo N003 Premium edition rm640?

I'm using Jiayu G3S, able to lock GPS, no issue..