It seems to me that thread is not maintained properly. A proper thread is needed for this phone.

I'm still waiting for the official launch in Malaysia. Initially it was Oct, then end of Nov...now if you read their FB post, today it said probably early Dec.

You mean Mediatek processor powered Android device is least likely to receive OTA updates? Why is that so?

Ah...just noticed they are bringing 16GB model only! Without microSD card slot... 16GB is definitely not enough for most people.... Especially this is a mid high end phone. What are they thinking?

Guys, Lazada starts taking pre-order for MX4 16GB already.

Hmmm...this is new to me! I thought ARM instructions are compatible across all ARM, especially same version number. Probably mediatek is missing out several crucial instructions?

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Ya agree completely with you! The inclusion of that square home button completely screwed up the overall design.
BTW, what do you use NFC for?

I bite the bullet and preordered. Hopefully won't regret. Lol

Haha if you read my earlier post, that was exactly what I thought. 16GB is ridiculously small for a 2014 mid-high end phone. But then I checked my current phone and found out I only used 3.1GB. So it's still fine for me because I'm not really into mobile gaming nor using lots of apps but of course I'm very sure it's inadequate for normal users. Plus I am impatient to wait any longer. Hopefully I will not regret later.

Haha see how it goes. It will only arrive sellers on 28th and then will take a few days to ship from them. To be honest, the dimension, design, mag alloy frame and price are the things I like the most regarding this phone. The Mediatek SoC may not be able to compete with other flagship chips but it's more than enough for me.

I do have a few concerns. One reviewer (forgot where the source is) mentioned the video shot by this phone will be 15:9 resolution as well, and will have issues playing the video on other 16:9 phones. CNET reviewer gave a mediocre score for this phone mentioning it's buggy. He said the 15:9 display has compatibility issues with some apps. Another concern for me is the non-standard one home button UI. Not sure if I will get along well with that.

Wah..good price! Go for it?

Yeah. Not sure why there is a big difference in terms of batt. performance in their reviews. Anyway a forummer here used to have this phone told me the battery consumption is better than HTC and iPhone equivalent. Just not as good as OnePlus One.

Welcome abroad.

But Lazada mentioned we will receive our phones 4-6 days after it arrived on 28th? That's like two weeks to go.

You mean in this thread or overall?

IINM there are three of us here who preordered

I'm not surprised with that because the same thing happened in DSLR scene. Sony has a fantastic sensor team but an underperforming JPEG team. Not sure why.

Ya. Seems to me there are two extreme of reviews ratings out there.

Cheap ma...lol
Anyway quite a lot of Intel engineers joined them recently.

I thought the UI looks OK. Samsung is far more uglier lol.

To be honest, I'm not interested with synthetic benchmark figures at all. I don't play games with my phone and it's already fast enough for normal browsing etc. As long as the UI can run smoothly (which current synthetic benchmarks cannot measure) it's already good enough.

One interesting pattern emerged. I noticed this Mediatek MT6595 octa is good at Antutu. Even better than the Exynos 5 octa 5430 found in Alpha. Interestingly, this is probably the only CPU-related benchmark the Mediatek octa wins over Exynos octa.

No. Don't get me wrong. It's not about dispute.
I'm just wondering what does it measure that this benchmark can fully utilize Mediatek SoC while others cannot. It must be some instructions sets, or compilation optimization or the number of threads used etc.

You don't get what I mean lol.
I said why other benchmarks (not other phones) cannot reap the same performance pattern as Antutu.

He bought AP set? How much he got it?

So the first batch will arrive at Lazada tomorrow? And they will send then out same day and we get on Saturday?