@sniperwolf
Thanks for the tip. I still cannot make myself accept "those Chinese model" phones, though.
So far my Zenfone 5 serves me well, despite the lackluster battery life.
Right now, Zenfone 2 looks to be my best bet for an upgrade, though it only has 3.0Ah. It will launch with Android 5, though.
Second option considered was actually Acer E700, the triple-sim card phone. However, to me the only advantage that this model has over ZF5 is its 3.5Ah battery. Spec wise, not so much of an upgrade.

Will try to post some photos later when I had the time, but dont complain bout my shaky hands . Will use the auto mode since I not good with those exposure type of settings

1. not bad for this price range, imo looks pretty similar to mi3 in term of design
2. will post it later, but I dont selfie, so will be the back camera photo
3. this will take bit time to test, as I havent actually charge the phone yet. Was draining the battery to get below 10%, then only will charge it, which will be later tonight. The phone come wilth around 40%+ battery life and now left around 10% after some benchmarking, photos and gaming
4. none so far, all pretty smooth. Phone only get slight warm after bout half hour of asphalt 8 in highest graphic setting, which is pretty good compare to the older mt6592 which I had tried before

I personally also using a chinese phone as my main phone, nubia z7 max, which is pretty reliable so far and worth my every cent, since its the first model which offer dual sim 4g support last year. Acer and Asus is also considered as chinese phone imo, just that the company base is in Taiwan only, same goes to HTC

Coolpad and TCL is quite a big company in China which produces reliable phones, which is why you could give it a try for the sub 1k rmb range phone with dual sim 4g support. For coolpad F2, only the fhd model fully support all local 4g band, where its variants only able to support band 1 and 3 only. TCL mmd 3n also only capable of band 1 and 3 support as well, which it wont bother much if you with maxis or celcom 4g. Coolpad f2 is equipped with snapdragon 615, where tcl mmd 3n is equipped with mt6752m

Redmi 2 with 2gb ram has just launched as well in china, but the unicom version has yet to be seen, which will be another budget friendly dual sim 4g phone when its available.

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Mar 4 2015, 05:54 PM

Battery fully charge from around 8~9% left to 100% in 1 and half hours. There will be a beeping notification when fully charged and indicator led will turn green.

As for gps, waze took less than 20 secs to track and load maps on the 1st run while I am inside my room.

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Mar 4 2015, 11:29 PM

zenfone 2 for sure out of budget... 4gb ram can get below rm700...?
yes acer e700 adv is battery but disadv is camera & gps...

look around u... lenovo & huawei hp are everywhere...
objective to buy cheap hp is u can chg within 1-1.5 yrs coz tech chg so fast... so not so much loss...
imagine if rm2k hp sell in 1.-1.5 yrs ? quite a big loss there...

but at the end, ur money ur decision...

demmm... 4k mah charge in 1.5 hrs ???
so waze is working although this hp dun have compass... have u set any destinations & try to follow it ?

1 more questions :-
when connected to 4g, got call, hp drop to 3g (coz didn't support VOICELTE), after finish call, hp sometimes didn't connect back to 4g
is it true ?

thanks bro.

it proves that the phone worth its price

just one questions

1. is both SIM is LTE enabled ? or 1 LTE and the other one is 2G ?

https://flic.kr/p/racppM N4

https://flic.kr/p/rc4Sox P70

You see by yourself, all original/default settings.
P70 losses a lot of details, I guess it is either an old 13mp sensor, or too much of post-processed, or worse still a fake 13mp.

Check out one of the yellow tray above the big red tray.
And the details on the floor is all missing.
So, it's like abang adik to me.

Only sim 1 lte enabled, 2nd sim slot is 2G only

I feel the only selling point in this phone is that majestic 4000mAh battery in a 5" body. How is the root work for this phone ? is it easy to root ?

3D Mark


Antutu Battery Test


Its basically an upgraded p780 with much capable cpu and gpu, with 4g enable, at an affordable price, that all. The battery durability I guessed might not be as great as the old p780, since the newer soc should be consuming more power than the older 6589.

From my observation, battery level reach 70% after an hour of charging with the default 2A charger. Battery level drop around 1-2% during an idle of around 7-8 hours. Bare in mind its just in the original state without any optimization

No idea since umobile dont have 4G coverage in bangsar as well as my working place.

As for waze, will try to swap my sim over to test it out later if free, since I just slot in a spare sim to the phone for testing purpose only.

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Mar 5 2015, 01:48 PM

p70 took that picture with much lower ISO thus getting darker image. you might want to try other camera, maybe Google Camera since the N4 is using it right? btw I'm surprised at the antutu battery test. how come the N4 with known low battery life could score more than the mi3?

Then that not fair dy.. Not original liao.
I download google cam try see see..

EDIT: Ooopsss.. Tried, same results as the original cam app.

This post has been edited by Shengz: Mar 5 2015, 02:46 PM

soooo tempted!!

going to say good bye to my p780

but why both micro sim... I need a mini sim slot....

then the lense not so good lah anyway, less than 700 for a capable phone is still a good value.

My p70 arrived today...
Sample pics...


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Review please bro!

Alamak just use around 1 hrs... need to wait lorrr...

You use honor 3c previously?
The very first impression.. Compare to 3c.

how much u buy? which dealer?