Dual Sim Galaxy S4 lookalike phone

panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

Has anyone seen or used one of these or similar?

I currently have a Galaxy S4 works phone and a an old Blackberry Bold personal phone and want to stop carrying both around with me.

I know it'll not be as good as the S4 but will probably be better than the Blackberry.

Looks pretty good value for money.

Cheers

Mark
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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

Just ordered one.

Fingers crossed.
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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

I use a Samsung Galaxy Duos for my work phone. Does the job OK but the memory is miniscule, 4gb, so you need an SD card pretty well straight away.

I only got it for the dual sim anyway.
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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

Ok so the phone has arrived and I've charged it and started to set it up.

First impressions so far (after just a little use).

Phone came fairly well packaged and came with a flip case (that does activate the phone), 2 batteries, earphones, charging/data cable and mains->usb charger.

Build quality is excellent. Indistinguishable from my Galaxy S4.

Android is 4.2.2

No noticable speed difference between it and the S4 - at least for the stuff I use.

Screen is clear and bright

Nice loud sound - not played any music yet so can't comment on quality.

I'd say the Samsung's camera is better quality but that's only on the basis of a single photo so far.

Signal strength is good. Not made any calls but it recognised my SIM in slot 1 and recognised that there was no SIM in slot 2 so all looks good.

Wi-Fi works fine.

Will post more after more usage.

Mark
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GhostRider · World Chat Champion Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Karma :

panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

It takes full size SIMs but you culd get a carrier to make a micro SIM full sized

Mark
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Moo. · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Karma :

I've ordered one yesterday aswell Thumbs Up

just wait for it to turn up Razz

and i'll add to the input
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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

Here's an xda-developer thread about it:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2458369

Mark
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Moo. · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Karma :

Nice find! I was googling around for something like that, cheers!
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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

After a bit more playing the most noticeable difference is that the S4's screen is much better defined.

It's higher resolution and has better colours.

Not worth paying £400 more for though Smile

Rooting will let me change the screen's dpi so may impove it a bit.

Having played a Youtube video of Gnarls Barkley (on Jools Holland's show) I was happy with the video and sound quality. The sound is almost on a par with the S4.

Mark
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Rigga · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Nov 2012 Karma :

My mate got one and the screen calibration was out by about 10mm,pain in the arse for texting as you can imagine. Think he's sent it back now, hopefully his was just a lemon though.
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Kai.Wilson · Spanner Monkey Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Karma :

I have an Note3 clone - paid £103 - fucking pucker phone

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Shinigami · World Chat Champion Joined: 14 Feb 2012 Karma :

looks good for the price,

have been eyeing up the xiaomi mi3 as it's spec is pretty beastie but i'm skint so new phone is well and truly on the back burner,

reckon i'd pick one of these up if my s3 were to die though
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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

Been using it all day and the battery's still got 40% charge plus you get the second battery.

Apart from the screen not being as good I've not noticed any real difference between the clone and the S4.

Have ordered a SIM converter to take the S4's micro SIM up to the full size that the clone uses so will see how well the dual SIM side of things works next week.

Mark
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