I bought a phone from them, never again, it had a problem from new, they told me that it would cost me a lot of money to send it back and it would take weeks to be sorted, then offerd me about a fiver to keep it, my advice is AVIOD

Does this come with free Chinese spyware built in !

Great advice. will AVOID. Thanks

Normally means you are unable to remove the battery

Had my THL5000 for 18 months now. Still a great phone.
Only one hardware problem was the speaker went crackly. I'm ok with electronics (needed two tiny wires soldering), so a £8 new speaker direct from THL and it has been fine since. The screen can be a bit picky about being clean and seems like the screen is unresponsive when lots of greasy fingerprints are on it. A good clean with proper degreasing screen cleaner and its fine. Battery life superb. So Bang for buck - great phone.

Seller has taken it up to £185!! dont know how to attach my screen shot of order:


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thanks

For anyone still looking. Just got one of these off ebay for £147 with free post.

thl phone industrial design feeling okay. Many new models are beautiful, the quality is relatively stable. W3 family with dual-core version. Price is fairly affordable, simple trial a few days, to run smoothly, it should be no problem. Test run points more than in 5000, the Internet is no Caton and crashes, playing the game a little hot, but compared to other similar machines Andrews, accessories are good, the screen resolution saturation are very good. Life long. If there is any shortage, I think the point of the thin plastic cover, if it is metal, then fine.
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I say this with respect. I have owned a phone shop for many years and I make phones my business. Trust me when I say this. The current chinese phones from THL, Jiayu and and many others have better build quality than sammy or HTC - by miles. I would even argue better cameras.

About the same price (£168.50) rooted (includes +$5) on the MiniDeal site - with all the other 'free' bits included:

http://www.minideal.net/thl-5000-smartphone-mtk6592-octa-core-1-7ghz-ram-2gb-rom-32gb-with-5-0inch-fhd-nfc-5000mah-battery.html

This one (G900FD) does but this one (G800H/DS mini) does not.

I looked at the Z7Mini, Huawei Ascend P7, Huawei Honor6 - all 4G dual sim but none covering 800 band.

Doesn't the Samsung S5 Dual Sim work on the 800 band?

I think the question is is this better deal or not. To me the heat of the deal answer to it. You can post ZTE deal here as well and fellow HUKDer will value your deal accordingly.

reviews are all positive, lovely camera too by the looks of it, may upgrade my moto g.

Same here i have a star 9051 best phone iv'e had £115 a year ago.My last uk phone was a £250 lg.I'll never buy a phone off the uk networks again.The star has been rock solid dual sim and a great battery.

Sorry you are right it is not the same price but maybe still within a similar budget for people considering this phone. No its not gorilla glass, yes it is IPS. I was interested in the lenovo A806 (£130) myself drawn to the 8 mediatek processor but have decided to wait for future developments with this chip. It was just an alternative option maybe someone might want to look into.

True the ZTE only has quad core........this is not a big difference in terms of overall performance of the phone (benchmarks in reviews). I did not go into a comparison versus number of cores as they are different chips by different brands. It is more comparable if in fact they were both mediatek chips then it could be a fair comparison. There are mixed reviews over the performance of the 8 core mediatek processors and to me it seems like they have been pushed out too early and do not have components to match there potential. Therefore more of a sales push and effectively bottlenecking devices. I am sure they will have advantages in the future but for now the snapdragon chips have lower power consumption (no larger batteries needed) and much better integration with other chipsets enabling fast gps, stable wifi, faster memory support, smoother graphics and intregated 4g.

gobbledygook

if you read my earliest post I did say what went wrong. I don't need to be specific around any model. just that my experience of thl is rubbish

So what exactly went wrong? Why didn't you return it? You need to be more specific here and preferably around this model, this merchant and this price.

Can anyone tell me how the frequency will affect us in the UK. As its 850 and not 900

Will it mean slower 3g speeds? I'm on the three network.

I've tried googling but their seems to be little info regarding frequencies

Hmm maybe because the pieces of junk are made in China!!!

Well you might think it's self-explanatory but that's only because you choose to ignore the confusion caused by use of the term. And your second sentence is just bizarre.

I never said it wasn't. Read my posting more carefully.

"Chinese" is an unfortunate catch-all term used by the ignorant to describe any phone not made by a big brand.

in fact bought from eBay. but it does not matter where I bought from because they were genuine THL phones not fakes. I am not generalizing my view on Chinese phones. my view is based on my experience of the thl brand

I am aware of branded goods being made in China. but they use superior materials and you pay the price.

No, I think Chinese phones is self explanatory enough.
You had a problem with that so you should have come up with a different term. Which you weren't capable of doing...

Yes I can think of a better term - "phones designed for the Chinese market" - as you yourself have just described them!

Moto G dual sim, cheaper, UK warranty, UK bands.
Acer has a few Dual SIM models as well.

Just found in another website:

"Android is basically built upon Linux kernel which does utilize mulit-core. As far as single-threaded-application is concerned, remember that a thread can not be executed in-parts on different cores simultaneously. So although your single-thread can be executed by different cores at different point in times, it can not be sub-divided and executed by different cores at the same time.

Having said that, please be aware that chipset manufacturers like Qualcomm are developing intelligent processors capable of sub-dividing your single-threaded app into multiple threads and have it run on different cores. Here again, the basic principle remains same - in order to utilize multi-core, the single thread was sub-divided into multiple threads.

To get the most out of your multi-core chip, you would rather create a multi-threaded app, with maximum possible asynchronous threads, so as to have optimum utilization of maximum number of cores. Hope this clears.

EDIT:

This also translates to - An app that does not make use of multiple asynchronous threads (or any other parallelism construct) will NOT use more than one core."

That is true and as hardware grows bigger the apps using all those cores will emerge very soon especially the games. On the other hand why should I pay more for less cores?

There's not really a big difference. It's not a processor that's twice as fast unless the software is using all those cores, and most appllcations won't take advantage of this.

First of all ZTE is not the same price, and second of all THL is 8-core CPU not Quad! and that is a BIG difference. ZTE screen, is it IPS, is it Gorilla Glass? Battery 3100 mAh vs. 5000mAh. Hmmm really, why should I buy ZTE and pay more?

Did you buy this phone from DX.com or something else? If you bought other phone from alibaba.com it is not related. You can not generalise your views on China made phone just here simply because even some of the best phones in the world are made in China nowadays.

I have a similar chinese dual sim phone, best phone I ever owned and has been rock solid both in build quality and reliability for 2 years now. Probably wouldn't buy a major brand phone again with all the preloaded junk they put on them.

bought 2 last year and they lasted less than 6 months. the screen on one started to get lines on it and eventually couldn't see a thing. the other just packed up and reloading android didn't fix it. binned them

a tenner!!?????

I've just got one of these from an amazon seller for about a tenner now. ..... It is brill! The battery lasts me 3 days.. response is fantastic. ... The only things were I needed to do was reboot it once to get everything like nfc working. .. highly recommended

edit ......predictive text huh!! should be ' a tenner more'

**** phone. crap quality. don't last. stay away

Don't worry i'm sure you'll pass that dictionary you swallowed eventually.

Both id's were created 4-5h ago and only have made one comment and no other activity.
I wonder what you get for doing that?

ZTE Z7 mini. Available for around £180 delivered. (FHD 5" display, dual 4g sim support, quad core 2ghz Snapdragon 801 processor, 2gb ram, 16gb storage, micro sd card support, OTG, 13mp rear, 5mp front, supports google play when installed). Great reviews and selling like hot cakes...not available in Europe yet...

Please note however buying chinese phones there are sometimes problems with 4g support, do check frequencies. When researching i am yet to find a chinese phone (not available for sale in EU) which guarantees run on 800/2100/2600, most only on 2100/2600. Meaning you can only use 4g with EE and three so far. Some claim the 800 frequency has better range and coverage, there is debate over this and how much it will be utilised. At the moment 4g coverage is pretty spotty and mainly only cities where you should be fine whatever the frequency.

If you are not very tech savy i would not recommend chinese phones, many need language changes with new roms, as well as google play installed which can be tricky, some need to be rooted to do this...voiding the warranty. At the moment it is hard to beat the moto G's. But for the more tech savy there are some great deals with some risk in the chinese market, plenty of developer support for the major chinese brands.

thanks, I would be forever grateful if that's possible. :smile: I've been wanting to get the OnePlusOne but have been unfortunate with invite codes :disappointed:

You can do a lot worse than looking at the Moto G.

All reviews point out the usual issues with chinese phones, and MTK chipsets.
Poor GPS performance, unstable OS, some apps not running etc.
Camera hardware is good, but quality is poor because of the implementation.

I would avoid, when there are decent phones on the market for same money or less.

The one thing which matters to me when buying a phone is how the dev scene is shaping up.
The popularity of branded phones usually leads to good 3rd party development which could support your phone years after official support is dropped..

I've become dependant on Cyanogenmod features :disappointed:

I think in general after trawling all these Chinese makes reviews is that 99.9% of them have some kind of annoying crash or problem built in and it would annoy me i think even the "oneplus" one the self proclaimed highest quality one has its issues.

Im tempted with these Chinese top spec hardware phones after being put off Samsung on my last phone which i bought second hand that was less then 2 years old and when i had a issue contacted samsung UK who said "NO WAY" on repair unless i had the original proof of purchase!!!! I was so naffed off i asked the ebay seller but he just said basically **** off i don't want to know i have thrown the receipt out or something to that effect.

Think I will pass on it then will need to throw it away when the battery packs up !!!!

Also Says the battery is non Removable

What's this all about ??

Hmm - I think that may say more about your Nexus than anything else. My Moto G has only randomly rebooted once in nine months if I remember correctly.

I just wanted to people to think closely about buying anything THL based on my own experiences.

I picked up a W200 last year and it's become nothing short of a whole catalog of problems. Firstly within days bright white hot spots started showing up on my screen. Next, the hard case it came with fell apart within a week. The plastic kept snapping and cracking off and that's from someone who's never even dropped a phone before.

Some time later I had the infamous "cannot connect to camera" error. Had to strip down and reassemble my phones camera connector to fix this. Even now it's not perfect, and I still get the error forcing me to replace the battery if I want to take a shot. Not very convienent is it, wanting to take a selfie with friends and explaining to them you have to remove your battery first and then reboot. They'll love the THL tune too, which you're subjected to each time you reboot.

We're not done yet. You'll randomly find it feeling very hot, turn it on and your battery has run down from 90% down to 27%. And whatever you do, do NOT let the LED indicator be left flashing. That'll also cause it to overheat and die too if left long enough.

Then there's the battery life. It is atrocious. It's about 26hr on standby. In use 2-3 max.

As for the THL 5000. WATCH OUT. I've been reading from XDA the newest batch have a very poor LCD with dull fading colors and poor contrast. Google it if you don't believe me.

Here's what I suspect suspect THL like to do. Ship out the first batch with good parts and components. Let the good reviews roll in so that people are suckered in. Then shortly after, switch newer batches to inferior components. Very sneaky and nasty.

Watch out.

Another viewpoint/pair of eyes for the seemingly Blind-Blinded and not for challenging any entity.

Mobiles made for the Chinese markets are spec-ed differently from mobiles for “Western” markets. This difference not only equates to the pricing/gouging-by-all-and-sundry, but also major niggles like “Google Play Store”, Gen-4/LTE, 0.935GB/3.08GB “Retinous Slowbug” RAM, etc.. As such, although Chinese targetted mobiles might be accomodated to Western tastes via “rooting”, they are invariable never 100% portable. For that, one has to weigh the balance between the gouged price and the portability/use-ability. Many Chinese enterprises are lanching products solely for Western markets albeit a learning curve has to be overcome with the in-between Mama-Papas doing a roaring trade for products too cheap to complain about or those that fit-in nicely. Then, the next learning curve is the support part. You cannot have pidgin Engrish support and run a Western-orientated business successfully in the long run. The Chinese knows that.

For those being compromised by price/the-gouging, the Chinese named-brands like Huawei or ZTE are worth investigating although the DNA of Downtown TelAviv-Kiev will be invested in there too. You know, the Greed-Fear factor factored into the Blind-Blinded who assume their ability to gouge is a privilege and an indication of being chosened. Just look at the specs for, say, the ZTE Nubia 7 Mini. Makes you wonder why, that for the smallish price differential, THL couldn’t have up the spec a little. There always being a reason for human Thought/Duality-of-Behaviour, perhaps ours is never to reason why other than to buy and regret. Caveat Empot. In addition, HUKD has become a bazaar for anything from Heaven to Da Mama-Papas posing as Da Next Best Thang to Godliness. Witness Da Worshipfuls of the UK disease variety, oka Dr Who, What & Where, and their penchant to worship given the slightest excuse. Afterall, when Eets soo Moneysupamarket is able to wrangle the odd £gazillions from Speculators/DeafNDumb, HUKD eyes are ablazed with Eet. Dat Ams Eets, that is.

I've got a nexus 4. Apart from the problem with the dual six my phone is exactly the same. Turns off if using the camera. Random reboots. I still think it's an amazing, well branded UK sold phone. I think these problems on a cheap import are minor issues

I was looking at the THL 5000 as the massive battery seemed attractive, but user reviews said the battery life wasn't as stellar as the specs would suggest.

I went instead with the Kingzone K1 Turbo. I've had it for 3 weeks so far and it's been excellent. Apart from the shakey bluetooth (drops every 4-5 minutes.. apparently a known problem hopefully getting sorted), the screen (vivid and bright), GPS (quick to lock and accurate), sound (from rear speaker and ear piece are both excellent), speed, and battery life are great. I've rooted mine, added 'Boosters Plus Battery Saver pro', and easily get 2 days from the phone. Heavy use (stream movies, autobrightness, wifi) I get about 5 hours on screen time, moderate use 1 full day and leftovers for the 2nd, light use I get 2 days and go to bed at 35% on the second day.

Sorry to ramble, but just another option for those looking at well specced, this price range, China-phones! The K1 ships from Germany for £172 (I received mine in 3 days)

http://en.comebuy.com/cell-phones-android-cell-phone-5-inch-phones-om46886.html

Hope that helps someone :smiley:

ALSO: The THL 5000 is £16 cheaper here http://en.comebuy.com/cell-phones-android-cell-phone-5-inch-phones-om46840.html
so cold vote from me I'm afraid.. looks to come with all the same accessories as well.

I never knew about this drop off box for returns. I've never had a problem with them, just that they are not the cheapest of the Chinese retailers that deliver to the UK. But I would pay more for that convenience should things go wrong.

What's the GPS like on these (most native Chinese phones that I've used take forever to lock and even lack a magnetic compass?

i got a cubot s208 , d olny difference is dat ds1 has gt 2gb ram whilst mine had olny 1gb wch works fine , also i gt it 4 £75.00 wch is alot cheaper than ds phone, if d price was abt £80-100 i might be interested otherwise cold 4me [d new motoG or X, now dats a fone]
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I've had 4 invites so far, if I get another i'll drop you a PM.

Guys just commenting on lead times.....the Chinese have recently just had a 'Golden holiday'.....this will explain any backlogs and extended leadtimes....in my business we always struggle getting kit out of China for a week or so until the forwarders/production has caught back up......I'm not commenting on the phones but just saying don't take this as an indicator of bad supplier.

I am willing to bet the screen on this is not up to scratch

Does this come with free Chinese spyware built in !

Contacted a few Chinese Sellers recently there seems to be a delay in the postal and customs service, many quoting an extra 2weeks delivery time! Mixed reviews over octa-core vs latest Qualcomm snapdragons, most apps do not utilise 8 cores yet. 4g does work with them but needs separate chip. Far better deal is the zte z7 mini which I will soon order after the postal delay passes. If you still want octa-core the lenovo a806 is 4g. THL are known for big batteries which is great if you get annoyed with charging everyday.

my son has got a thl t200, good phone and screen,knocks a crap out of s4,also got it to work on o2/tesco for data.bought from ebay

Why do not you share it here and make your first post then?

I don't have one of these phones, but being a sucker for watching various "teardown" videos of phones and tablets, I've seen the size of various high capacity batteries, and this one to be the capacity it claims, would need to be a monster..........
As for cheap Chinese quality, the brand new iPhone6 only costs £140 to put out the door (with the larger 6plus costing only a tenner more) so you CAN get decent spec phones at a low price - as long as the manufacturer doesn't rip the pi$$ with its profit margins, a la Apple.

Don't buy from these people ....just a nightmare getting things sorted when it all goes wrong. Buy a used S4

Haha, was joking. Chill.

I am not Grant, and took this from dx.com website. Check this up http://www.dx.com/Page-Conditions#return_policy

anyone have this? and will it receive updates? I had a Chinese one plus one and it would not receive ota updates.

Nice try Grant. :wink:

Same price at Pandawill and you can get a free second phone (cheap dual core) item is sku41806. Will be fine as a second phone.

OK, but this battery claims to have two thirds more capacity.

well I bought my MTK Chinese phone 2 years ago, the battery stated 3000mh, it use to last 3 days whit light use, whit really really heavy usage 20-26 hour, now after 2 years I got 2 days light use, so far I runned out of battery far only once within a day.

The battery was the only reason I bought it , it have been a gamble but I feel won the bet!... if I compare to the Ipone of my I-enthusiasti/diot ... friend.. well I fell like I won the lottery. :wink: ... to note , the gps on mtk is almost worthless for navigation , i just use it to know were I am!!

the only trouble ive found with non mainstream phones/tablets is the roms' get a good rom and there great, get a poor rom and youll be frustrated
for the spec and price this is hot as long as the rom works

You might be trying to leave a positive impression (and believe this to be a decent phone), but having had at least 22 notable incidents in less than a year isn't the slightest bit reassuring!
If I had more than a single reboot (or indeed one!) in a year with my phone, I'd immediately be concerned about the reliability.

I bought a THL W300 Phone last year, which is a 6.5" beast.

I was a bit anxious about how it would turn out as it was quite a gamble and the phone cost a good £225 at the time.

However I've used this phone for almost a year now and my general overview is the phone is good quality.

The only problems I've encountered with the phone are:
1) The phone is dual sim, if you don't have a SIM in the second port the phone randomly locks itself (ie you have to type your PIN to continue with what you were doing). This was very frustrating for the first week but thankfully after I inserted the second SIM this issue disappeared.

2) The camera ocassionally crashes the phone. This is a battery removal job, but it is rare. I've probably had it happen less than 10 times in the year.

3) The phone will reboot on occasions for no known reason. This is also rare and I've only noticed it less than a dozen times over the year.

So I think overall the phone is well worth the money. Thankfully it comes with a leather case which has kept it protected, from all the nicks and cuts on the case I'm very glad to have it. The screen protector is also essential although my application has left a few air bubbles which I can live with.

So overall I would say THL phones are pretty decent. My experience with another brand, STAR N9599 for example was much poorer and I would not recommend that phone.

I've grown accustomed to the 6.5" phone so now I'm worried I won't be able to upgrade my 6.5" with another phone of the same size as it seems they've given up on that form factor and nothing is bigger than 5.7".

This implies a smaller battery. :wink: What current does the charger claim to supply?

Because we are trying to establish whether the manufacturer is telling the truth.

perish the thought of getting a phone from China when you could have Samsung from Korea.
after all what does China know about technology ...

mine only needs charged once every week. this an excellent phone. seems most of the geeky comments on this blog are just people quoting reviews and the usual he said she said crap.
if you want one, buy
if not, get a grip. as a thl 5000 very happy owner I will say this too you all...... uneducated. unfounded waffle

Why? Surely real world tests mean more than the actual capacity? If it lasts 3 days what does it matter if it's 5000 or 500?

dx.com, probably take 3 months to arrive..

Other reviews. As I've said this is a decent manufacturer, not some rubbish from China. Better build quality than your iPhone or sammy anyway. Reviews.

http://www.reddit.com/r/chinaphones/comments/2cvqlg/review_a_quick_review_for_thl_5000/

https://www.chinavasion.com/china/wholesale/Android_Phones/Large_Screen_Android_Phones/THL_5000_Octa_Core_Phone_-_5_Inch_1920x1080_Corning_Gorilla_Glass_IPS_OGS_Screen_5000mAh_Battery_16GB_Micro_SD_Card_Black/#cu_reviewa

http://www.gizchina.com/2014/09/17/thl-5000-review/

Yes a really sharp 5.7" screen.

after a new phone. tempted between this or oneplus one, or to just wait for nexus 6? any ideas?

I've bought this phone from antelife.com. comes rooted. So removing Chinese apps isn't a problem. Charging is fast. I got it within 3 days, dhl to the UK. Its a great phone. Lots of Roms out there on needrom.com. for the price its stunning. I'm a heavy user and I get around 3 days battery usage. Heck even the camera is good as far as camera phones go. A lot lies and misinformation on this thread guys. This is an amazing phone for the price and a not a thing wrong with it. The big guys need to take note. This has better build quality and arguably the number one seller, decent Roms and great battery life.

19Wh × 1000 / 3.8V = 5000mAh

perhaps better phone than £600 iBend+ from apple.

I'd much prefer "we did a proper scientific test by removing the battery and testing it with a proper analyser (or even just a multimeter and a light bulb!) to determine its true capacity.

I love all the people saying the battery capacity isn't true, THL are a very well renowned Chinese manufacturer and just because you don't believe things doesn't mean they're not true.

Review here
http://www.redferret.net/?p=45775

"we saw 3 days of life early on, and we would expect this to be around the norm for light to general use. Yesterday we were out gaming and doing navigation with the phone, and came back with around 65% on the battery."

The android authority review seems pretty genuine and the battery capacity does seem to be correct based on the power draw of this SoC and LCD.
http://www.androidauthority.com/review-of-thl-5000-410058/

This is probably just (relatively) new battery tech making its way to market http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/174477-at-long-last-new-lithium-battery-tech-actually-arrives-on-the-market-and-might-already-be-in-your-smartphone
These far east companies don't have to worry about the battery lasting only 12-24 months or providing replacements.

Makes me wonder what this battery could do with a better SoC and more efficient display!

FYI for things like video watching you'd probably get similar battery life out of something like a Note 3. The Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G is one of the best for battery life if you're willing to take the spec hit.

quoting the website

'world's first smartphone with 5000mAh battery'

either you're lying, or they're lying.

I think it's both

5000mah is an outright lie

How do you know that for sure?
I'd be very interested to know what else you're referring to - and especially its dimensions.

I have on of these phones. bought about 3 months ago.
not a single complaint. camera. battery. apps . video. exactly as advertised
very happy with my purchase. you folk read to many reviews

Better to buy from eBay for £189, don't pay tax charges and have 1year year warranty

There is no way that is has 5000mAh battery fitting in that size case, so can't help but wonder what else they are lying about.

could this be anthoer newman n2 because that phone was a mess

Yes it does (to spy on your boring life)...

You can buy it from dealextreme. Although some have said its a 'chinese' version, in that 4G is restricted to some networks, namely EE I think.

I bought a phone from them, never again, it had a problem from new, they told me that it would cost me a lot of money to send it back and it would take weeks to be sorted, then offerd me about a fiver to keep it, my advice is AVIOD

A tad expensive for the spec. I'd expect 4G at this price.

Seems a good price but would rather get a one plus one on eBay or Amazon.

5000mah battery, really ??

Some of these Asian phones are excellent.
Currently using an Elephone P8 ( I know the name is totally class ) !
Probably the best value per performance phone I have ever had.
Picked one up on eBay from a UK supplier with extra battery and option of pre rooted for £160.
They are about £135 from Aliexpress etc for about £135 with no extra battery and no rooting and the possibility of customs nabbing you.

Yeah, strangely I got my invite on my birthday

I bet this doesn't bend :stuck_out_tongue:

I'm calling bull on the quoted battery capacity but otherwise a good spec for the money. you may need to add import duty though. Good find.

The last phone I got from DealExtreme had Windows malware preinstalled on the micro SD card (and set up to try and autorun)... so yeah, be careful :smiley:

Don't forget that this is 850/2100 rather than 900/2100 which is European specs. Seems that Lenovo are the only ones to do 900/2100 on their Chinese phones.

did you get an invite?
so jealous :laughing:

If you go for a phone like this - get one that has some following on XDA as it will be forgotten even sooner than Samsung, LG, etc. forget about their phones. You'd be lucky if you get 1-2 updates before that's it.

Specs are good, would have got this but I have a 1+1 now. 2.0Ghz true octa core sounds awesome tho :smiley: with 1080p and 2gb ram

Agree, the specs are different on critical things like dual sim and SD card slot if that's wha you want.
Nexus 5 was just an example but I'm sure the user experience and support would be vastly superior with the Nexus 5.

I bought a Tronsmart TS7 myself from Geekbuying. I'm cool with buying a mobile from Far East but it's it's got to be a phenomenal saving for me before I do. If it's marginally cheaper to a UK market comparable then I wouldn't bother IMO

Resolution is usually poor on some the larger sized mobiles but this one seems good.

But at £165 I would probably spend just that bit more and get something like a Nexus 5

Great advice. will AVOID. Thanks

Also issues running some latest version apps (youtube)

See customer reviews and replies on this page
http://www.thlmobilestore.com/thl-5000-mtk6592-octa-core-android-4-2-2gb-32gb-smartphone-5-0-inch.html

Not 4g?

Looks like a good spec. Nice price.

Review here; http://www.gizbeat.com/4407/thl-5000-review-mt6592-5000ma-battery-phone/2/