good luck to anyone who takes the risk

good luck to anyone who takes the risk

good phone for the price.. ordered one on launch

NFC? 4G on Vod or O2? Need to flash ROM to make it work? Warranty? Ease of return? Any resale value?

wow with superb phones available for so cheap there no need to pay out £500 for a s6 surely. heat from me

heat

I have one, make sure you put on the protective film as the glass is the only let down. Super fast and the phone does not separate SD card memory from phone memory so no device full messages.

Good phone but doesn't work on virgin network

Just word of warning, You may be charged Customs/VAT. I placed my order last week and got an email from DHL to pay £19.

Thought Virgin was on EE? I am on it and the phone works a dream, no glitches and a steal even at the release price of £110, so this is HOT8)

​exactly, tried a nano EE sim card and it worked fine, put my new virgin nano sim card in and it did not even recognise it

Got one too. Useless ...
Terrible company to deal with; Hardware may be good but software Complete let down. Unless you are computer savvy I wouldnt advise getting one. Stay away from elephone there are better companies to buy from !!

I ordered mine on the 29th October from these guys. it arrived around 7pm.
to be honest, this was the first time I was using gearbest.
prefer banggood and geekbuying over them but thought i'd give these guys a try.
out the box it was on the latest one before the November 6 update. I got the OTA as soon as I switched on.
i bought it because i wanted a cheap and cheerful dual sim phone to work with giffgaff and freedompop.
things to note, freedompop app is a nightmare to use with dual sim LOL.
every call wants to go via their messaging app even though i want to make a call with giffgaff.
there is no apn in there fore giffgaff, so you have to add it manually.
for me 4g doesn't work at all on either provider. i have 4g with 3, but i don't think freedompop are allowed access to it.
i also have 4g in my area for o2, yet giffgaff didn't find any. i tried it with my Vodafone sim too and no luck on that either.
i only get 1 bar on my note 3, so i'm not fussed about 4g at the moment. i will try later.
Virgin TV anywhere app worked on it as did sky movies,sky sports and NOW TV. so i'm happy.
I've owned lots of devices over the years which had NFC, yet I've never found a use for it in my life. yep, people are different and might actually use tags when they enter their house to switch to wifi, when their in their office to go into silent or when they go inside their car etc you get the idea. but nfc isn't for me. apparently this does have the 800MHz band on 4g for O2 and voda. apparently it worked well before the latest 2 firmwares.
devices like this aren't for the faint hearted in my opinion as it usually will require flashing custom stuff at one point of another. but it's less than £100! what do you expect. people buy the moto g and still flash it. this is miles a head in terms of hardware for £.

Excellent phone for the money I paid £110 for it on launch, so for £98.67 it's a steal. Heat added, :smiley:

Issue with SIM card, not the phone.

I have an Virgin sim card which works fine in my new Doogee F5

The stock rom on this phone is a piece of junk, really really bad. A big thanks to the custom rom which makes it a quite a good phone for the money. http : // forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-p8000/development/rom-06-9-eragon-1-0-android-5-1-t3195007
.note. The camera on this is still quite poor, but reasonable for the price. The fingerprint scanner is useless and doesn't work 99% of the time.

Huge battery on that!
9El9Nino9 - the function you mention for using tags to switch on wifi etc can be easily done via the Llama app which works on location based on cell towers so no need to have GPS on all the time.

I have had a P7000 for a few months, and kept it updated, latest update sorted out the hot running issues on mine. Works on giffgaff 4g find after I updated the APN. Battery life could slightly be better, as it is on the P8000, bit still worth the money, heat added :wink:

Bought one for the wife from FS on here for £92 incl 64GB micro SD card, she just could not get used to it, I liked it but have to sell it as I already have a One +1

Top phone and comes rooted out of the box, all you need to do is install Super SU from the Play Store

I would however install a custom ROM

bought one of these when it was at £110
amazing phone can't believe how well it out performs some of the top end smartphones on the market today battery on this is amazing. ...over a days use ...

Bought one of these for around £115 a month ago, excellent 'phone, very fast, 4G on Vodafone is brilliant, and have a secondary sim from EE with an old ported number I wanted to keep. Unlike a lot of other dual-sim devices I looked at, there is a spare slot for a micro SD card as well. Fingerprint scanner works very well, so can't really fault it. As commented, if shipped from Far East you will get taxed on arrival (£21 for me), but on a cheap sim deal (for me, £5.50 VF unlimited mins, 2Gb data cashback deal), to have all this for around £200 for a year is a no brainer.

Very interesting - I lent my P8000 (which normally runs on EE & 3) to a friend to use on Virgin, but ti also did not recognise the SIM! Must be an issue with the layout of the Virgin SIM or something?

Don't do it. My girlfriend got this phone and the headphone port died after just a few weeks meaning that the phone then needed to be sent back to China for repairs.

I got the P7000 and an official update included malware which I could then only remove by wiping the phone and downgrading it using MTK tools. Just avoid this crap like the plague and go for something else instead.

Don't believe me? Google "p7000 Russian doll" and you will find multiple reports of it, I assure you.

They tried to stealth install adware into their own launcher on the August update but they chose the wrong adware provider and it becomes pretty obvious that the adware is there within a few days after installation.

some ppl are.. ye of little knowledge!

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/phones-broadband-and-sat-nav/mobile-phones-and-accessories/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-64-gb-sapphire-black-10126866-pdt.html?gclid=CjwKEAiA64uyBRCVmKyT2vuAjzgSJADfINB6IAoQkXBxRjGPtmd7cwpMuCKDWT3higzJ0DP-WbnRMhoC3fbw_wcB&srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg~~~Exact&mctag=gg_goog_7904&s_kwcid=AL!3391!3!68394103700!!!g!110895797060!&ef_id=Vgj5BgAABbArM-Iw:20151111132920:s

I did try but it was oos on EU warehouse. Anyway the phone has been delivered today. Will see how it is when I get home.

I am pleased with Gearbest. They have responded to all of my emails promtly.

That's someone offering for sale not someone offering to pay....

Bit like how Three are still selling the Z5 Compact at RRP when it's easy to purchase it elsewhere for around £100 less.

well it has 665 reviews. please correct me if im wrong but dont you have to buy their product from their site before you are allowed to leave a review?

if i am right...then yes... many people are buying it this price so this offer of sale has been followed up by at least 655 offeres to buy - as you say!

doogee f5 is a great buy. had mine 2 weeks and its as good as the s6

/makes note to cold vote every gearworst deal he sees. Still unsure which is worse, bangcrap or gearworst?

You are aware that the S6 has been on the market for around 6 months yeah and that the phone from them may have been sold at different prices....

See they are out in force on this site today, matron must have left the office unlocked by mistake...

I bought one of these phones through an earlier (and I think cheaper) deal, it took a while to arrive but probably not any more than from other Chinese suppliers. I have been very pleased with the phone, as long as it lasts more than a few months I will have no complaints at all.

you are VERY IGNORANT! just because you wouldnt pay £600 for an s6, many people have and still are as indicated by my 1 link to pcworld website...

but instead of your quirky nursing home comment how about i just let you have your own way..of course you are right.. always! i bet you are quite the popular person in your circles!

I'm not Ignorant fella, you're just incredibly stupid....

ok so let me get this right.. im so stupid because i said that people are still paying £600 for a samsung galaxy s6.. ok ill have the last laugh here you are obviously very immature, i question your age!

evidence as follows:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4572242.htm?CMPID=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59158|cid:200290250|agid:12504931010|tid:kwd-156231638450|crid:66128553650|nw:g|rnd:11062687277490350910|dvc:c|adp:1o3&gclid=CjwKEAiA64uyBRCVmKyT2vuAjzgSJADfINB6evIuUoEe_XIm0qoxu3nTBQXcOxFpVufyEvCK6-OwKRoCeRbw_wcB

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-as-you-go/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-32gb-payg/sku86118?bundles=show&cid=ppc-mec-auto/smvaajth

https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/samsung/galaxy-s6-edge/?cm_mmc=googleuk-_-PPC_PAYG_PLA-_-SamsungGalaxyS6Edge-_-SamsungGalaxyS6Edge+SamsungGalaxyS6Edge+Exact#colour=platinum-gold&memory=32gb&contractType=payasyougo&gclid=CjwKEAiA64uyBRCVmKyT2vuAjzgSJADfINB6luyYbLa0Ahix1-ASiwV5SrP7X4GC8BjuD3eitq7fiRoC7AHw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

my god ignorant person.. should i go on! i am not responding to you anymore, go and annoy someone else before its your bedtime! x

Dear oh dear.

You do know the difference between selling and buying yes?

Or is that the same as you don't know the difference between a Samsung S6 and a S6 Edge?

Stupid is what stupid does....

it was actually £500 i stated in my original comment. now if you want to be picky with the model of s6 heres another link for one selling at £589, showing how many are available and how many have sold:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-32GB-5-1-SIM-Free-Unlocked-Smartphone-Sapphire-Black-/311421518917?hash=item48822b4445:g:XgcAAOSwT6pVyJN4

and thats at a £90 premium to my statement that people are still paying £500 for a samsung s6.

the proof is there only an idiot can deny it! now the question is are you man enough to admit when you are wrong?

You shouldn't have to install a custom ROM just to prevent the phone from being infected by officially pushed malware.

Additionally, installing a custom ROM will disable the FP reader IIRC.

I know you shouldn't have to but not to differcult,or save yourself the bother and pay double or triple for other phones by big makes and get there spamware etc.
No the Eragon rom has the FP working well say users

does the leather case and screen ptotector come with the £98 option?

voted cold...gearbest are a joke
added to cart at $149.99 came up as $169.99 another waste of time from GB

i did...it says 149.99 then i add cart then when i go into the actually cart price jumps up

Most of the people who get one on a contract for starters, at least!

ordered this last weekend...just cancelled as they didnt send even though 88 in stock when ordered

gb are amazingly fast when they have in stock but unfortunately no way to tell if something is in stock as it always says it is

i won ebay bid for one 100 delivered says item location from southall but their ebay shop says 10-30 days shipping to uk and courier will be 1st dec so worried it will be shipped from china and i will have to pay tax