I had this phone for about a month before returning it (for about £112 with a halloween promo code on Amazon), heres a mini review:

Pros:
- Great 1080p screen
- Sd card slot (woop)
- ran most things smoothly, very few crashes
- software was almost vanilla android which was nice, and snappy
- Light, but felt well made with the metal back
- battery life was not bad at all

Cons:
- Big gripe #1: Absolutely awful camera. I genuinely think my iPhone 3GS took better photos. Its extrapolated to the higher MP count, but only in bright light does it take photos which look ok. Also really quite a lot of lag. I tried various apps on various settings but eventually gave up. So if you're looking for a decent camera I'd probably recommend staying away
- Big gripe #2: The audio. It pops when you change tracks, and crackles at anything above 2 notches on the volume control. Initially thought it was fine as I could (almost) live with the torture for the pros. Then I tried playing games with headphones in, and it popped almost constantly due to shifting background music and also sound effects. Now I think if you use rootjoy or whatever and go to a more recent firmware it 'might' solve this according to some forums... But I decided that it probably wouldn't last me the usual 1.5-2 years I expect to use a phone for.
- Already stated I felt it was fast, but if you're expecting incredible specs on paper then the processor on this and GPU are the same I believe as some of the cheaper Cubot etc phones. Now I should stress this didn't affect my experience at all, but it depends if this sort of thing bothers you. It does have 3gb of RAM though..!
- It's quite hard to find accesories for it online; found a cheapish (4 quid) tempered glass screen protector and a very generic clip on case, but other than its mostly these weird cases which stick onto the back (which might be great, but no reviews I can see)
- it doesn't have the 4G band for O2
- Think it dropped signal a few times during calls, but attributed that to O2 coverage

TL:DR version: it runs well and looks great, but has an fairly bad camera and audio issues and no 4G for O2 users. Depends on what you prioritise when it comes to phones.

Yeah, what's with this new trend?, most of the latest Chinese phones are doing this when back in the day they had 3 dedicated slots on even the cheapest models. I guess it's just to cut corners and cost. As pretty much everyone will use an SD card it basically makes having a 2nd SIM slot redundant. Having 2 SIM's is a great feature especially when abroad, why oh why did they have to go and ruin it!

Sadly another nice phone totally spoilt by the micro sd card "sharing" the same hole as the second sim, so you either have sd OR dual sim but not both :\

I'm also not entirely sure by the "you have to send the phone to china after 45 days" as no you bloody don't. you whine at amazon :P

EDIT :- You may also want to read the reviews before dipping in on this one :smiley:

Sadly another nice phone totally spoilt by the micro sd card "sharing" the same hole as the second sim, so you either have sd OR dual sim but not both :\

I'm also not entirely sure by the "you have to send the phone to china after 45 days" as no you bloody don't. you whine at amazon :P

EDIT :- You may also want to read the reviews before dipping in on this one :smiley:

Yeah, if you bought it from Amazon then your returns policy would be with Amazon. You would never need to send it overseas for anything.

No seperate sd slot also kills it for me.

BUT you didn't :smiley: they merely fulfilled the order

As far as I understand, fulfilled by Amazon is the same as buying from Amazon. It's just not an official Amazon-resold product.

I could be wrong though.

You could well be right, but anyway whining at them would likely work :smiley: They are pretty reasonable to deal with! I voted hot btw even though it's not the phone for me :smiley:

Amazon deal with all customer service related issues for 'fulfilled by' products.

I have this phone (writing this message on it). It's very good in a lot of ways, especially for the price. Notably it's well-built, the display is really nice and it generally performs pretty well. Just lots of little software niggles and some unfortunate hardware drawbacks that drag it down and remind you that this isn't a premium device.

It's made me really miss my smashed OnePlus One but has also been a better than expected stop-gap phone until contract upgrade time.

Got mine from amazon in November but returned after a few weeks as camera is awful and had a few niggles. Got the g3 for 140 from amazon warehouse deal and it's much better