Well mine's been dispatched now the long wait for it to travel to me. 3 weeks normally.

I ordered a phone case in end of november from gearbest.com snd still not here, and guest what they are offered they put the money back on my gearbest account so I have to spend on gearbest shop, clever are they. Good luck with them!

The display always lets the chinese phones down, I guess you can't expect much at this price.

Yeah that's fair. Tbh I probably wouldn't get a 4.5 screen phone either. I think 5 or 5.2 is about right. Maybe phablet is good though if someone doesn't already have a tablet, then again you can hardly fit a microsoft surface in your pocket.

The size of the display isn't what worries me, rather the resolution and quality of the display.

It's showing £34.86, but when going to checkout this pops up:

£57.48
Sorry,flash sale is over.

Nor do I to be honest but my eyeballs thank me for it! I think the phone in this deal could be good as a cheap gaming platform at the price but the rest of the spec falls considerably short of the CPU.

It depends on what you mean by fast. The gpu in the X5 ( I have one) is just a dual core Mali 400 rated at 9 gflops. The gpu in this phone is a quad core Mali 450 rated at 35.8 gflops. The X5 gpu is horrifically slow in comparison. Even the X5 pro is only rated at 17 gflops for the gpu, less than half the speed. Then of course the ulefone has a 8 core cpu at 1.4ghz. The X5 is 4 core of the same type at 1.3ghz and the X5 Pro is 4 core at 1ghz but they are 64bit cpu's. The pro also has 2gb rather than 1gb.

My doogee x5 is brilliant and fast in operation but its clear gpu wise its fairly weak. Many games and emulators run slow on it even though the phone itself is responsive in use.

I'm not going to knock the doogee's though, absolutely brilliant phones. This phone is for those who maybe want more performance and a more compact size and don't mind not having android 5.x.

That looks a lot of phone for the money there, nice find.

£52.62 here too :disappointed:

even on the app prices show $93.89 China and $79.99 from EU

​I've tried chrome Firefox and their app im not getting this price it would be great if it was that price.

Doogee X5 seems to be a better choice. http://www.gearbest.com/compare-141991_234310

​ive checked on chrome Firefox and on the app perhaps you have a special offer as a member or something. this would be great if it was that price.

prices have changed £52.62 EU and £61.76 from China.

some reviews on YT https://youtu.be/i1AG04XuI80

Cheap NOT NOT Not NOT high performance, looks like a cheap item you don't buy.

Different screen sizes, 4.5 vs 5.5, personally I don't like Phablets.

Missing the UK 900MHz 3G band (O2/Voda use it as well as 2100 - not sure if there have been reallocations since the list I checked)

Specs are good but you will run out of storage with only 8gb and really for the processor it should have at least 2gb ram.
Price £52.62 Europe or £34.86 from China but will take about 2mths to get to you i ordered a torch November and still waiting for it....Keeps saying on its way on there tracking site.

Good enough phone- great price- voted HOT!

Gearbest do have some cracking deals on phones. However, unfortunately this isn't a DooGee :wink:

That's a much weaker phone. About 2/3rds the gpu performance, less than half the cpu performance and generally weaker all round spec, less resolution etc.

This phone offers significantly more performance than the vodafone smart prime 6 or 3rd gen moto g but seems to fall in between the performance of the next level of phones beyond £100.

As stated the main benefit here is very good cpu and gpu performance but it lacks 4g and the resolution sits between entry level and 720p. A good phone for someone who wants to run graphically and cpu demanding apps/games/emulators etc but doesn't need 4g or android 5.x. A good phone for someone who does payg rather than a monthly contract possibly.

Just how good/crap is this? What phone for sale in UK could you compare it to?

"35.8 gflops of performance" I want one.:wink:

Looks a nice phone and in many ways superior like the screen but the cpu is half the power of this one and the gpu about 1/4 of the power. I have a Doogee X5 with the MTK6580 chipset which is great but its only a dual core Mali-400. I bought a cheap 10" phablet which has the MTK6582 and that was only £53 with a leather case included. That has the benefit of 2GB main memory and 16GB internal storage but only marginally faster than the MTK6580 purely because they are clocking it at 1.5ghz instead of 1.3ghz which also seems to a have a small knock on effect to the gpu. My point is MTK6580 is good entry level performance where as this phone is easy mid-level performance. Quite a performance gap between them.

Not bad and voted hot, but I'd be tempted to spend £7 more and get an Umi Rome X when it comes out at the end of Jan

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Original-Umi-Rome-X-MTK6580-5-5-inch-1280x720-HD-LTPS-Quad-Core-Android-5-1/712948_32594113122.html

Kimovil is a good site for looking up china phones and suppliers.

I love the QHD display! (Quarter HD) lol. Good deal for a cheap spare or replacement though