Price dropped further on Banggood if you use the code 'zzukxmas'. Down to $169.46 which is just £136.20 at the current exchange rate!

This phone is the steal of the century at this price - providing you have the technical chops to flash updated ROMs. An Android 7 nougat ROM is currently in testing in China as well.

Not started using my phone yet, but I've been impressed with the build quality and performance. The fingerprint sensor is absolutely lightning fast and the 'swiping' abilities of the sensor are pretty useful as well.

I'm not going to do that, I couldn't do it any better than the very comprehensive step-by-step guide on http://zukfans.eu/

Yes, the OTA updates appear but you can't download them without a proxy connection to China.

Further observations now I've been with it for an afternoon - the ringtone/notification volume is a bit weird, on its quietest it's too loud and on the loudest it's only slightly louder!

There are a few annoyances in the software, such as spelling mistakes and the fact that searches in the Google app don't show up in the multitask window. The settings menu is a bit different to that on other Android phones (the normal Android settings are under Zui's "Advanced" options - is date/time really advanced??). It didn't recognise my BT SIM as BT so had to delete the wrong APNs, and the connection is referred to as T-Mobile in the menu/phone app which is a bit pre-historic since they've been EE for ages, although it does say BT in standby,

Overall when there's official Cyanogen support I'll probably move that way.

Back to $189.99 with code "zukz21111" - part of the black friday deals.

In my opinion: there is no cheap SD820 with 4Gb RAM 64Gb flash (not ROM) that he should pick. brooky_agn is coming from the very smooth and polished iPhone environment experience. He had a very minor dabble with a Nexus 5X. A high hardware specs Chinese phone with somewhat flaky software and not fully supporting UK 4G bands and UK google services is certainly not the ideal choice for him. He will run back to iOS crying about how poor the Android user experience is and how much better is iOS.

If he wants to try switching to Android, he would be far better off paying the high price for a top quality and top specs device (e.g. Galaxy S7, the new Pixels phones, HTC 10, Sony Experia XZ or the like) or if money is an issue, go for a lower specs device with good software and support (e.g. Moto G4, Samsung J3 or S6 on sale, etc)

I think this phone is much more for someone familiar and confortable with Android who is looking for top hardware specs for low money and is willing to "pay" for it by putting a bit more effort in customisation and configuration.

Would be good if didn't have to flash a new rom to get Google play store to work

Same here I've now flashed the international rom and seems to work fine now but before that was awful

Great deal, thanks!

Damn that's tempting

Isn't there taxes to be paid on this price?

this is HOT!