
Like features on your phone?, Then this IS NOT for YOU!

~My first review. Hope it comes to some use for you!~
I was looking for a new phone and after searching hard at most adverts for cell-phones on ebay this "seemed" to have all the features I was after at a price to suit my budget. Thats when my nightmare began.
The phone came and I couldn't believe the poor quality, For starters I read the adverts very carefully (as I always do). So when it came I was ready to test out these features, How disapointed I was.
Let me break down "a few" of the features that was advertised and what they ammount to in reality.
Before I start I would also like to point out that the i9 / i9+ / i9++ / i68 and a few others look identical, Run just about identical firmware (buggy to say the least) are not branded CECT and you will find the IMEI #'s are unregistered, Not enough to put you off?? (It should be but we will move on regardless).
--JUST IN CASE THOSE SAME FEATURES ARE TEMPTING YOU INTO HITTING "BUY NOW"--
** Item specifications - Mobile Phones (taken from an un-named ebay advert) **
>> "Camera: 2 Megapixels or more"
REPLY: The first unit I tested (the one I bought). Camera result proved to be a poor excuse resulting image (poor) 1.3 mega-pixel resolution. Tested a workmates a scary 0.3MP
>> "Ten Page Sliding Menu"
REPLY: The CECT website states the most they do is 6 pages, More to the point these pages have maybe 6 application per page, Which for me ALL but a few on the first page loaded, The rest failed java errors.
IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT YOU CANNOT DELETE OR ADD ICON'S TO THESE MENUS WITHOUT A FIRMWARE UPGRADE, As its not from CECT you have to hunt 3rd party FW-MODS.
>> "Video: 3GP/MP4, support to play in full screen, forward and pause, support video auto horizontal screen playing"
REPLY: Been encoding for years, Tried all night to get a converted .mp4 movie to playback, Unsupported errors. Trying to narrow down what could be wrong...
I had a friend record the sloppy slow menu's of this handset with his mobile (around 30 seconds). He then sent it to me via bluetooth when I tried to play it back I got the same error.
>> "Data transfer: USB cable/Bluetooth"
REPLY: As stated above had no problems with bluetooth, The cable that comes with it is as cheap and cheerful as the phone, The clips on the pc-usb head will snap with little effort and the soldering underneath means the connections will break completely in the event the head comes loose.
>> "Sliding unlock function"
REPLY: Mix this with a mp3 ringtone and I found the screen locked up when trying the slide for the first few times.
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Bottom line if your happy with a phone full of icons that are unuseful and in my case didn't work. This is the phone for you. If you buy a phone for features steer well clear because there not worth the money.
You don't have to take my word for it, I can pomise you that what i've written above, Is in my opinion truthful,
Thank you for reading or at least skipping over my first review.
Kev.
Ps. I settled on a Nokia-5530-XpressMusic, Bought locally for £30 more. Excellent phone!. Eithway hope you find one to suit you : )
Review ID: 10000000014480519

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