China's best phone yet: Huawei P8 5.2-inch money-saving Android smartie

Re: Sadly it doesn't run iOS.

Well, iOS would be even worse for doing things the way you want rather than the way the manufacturer wants.

But Android 4.4 is plenty bad enough.

The author conveniently forgets to mention that in Android 4.4 you can't write anything to the SD card, making things terribly cumbersome in daily use if you're doing anything more than making phone calls and fumbling around on Facecrook.

Stability or not, at least Android 5 fixes that major issue.

Re: Ok, all well & good, but...

"Seriously, it's a phone."

It's a personal computer which happens to make phone calls - and the audio quality is ok (I've briefly tested one), which is one step up on the iphone.

Re: Some comparison with the OnePlus One please

Worth bearing in mind the Huawei will likely be available from normal UK suppliers eg Amazon etc. Warranty will then not be an issue. The OnePlus on the other hand "I'd like to send this recorded delivery to China please Mr post office worker" see you in 6 weeks if I'm lucky.

Re: Radios.

You could do without music until you arrive at a safe place to stop and fiddle with your phone rather than endangering everyone else on the road.

But hey, your music stopped so fuck everyone else, right?

Re: Radios.

> you're already on the motorway and have to juggle the bloody thing one-handed to turn off WiFi so the music works without interruption.

Took me a while to register what you were trying to say. Are you streaming music over Badtooth? Doesn't you car have a hard drive, SD slots, or at least a USB socket? Or WiFi, for that matter? A cassette player? 45 RPM Vinyl? 33⅓? Phonograph? Slave with a sitar?

Re: How the heck can they sell this in the West...

It is fine. It has sharp corners.

For most people it probably would be, especially if you were coming from an iPhone. I would do the same with any non-stock android phone. Instead of emotionUI it would be Sense, touchwiz etc. You can just get away with installing a different launcher, but I prefer to set the phone up as I want.

@ Anon IV

If you want a decent UI on android it's never a matter of just taking it out of the box, but you don't generally have to root to replace the desktop manager (Running Goo's desktop on my GN4 instead of touchwiz)

Re: Its about time...

"for years we have had overpriced phones using an unfinished OS"

You may like the IoS launcher. Many don't.

Re: Overpriced

And are they like the cheap Android tablet I had that became useless after about 12 months (a common issue on the cheap kit)

Re: Overpriced

> For comparison the THL 2015 4G phone is available for £160

Are they still using that hideous Mediatek chipset though? The GPS used to be all but unusable on those, and the camera left rather a lot to be desired. On the other hand, it was pretty much stock Android and easily rootable. And cheap for the features.

I've no idea what kind of idiot would downvote useful information, btw.

Re: Does it still have that hateful front end

agreed.

I've always hated that ios/copycat look of all the programme icons spewed over the home screen.

that's where the widgets are supposed to be.

It's also how they displayed the samsung devices in the apple vs samsung court cases, to make sure that the supposed copycat device looked like the apple interface.