World's cheapest 5" 1080P Full HD mobile phone, ZOPO C2 (AKA ZOPO ZP980). The phone originally comes with stock Aliyun OS, a heavily customised Android OS, but the online shop will ship it out with stock Android 4.2 installed instead.
Key Specs:
5" 1080P Full HD Screen
1.2Ghz Quad-core A7
13MP main camera and 5MP front camera
1GB RAM, 4GB ROM
Dual SIM
NEXT-G Network (850MHZ) Compatible
Micro SD expansion
2000mah Battery
8.5mm thin
Android 4.2
brand name phones = resale value & support
unbranded phones = no resale value & no support
yea probably won't have custom rom support either
brand name phones = more expnsive
unbranded phones = less expensive
That's quite obvious… lol
So was your comment but you still felt the need to post it.
how does it compare to a brand name android phone.
this was the reason i posted it, you replied to my comment…
Bear in mind that this is a HUGE and heavy phone!
The S3 has got "only" 4.7" display and about 120g.
These unbranded ones usually are poor quality. You can almost forget about GPS, takes forever to lock. The batter life is quite short.
The performance is usually not bad though, the MTK cpus are getting surprisingly good.
Ah, and some of these phones send an actual text message to the manufacturer when they boot up.
Cheaper for a reason :)
Having said that, S3 is around $380 shipped. For me, it's a much better value for my money.
same phone but $100 more expensive
there for reference and read the links it gets cheaper, op didnt bother to update links/price
Not exactly the same phone. Dont assume that the C2 is a subsidised variant of the ZP980 with an unofficial OS. The C2 also only has 4GB of Storage (about 2.5 usable) vs the 16GB of Storage on the ZP980 (about 13.5 usable). People will have to weigh up to see if the extra 11-12GB of storage is worth the $100.
Cpu is worse than a Tegra 3.
I've seen very similar Antutu scores between the Tegra 3 and MT6589 (@12-13k). Given the fact that most Tegra 3's are clocked at 1.5Ghz and the MT6589's are 1.2Ghz, the MT6589's are "faster" per clock and serves a bonus of being more power efficient (A7's are basically the low power requirements in comparison to the A9/A15 cores).
the MT6589's are "faster" per clock
Doesn't that still mean they perform worse overall.
http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a7.ph…
The A7 is actually newer than the A9's in design and is suppose to be the lowered power version of the A15. A7's suppose to be 20% better in performance and 60% better in energy efficiency.
Err. Marketing speak on ARM's website. Cortex-A7 is actually a power efficient and multi-core version of Cortex-A8, says Wikipedia. It does not have out-of-order superscalar execution on A9, and gives out around 1.9DMIPS/MHz/Core (vs. 2.5 for Cortex-A9).
So in theory a Cortex-A7 implementations (MT6589, Allwinner A31) would be slower than equivalent Cortex-A9 implementations (RK3188, Tegra 3).
Well, according to your link the A7 is more of a successor to the A8 (than just a multicore A8) and was designed in conjunction with the A15 which it is code compatible to. They have also crammed the optimisations within the A7 giving it better performance and consumption.
As for the DMIPS concept - this is an aged benchmark that only takes into account the integer units on the cores. It does not take into the total package (eg. Main bus, cache usage, memory transfers and other optimisations) as much as the old days have shown that a higher FSB can be faster than another with a higher Mhz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMIPS
Lastly with the Antutu benchmarks, the Nexus 7 (1.3Ghz) scores around 12,500 mark give or take 5%. Most of the production MT6589 phones (1.2Ghz) give an Antutu benchmark (by independent sources) of around the 12,200 mark give or take 5%.
Enough for the night I think..
AnTuTu looks at a lot of things other than the CPU. Here's Engadget's benchmarks from late last year, and you'll see how Cortex-A7 based MT6589 competes against other ARM CPUs from last year.
As of "total package", you'll find Cortex-A7 actually does not really have that much optimisation over A8 — better branch prediction, pipelined floating-point unit, integrated cache, etc. It's designed to be simple and power efficient, but in the sense of architecture it's kind of a step backward from Cortex-A9. No out of order execution? It's like Atom or the original Pentium, i.e. less instruction per cycle due to pipeline not filled (but hopefully compensated by faster cache).
Nice link.. but your article basically reiterates my original claim.
Comparing Antutu 3 benchmark between the MT6589 (1.2Ghz) vs the Tegra 3+ (HTC One X+ or 1.7Ghz) - 12800 vs 15800.
MT6589 (Cortex A7, Quad Core) - 10.67 points per Mhz of clock
Tegra3+ (Cortex A9, Quad Core) - 9.29 points per Mhz of clock
WOW I want to pull the trigger on this so bad, PowerVR SGX 544 (I suppose single core) and 5 inch 1080p, dual sim with one micro, 2000Mah, SD card and 13MP with 5 front!! Haha Stock 4.2 is sweet.
But Quad Cortex A7 meh… IO is in 15 days, lets what what next Nexus stuff looks like. Would have bought this if IO was like 6 months away. Nice Post OP!!!
Megapixels aren't everything, better to read reviews and look at examples of photos.
yea I agree, probably sucks worse than most phones but at least the front 5 might be good for video calling
With 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM,a pretty crappy cpu and unknown camera quality I guess the price is okay for an unbranded phone. It having dual sim might win over some people.
Custom roms and accessories would also be rare.
Yea in retrospect its probably a garbage phone, maybe good for leaving under your bed for night reading and alarm. Only Display will be worth while i guess, might as well put in 100 and get Nexus 4 eh! Yea the dual sim is actually pretty mad with one being micro, pretty tempting on that
I brought a MTK phone, claimed "8 megapixel", was far worse than my iPhone 4. It's standard on these phone to interpolate twice the megapixels than what the lens actually captures.
thats messed up, I'm glad HTC have improved their cameras and constantly try to, tied of crappy Android OEM cameras
shonky and deceptive marketing tactics
Just got and watch all the reviews on YouTube and you'll notice the lag! I suspect MK6589 is to blame here. Also note that 3G only supports 850/2100 so it does not support Optus 900MHz if that's the one you are using.
Same price as official store/manufacturer. RRP isn't a bargain.
http://www.zopomobileshop.com/en/107-zopo-c2-4gb-5-inch-full…
Do a search, it does not come with shipping.
plus free Belt Leather Case+ Car Charger+ Touch Pen.
Free shipping or shitty accessories aren't worth dealing panda-whatever.
brand name phones = posted via iPhone, Blackberry, etc.
unbranded phones = posted via FB Mobile.
It will display what ever any Android running the Facebook app shows. Also, what's your point?
I'm pretty sure he was just making a (unsuccessful) joke.
Hahaha
so who cares?
you bettrr grab one of my HTC One brand new from Telstra for $600 + shipping around $ 25. Have a couple in hand, PM me then
Definitely a rapist, wallet rapist!
never ever buy any chinese unbranded phone, not just phone but electronics too, i bought a tablet claimed to have quad core gpu and tegra 3, but it even slower than my galaxy tab I, bought digital camera years a go that claimed to have 16 megapixel where canon at that time only had 8mpx and find out it even worse than 2mpx quality. NO, do not waste your money on that junk!! unless their manufacturer really give you a back support such as AINOL maybe?
Where does Ainol provide the "back support"? If we are talking about the lower back then I might just buy!
"Insert joke here"
such a shame it doesn't include 3G 900mhz support. if it were ~$50 cheaper it'd be a steal, but at $250 its getting hard to justify over a second-hand galaxy S3 or One X.
Zopo is absolute rubbish… I have 2 of them. The ZP300 which is slow as and GPS doesn't work.
Second one is the ZP300+ which is the dual core version. Much faster than ZP300 and GPS works, but bluetooth doesn't stay connected to any device for more than 10 seconds..
Their tech support is non existent. They stop once they have your money. As soon as you approach them with a problem they ignore you. I got banned from their Facebook page because i wouldn't stop complaining.
Good luck to anyone who wishes to ignore this warning..
hesitant to buy the phone, does anyone have more information on this particular handset?
such as: build quality, os speed, how does it compare to a brand name android phone.