Star S6 Smartphone Android 4.2 MTK6589T 5.0" HD Gesture Sensing $102.99USD Delivered Pandawill

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  HomeAlone on 13/06/2014 - 14:40

  +2

  I was interested until I read Pandawill

  Worth reading the comments from this deal before buying.

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    altomic on 13/06/2014 - 15:00

    crappy + relatively slow service. didn't read any "I want my money back!" comments

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      MagicTsukai on 13/06/2014 - 17:45

      do your research before dealing with anyone!

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  wisc on 13/06/2014 - 15:01

  Yeah, I won't be getting another phone or item from them in the future, they continuously lied about sending my package out and apparently sent it via the Netherlands!

  two weeks and the tracking company has only yesterday just received the details of it, its sitting as "Shipment Submitted" so doubt it will go anywhere this week…

  will assume about 5-10 days for shipping bringing it to about a month… they are pretty slow…don't order unless your not in a hurry.

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    altomic on 13/06/2014 - 15:05

    Many Chinese companies use various international postal services. I bought a phone off another seller and they used Swedish Post. took the same amount of time as china post.

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  altomic on 13/06/2014 - 15:04

  +1

  they also have the BLUBOO X2 Smartphone MT6592 5.0 Inch IPS OGS 7.6mm Slim 1GB 16GB Android 4.2 OTG - for US$149.99.

  pink

  grey

  exact same specs except octacore.

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  trunks on 13/06/2014 - 15:13

  +4

  Pandawill customer service and online chat blatantly lie about items being in stock, being shipped etc. Bought an iNew V3 off them at the start of the year and they lied about having stock, having shipped it etc. They even tried to placate me with an extra battery which they said they would send but I never received it. Your best bet is their forum which seems to be frequented by the only people who know anything about actual stock/ shipping. If you don't mind a lot of waiting them go with them, but otherwise I would not suggest them.

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  wchau on 13/06/2014 - 15:35

  +4

  Goodluck buying any phones from China directly.
  I did it once through dxgate.com and for what its worth never again.

  On paper the specs look great, you think everything is exactly what you need. You can't go wrong.
  When you get it ( usually about 1-2 weeks ) on the surface all looks good too, build isn't too bad also.
  So you go round thinking this is excellent value…

  Then you start using it…

  Sound is sht ( low quality sound and sound is low itself hard to hear on speaker )
  Camera is sht ( focusing and slow moving frames when you turn it on )
  The LED for camera is sht ( brightness is crap , can't be adequately used as torch/flashlight )
  Bluetooth is sht ( ie lose connection to your paired device all the time )
  Microphone is sht ( people can't hear you clearly or they get 1 second echos. )
  The Charger is sht ( stopped working a week or so later )
  The memory described is less than what they say it is, the usable memory isn't reporting correctly

  You can't really send it back either cause it will cost a bucket and god knows when you will get it back all the tooing and froing, it is just not worth the hassle.
  It gets to the point where you can't take it any more.. and end up buying Australian stock
  Spend that extra $100 bucks or so get a unit that has been QA.

  Saves you from all the headaches.

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    Windows7forever on 13/06/2014 - 15:57

    Thanks for the cautionary tale. This is why I'm still hesitant to by a "china phone".

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    morpheu on 13/06/2014 - 16:09

    +3

    that's why you should only buy branded china phones e.g THL, Meizu, Jiayu etc with lots of reviews and from reputable sellers with good return policies

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    altomic on 13/06/2014 - 16:39

    What phone did you buy? I've bought 3 china droid phones and have been happy with all of them. Though 1 did die due to a faulty micro USB port - which can happen to a branded phone. The other 2 are still going strong. My wife has one and is the pick of the two. Fast response, good red, clear sound, great battery, excellent camera quadcore. Ipegtop is the brand. Cost $105- can't fault it. My phone is a basic quad core. It was <$100. good sfound nice battery. Only issue is that it is only 2g. Meh, I rarely leave the city so it doesn't bother me. Your experience sounds unfortunate but is not typical. I'd suggest giving it another try and go through a seller like banggood, focal price, tmart, etc.

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    simonizmaster on 14/06/2014 - 10:45

    You pay for what you get?
    But I will still buy Chinese phone. Like one plus one.

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    wchau on 15/06/2014 - 08:02

    This is the phone I bought..Original size S4 Air Gesture i9500 Quad core android 4.2.2 MTK6589 phone with 5.0'' Screen cell Phone from Shenzen was $200+ at the time.
    Suppose to be a galaxy s4 clone.

    Everyone experiences are different I guess, with different things, but this is my unfortunate event..

    Be also reminded that you are "not" allowed to send lithium devices through Australia post via Air to return a fault unit so thats a double whammy.

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  fchis on 13/06/2014 - 15:37

  I have bought a phone from Focalprice. It was delivered in 3 weeks. I believe it's case by case.

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  edrift on 13/06/2014 - 18:10

  very good price for the spec. no idea about the reliability of the seller but in general items coming from shenzen take forever to arrive even if you pay for DHL.

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  mista on 14/06/2014 - 14:34

  I purchased a very similar phone from pandawill a month or so back, was also 'STAR' branded. Opened the box, and was a great phone, powered it up, looked awesome, navigation was great, wifi worked a treat… and that's as far as I got really.

  As soon as I put a Telstra/Optus/Vodafone (3G) sim in it, nothing worked. It connected to the network, showed 4/4 bars for signal for both sim cards, dual sim model phone (the tower is 100m up the road), went to make phone calls.. nope nope nope!

  Did the whole online text chat thing, was told to make a video of the issues, so I did… then once they viewed it I was given a RMA number and had to send it back, so that was another $31 AUD to send from Aus -> China. SMH.

  So all-in-all, purchased the phone, arrived 4 weeks later, used it for 1 day, couldn't make any phone calls, RMA'd it… 1.5 weeks it arrived, they tested, found yes it was faulty and have sent it off to be fixed… and now I wait… probably for another 4 weeks at least. :/

  Anyways… that's my 'story' dealing with pandawill.

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    wchau on 15/06/2014 - 08:47

    The other thing to keep in mind is that.. you are not legally allowed to send any devices with lithium batteries through Australia Post via AIR… your ID is recorded when sending things internationally because you accept that there is no "dangerous" goods, but AU post regards lithium batteries as dangerous.