Zopo ZP900 Android Phone. Reasonable?

altomic on 07/03/2013 - 23:02

I swore I would never buy another chinese phone as I've been burnt in the past. though it has been over 3 years since I bought one so the pain has dulled.

this phone caught my eye. probably because it is android and therefore it is not a "fixed" os like the proprietry phones I bought before.

please convince me that it is a crap phone and I should stick with my iphone 3g which i only use to text, call and use free wifi on trains.

Zopo Zp900 android phone

cost $128 shipped on ebay. (cheaper by $90 than other sites)

MTK 6577 A9 Dual Core - 1GB RAM - 4 GB ROM - 8.0 Mpx
5.3" QHD Sharp Multitouch screen - GPS - Multilanguage - WIFI

The leader zopo900 android smart phone uses SGX531+ GPU MTK6577 Cortex A9 dual core processor, clocked at 1GHz frequency, 1G RAM 4GB ROM storage, 5.3 inch Sharp ASV TFT multi points capacitive touch screen, QHD 960*540 resolution,equipped with android 4.0.3 system, built in 8.0 MP camera on the back, 2.0 PM in the front,dual card dual standby,support WIFI, 3G, GPS and G-sensor.

am i reading it wrong? it appears to be reasonable.

thank you

Mobile

Comments

  • battler on 07/03/2013 - 23:56

    hmm interesting… what would concern me is it is 80-100 cheaper than other sellers, and the 2 guys selling at this cheap price have minimal ebay feedback… and what they do have in terms of feedback is on items that aren't electronics.

  • ozhunter on 08/03/2013 - 01:58

    Seems ok for the price. Some reviews on youtube you should watch.

  • scrimshaw on 08/03/2013 - 05:56
    +2

    Always, always read the feedback. If the seller has been previously selling nothing but cheap stuff in their feedback and all of a sudden they start to sell high value stuff, that's a red flag for a scam listing.

    Remember there's always the Huawei G300+ from Vodafone ($116 + $5 to unlock from Bagman). It's not as high spec or nor is it dual core, but its still an improvement over your iPhone 3 and it comes with local 1 year warranty.

    Other phones you can consider under then $200 mark:
    Lenovo Lephone A789 from another seller. Has more feedback.
    Alcatel 995
    Xperia Sola needs unlock code from eBay
    BAuhn phone
    Velocity 4G
    Kogan mobile (I woulnd't really recommend this as Kogan tends to have pretty shocking service and lousy hardware.)

  • altomic on 23/03/2013 - 23:08

    and the negs have started-

    http://tinyurl.com/aqmy2fr

  • scrimshaw on 27/03/2013 - 17:48

    Too good to be true I guess…

    I bought the Lenovo Lephone A789 from the seller I mentioned. I received the phone within 2 weeks, and while its not a top end phone I found it was fairly good value for money (comes with an 8GB Sandisk card) and had a fairly good build quality to it. The battery life is also great (2000maH). The downside was that I had to flash the ROM since there was no Google Play access natively.

    You could also check out the Huawei Ascend Y300 for $130 USD from Merimobiles. It's also dual core, dual SIM, has Adreno 203 graphics, 512mb RAM + 4GB ROM.

    Mobicity Australia sells this phone for $199 locally. However it still looks pretty new and as such there doesn't seem to be much of a ROM modding community for it yet.

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