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Pretty sure that nobody that works at Gearbest is going to be paying anything like £62.99 for this phone.

Probably the staff buy the first 5.

Time Zone says UTC. GMT to you and me.

You are right, it says the first 5 units...

Yeah I saw this the other day, total wild goose chase

Is this Android Go?

That is impressive. Sounds quite good

I had a cubot phone last year and the battery life was appalling, so it's good to hear that this phone is ok. Heat added :)

battery is great and also charges really quickly , I don't play games on mine so mostly use for talk time via whatsapp and can easily talk for 3 hours and only use a quarter battery

Might be ok for my Dad who just uses WhatsApp Gmail and Livescore What's battery life like mate?

Usually between 2 weeks to a month.

How long to wait for delivery?I wanted to buy a tablet... What is you experience using this Gearbest? (skeptical)

...was £180 on Amazon's Lightning Deal this morning, but sold out already (annoyed)

A lot of spec for the money it seems

LOL your IT guys are in trouble

Got one ,no customs ,and what a phone , (highfive)

Great, now I can show to my multinational corporation that the phone they bought me to use it's a joke. Thank you.

Since you asked so nicely, here: https://techweez.com/2017/09/19/cubot-malware/ http://forum.cubot.net/viewtopic.php?t=2176 https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/198178-infected-systemuiapk-on-cubot-rainbow-not-detected-by-malwarebytes/ It's well documented if you want more, just look on Google for cubot malware. Probably has bloatware too lmao

Missed delicateWARE screen.

Regrets not buying that from the beginning. Somehow I'm gonna try to get through this year until Samsung Note 10 is out <3

Cheers, just bought the Poco F1. Had already looked in the related deals and didn't see it, so thanks for the link!

It is on the related deals but if thats to hard

AliExpress the offer posted here on HotUKDeals (cheeky)

Sorry, didn't do that right!.....Where can you get the Poco for £230? Thanks

Aha I've got the everywhere bug at the moment (cheeky) I was actually on the hunt for a bargain P20 (not the cubot) or Mate 10 Pro but nothing really took my fancy Surprised the G Flex deal is doing so well...thought it would get chilly but I'll quite happily take the heat :)

You got the appliances direct bug mate? Haha I saw your g flex post, very good. Kudos to you for posting it, I saw it a while back, and it didn't even cross my mind to post it.

@Mrswitch back in stock now if you want to unexpire/edit Also seem to have more @ Appliances Direct for the same price Blue Purple Black

£95? The deal you posted fir £101 you mean?

Needs to be to cope with 28nm power demands. 28nm is why it is forced to run slow.

Ah no, sorry bud

Just received mine, really poor quality and very tinny unfortunately.

The link goes to a 404 already. Does anyone have a link to their shop as I can't find that either

I use this site for cheap earphone reviews https://audiobudget.com/

"Got some decent reviews. For just under £3 a pair." I need a couple of pairs but can anyone point me to the decent reviews? I see three on Amazon but can't find the product sold elsewhere under this name.

Anybody had theirs shipped yet? Seem to recall they were showing expected despatch dates of 20-23 August

You’re basically just buying a phone from a website, it comes unlocked to any network. It’s shipped from China, so any problems, you’re better of buying through a credit card. I’ve had a few phones from China and never paid import tax. Best getting normal slow delivery as you seem to avoid it more. Had a cubot phone and did have malware built into the android system, you can get that with some Chinese phones. It’s more a pot luck sometimes for that.

Hi. Sorry. Bit of a newb here. Can someone explain how this website works? What are you buying? Is the phone British? Will you get stung by import tax? How much would you get stung? Would you be able to stick any sim in this. Why are people saying the phone would have malware installed from unboxing? The reason “newbs” like me end up going with carphone warehouse each time is because they don’t really understand these things. Plus I’ve been with iPhones since 2007 and I’m a bit lost in this world. Thanks all for not picking on me too much!(highfive)

Sadly mine was also directly from cubot. Don't get me wrong it was a good phone but after a scan on two different malware detector programs i decided I would only use it for non important use. Edit I will add when used as a work phone the build quality was impressive, took a good beating.

It must depend on the seller then. I've had 3 cubot phones a max, mix and a second max for the m-i-l but I got from Cubot Direct on Amazon and I always install Sophos on my phones and they were clean. I'll have to try Virus Total as in the news articles. I've also got a Ulefone S9 Pro and Oukitel K3 which I haven't used yet so I best check them! :)

Xiaomi Mi A1

Which phone are you using yours with?

Depends on how often you're disturbing that area of your phone. Mine is laying nicely flat on the back of the phone, with my case protecting it. I hardly notice it's there... Plus mine came with two in the box. For me, it's a worthy investment.

Malware aside, I am not disputing that, for example, an iPhone X is not a better phone, of better quality, but the question is, is it Better enough to warrant a premium of over 6 times the price? Times are hard I'm told.

Looks interesting but I'm not sure how durable it is.

WOW!!! Great value phone it really is - good size and easy to use.... Have some heat! I had a Cubot before and absolutely loved it. This one is even better - very tempted! LOL!

Buy-it-Direct T/A DebenhamsPlus https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.buyitdirect.co.uk 2.6/10 rating (shock)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B077QFW2H8 Another option, looks a bit more upto date

Got my Mrs the H1 a while back, and she loved!....She's now on the a motoG5, who she also loves.....for the price, these Cubots offer great value. Heated up and thanks is for posting (y)

Yep all cubot phones come with that, I've had mine a year and had zero issues with it, a brilliant value for money phone

I couldn't get the deal posted last week for the Xiaomi strip LED lights to work ... are there any deals for them about?

4x5 watt soundbar I'd have to have it low to avoid upsetting the neighbours (lol)

GearWorst

If you want to buy cheap quality Chinese phones then you get what you pay for. No point crying about it. Save up and by premium quality mobile phones.

If you want to buy cheap quality Chinese phones then you get what you pay for. No point crying about it. Save up and by premium quality mobile phones.

It was built in the system as the system updates. So even forcing stop it would start up again. Malware apps picked it up. Tried rooting the phone so I could remove the system app. But no root would work, done that before on other phones.

I was wary so installed Malwarebytes. It picked it up but couldn't remove it as it was a system file, The Rom on cubot.net also had it built in but once it has activated itself there is no way to remove it. I don't know what it was doing, I read somewhere it was sending data to a google server. Here I think

How did you know you had malware? Did another app report that it found some?

I had a cubot once and sent it back. Had malware that tracked login details for apps etc. like Facebook, email, online banking. It’s what’s put me off buying a Chinese brand that’s not regularly sold in the uk.

What was the malware? Or what did it do, just out of curiosity?

Might be uk ones on eBay now and again

My mate had a Cubot and its very good so I been thinking about gettibng one for my daughter something like this. However in the last few days his has developed a frozen screen problem which nothign will shift including a reset. So he inquires about a repalcement screen and is told he can get one from China - shipped anytime between April and June! Not exactly practical then. I assume you cant get screen replacements in UK.

You can add oreo so makes a good deal

Spare batteries now available again on eBay. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F132414665577 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F263348969088

They might be on the play store, but it doesn't make them any less useless.

Well all know who pays extra for a audio and its not sheep! 😋

Is the Cubot X18 Plus compatible to use with a Virgin contract Sim?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01N1ILWQW?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd Cubot Echo

Flashing these ROMs was pretty straightforward with a bit of trial and error. Both phones came completely sealed in their boxes and were bought from well known UK suppliers. The reason they get away with selling them is the three week delay which allows reasonable doubt that the user has actually installed some malware accidentally, when the Malware is in fact built in to the Operating system before being shipped from China. My Cubot has just offered me an update which apparently deals with all previous malware related problems. I've just installed the new update so we'll see....

if the box looks like it has been tampered with, a vendor has most likely flashed an adware ROM. if you aren't competent at flashing ROMs, i'd avoid chinese phones to be honest. it's a small price to pay for great hardware at a low cost.

Well i used it for about 5 hours a night watching movies. The battery did not last long and had to be constantly on charge whilst in use. I would also suggest the lack of cpu cores also made it struggle when playing basic games.

What kind of usage was yours? Just so someone with the same type of usage knows this is not the right phone.

I own this phone. It just died after a couple of months use. It always struggled as it was under powered. AVOID

Well it's also 90 quid. Can't expect top specs and a 4K screen at this price. It's clearly a budget phone for people with no demands. There are many people like that, who have no idea what a chip even is... let alone the difference between a Mediatek or Snapdragon and what the latest chips are.

I have this phone and can't fault it. Very quick and responsive.

Just edited this to reflect that they have stock in the EU warehouse, so 4-5 days instead of 30-45 days. Price is £2-3 difference, but struggling to get the price to change in the deal up top (nerd)

Heck. 720p on anything bigger than 5"5 is unusable. And, although decent for the money, this does not have any flagship specs.

please show us a link to whatever story you read about gearbest. is it the story about the reddit posting that was responsed to by gearbest the next day, ie poor passwords from other account used for gearbest accounts, not necessarily that gearbest was hacked? interested to know, as i use GB from a pc, not by mobile app.

There was supposed to have been a plus model of this phone, I'm still waiting for its appearance

That is the point that price you can't get much better thing if you willing to pay a bit more you can get decent phone which can survive few year there is a one example below have a look.. just pay 20 quit more which %25 ish . Antutu score is over 160k, 4x faster only 1/4 more expensive than this one just use your brain ;) https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/letv-leeco-le-pro3-elite-x722-55-inch-4gb-ram-32gb-rom-snapdragon-820-quad-core-4g-smartphone-11048-wcode-banggood-band-20-2853753

Replacement batteries available from AliExpress from £10.24.

It’s removable so you can purchase and carry a spare for a few quid more, meaning you can potentially have 5600mAh worth of power. It takes 30seconds to change a battery and reboot my phone and I’m back to 100% battery life without searching for a plug or carry a bulky power pack.....

That battery could have been better. You can buy other budget phones with better battery life.

Added heat .... But the line about the dual sims made me laugh out loud! "This will enrich your life" .... (popcorn)

Most of us on here order chinese phones like this from a few different sites like these: https://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_771120.html?wid=11¤cy=GBP&vip=1006721&gclid=CjwKCAiAmb7RBRATEiwA7kS8VAyK54btK7ZNWqqKfDg_CHH8ISSjulfCbhdXuWucPa3DLmnvOjHNshoCXy4QAvD_BwE