i bought the xiaomi redrice too from ebay.com. only over US $200. I love it very much. everything in the phone are working great and i would highly recommend to other people. I do not want to spend $700 over to pay for a brand name. brand-name phones are just a bit more widgets and fancy stuff, i do not need it at all. next time i will by a Octa-core and feel the great performance. Hurrah! Chinese are great, wonderful!!!!
I imported a Huawei Honor 2 in 2012 to my homecountry The Netherlands when almost no one even had heard of Huawei over here. They laughed at me and look where they are now, it was Galaxy S3 performance for half the price, never had problems with it.
Bought a Huawei Ascend P6 after owning an iPhone (hated it due to the obsessive iTunes slavery you're forced to deal with to upload ANY files on it) and later a HTC Incredible S, and have never looked back. It's the nicest phone i've ever had. Honestly didnt expect that good quality as it was rather affordable too compared to some of the overpriced stuff from LG, Sony etc. I dropped it on a hard wood floor three times, nothing broke, no scratches, no gaps.
Yes, most of the phones are assembled in China though designed by a different country. It just depends if you get that phone assembled in a proper factory.
I never want to iPhone or any us made, they suck. They junk just like American car. Not Reliable like other country made them. F35, f22 they all used Chinese material. In the 10-20 years from now the Chinese will rule the whole world in technology. The u.s pentagon are using Chinese made super fast computers. There also Chinese foot printed in the whole continental. The American people are bitching about cheap labor,so all the Chinese and other countries get the jobs. Now you ain't got shit.
Jan Seger totally, i am currently using a mi5 since my samsung(canada) even unlock was not working well with their provider. so i ended up buying mi5. more then happy. i sold the Samsung and still use the mi5 :)
wow Marc-Andre. thats great.sorry about your Samsung. my S5 died also. stopped charging.. Using my Umi Plus E as my daily driver. not as much of a premium. but i kind of like it. but still very curious about the next Xiaomi premium phone. Xiaomi is really up there with the premium phones. still got some bugs. but not as bad as many of the other China phone brands. ;). lastly. what you think of the Mi6?
I used to repair electronics and can "feel" the direction of where the country of origin of that product is going so for this I also think the same as no one back then imagine Taiwan can become an advance country 40 years ago too, the same will be applicable for other countries like Vietnam or Thailand too.
The same thing goes on when I visit clothing retail stores in the mall. I used to skate so I would shop at skateshops in the mall... always super loud music! I never liked it but it's what ever gnome sing mane.
it's not even the loud music though, it's the constant chattering, maybe if i understood chinese and it didn't just sound like a bunch of gibberish it would be less annoying
I mean, a lot of iPhone's are made at Foxconn which is obviously in China. I think it all comes down to quality control of the company and their overall goals.
Not surprising at all that the Chinese companies are making decent phones. Most of the big brand cell phones are manufactured in China already for the past decade. Now it's just those Chinese factories finally figured out that it is more profitable to put their own brands on the phones they're making.
the xiaomi phones are genuinely really good, and are growing in value rather quickly. a number of my friends in Beijing had them, had times when I wanted to sell my Iphone and buy one of them instead
Oppo is sold in a mobile carrier store here (2degrees) and me and my dad have been following brands like xiaomi,meizu, Huawei and eleTV and I think they're great for the price you get them at
Nice video of the phones, was not aware of the quality of the new Chinese phones. Our next trip to China we will need to check them out, definitely cheaper than my 5s was. Thanks again for the video, and stay awesome!
In respose to fangpiLu: Oppo is a fully Chinese brand. They are more known in Scandinavia for their Bluray players and their sound systems, because there is a company in Sweden importing Oppo products to Sweden, Denmark and Norway! I don't know if they are importing to Finland tho... :P
From my experience the cauldron of doom! is where dead chickens and ducks are places in hot water for 5 minutes then taken out, the heat from the hot water makes it easier to pluck them!
Hey Winston, try checking out the countries you are sending it to. Do not send it to Brazil, unfortunately it will be taxed if get to be delivered, it even may get stolen... I buy stuff from overseas and one on three get delivered. Sad but true.
Great video, they certainly have come a long way from what they used to be like. Although you still have to be wary of the Chinese only radios in some of them, WCDMA and TD-LTE for example.
I've been seeing several for sale in Shenzhen over the last few months. Some are better than others, but they're a lot cheaper than most of the phones in Hong Kong.
As far as I remember, some stores claiming that they're selling Xiaomi were forced to close down in Shenzhen, officially Xiaomi does not have a store offline. All the Xiaomi products were majorly selling online so that they can keep the price within a decent range .Do you think the one you're entering is not an authorized shop？
I bought Xiaomi 2 in February, 2012, still using it today. Have had no problems in almost 5 years! I bought an Apple August 2014 in US. Within 10 months, can't recharge. I called Verizon where I bought the Apple, telling me to buy a part via Amazon, or buy a new one! LOL....Xiaomi beats Apple
there will be REAL challenge to those western japanese and korean companies, as long as Chinese provide cutting edge product to emerging markets with plain prices. that's end of them.
Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei are Chinese brands that are pretty popular in Indonesia. You can see their store all over cellphone market. And their quality is great! :D
After Singapore, Xiaomi has finally launched in Malaysia since last month. Let's just say each time they released a new batch in the thousands, it'll be sweep up within 5 minutes, no kidding. Extremely popular over here.
Pretty cool of you to send off the phone for one of the beer-buyers amongst your subscribers. Thanks for the video, I'm actually looking at Chinese phones at the moment as I'm thinking of importing one. I'm leaning towards the Nubia z5s Mini so far. It looks very promising!
Wintson! Can you make another video on this topic? Smartphones have evolved alot, especially in the past couple of years. Would be highly interesting! :)
+serpentza Could you please do another 2017 version of this video! Phones change so quickly, so it'd be cool to see what this years Chinese smartphones have to offer.
Please do more videos of the series ''China,How it is'' focusing on smartphones because they are very honest and informative.The biggest advantage of this platform,is that it could be(unfortunately it's not always)free of censorship and television stuff(script and all that).
Wow...those phones still keep up good specs, even from 2 and a half years ago up to now. I had a Razr i, Moto G, Moto X and now i'm settled with a Nexus 5....however I would totally buy a chinese smartphone, because I personally attested the good build quality of those 3 most popular chinese brands and they all seem good. Redmi 2 was such a popular phone in Brazil, that it quickly ran out of stock, causing the prices to go up and up. However...concerning technical support, there are still some problems if compared to the popular Korean brands that are well established in Brazil. A brand that also looks nice and I've never seen around here is the "Meizu", worth checking.
I just amazed by how many comments down there saying this is a piece of advertisement. I think most people made such comments may not even seen a Chinese phone out before, because when I checked the Australian market, only 2 Huawei phones are on sell, and very old models.....
+abdul razak Not exactly, One plus 2 was like ¥1999 RMB when it was introduced, which was comparable to the cheapest version of Xiaomi 5, and new one plus 3 is ¥2499 RMB, still much cheaper than Huawei p9 (from ¥3299) or Oppo R9(or oppo F1 in overseas) from ¥2799, so basically it is a medium price range phone among all Chinese local brands. But most Chinese people still prefer iPhone, as long as they can afford.
to: fangpiLu I think Oppo is Chinese brand, you can check on Wikipedia.OPPO Electronics Corp, (simplified Chinese: 广东欧珀移动通信有限公司; ) is an electronics manufacturer based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. Its major product lines include MP3 players, portable Media players, LCD-TVs, eBooks, DVD/Blu-ray Disc players and mobile phones. Founded in 2004, the company has registered the Oppo brand name in many parts of the world.
you can buy huawei in lithuania, some of these are cheap other like p6 are premium quality, its allmost = iphone5. and performace realy grt, cant tell that it from chinese, works like a charm and smooth and dont explode or start not working after few months. frnd hawe it about one yrs and still using it as good as smasung galaxy s series phone
damian007567 But, like he mentions a lot in his videos; chinese stuff that is made in china and designed (copied) by china, are usually much much cheaper when sold in China. Look at their cars, for example.
I use a THL in the UK, you just have to make sure its WCDMA, then its fine to use here, 3G works perfect on all networks :) the Xiaomi red rice is a very good phone
I am so impressed with your videos, very matter of fact without BS. What is you camera you are using for your videos. Looks to me like a Fuji X series. I will be watching on a regular basis. Thanks again
I buy most of my electronics directly from China or surrounding asian countries. Not only is it cheaper but I know how to get the good stuff. I have a saying that if you 'buy from China, for China' you can't go wrong. On the other hand if you 'buy from China, for America' for instance, you're taking a risk. They produce really good stuff but the quality control for exports is not very good. Edit: 7:53 I have those same headphones
Xiaomi is one of the biggest smartphone makers in the world, and they are a very good brand. I did notice that some of the phones are older and run older versions of Android.
was in Shenzhen several weeks ago. Seen your video and took your advice, visited Hua Qiang Bei , finally found the Xiaomi shop and bought the Redmi for 999rmb. Bit difficult loading the Google Store apps at first, but all ok now.
China has many mobile phone brands, they will leave a fine in the competition, many mobile phone brands are also doing their own innovations, such as OPPO, Huawei...
Thanks for video. The good Chinese smartphone for 50 dollars with 4G, OTG, MT6737 a touchscreen on 10 contacts is Uhans A101. What you can tell about it?
the phone u bought is Xiaomi which is a very famous brand in China and occupied the largest market share. Prince is usually range from 100 dollar to 500 dollar,depends on what type of phone u buy. and another thing is the phone u bought is a fake one.
Thank you, amazing video. I never visited China, but it was great way how ti know more about Chinese cell phones. I have question, who have got this xiaomi cell phone, who became happy owner? Kisses from Serbia.
On the labels I see WCDMA and I thought "WCDMA in China? That's weird! I thought they have TD-SCDMA" So I looked it up on wikipedia and found this: - China Mobile uses the Chinese TD-SCDMA standard for 3G - Unicom, China Telecom and others uses the International WCDMA standard for 3G They both use for 2G the worldwide GSM standard. Same goes for 4G. China Mobile uses TD-LTE where the others support either FDD-LTE or both. So I guess you can get 3G or 4G on China Mobile but you would need a phone that supports TD which will only have 2G when you go abroad since no other country has TD-SCDMA and few countries support TD-LTE. The reason they use it? TD transmitters are cheaper to make and more efficient in massive user environments. Basicly all cheap wireless technologies (WiFi, bluetooth) are TD (Time Duplexing) where the counterpart FD (Frequency Duplexing) is only used by providers. Advantage of FD is that it is more reliable when you move at high speeds.
Personally, I like hot and humid weather! I stayed in the UK for three years and felt so bad about the chily weather. Hot and humid weather is the BEST for all kinds of animals and plants. I wish to live in SE asia, brazil where is tropical and green everywhere.
any change you can do similar video next year :) I think your videos where you visit the electronics mecca really interesting and its fun too see these places :)
+Odinthorsen I think the best and the biggest one is AliExpress. They have full buyer protection and money back. I've ordered there such cheap smart ali.pub/hujr4
Nice showing.... & thanks for all the info. Hope the giveaway went well too... Enjoy the beer & CHEERS from the U.S. (waving at all my family over in Scotland tho) "clink-clink". =)
No bargaining? I bought a cell phone in wuhan (many years ago admittedly) in a shop that looked similar to that one. My wife helped me to haggle down the price a little bit. Is it different where you are?
Well that's actually not too bad, although to be honest I would still prefer the Samsung quality even though it's mainly made in China, because it's regulated by a manufacturer from a different country. The Chinese phone is likely to break soon after buying.
You might not be a wealthy guy, yet, but you are a cool, helpful, down-go-earth cat, and I appreciate your style and work.
i bought the xiaomi redrice too from ebay.com. only over US $200. I love it very much. everything in the phone are working great and i would highly recommend to other people. I do not want to spend $700 over to pay for a brand name. brand-name phones are just a bit more widgets and fancy stuff, i do not need it at all. next time i will by a Octa-core and feel the great performance. Hurrah! Chinese are great, wonderful!!!!
I imported a Huawei Honor 2 in 2012 to my homecountry The Netherlands when almost no one even had heard of Huawei over here. They laughed at me and look where they are now, it was Galaxy S3 performance for half the price, never had problems with it.
Bought a Huawei Ascend P6 after owning an iPhone (hated it due to the obsessive iTunes slavery you're forced to deal with to upload ANY files on it) and later a HTC Incredible S, and have never looked back.
It's the nicest phone i've ever had. Honestly didnt expect that good quality as it was rather affordable too compared to some of the overpriced stuff from LG, Sony etc.
I dropped it on a hard wood floor three times, nothing broke, no scratches, no gaps.
有良心的外国人，能中立的看待中国的问题。
本来就应该中立看待，只能说大部分都是被洗脑的，或者文化差异大又不愿意了解的。
嘿，伙计们同意你的说法，美国人完全盖过，而且不开文化差异
戴逸 因为他是中国人了，虽然不承认，中美两国人最像。当然，像的是心态，随意，舒适，爱自由。中国人真的挺随便的，除了政治，什么都好说，做作矫情少，还更安全。
+shipeng LI 中国就是独裁国家，怎么可能像美国人
+Kinsen lee 大哥别妄自菲薄啊，想像一下中国生活水平整体拔高一个档次
Iphone are made in China too. I don't really care who made them, As long as it works well.
Yes, most of the phones are assembled in China though designed by a different country. It just depends if you get that phone assembled in a proper factory.
***** true but that's only at really poor areas. Like there are a lot of suicidal workers at Foxconn
That in China foxconn company.
I never want to iPhone or any us made, they suck. They junk just like American car. Not Reliable like other country made them.
F35, f22 they all used Chinese material. In the 10-20 years from now the Chinese will rule the whole world in technology. The u.s pentagon are using Chinese made super fast computers. There also Chinese foot printed in the whole continental. The American people are bitching about cheap labor,so all the Chinese and other countries get the jobs. Now you ain't got shit.
***** wait...... Really?? Well I learned something new today.
also have a Xiaomi smartphone. one of the best China smartphones ive got. and to a really affordable price.
Jan Seger totally, i am currently using a mi5 since my samsung(canada) even unlock was not working well with their provider. so i ended up buying mi5. more then happy. i sold the Samsung and still use the mi5 :)
wow Marc-Andre. thats great.sorry about your Samsung. my S5 died also. stopped charging.. Using my Umi Plus E as my daily driver. not as much of a premium. but i kind of like it. but still very curious about the next Xiaomi premium phone. Xiaomi is really up there with the premium phones. still got some bugs. but not as bad as many of the other China phone brands. ;). lastly. what you think of the Mi6?
sweeet.using the global version or the chinese/english version?
Same thing with OnePlus
I think China will make lots of good products in future like Japan
Michael Draper u have seen a kind of rule, if condition is permitted, everyone will pursue higher quality.
I used to repair electronics and can "feel" the direction of where the country of origin of that product is going so for this I also think the same as no one back then imagine Taiwan can become an advance country 40 years ago too, the same will be applicable for other countries like Vietnam or Thailand too.
Michael Draper you mean like Korea....... Japanese products have really been declining.
It is because the emergence of Korea and China.
Michael Draper In a hundred years.
The chineese have come a long way. Graet products.
Jose lizardi That is the one thing to never buy from China ELECTRONICS. Unless it is backed by big brand product.
+Brian H. Xiaomi is a big brand product by now!
at what cost?
Jose lizardi Huawei?
that loudspeaker in the first store made me want to tear my ears off, how do they sell phones with that shit going
+nbarrager Productions lol, you make me laugh! That's the charactaristic of some cell phone retail stores in China, it's called sound advertisement
+Dekun Liu after watching more of his videos, I've heard this in the shenzhen metro, multiple grocery stores, and on multiple streets.
The same thing goes on when I visit clothing retail stores in the mall. I used to skate so I would shop at skateshops in the mall... always super loud music! I never liked it but it's what ever gnome sing mane.
it's not even the loud music though, it's the constant chattering, maybe if i understood chinese and it didn't just sound like a bunch of gibberish it would be less annoying
It takes time to get used to it. When you grow up around that it's quite easy to block out.
I have a 小米 3, it is a very very nice phone. I love it!
little rice 3 is not good at all, I go for smartisan.
waiting 小米3s
Harry Wu
To be honest smartisan is totally a distar.
how can you know Smartisan is a distar? the phone is not relased yet.
刘谌 哈哈。。我的mi3还好 就是外形太难看。。大城市可以考虑 小城市出了问题不好修。
As far as I know, there are no cell/smart phones made in the US. Apple is made in China as well.
I mean, a lot of iPhone's are made at Foxconn which is obviously in China. I think it all comes down to quality control of the company and their overall goals.
Not surprising at all that the Chinese companies are making decent phones. Most of the big brand cell phones are manufactured in China already for the past decade. Now it's just those Chinese factories finally figured out that it is more profitable to put their own brands on the phones they're making.
the xiaomi phones are genuinely really good, and are growing in value rather quickly. a number of my friends in Beijing had them, had times when I wanted to sell my Iphone and buy one of them instead
Vladimir Lissoi the reason why xiaomi is so popular is that the users always recomment to their friends. xiaomi has no propaganda and only B2C
Oppo is sold in a mobile carrier store here (2degrees) and me and my dad have been following brands like xiaomi,meizu, Huawei and eleTV and I think they're great for the price you get them at
The one plus one phone from China looks amazing for the price! Should check it out mate! Never settle.
Considering I'm getting ready to purchase a phone here, this is a major source of info. Thank you yet again Winston!
Nice video of the phones, was not aware of the quality of the new Chinese phones. Our next trip to China we will need to check them out, definitely cheaper than my 5s was.
Thanks again for the video, and stay awesome!
In respose to fangpiLu:
Oppo is a fully Chinese brand. They are more known in Scandinavia for their Bluray players and their sound systems, because there is a company in Sweden importing Oppo products to Sweden, Denmark and Norway! I don't know if they are importing to Finland tho... :P
h8u4ever > oppo makes one of the best Audiophile Blue Ray players in the world
h8u4ever OPPO's R&D of the Blu-ray player division is in the US though.
The song playing at the 小米 cellphone shop is Hotel Saint George - Looking 4 a good time.
From my experience the cauldron of doom! is where dead chickens and ducks are places in hot water for 5 minutes then taken out, the heat from the hot water makes it easier to pluck them!
Hey Winston, try checking out the countries you are sending it to. Do not send it to Brazil, unfortunately it will be taxed if get to be delivered, it even may get stolen... I buy stuff from overseas and one on three get delivered. Sad but true.
one of the first videos I watched on your channel, I recently rediscovered the channel and I love it!
I’m literally addicted to your videos- I can’t stop watching! Everything is so interesting, maybe I should give it a go!?
Great video, they certainly have come a long way from what they used to be like. Although you still have to be wary of the Chinese only radios in some of them, WCDMA and TD-LTE for example.
you did a great job to show us the new smartphones from China,
tnx , Greetz Nans from Holland , the Netherlands
中国大部分手机与国外的比起来都是白菜价……
I've been seeing several for sale in Shenzhen over the last few months. Some are better than others, but they're a lot cheaper than most of the phones in Hong Kong.
As far as I remember, some stores claiming that they're selling Xiaomi were forced to close down in Shenzhen, officially Xiaomi does not have a store offline. All the Xiaomi products were majorly selling online so that they can keep the price within a decent range .Do you think the one you're entering is not an authorized shop？
I bought Xiaomi 2 in February, 2012, still using it today. Have had no problems in almost 5 years! I bought an Apple August 2014 in US. Within 10 months, can't recharge. I called Verizon where I bought the Apple, telling me to buy a part via Amazon, or buy a new one! LOL....Xiaomi beats Apple
there will be REAL challenge to those western japanese and korean companies, as long as Chinese provide cutting edge product to emerging markets with plain prices. that's end of them.
Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei are Chinese brands that are pretty popular in Indonesia. You can see their store all over cellphone market. And their quality is great! :D
After Singapore, Xiaomi has finally launched in Malaysia since last month. Let's just say each time they released a new batch in the thousands, it'll be sweep up within 5 minutes, no kidding. Extremely popular over here.
Pretty cool of you to send off the phone for one of the beer-buyers amongst your subscribers. Thanks for the video, I'm actually looking at Chinese phones at the moment as I'm thinking of importing one. I'm leaning towards the Nubia z5s Mini so far. It looks very promising!
Nothing is perfect，even Samsung，Apple，etc.Chinese products have improved a lot. And they are very good .you can use it and you will find it good.
Wintson! Can you make another video on this topic? Smartphones have evolved alot, especially in the past couple of years. Would be highly interesting! :)
+serpentza Could you please do another 2017 version of this video! Phones change so quickly, so it'd be cool to see what this years Chinese smartphones have to offer.
honestly I have nexus 4 and 5 , I would buy these Chinese phones over my current phones any time, great video
Lol, that just beats the apple map
There is no limit to my respect for this guy. Always impessing and fascinating me.
i have the huawei p8, huawei came to my country ^^
Please do more videos of the series ''China,How it is'' focusing on smartphones because they are very honest and informative.The biggest advantage of this platform,is that it could be(unfortunately it's not always)free of censorship and television stuff(script and all that).
Another fantastic video man, you've truly inspired me to one day visit china.
Tony
come and i'll be ur guide :)
Wow...those phones still keep up good specs, even from 2 and a half years ago up to now.
I had a Razr i, Moto G, Moto X and now i'm settled with a Nexus 5....however I would totally buy a chinese smartphone, because I personally attested the good build quality of those 3 most popular chinese brands and they all seem good. Redmi 2 was such a popular phone in Brazil, that it quickly ran out of stock, causing the prices to go up and up.
However...concerning technical support, there are still some problems if compared to the popular Korean brands that are well established in Brazil.
A brand that also looks nice and I've never seen around here is the "Meizu", worth checking.
I really enjoy your videos man, it's make me in a good mood, thx a lot, and keep making those amazing videos. Take care
I just amazed by how many comments down there saying this is a piece of advertisement. I think most people made such comments may not even seen a Chinese phone out before, because when I checked the Australian market, only 2 Huawei phones are on sell, and very old models.....
One plus 👍
+noelsoong777 one plus models r gd but very expensive for a china ph
+abdul razak Not exactly, One plus 2 was like ¥1999 RMB when it was introduced, which was comparable to the cheapest version of Xiaomi 5, and new one plus 3 is ¥2499 RMB, still much cheaper than Huawei p9 (from ¥3299) or Oppo R9(or oppo F1 in overseas) from ¥2799, so basically it is a medium price range phone among all Chinese local brands. But most Chinese people still prefer iPhone, as long as they can afford.
A very generous gesture !
to: fangpiLu
I think Oppo is Chinese brand, you can check on Wikipedia.OPPO Electronics Corp, (simplified Chinese: 广东欧珀移动通信有限公司; ) is an electronics manufacturer based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. Its major product lines include MP3 players, portable Media players, LCD-TVs, eBooks, DVD/Blu-ray Disc players and mobile phones. Founded in 2004, the company has registered the Oppo brand name in many parts of the world.
the current core bussiness for OPPO is smart phones, a little expensive ones.
Allan woo Oppo also owns Vivo & Oneplus
Holy shit, someday......I'm going to shenzhen
I have two
Xiaomi Redmi note pro 3
LeTV LeEco Le Max 2
Both awesome phones and without the premium prices
hey, just a little correction, 小米 doesn't mean small rice, it means millet.
you can buy huawei in lithuania, some of these are cheap other like p6 are premium quality, its allmost = iphone5. and performace realy grt, cant tell that it from chinese, works like a charm and smooth and dont explode or start not working after few months. frnd hawe it about one yrs and still using it as good as smasung galaxy s series phone
This phones aren't as cheap as I thought they would be.
look every phone is produced in china or korea. So why should it be that mutch cheaper. Sure the samsung's are overpriced but not the rest
damian007567 But, like he mentions a lot in his videos; chinese stuff that is made in china and designed (copied) by china, are usually much much cheaper when sold in China.
Look at their cars, for example.
samsung is made in vietnam
Geno Bot Samsung is also made in South America. The batteries, adapters and accessories are made in China
Samsung produces much more than tv and phones. and not all is in vietnam.
I remember a couple of years back when chinese phones are crap...not anymore!
Ahhh around 10:00 my first Chinese song is playing!! Jolin's Say I Love You! It's what sparked my Chinese interest!
You know Huawei is doing well when you start seeing its advertisement on Hockey Central...
I use a THL in the UK, you just have to make sure its WCDMA, then its fine to use here, 3G works perfect on all networks :) the Xiaomi red rice is a very good phone
交通版(jiao tong ban, meaning traffic version)...
You mean普通版(Pu tong ban, regular version)
I am so impressed with your videos, very matter of fact without BS. What is you camera you are using for your videos. Looks to me like a Fuji X series. I will be watching on a regular basis. Thanks again
I have a Huawei P8 Lite and it is a great phone for the price I got it for £150 about $200
each phone has a photo of winston!~~LOL
Such kind and genuine comments back then. What went wrong?
Oppo make more high quality stuff. Like the Oppo Bluray players! The best in the world!
Beers for Smartphone. Sounds like a good deal to me.
And 7 years later I'm watching this video on a Xiaomi Redmi 7 pro lol
I buy most of my electronics directly from China or surrounding asian countries. Not only is it cheaper but I know how to get the good stuff. I have a saying that if you 'buy from China, for China' you can't go wrong. On the other hand if you 'buy from China, for America' for instance, you're taking a risk. They produce really good stuff but the quality control for exports is not very good.
Edit: 7:53 I have those same headphones
Congrats man! U just passed 60 k subscribers!
In the south of China in the summer is very hot, but I wish you a happy...
Xiaomi is one of the biggest smartphone makers in the world, and they are a very good brand. I did notice that some of the phones are older and run older versions of Android.
Watching on a Huawei Mate 9 Pro (Chinese phone). It's absolutely phenomenal. Benchmarks faster than anything available right now.
was in Shenzhen several weeks ago. Seen your video and took your advice, visited Hua Qiang Bei , finally found the Xiaomi shop and bought the Redmi for 999rmb. Bit difficult loading the Google Store apps at first, but all ok now.
would love an follow up on this in 2017 because so many new company and growing market of shenzhen.
A new video on phones and tech in general would be great! Tablets, phones, laptops, desktops, etc.
China has many mobile phone brands, they will leave a fine in the competition, many mobile phone brands are also doing their own innovations, such as OPPO, Huawei...
u made a mistake , xiao mi is 5mp front back 13mp with ois ^^ 1gb ram,2 can upgrade running mi ui
Oppo is kicking ass now.
fun thing is they have so many more model for the same brand.
Lol, I wonder why Winston have to use every mobile phone to take pictures of himself, is it a new way to pick up girls or what? :D
ya! u got it.
Thanks for video. The good Chinese smartphone for 50 dollars with 4G, OTG, MT6737 a touchscreen on 10 contacts is Uhans A101. What you can tell about it?
the phone u bought is Xiaomi which is a very famous brand in China and occupied the largest market share. Prince is usually range from 100 dollar to 500 dollar,depends on what type of phone u buy. and another thing is the phone u bought is a fake one.
oh,我是中国人，在中国网站上看过你的视频
Now, you seem like a decent fellow in china
Good work Winston.
Thank you, amazing video. I never visited China, but it was great way how ti know more about Chinese cell phones. I have question, who have got this xiaomi cell phone, who became happy owner? Kisses from Serbia.
On the labels I see WCDMA and I thought "WCDMA in China? That's weird! I thought they have TD-SCDMA" So I looked it up on wikipedia and found this:
- China Mobile uses the Chinese TD-SCDMA standard for 3G
- Unicom, China Telecom and others uses the International WCDMA standard for 3G
They both use for 2G the worldwide GSM standard.
Same goes for 4G. China Mobile uses TD-LTE where the others support either FDD-LTE or both. So I guess you can get 3G or 4G on China Mobile but you would need a phone that supports TD which will only have 2G when you go abroad since no other country has TD-SCDMA and few countries support TD-LTE.
The reason they use it? TD transmitters are cheaper to make and more efficient in massive user environments. Basicly all cheap wireless technologies (WiFi, bluetooth) are TD (Time Duplexing) where the counterpart FD (Frequency Duplexing) is only used by providers. Advantage of FD is that it is more reliable when you move at high speeds.
Personally, I like hot and humid weather! I stayed in the UK for three years and felt so bad about the chily weather. Hot and humid weather is the BEST for all kinds of animals and plants. I wish to live in SE asia, brazil where is tropical and green everywhere.
I believe that, I before 1960'S made in Japan was a derogatory term. Told by my professor.
Funny how you sat buy one for a giveaway. I was just thinking of how smooth the layout is and graphics are great, was contemplating on buying one.
That was when Google wasn't blocked there :(
any change you can do similar video next year :) I think your videos where you visit the electronics mecca really interesting and its fun too see these places :)
"strange all these phones are set on self-image..."
I enjoy all these videos!!!!!
Do you know which sites are best for ordering phones from China to Norway?
My phone is shit and I need a new one..haha :)
Love your videos!
Odin :)
+Odinthorsen I think the best and the biggest one is AliExpress. They have full buyer protection and money back. I've ordered there such cheap smart ali.pub/hujr4
Nice showing.... & thanks for all the info. Hope the giveaway went well too... Enjoy the beer & CHEERS from the U.S. (waving at all my family over in Scotland tho) "clink-clink". =)
No bargaining? I bought a cell phone in wuhan (many years ago admittedly) in a shop that looked similar to that one. My wife helped me to haggle down the price a little bit. Is it different where you are?
i understand you perfectly. i was 1st time in the area in 1983. it was nothing here.
I had a huawei mate s for almost a year I haven't had any problems with it. I am going to try the xiaomi 5 with 6gb of ram
Jiayu also make very nice smartphones. Starting from 299 RMB. But if buy smartphone look for a wdcma model! TD models only work in china!
Well that's actually not too bad, although to be honest I would still prefer the Samsung quality even though it's mainly made in China, because it's regulated by a manufacturer from a different country. The Chinese phone is likely to break soon after buying.
What would an iPad Pro cost there?