Post A Picture of Your Last Purchase
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paulstung
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I was planning on building a media pc for my bedroom, but my 6 year old, 50" Samsung plasma tv in the living room, has reached his early teens, and started to develope, spots, well that's what the weekly occurring dead pixels, are starting to look like.
So I went on the bargain hunt with just less than £300 to play with, I was expecting to maybe get a 40"/42" but I was shocked to walk into Currys, and next to my first choice was a 49" JVC, for £279, that pleasantly shocked me on how good the picture actually was, it isn't packed with features, but it does have a DVR, if you insert an external drive of flash drive in the rear, full 1080p.
The main use for it is for movie streaming connected to my main rig, so it is good enough for my needs. And it definitely, and upgrade from my 3D ready, 720p Plasma, with 3" bezels, and weighs according to it's box, 46Kg, and I can believe it as it takes 2 people to mount it too it's wall bracket.
The picture doesn't do it justice the bezels are only 8mm the picture make them look huge.
So I went on the bargain hunt with just less than £300 to play with, I was expecting to maybe get a 40"/42" but I was shocked to walk into Currys, and next to my first choice was a 49" JVC, for £279, that pleasantly shocked me on how good the picture actually was, it isn't packed with features, but it does have a DVR, if you insert an external drive of flash drive in the rear, full 1080p.
The main use for it is for movie streaming connected to my main rig, so it is good enough for my needs. And it definitely, and upgrade from my 3D ready, 720p Plasma, with 3" bezels, and weighs according to it's box, 46Kg, and I can believe it as it takes 2 people to mount it too it's wall bracket.
The picture doesn't do it justice the bezels are only 8mm the picture make them look huge.
Dawelio
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Protective case (and a screen protector) for my Xiaomi. Its a bit bling but atleast I didn't go for the gold one!
Looks very nice. Kinda makes you look like you're a wealthy man, with a big glass desk and a mansion ^_^
barnsley
born in a.....
yeah I got five ferraris
-edit- inside joke nvm.
Its not my photo. I dunno why the seller thought that was a good way to advertise a £10 case for a £150 phone.
realneil
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You saw it and bought it,........(just saying)
barnsley
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I had no option. Because the phone isn't available in the UK officially there aren't many hard metal cases for it. This was the only one I could get on next day.
FredEx
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I bought a battery and case for my Samsung S5 a few months ago. I got it up to 6 hours after rooting it, but that was not good enough. I use the phone a lot and have to have it with me all the time. I have been contacted for emergencies with my 90.5 year old mom when she has hit her medical emergency fob she wears and with my health issues it was recommended I have a phone with me all the time. The 7500 Mah battery from Anker is great. I charge it about every 48 hours, but it is only down to 40% then. It is very nice to not have to worry if my battery will last as long as I'm away. It is heavy and bulky, but I like that, I hated dealing with a thin phone, it was hard to hold without accidentally hitting a button or the screen.
http://www.anker.com/product/79ANS5-B75A
http://www.anker.com/product/79ANS5-B75A
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paulstung
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Protective case (and a screen protector) for my Xiaomi. Its a bit bling but atleast I didn't go for the gold one!
Which model is it mate? It looks very nice. I've been looking more and more at the Chinese phones, and some of them spec wise seem too good to be true.
It's OK mate, I found it, Xiaomi Mi4i, how does it perform mate?
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barnsley
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Its very nippy and looks beautiful. really well built too. Nothing at that price range comes close IMO.
HOWEVER,
as we can't get them in the UK you have to risk buying them off ebay/amazon sellers. My phone came from a reseller who appears to have bought it from a company in what I think is thailand. A normal Xioami has no bloateware/malicious apps. This one came with an app well known for being a trojan and a couple of other bits of junk. The only way I could get rid of it was by downloading the latest firmware off the Xiaomi site. Not a hard task and it even has step by step guides on performing the upgrade. Once upgraded however it has been lovely. -edit- updating the firmware did get rid of 4g support however their is a fan site that has a rom that works on UK 4g bands. As I almost always have a wi-fi signal its not an issue for me but I'll update it at some point.
I also had to set my localisation to the Falkland isles as the UK wasn't an option
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SPS
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Its very nippy and looks beautiful. really well built too. Nothing at that price range comes close IMO.
HOWEVER,
as we can't get them in the UK you have to risk buying them off ebay/amazon sellers. My phone came from a reseller who appears to have bought it from a company in what I think is thailand. A normal Xioami has no bloateware/malicious apps. This one came with an app well known for being a trojan and a couple of other bits of junk. The only way I could get rid of it was by downloading the latest firmware off the Xiaomi site. Not a hard task and it even has step by step guides on performing the upgrade. Once upgraded however it has been lovely. -edit- updating the firmware did get rid of 4g support however their is a fan site that has a rom that works on UK 4g bands. As I almost always have a wi-fi signal its not an issue for me but I'll update it at some point.
I also had to set my localisation to the Falkland isles as the UK wasn't an option
How much did you pay? It can't be far off a OnePlus X.
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Feronix
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Found it on Banggood in their UK warehouse and they're a pretty legit company selling loads of Chinese stuff. Probably your best bet at getting a clean version:
http://m.banggood.com/EU-Warehouse-...1_7GHz-Octa-core-4G-Smartphone-p-1017434.html
http://m.banggood.com/EU-Warehouse-...1_7GHz-Octa-core-4G-Smartphone-p-1017434.html
SPS
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Ah right, I think I'd personally go for the OPX, more RAM is king on Android.
