[Android General] collect_sampah:
Quick Comparison Between Zopo100 and Haipai i9220

Haipai i9220

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Advantages:

1. Large screen. So much easier to read ebooks, surf internet, play games and navigate GPS.

2. Large battery 2800mAh.

3. Great built quality, easily mistaken for real Galaxy Note except for positions of front camera, rear camera flash LED and read speaker. Heck, even the cover comes with the SAMSUNG wording and 'Galaxy Note'.

4. Package includes 2 batteries.

5. Comes with fully functional ICS ROM. No missing IMEI problem. Fully functional Google Play.

6. Feels faster compared to Zopo100, probably due to GPU rendering on ICS and the fact the the CPU only needs to process 800x480 pixels compared 960x540 pixels on Zopo100. I tried Plants vs Zombie and it's very responsive on Haipai i9220 than on Zopo100.

7. Camera is comparable to Zopo100 (great for outdoor but poor for indoor or dimly lit places).

8. Battery life is slightly better than Zopo100 (I was expecting much longer since the battery was 2800mAh compared to 1600mAh).

Disadvantages:

1. Poor LCD quality. This is Haipai i9220's biggest achilles heel. Colour accuracy and spectrum of colours are very poor. It looks as if the phone is on 65k colour. Zp100 has 256k colour spectrum. The LED lighting is uneven, brighter at the middle bottom (in another words, imagine someone using torchlight to shine the screen from the bottom). I would rate the display quality as 6/10 compared to Zopo100's 10/10. Whatever that the LCD displayed previously can still be seen as 'ghost images' when the display puts up a new screen. It's faint but noticeable.

2. Battery takes forever to charge when plugged into the normal USB port. You can plug in at 0% and eight hours later it's only at 50%. At first I thought because of the large battery, then I realized the phone actually runs at FULL SPEED when plugged in. There's nothing a noob like I can do to change the setting, so waiting for some genius to comes out with some fix. So if you want fast charging, either use the supplied wall charger or switch off the phone during charging.

3. No stylus.

4. ICS ROM runs at full speed all the time. Easily fixed by rooting the phone and use System Tuner to change the CPU governor profile to Ondemand instead of Performance. This was the same problem as Zopo100's ICS ROM.

5. Flashing ROM is not as straight forward as Zopo100 as different batch of phones uses different hardwares. Using wrong hardware strings and you'll end up with non-functional front camera, rotated displays etc. There's no way to tell which of the hardware the phone uses, so flashing is done by trial and error (using different combinations of strings) until you get everything right.

6. Heavy phone, very heavy. I didn't measure but it's easily 2x the weight of Zp100.

7. No LED notification. I missed the flashing LED on Zp100 whenever I got new email, sms etc.

8. Wifi signal is weak. I would say the distance is only around 3/4th the distance of Zp100. This is not a software/driver problem but rather it's the hardware.

9. GPS signal is also weak. Cold start took around 10-15min to get a satellite lock. It's so bad that many people actually thought the GPS is not working but trust me, it is working fine. Zp100's GPS lock is around 5min.

10. The 3.5mm audio plug dislodges easily from Haipai, so if move around alot, this is going to be a troublesome nuisance.

In conclusion:

1. Both Zp100 and Haipai i9220 are great phones and definitely value for money. Nobody is gonna regret purchasing either one of these phones.

2. Both are powerful enough for gaming and most of android applications.

3. Exterior built, Haipai i9220 is better than Zp100.

4. Internal hardwares and functional wise, Zp100 is a much better phone.

Personal opinions:

I definitely like Zp100 much more than Haipai i9220, mainly because of the physical camera buttons, LED notification and superb LCD quality. I would give Zp100 10/10 and Haipai i9220 8/10.