[Android General] Ariesarietis:
A red one

Hi

I ended up ordering one for myself and here are my views on it.

Aesthetics:

I ordered one in Red and it is a stunner!

Looks absolutely gorgeous! The red in the back is Candy red glossy and deep and you can tell its not aluminum but it feels very good and if your not looking for it you wont tell.

Construction is precise and there are no gaps and strange alignments.

The logos are flawless as described by others.

Just one very slight deviation on centering of the front camera and the tone of the red on the front "aluminum" top and bottom panels is not exactly the same as in the back, nitpicking.

Screen Very good! Even under direct sunlight, screen brightness regulation also good.

The dimensions are spot on and I have used it with a real HTC one shell and a Docking station no problems there.

Functionalities:

GSM: OK

3G: OK

Wifi: OK

GPS: NOT OK (I am awear of the MediaTek GPS usual pour performance but this unit simply could not get a fix on the Satellites. Even with A-GPS and GPS-EPO turned on. I would like to think it was my unit)

Location via other than GPS: OK

Magnetic sensor: NOT OK (your always pointed in one direction in Gmaps, GPS Status)

Roll/ Pitch sensor: OK

Very Fast Boot time.

Battery: Over one day normal use. One day with GPS 'ON' about 2h, lots of pictures and Viber chat + 1h viber talk over 3G.

Apps used:

Playstore: OK (although everytime I installed an app after install finished a message would appear saying the 'launcher' had crash. but no harm came from it as everything kept working.

Viber: OK (pics and audio)

Whatssap: OK

GPS status: App works but never got a fix on the position.

Gmaps & Navigation : OK ( but no location if you only use the GPS but if you use the other location options it will find you )

World Weather Clock Widget: OK

Simple Calendar Widget: OK (but it crashed when previewing)

Screenshot: OK

So why did I sold it 2 weeks in to having it.

For me the GPS was a deal breaker. At the moment I am using the GPS on a daily basis without network access and I could not go without it as this was supposed to be my main phone. If you don't have this requirement then its a great looking phone that as far as I tested it does everything i need it to.

I will not go in to benchmarks as that has been covered and for me its not really important as I value more the actual daylie usage and in that chapter there are no stutter or lag.

Now a note on the vendor:

I bough it in DHgate to a seller named ibaby888

After several messages and sending several snapshots of the GPS incapacity to acquire a signal I get a reply that "GPS works fine in China".

If its stated on the description it has GPS I expect it to work, at least in ideal conditions (clear sky, no buildings, plenty of time to aquire).

I was polite and helpful to the vendor and event told him what I expected from him but the conversation started circling with him not owning to the issue.

Left negative feedback because of vendor communication.

DHgate has an escrow system in place that theoretically only pays the seller after you tel them everything is ok. Because I didn't want to go to the trouble of sending it back i didn't actually tested the system so I cant comment on the safety DHgate but it looked ok.

In Conclusion:

Right phone (if the GPS was only my unit problem) wrong Seller.