[Android General] Markojoe:
Misleading

That is 100% right. There are many sites/stores with misleading info about not only THL T100 (or whatever it is called).

I'm sorry about this, no offense, but these far-east people are not so familiar with the professional way of managing a webshop, editing the descriptions, etc. Full of typos, full of mistakes rooted: they are always just copy-paste an old phone's feature list & amend the NEW features, but often forget to edit something which is not true for the new model. The false leaked info & this makes the confusion.

The most common mistakes:

1. Frequency bands, like this:

right: 2G: 900/1800/1900MHz 3G: 850/2100MHz

wrong: 2G: 900/1800MHz 3G: 850/1900/2100MHz

2. WiFi (a)/b/g/n bands:

often show at one place b/g forgetting the N, even when it supports, sometimes WiFi is shown lower on the description table again with N.

3. The forget to mention very market-sensitive features even when the phone supports, like:

- OTG, NFC, MHL, ect.

4. The battery capacity & type

- I guess you all know the difference between the types, so it is also important when you choose a high-end product to know the battery has the adequate load on it to support your daily needs.

I have to confess, I bought some highly labeled rechargeable batteries (AA, AAA or for my old HTC HD2) which were faaaaar below the expectation in performance.

There were some comments about this issue, which says the weight is the proper proof. So, if there is a higher load, there must be a higher weight which provides the higher charge (it is obvious anyway). I was a bit disappointed when I saw on the digital measure my new 2800mAh AA cells from eBay are half the weight of the old 2200mAh labeled batteries from the Auchan store (made in Italy).

So please, when you see the same size battery & there are significant difference in the loads, don't let them fool you.

5. there are contact e-mails to these shops, there are online staff to answer your question asap on the site to help you in buying their products, but even they do NOT know well enough the features! Just check some question & the related response from the customer support staff: not even familiar to business. You ask about the NTFS support, the reply says: "Thank you for your mail. Yes, it support 32GB external SD card."

The most of these Chinese 4-core phones are high-tech for 3D games, ect, but the cannot handle your NTFS-formatted MicroSD card!!!

The THL W8s for example suffers this issue: a guy posted a comment after he received his phone:

The phone said the card is damaged (for a good NTFS-formatted card) & offered to format it. After the THL W8s was finished formatting, the card was in FAT32. Great, now you can watch only some TV-series in HD or FHD on the phone, as it cannot handle larger files than max.4GB in FAT32. So, you can have MHL (Mobile High-definition Link: for wireless display service) but what for? To play 3D games on large screen?

6. Sensors & not.LED: Light sensor, Proximity sensor, Gyroscope(rotation), 3D acceleration sensor, Magnetic sensor (compass), Pressure, temperature, humidity(barometer, thermometer, and hygrometer). Notification LED (with at least 3 colors).

These are also messed up. Sometimes the description only shows a few, but the phone supports more.

7. Density: 480dpi for the THL T100? How?

You can see a lost of print-screen from Android OS in the description, but it is again not trustworthy.

It is not so complicated to make the calculations.

FullHD screen with 480dpi(ppi) should mean 4.59" real screen size.

If THL T100 is 5" sized, than the Density is: 440

If THL T100 was 5.3" sized, than the Density would be: 415.6

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I'm sorry for being so long... about all these.

I could use some help from you guys:

I've been searching the net to find a proper phone with reasonable price with the below features:

1. CPU 4 or 8 core, MALI 450 or PowerVR SGX 544 GPU with 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, FHD 4.5-5.5" gorilla protected IPS, OGS screen.

2. OTG, MHL (Wireless Display), NFC

3. I'm in EU, so I use the Eu standard 2G/3G bands, not interested in 4G right now.

4. Dual SIM (no matter the sizes)

5. base sensors

THX a lot!

To be honest, I miss my HTC HD2... unfortunately this brand costs 2-3 times more as these Chinese phones.

I know very well the difference & everybody can confirm this, who have ever used a high-end HTC.