6.5" Phablet that works!

[Sanxion]

Difficult to find someone who's complained about iOcean. I don't think you can go wrong there.

I will complain here.

I am an iOcean G7 owner. This is a 6.4" device with a Mediatek 8 core processor, a FHD display and some fancy stuff like Gorilla Glass 3 and a sapphire camera lens cover.

It is a great phone in some aspects (display mainly, but the camera isn't too bad).

But...

For a device packing an Octacore Mediatek processor, with the Antuttu score it gets, it's not exactly the smoothest most stable device in operation (my wife's Lenovo S930 runs rings around it with its much older processor, for example).

Also, whilst the GPS is fine for a highly forgiving application like Google turn-by-turn directions, where you want it to actually plot a taken route using an app like Strava (running and cycling) it is pretty hopeless. A lot of the reviews for these devices just focus on the initial lock - which is not really the problem with GPS, you want actual real time, in motion performance.

My best advice to anyone that wants a huge Chinese phone, is to buy from the tier 1 manufacturers such as:

Lenovo
OPPO
Xiaomi
ZTE
Huawei

And then, secondly, avoid Mediatek processors if you can. If you can't, the only larger phones (with MTK) that I know of (or tried) that are stable, and do have half decent GPS are:

Xiaomi Redmi Note (5.5 inches)
Lenovo S930 (6.0 inches)
Huawei Honor 3X (5.5 inches)

Take a look at the 5.5 inch devices, I find that anything 6 inches and over gets pretty tiresome to deal with after the initial novelty has worn off.

I am sure iOcean are trying hard, and have a decent following, but I just don't believe the other manufacturers have the testing facilities, budget and experience that the tier one makers have, and that shows in a lot of the devices out there.

Oh, and as a parting shot, my iOcean has now been send half way around the world to Shenzhen, as the home/back/menu nav buttons broke a week ago. "Go figure" as they say in the USA...

Hi

I too had a few concerns before I opted for the G7 as I also have an iNew i6000 which had several of the classic problems.

However, I have been pleasantly surprised to find that my G7 has no issue with GPS - I use Co-Pilot for navigation - the audio is a step above the usual standard served on Chinese phones and the camera is quite good too...and it supports dual SIM.

I personally love the 6.44" screen and find it the ideal size. I had a 7" Huawei Honor that I found just a little too large for my pockets but this is perfect. I did consider a phablet from the 'First Tier' manufacturers such as the Xplay 3S and Nubia X6 but the Xplay 'only' has a 6" screen and the X6 is still not available...