Hello! Going to buy my 1st smartphone, need advice.

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It's also worth noting that the quad-core MediaTek processors did have some issues endemic to that particular SoC's architecture. GPS being the leading problem. My experience with the 8-Core MTK processor has been rather favorable.

Unfortunately, I have no experience with any of the phones or brands you're mentioning so I'm going to distance myself from this discussion and hope someone more knowledgeable about them can chime in.

But, is a octo-core phone really useful? Or quad-core is really enough for "everything" ?
You don't have to distance yourself from this discussion, I mentionned 3 brands I know, but I'm always hearing another advices with others brands.

I'm too from Belgium, also speaking French.
I already ordered chinese phones, and I am very happy with the first one:
It's an HTM H9001
I am waiting two Star N8000
The HTM has a big battery, and comes with a spare one.
It's a Samsung Galaxy S4 clone, with few differences. Resolution is lower, but still very good. The camera is not the best but it's working.
No bug after six months.

Parfait ça, j'aimerais bien qu'on parle en privé pour en savoir un peu plus ;)
Aucun souci coté réseaux?
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I'll take note about the Xiaomi phones...

And the iOcean is really interesting for it's price, but this screen is... FHD 6.44", way to big for me x) ... this, and octocore, it wouldn't run more with a smaller phone with smaller battery ^^"

But... what worth iOcean and THL? And what about the Star and HTM mentionned too? Are those phones in as good quality as Huawei/Xiaomi?

I would say the octo is not so much more useful, but the mt6592 is higher max CPU.

If talking about build quility, the iocean phones and THL phones are nearly as good if not as good. But support and updates and such probably not.

Star normally considered a step down.