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2013-12-30, 20:49
The phone has eventually arrived from geekbuying.com today (30/12) having heard good things about them, however my experience has left me somewhat dissapointed.
They promise speedy dispatch and 3-5 day if upgrade to DHL (ordered on 17/12 as it was to be a christmas present for my wife), sadly after 13 days it was a bit late for christmas!
Just as an additional note Geekbuying were also not prepared to put gift on package and I was stung for 20% UK tax on the phone.
On to the phone...
Unboxing was a bit easier than shown on here, but I think that is down to the fact that no flip case is included when purchased from geekbuying.com (will not be using them again!).
The phone it self is fairly slim its a bit cheeky with the 6.5mm measurement as it gets thicker towards the centre at the rear, but overall it does feel slim in the hand.
Visually length wise its about 1cm longer than my Galaxy s4 and about 1-2mm wider.
THE SCREEN
The screen is nice and clear and the difference between 720 and 1080 is not really that noticeable, the big difference with the S4 and the V3 is the saturation of the colours on the S4, giving deeper colours. Overall its a very nice display and hopefully there will be someone that is able to produce an app or custom rom that can tweak this to get it looking perfect.
THE CAMERA
The camera on the V3 has a major advantage over the S4, in that the lens offers a much wider angle (the S4 requires you to be a lot further back to capture group photos, I often struggle to get the pictures I need due to tight confines not allowing me to step back far enough to frame the subjects and take the photo I want).
As you can see by the pictures taken on a dull rainy indoors day in England, the flash on the V3 has delivered a bright natural look, making the S4 look a little dark and drab.
However the same photos without the flash show a lot more noise on the V3 than the S4, with tweaking this may be something that can be improved.
I will take the phones with me to work new years eve (I do night club photography) and grab a load of low light shots to really give the camera a test.
I will upload the images once I have had a chance to recover from partying lol.
The rom feels smooth in operation with no real perceivable lag and everything works as it should.
I would be happy to have this phone as my daily driver (if my wife decides it is too big for her, this may be the case lol) and with a fairly active community already working on the Inew I6000 the possibility of a custom rom seems likely.
I would love to see Inew supply the source for the phone so that the devs here and on XDA can get kitkat up and running quickly and hopefully a decent CM rom supported, along with Miui and several sony and samsung touchwiz inspired roms 9can never have too much choice!).
S4 No Flash
S4 Flash
V3 No Flash
V3 Flash
They promise speedy dispatch and 3-5 day if upgrade to DHL (ordered on 17/12 as it was to be a christmas present for my wife), sadly after 13 days it was a bit late for christmas!
Just as an additional note Geekbuying were also not prepared to put gift on package and I was stung for 20% UK tax on the phone.
On to the phone...
Unboxing was a bit easier than shown on here, but I think that is down to the fact that no flip case is included when purchased from geekbuying.com (will not be using them again!).
The phone it self is fairly slim its a bit cheeky with the 6.5mm measurement as it gets thicker towards the centre at the rear, but overall it does feel slim in the hand.
Visually length wise its about 1cm longer than my Galaxy s4 and about 1-2mm wider.
THE SCREEN
The screen is nice and clear and the difference between 720 and 1080 is not really that noticeable, the big difference with the S4 and the V3 is the saturation of the colours on the S4, giving deeper colours. Overall its a very nice display and hopefully there will be someone that is able to produce an app or custom rom that can tweak this to get it looking perfect.
THE CAMERA
The camera on the V3 has a major advantage over the S4, in that the lens offers a much wider angle (the S4 requires you to be a lot further back to capture group photos, I often struggle to get the pictures I need due to tight confines not allowing me to step back far enough to frame the subjects and take the photo I want).
As you can see by the pictures taken on a dull rainy indoors day in England, the flash on the V3 has delivered a bright natural look, making the S4 look a little dark and drab.
However the same photos without the flash show a lot more noise on the V3 than the S4, with tweaking this may be something that can be improved.
I will take the phones with me to work new years eve (I do night club photography) and grab a load of low light shots to really give the camera a test.
I will upload the images once I have had a chance to recover from partying lol.
The rom feels smooth in operation with no real perceivable lag and everything works as it should.
I would be happy to have this phone as my daily driver (if my wife decides it is too big for her, this may be the case lol) and with a fairly active community already working on the Inew I6000 the possibility of a custom rom seems likely.
I would love to see Inew supply the source for the phone so that the devs here and on XDA can get kitkat up and running quickly and hopefully a decent CM rom supported, along with Miui and several sony and samsung touchwiz inspired roms 9can never have too much choice!).
S4 No Flash
S4 Flash
V3 No Flash
V3 Flash
my wife is not happy about the size.
