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2015-04-06, 10:13
Hello, thought I'd comment because I bought one of these phones but I've had a few problems. The company was tecplus98 on ebay and the model I got was the TECA S5W for $285 (Australian).
The main issue is with connecting to the 3G network which it will only do for a few minutes and then drop out to normal G. You then have to switch to airplane mode and back then wait for to reregister with the network which can take a minute or two. Or switch to '3G only' mode which also takes a while to find the network, I could probably just leave it on 3G only if I stayed in a 3G area all the time - like in a city say, but I move around a lot out of town with work so need to have the 2G for calls. I've looked around but can't resolve this issue.
The other thing is the internal speaker is faulty and gives a crackling noise when anyone is speaking. It sounds a bit like you've turned the volume up to much on a stereo and blown one of the speakers.
Other than that the phone is a lot like a cheap, less reliable version of the Samsung S5 but with slightly different dimensions which means you can't get S5 cases to fit properly. It seems to run software fast enough and I haven't really had any issues with apps which you wouldn't get from a brand phone.
I don't know if it really has the 10GB of internal memory or not, but I threw in a Samsung 64GB memory card and was using that without any problems. I'm sending mine back for a replacement so hopefully this will come (there's supposed to be a 2 year warranty), if it does and the speaker and the 3G issues resolve themselves then I suppose I can't complain. Getting a cheap phone with good specs you sort of expect a bit of stuff around.
The main issue is with connecting to the 3G network which it will only do for a few minutes and then drop out to normal G. You then have to switch to airplane mode and back then wait for to reregister with the network which can take a minute or two. Or switch to '3G only' mode which also takes a while to find the network, I could probably just leave it on 3G only if I stayed in a 3G area all the time - like in a city say, but I move around a lot out of town with work so need to have the 2G for calls. I've looked around but can't resolve this issue.
The other thing is the internal speaker is faulty and gives a crackling noise when anyone is speaking. It sounds a bit like you've turned the volume up to much on a stereo and blown one of the speakers.
Other than that the phone is a lot like a cheap, less reliable version of the Samsung S5 but with slightly different dimensions which means you can't get S5 cases to fit properly. It seems to run software fast enough and I haven't really had any issues with apps which you wouldn't get from a brand phone.
I don't know if it really has the 10GB of internal memory or not, but I threw in a Samsung 64GB memory card and was using that without any problems. I'm sending mine back for a replacement so hopefully this will come (there's supposed to be a 2 year warranty), if it does and the speaker and the 3G issues resolve themselves then I suppose I can't complain. Getting a cheap phone with good specs you sort of expect a bit of stuff around.