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Hello guys. I have been using the Pepsi P1S phone regularly over the past 5 weeks or so. I would NOT recommend it to anyone else to buy unless they have the time and patience that it takes to make it work. Its main selling point was of course the price, but the OS it came with was a nightmare and probably caused headaches or a lot worse to quite a few people (someone's marriage in peril I hear?!?)
Anyways, while I have been an iPhone user for many years I can say I am quite happy with the Pepsi phone after flashing it with the Koobee H7 Rom, cleaning it up and testing it for weeks. Some things do not work very well, like Bluetooth getting stuck after a while or notifications not working quite as expected, but otherwise it is a decent device with a gorgeous display and enough hardware to run the apps people use normally without any issues.
Luckily there are quite a few good replacement apps on Google Play for most of the functions such as Launcher, media player, messaging etc. , just make your pick.
The camera is pretty decent, although not very fast, activating HDR for still photos helps a lot, especially in low light settings, video is OK.
The battery is on the sucky side, gets drained pretty quickly but should allow for normal usage.
I bought 2 pieces and tried Huber's cleaned rom on one of them because of the multilanguage support but it didn't turn out so well (reboot loop). Multilanguage can be activated using apps such as MoreLangs from the Play Store, except for the system settings of course. So no big deal really.
Some apps may not work or warn you because of the rooted system, so that is an interesting issue, can it be unrooted, preferably temporarily, and what is the safest way to do it? I am of course referring to more sensitive information apps such as banking or security apps. I have scanned traffic going from apps on the device in a pretty paranoid manner, have still to configure a good firewall, so I am asking here for advice/suggestions.
And it DOES feel good to see the look on people's face when I tell them this phone cost 10 times less then their exploding Samsung
Anyways, while I have been an iPhone user for many years I can say I am quite happy with the Pepsi phone after flashing it with the Koobee H7 Rom, cleaning it up and testing it for weeks. Some things do not work very well, like Bluetooth getting stuck after a while or notifications not working quite as expected, but otherwise it is a decent device with a gorgeous display and enough hardware to run the apps people use normally without any issues.
Luckily there are quite a few good replacement apps on Google Play for most of the functions such as Launcher, media player, messaging etc. , just make your pick.
The camera is pretty decent, although not very fast, activating HDR for still photos helps a lot, especially in low light settings, video is OK.
The battery is on the sucky side, gets drained pretty quickly but should allow for normal usage.
I bought 2 pieces and tried Huber's cleaned rom on one of them because of the multilanguage support but it didn't turn out so well (reboot loop). Multilanguage can be activated using apps such as MoreLangs from the Play Store, except for the system settings of course. So no big deal really.
Some apps may not work or warn you because of the rooted system, so that is an interesting issue, can it be unrooted, preferably temporarily, and what is the safest way to do it? I am of course referring to more sensitive information apps such as banking or security apps. I have scanned traffic going from apps on the device in a pretty paranoid manner, have still to configure a good firewall, so I am asking here for advice/suggestions.
And it DOES feel good to see the look on people's face when I tell them this phone cost 10 times less then their exploding Samsung