[Review] HiPhone - A clone worth its name

hi !!
this is my first post and i want to ask you about the SAR level (Specific Absorption Rates of Radiation) of this phone...
do you know the radiation level ? in Europe there is a 2 watts per kilogram (2 W/kg) limit and in US is a 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg).

Cell Phones SARs - Specific Absorption Rates -* Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and Your Health

this is a link for SAR level but i can't find any chinese phone. so are the chinese phones safe?

thanks...
by the way I realy like this phone and i want it (cheaper than iphone), but also I don't want to die young !!

Part three is finally up. I have to get used to the 10 min limit... Expect part four soon! Enjoy.

thanks a lot for your great reviews!! i'm watching part 3 now,

i think i'll wait for the m8 anyway, theres some things like the resolution of the screen wich is a little dissapointing for me, but thats just me, being very demanding i guess...(i also prefer to have 16gb or so...)

i cant wait to see the next part of your review, the multimedia features, its the most interesting to me, since i am looking for an easy to use mp3/mp4 player in a device like this, i hope the m8 will have a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.(this device does not have that right?)

Thanx Tangmu for an
Excellent work with the reviews so far, they are really good and informative !

Keep up the good work !

:D

Thanks Tangmu for this excellent review..... i think this thing is going to be not as good as i'd hoped

but i'm looking forward to the next review, after all, these reviews are much better then anything else on youtube at the minute promoting this phone..... i'd be interested to see the contacts system integrated with the phone interface working in a review....

Thanks again

Originally Posted by swiltse

I wonder if the software on this phone will ever be updtateable (probably not, hah!), or if it will be hackable at least..

I'm pretty sure that's a no for both. Probably hackable but there's hardly anything to improve on the OS and getting Linux to run on those "noname" phones is a nightmare.

Originally Posted by ramman

i have seen a video on youtube of a clone that goes up and down left and right by running you finger in that direction but forgot what it was

i was sure it was this one but im obviously mistaken, it must have been the T32

EDIT: yeah it is the T32 i just found the Link

This phone also supports multitouch. You will be able to see it in part five I think.

Originally Posted by akrapovic

hi !!
this is my first post and i want to ask you about the SAR level (Specific Absorption Rates of Radiation) of this phone...
do you know the radiation level ? in Europe there is a 2 watts per kilogram (2 W/kg) limit and in US is a 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg).

Cell Phones SARs - Specific Absorption Rates -* Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and Your Health

this is a link for SAR level but i can't find any chinese phone. so are the chinese phones safe?

thanks...
by the way I realy like this phone and i want it (cheaper than iphone), but also I don't want to die young !!

That's a good question but also a hard one to answer unless customs start to take one of these things apart. I heard of a P168 handset though which was examined by German customs and didn't pass the regulations. With noname products you never know but that's a problem with a huge part of cellphones in the Chinese market.

Originally Posted by roelandb

i cant wait to see the next part of your review, the multimedia features, its the most interesting to me, since i am looking for an easy to use mp3/mp4 player in a device like this, i hope the m8 will have a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.(this device does not have that right?)

I can tell you already that if you're serious about music this won't be a device that can suit your needs (storage and quality wise). It does a nice approach in trying though. Headphones are connected using the strange mini USB (you can see it in part one).

Originally Posted by mcanka

Thanx Tangmu for an
Excellent work with the reviews so far, they are really good and informative !

Keep up the good work !

:D

Thanks! I'm glad you guys seem to like it.

Originally Posted by steverae

Thanks Tangmu for this excellent review..... i think this thing is going to be not as good as i'd hoped

but i'm looking forward to the next review, after all, these reviews are much better then anything else on youtube at the minute promoting this phone..... i'd be interested to see the contacts system integrated with the phone interface working in a review....

Thanks again

You're welcome. You can expect it in a later part. Four will be music and videos, five I have yet to decide but I want the whole thing to be structured logically as far as possible.

Awesome review! I'm a little nervous about the radiation thing, but aside from that the phone looks great. I cant wait to get mine and start texting (or SMSing I guess). The OS looks like a pretty nice clone of the iPhone the only things I'm a bit disappointed with are some of the fonts in the menu (was that courier new?!), and some of the button names ('Send SMS' probaby could have just said SMS, or Messaging), very minor stuff though.

You cut the video when you were doing the English characters.. Does the phone recognize English letters pretty easily also? You wrote an uppercase "A", I was curious if lower case letters were recognized as well.

Thanks again for the continuing reviews, just waiting to get mine in the mail now!!

no offence dude... but u take waaaaay too long to explain things. can u not say so much and just show us features? especially the multimedia? thanks...

Great review so far

Originally Posted by iversonjack

no offence dude... but u take waaaaay too long to explain things. can u not say so much and just show us features? especially the multimedia? thanks...

I can try to shorten my comments for part five but four is already in the works. I really try to review this phone rather than just show you a lot of stuff like in the videos most advertisers put up. (I think this kind of videos is already available - no need for more.)

Video quality isn't too good either trying to tape a 3.2 " LCD screen with pretty low resolution so I'm trying to explain a little of what you can see.

I'll think about your comment when doing the last parts however.

lol thanks dont take my comment as an abuse, i didnt mean it that way
great review u r doing, keep it up
funny how there are applications that make it look like the iphone but does absolutely nothing lol

No problem at all! I'm thankfull for constructive criticism.

thanks, good review, very detailled, it's what I (we?) need before buying (or not this) because on youtube we can only find video with any comments just showing the function but not saying if they are good or not

thanks

Say The T32 Has A 3G Systme?
I Mean I Can Talk In Video Calls?

Originally Posted by OrOf

Say The T32 Has A 3G Systme?
I Mean I Can Talk In Video Calls?

No, the phone has no 3G.

Hi Guys , me again....

been watching the iphone (the real one) videos again on youtube and have got to say.... it's really impressive...

Question for you guys (opinion really) sorry to hijack this post but...

\it looks like (from what i've seen of Tangmu's reviews) that the i32 for me is a non starter. I have a HTC Hermes at the minute and this kicks the i32's arse as far as functionallity goes... very disapointed since the other reviews on youtube made the phone look well cool....

Anyway, i've got a choice to make soon as my contract is up next week.. do i hold off for the M8 if it ever arrives but i'm like itching to get a new phone now, do i wait and see how the t32 if it is ever launched compares to my htc hermes, or do i get an upgrade to the htc kaiser.....

The other option is an unlocked iphone (the real one) what do guys think...

Help as i've nearly bought an iphone twice today...

the real iphone is pretty good if you like the smooth menu system, but multimedia wise i could only advice the m8, since its processor will natively support divx,mp4,... and the screen will be very very sharp, i doubt by the time it comes out there might be somthing better on the market.
i know i am going to wait and see before i buy anything new (it gives me time to save up enough money for it also...)

Just want to remind you guys that CeBIT is around the corner and if you have the time to wait until then you can make your decission after knowing some facts about the M8.