Guest LucaAltieri Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Been looking at getting a cheap dual-SIM mobile so I can have my UK and Italian numbers up and running at the same time. There are plenty of cheap mobiles on ebay but mostly from Hong Kong. They're quite obviously fairly poor quality but so long as they do the basics that's all I need. Now, most of these sellers have lots of feedback. One had 1000's in the last month and only 25 were negative. However, the negatives were VERY negative and basically describe the items as a total scam since they don't work in the UK (other UK users seemed to have no problem). Does anyone have any experience buying this sort of thing from Hong Kong? Are those 25 people just unlucky? Are those 1000's of positive feedback all done by the seller's mates? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthnufc Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Use paypal for your protection, if you have any problems you know you willmget your money back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmonkey Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 There are a few interesting clones/fakes on DealExtreme. Focalpoint are another. http://www.focalprice.com/goods_75.html Never bought any though so no idea if they're actually any good from personal experience. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 just bought a cheap one. Looks like shit but does everything I need it too. Only £40. We'll see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Why didn't you just buy a proper phone with £40? Edit - just noticed the SIM thing. Can't you get a dual-sim adapter any more? I used to have one years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Why didn't you just buy a proper phone with £40? Edit - just noticed the SIM thing. Can't you get a dual-sim adapter any more? I used to have one years ago. You can and they only cost a few quid. BUT... from what I've read you still need to keep switching between the SIMs whereas this one I've bought is a "dual SIM standby" which means they're both active all the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 What, so when you call/text you choose which SIM to send from? Weird! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Don't really know until I have a play around with it. From what I've seen it works like any other two line phone you might have in an office. The important part is that I'm always able to pick up calls. Seems to do what I want. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Can someone post a link to a reasonably cheap dual-sim mobile phone. I didn't know they existed to be honest but one would be ideal for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 probably like mine - doesn't work s** in the UK but is marvelous in Murmansk, Romania and Angola................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 My mate brought one in the phillipenes, wouldnt even connect to his computer or get a signal. Pfft Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Arrived. Looks cheap but does what it's supposed to. There's a minor problem to do with the phone's IMEI code and having 2 SIM cards (second SIM appears as "Invalid" and wont work) but there are fixes for this (although, technically illegal in the UK). Either way, doesn't affect me as I have an Orange SIM and Orange don't check the IMEI code of a phone and so mine works beautifully with 2 SIMs. Could be an issue to people on other networks trying this. Either way, it's a UK networks thing rather than a phone fault. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Pics or it didn't happen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m298/europawpw/fordavid.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Nice. What's the rest of it like? Looks like you shot that on an iPhone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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