$180 USD Android phone 5.5" 1080p, Octa Core, 2gb ram, Dual 4G LTE, 13MP Sony cam

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arvis

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#169738 24-Mar-2015 13:55

The specs are incredible for the price. The Jiayu brand/manufacturer is established in China, seems to beok. Can anyone tell if this will work in NZ?

Network 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA (UMTS) 900/1900/2100MHz
3G: TD-SCDMA 1900/2000MHz (China)
4G: TDD-LTE 1800-1920/2300-2400/2500-2655MHz (China)
4G: FDD-LTE 800/1800/2600MHz
GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA+, 4G LTE

http://www.chinasmartphonereview.com/jiayu-s3-64-bit-octa-core-dual-4g-lte/

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#1266797 24-Mar-2015 13:58

Looks good for Voda/2D. Spark use 850MHz 3G so not so good for their network.

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#1266815 24-Mar-2015 14:13

Thats a cracking phone! If you check towards the end of this video it beats the galaxy s5 in antutu

arvis

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#1266840 24-Mar-2015 14:47

I wrote an email to both voda and 2d. Will post here if they respond.

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#1266854 24-Mar-2015 14:56

Won't work on Spark. Won't work on LTE 700, of which there are a lot of sites going live.

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#1267311 25-Mar-2015 09:04

arvis: I wrote an email to both voda and 2d. Will post here if they respond.

These discussions might help. They're a little out of date but will give you the overall idea. :) There's now 3G 900MHz in most cities and 4G on 700MHz and in some place 2600MHz too.

https://community.vodafone.co.nz/t5/Android-phones/What-frequency-bands-does-VodafoneNZ-use-for-3G-and-4G/td-p/130577
http://help.vodafone.co.nz/app/answers/detail/a_id/7173/~/what-is-3g-broadband-extended%3F
http://community.vodafone.co.nz/t5/iPhone-iPad/GSM-or-CDMA/m-p/172783#M2435

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#1267316 25-Mar-2015 09:15

Looks like quite a buy at that money, if the QC is up to it.

The Antutu score is nigh on meaningless, I'd be very surprised if they weren't cheating the benchmark too.

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Mavarick

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#1274711 31-Mar-2015 19:16

I have a G3 and its dual sim;
only works with vodafone and 2 degress, but has just as much or more feature than a $800 phone,
its for sale at tye moment :) work gave me a Iphone 5