Huawei Ideos X5 review from 19 year old soon :)

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#119374 29-May-2013 18:36

Number1 Son just picked up one of these on clearance. He's avidly reading the safety warnings at the moment. I'll get a review out of him as he uses his first touch phone

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#827932 29-May-2013 18:50

Too bad he has to do the dinner dishes now ;)

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#827937 29-May-2013 19:00

What sort of price do they go for on clearance now? I remember getting very excited about it prior to release, must've been over 2 years ago

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#827938 29-May-2013 19:03

Loved my X5, was a great step up from my first Android phone!

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#827945 29-May-2013 19:17

He got it for $120, and it's his first android, first nonkeypad phone.

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#827988 29-May-2013 20:33

That's awesome value - I paid over $500! I'm sure he'll be very happy with it

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#828002 29-May-2013 20:59

jevvv: Number1 Son just picked up one of these on clearance. He's avidly reading the safety warnings at the moment. I'll get a review out of him as he uses his first touch phone

What a strange 19 year old, reading safety warnings?! What is this!

Make sure you get him into the custom ROM scene - that phone is much better when you use the rom from dzo (who is from nz!). android 4.0 is much better than the 2.3 stock. I think there are newer roms in development too.

I suggest you be careful with the back, the tabs holding the battery cover wear down easily, and the screen on them cracks fairly easily too.

I have one cracked one and one dead one of these phones sitting on my desk.

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#828003 29-May-2013 21:02

jevvv: He got it for $120, and it's his first android, first nonkeypad phone.

Where did he buy it from?

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#828041 29-May-2013 22:17

Thanks for all the tips guys! I'll be reading up on the rom too

He got it from Warehouse Stationery - they did an online only sale on Thursday I think. We get their email newsletters. Not sure if they're still running it, but there was one I wanted but even at about the 2/3 off price I can't justify it.

Which really means I need to find a nice way to earn some money myself ;)

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#828050 29-May-2013 22:44

thats a good price. The main issue I had with that phone was battery life tbh.

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#828061 29-May-2013 23:14

I use an X5 as my backup phone/secondary phone when travelling. It's a good couple of years old now but works well.

I used it early this year for a couple of weeks after sending my S3 away for repair. It's no S3, but it did a damn good job in the interim.

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#828195 30-May-2013 10:49

All very encouraging, and he might sign up here at GZ ;)

He's delighted that all he needed to do was move his contacts to sim, then put the sim and microsd into the new phone ;)

One actual comment was "weird way to slot the sim in - it's sideways!"

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