Changjiang W007 3.2″ touch screen phone review (Chinese fake)
A couple of days ago I received in the post a brand new W007 mobile phone which I order on dealextreme.com. This suppose to be one of those phones which tries to fake iPhone mixed, I think, with the HTC G2 or something similar.
The price of the phone was $110, which from my standards, its more then a bargain. The phone has a 3.2″ touch screen, with some kick ass colors, I must add. Also included is support for 2 SIM’s, WiFi, Bluetooth, microSD, some kind of a multi-touch (maybe not, just some software emulation), TV, Radio, FM Transmiter, accelerometer and many more cool stuff, which some might use them and some might not.
The quality build of the phone it’s quite remarkable, was thinking is gonna suck big time, but I was really surprised. In general the phone is super well done, looking very nice and working the same. The only major or minor issue with it, it’s the cameras, there are 2 of them, but both of the suck, front camera is 0.3M pixel and the back one, I think, 1.3M pixel, but on the phone is written 12.1M pixel, which kind of sucks. Another bordering issue with the phone would be the multi-touch or the touch screen, which is not as responsive when using it with your fingers. If you are using the stylus, then everything works as it should, but if it’s an iPhone copy, well you aspect it to work like iPhone (more or less
).
The phone packing was nice, small and simple and it included the phone (well normally), 2 Li-Ion batteries, wall charger, USB data and charging cable, stereo headset, 2GB microSD card. Taking in consideration that the phone costs $110 and getting so many things, plus a phone that work quite nicely, this is a bargain aspecially if you wanna compare to phones like HTC G1 or G2, iPhone and so on. On the other had, this is not iPhone and doesn’t look maybe as good as iPhone, but it does look good and works good, so there wouldn’t be any reason to not buy it, even if it’s just for the brilliant 3.2″ touch screen, or like in my case because of the WiFi, TV and radio.
With the money I have spent for this phone, here I couldn’t even buy a mini TV or a small portable TV, not to mention the rest of the features coming with it.
Hot Spots:
- Quad band:GSM850/900/1800/1900MHZ
- Dual sim cards dual standby
- Analog TV
- Orbit ball
- Dual cameras
- Handshaking:Change the wallpaper,song,FM to the next one by handshaking
- Dual Bluetooth 2.0
- FM Radio
- WIFI
- JAVA 2.0
- MP3,MP4
- Slide to unlock
- Slide to turn page(3 pages)
- E-book reader
- Language:English,French,Spanish,Polish,Portugal,Italian,Deutsch,Malaysian,Indonesian,Czech,Slovak,Dutch Turkish,Vietnamese,Russian,Bulgarian,Greek,Russian,Arabic,Persian,Chinese
Features:
* 3.2 inch touch screen,260k colors,480*320px
* Network: Support WAP GPRS Download
* Telephone directories:800 groups of phone books, caller picture, caller Ring Tone,caller groups
* Messages:SMS,MMS
* Memory: 71.8MB, support TF card up to 8GB TF extended
* Camera:Dual Cameras,both back and front camera are 1.3 Megapixel up to 640*480 resolution,support audio video;the recording time depends on the storage
* Ringtone:64 Polyphonic;Support mp3 format ring
* Music:MP3,support background play
* Movie:3GP,MP4.support full screen play, speed, pause
* Bluetooth: Support A2DP V2.0
* Data Transfer: USB cable / bluetooth
* Power on/off: Support auto power on and off
* Alarm clock: 5 groups, support mp3 ringtone, support snooze, can set from Monday to Sunday
* Games: Build in 4 general games
* Calendar,To do list,Alarm,World Clock,Spotwatch
* Other Functions:WIFI, Java, Analog TV, MP3, MP4, Handsfree, Safari, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, Handwritten input, FM, Bluetooth, GPRS, WAP, SMS, MMS, Expand memory, E-book, calendar, to do list, alarm, calculator, unit converter, stop watch, world time,Touch flo,Dual SIM dual standby
If you are interested in buying this phone, you could try http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.31634. They offer the phone for $110 with free shipping almost all over the world.
As a final word from my side, the phone is worth every penny. If you are not into the brand stuff, but you want a good phone that offers tons of stuff, then try it. Most probably you wont be disappointed.
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about 2 months ago
To the person who wrote this article, I thank you for posting both the negative and positive aspects this model has. I’m thinking of buying one in a few days.
@MAHATMA: you SHOULD be able to wat6ch YouTube videos. You just have to change its GPRS settigns.
about 2 months ago
@GRACE:
I work for AT&T. Are you using a prepaid service? if you are, you wont be able to use your phone for data. AT&T only offers data functions exclusively for AT&T phones. The only features that you can take advantage of are basic calling features and regular text messaging. if you are with postpaid, the more that you wont be able to use data on your phone even when you add a data feature. With prepaid service (gophone), we have customers that are fortunate enough to use data on their phones but it doesn’t last long.. after a few days, it’ll start giving you problems.. wont get to connect to the internet, wont be able to send and/or receive mms. i don’t recommend you to get a data package added to your account if you’re planning to use this w007 phone for your service.
about 2 months ago
The person wrote everything is right.
But i used this Phone 2 months at normal condition.
one day I switched off the phone and i try to switch on after some time. till my phone is dead condition.
please send me a service tips for recondition my phone.
I checked battery charger and related tings.
about 1 month ago
Hi,
does anymore know how to setup an Gmail account in the Email application ? How do I setup SSL according to the help page on Google Mail ?
about 1 month ago
Hi,
how to setup for MMS? (Vodafone,Europe)
Thanks
about 1 month ago
Hi,
My language is not available. Do you have any software for changing program to another language?
about 1 month ago
Sorry, but don’t think you can add languages… at all!
about 2 weeks ago
Hi, read your blog about 2 weeks ago about this W007 touch phone and I bought one just 3 days ago. I have a problem with setting up the GPRS and MMS settings because my network carrier does not recognize this phone model. And it looks like I have to set the GPRS/MMS settings manually. Please help.
Thanks,
Erik
P.S.
You can send your reply via my email.
about 2 weeks ago
Hello, I don’t really know what you can do besides setting up the mobile manually. This shouldn’t be too hard if your GSM provider will give u the settings. In rest, you could always copy the settings from a supported phone which has already setup GPRS and MMS.
about 2 weeks ago
Hi Robert, i’ve just bought this nice phone in China, but since im back in Italy (i never used it in china indeed) i cannot connect with my home-wifi. Once the phone found the available nets and i select one come something like the “sms page” where i suppose i should text the password..but is not connecting…do u have any clue?
might u send me the msg in email?
anybody of u has a website with english instruction for this phone?? thx for your Help…
Daniele
about 2 weeks ago
sorry for the dumb question, but its not even stated within the manual:
Where do you change the ringtones? I found the spot in the menu before, but now I can not find it for the life of me. I reset the setting to default (pw is 1122) thinking the menu option would return, but no luck.
Also, I can not seem to find where to set the ringtone based on caller, either.
about 2 weeks ago
Hi, it might not connect to the WiFi due to the type of encryption used in the WiFi. I use the old WEP and it works, but if its something newer it might not. Also setup in the phone the WiFi manually, with the exact type of encryption, it didn’t work for me automatically.
about 2 weeks ago
You setup the ringtones at Profile menu, its on the second “page”. Slide the menu to the second page and you have there “Profile”.
about 1 week ago
Can anyone can help?
I thoght my phone is broken, some day ago to my phone turned in flashlight and all day long it shines! How can i turn it off??
about 1 week ago
about 1 week ago
how do i send mms it wont work plz help
about 1 week ago
also when i acess opera mini apps it says my phone is a sony ericson w8001 why is this? i try to change it but wont save so all the appsdont suit my phne