The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana

Post by lutoma » Thu, May 28, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #114

userbinator wrote: post #7

This is likely a truly unbranded OEM feature phone based on a Mediatek or Spreadtrum reference platform. Resellers then add their own branding to it. I couldn't find that exact one but a bit of searching turns up similar models: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/9000mAh-long-standby-power-ba... http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Original-H-mobile-X8-4... http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Original-Xiaocai-X6-...…

Looks like an interesting phone to take to music festivals... Now, if they were paired with some kind of api/dev-kit so one could rip out the "snapchat"-stuff and bundle something useful, like xmpp+otr, a bare bones rss client... email... that kind of thing.

Post by equartey » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 4:36 PM UTC

hucker wrote: post #6

This phone looks really interesting as a backup/utility, especially for people who travel a lot with many sim cards from different countries... Has anyone found somewhere to order internationally? EDIT: Specifically that exact design, there's something about it..