Anybody tried the CECT P168? It is a clone of the iPhone.

Hi folks,

Anybody here used the CECT P168?
I've only met one person who has it but she says it works fine.

Thanks.

plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Anybody here used the CECT P168?
> I've only met one person who has it but she says it works fine.
>
> Thanks.

It's not good for the U.S. as it lacks the most popular GSM band in the
U.S., 850 MHz. If you only have 1900 MHz for the U.S. then your coverage
will be very, very poor.

Tri-band phones were popular about six years ago when all the GSM in the
U.S. was 1900 MHz, and the 850 MHz (also called 800 MHz) was for TDMA
and analog. No one in the U.S., or traveling to the U.S., would want the
CECT P168.

In article <47f831a6$0$36405$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Anybody here used the CECT P168?
>> I've only met one person who has it but she says it works fine.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>It's not good for the U.S. as it lacks the most popular GSM band in the
>U.S., 850 MHz. If you only have 1900 MHz for the U.S. then your coverage
>will be very, very poor.

The latest shipments of the P168+ are quad-band GSM.

Mike S. wrote:
> In article <47f831a6$0$36405$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>> plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Anybody here used the CECT P168?
>>> I've only met one person who has it but she says it works fine.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>> It's not good for the U.S. as it lacks the most popular GSM band in the
>> U.S., 850 MHz. If you only have 1900 MHz for the U.S. then your coverage
>> will be very, very poor.
>
> The latest shipments of the P168+ are quad-band GSM.

This isn't clear. Look at
"http://storesense2.megawebservers.com/stores/h/HS6191/cataloglist.html"

Where they now have a tri-band North American version, but still no quad
band. "http://zydaglo.com" Not much use in Europe and Asia.

Where did you see a quad band?

No voice-dialing (like the iPhone).

No Wi-Fi.

In article <47fcc0aa$0$36365$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>Mike S. wrote:
>> In article <47f831a6$0$36405$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
>> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>>> plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Anybody here used the CECT P168?
>>>> I've only met one person who has it but she says it works fine.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>> It's not good for the U.S. as it lacks the most popular GSM band in the
>>> U.S., 850 MHz. If you only have 1900 MHz for the U.S. then your coverage
>>> will be very, very poor.
>>
>> The latest shipments of the P168+ are quad-band GSM.
>
>This isn't clear. Look at
>"http://storesense2.megawebservers.com/stores/h/HS6191/cataloglist.html"
>
>Where they now have a tri-band North American version, but still no quad
>band. "http://zydaglo.com" Not much use in Europe and Asia.
>
>Where did you see a quad band?

http://cgi.ebay.com/CECT-iPhone-Quad...QQcmdZViewItem

>No voice-dialing (like the iPhone).
>
>No Wi-Fi.

In spite of the OP's assertion, this is very very far from being an iPhone
clone.

In article <ftj7m1$g65$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Mike S. <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote:
>
>In article <47fcc0aa$0$36365$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
>SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>>Mike S. wrote:
>>> In article <47f831a6$0$36405$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
>>> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>>>> plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody here used the CECT P168?
>>>>> I've only met one person who has it but she says it works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>> It's not good for the U.S. as it lacks the most popular GSM band in the
>>>> U.S., 850 MHz. If you only have 1900 MHz for the U.S. then your coverage
>>>> will be very, very poor.
>>>
>>> The latest shipments of the P168+ are quad-band GSM.
>>
>>This isn't clear. Look at
>>"http://storesense2.megawebservers.com/stores/h/HS6191/cataloglist.html"
>>
>>Where they now have a tri-band North American version, but still no quad
>>band. "http://zydaglo.com" Not much use in Europe and Asia.
>>
>>Where did you see a quad band?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/CECT-iPhone-Quad...QQcmdZViewItem

After some pointed questioning of a few eBay sellers, and watching a
YouTube video that specifically explains this, I have to correct my
earlier posting. There does not seem to be a true quad-band (i.e. 850 900
1800 1900 all present and functioning in the same phone) version of this
phone.

The P168+ now comes in a North American version which substitutes 850 for
900. Although 900 will still appear in the engineering menu where you can
select bands, it will not work as the hardware is not set up for it.

As I understand it, the way to truly tell what you are getting is to look
at the IMEI sticker inside the battery compartment. It lists the the
frequency bands the hardware supports, and the choices are etiehr
850-1800-1900 or 900-1800-1900. A P168+ bearing a sticker that says
850-900-1800-1900 has not been spotted as far as I can see. Obviously an
honest and cooperative dealer is essential to making such a transaction
safe.

Mike S. wrote:

> As I understand it, the way to truly tell what you are getting is to look
> at the IMEI sticker inside the battery compartment. It lists the the
> frequency bands the hardware supports, and the choices are etiehr
> 850-1800-1900 or 900-1800-1900. A P168+ bearing a sticker that says
> 850-900-1800-1900 has not been spotted as far as I can see. Obviously an
> honest and cooperative dealer is essential to making such a transaction
> safe.

They're using an older chipset, where you can't have both 850 and 900.
This makes it rather worthless as a world phone. The most widely used
band in Europe and Asia is 900 MHz and in the U.S. it's 850 MHz. You'll
have terrible coverage with only 1800 MHz in Europe and Asia or only
1900 MHz in the U.S..

When GSM first because available in the U.S. there was only 1900 MHz, by
Voicestream and the western region of Cingular, and TDMA was at 800 MHz
(AKA 850 MHz) and there were a bunch of tri-band "world phones,"
including the very popular Motorola Timeport series which I bought. It's
still usable in Europe and Asia, but since it can't to texting, there
are some difficulties when the prepaid carrier sends stuff like
passwords to the account to the phone as a text message.