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Comment by tuananh | Hacker News Reader

Huawei seems rather sketchy. Or basically, anything from China.

My phone recently died and i'm in market for a new phone. The 5X looks like a decent one.

I have a Huawei Ascend P7. It's miles better than my last phone (LG G2 mini). I find the build quality to be very good. I had it survive a very bad fall. The performance is decent, not as good as modern flagships, but an awesome price to performance ratio (I got it for 180 dollars, it goes for 250 unlocked these days).

They did do a Volkswagen-style cheat on the FutureMark benchmark:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8403/examining-huaweis-benchma...

so yes, they might be on the "sketchy" camp.

But I've found most of the premium stuff from China to be as good or better than equivalents from other countries, my girlfriend has a Lenovo phone and it's excellent too.

Since I'm from Latin America, I don't have to cheerlead any American or Japanese or European phone brands (we have none), and I'm extremely price sensitive, so Chinese brands like Huawei or Lenovo are great news for us.

Why's it sketchy? They seem to be highly reviewed; as far as I know a lot have been actually hoping they would finally enter the US market as they sell a lot of nice phones we don't get. It actually seems like they have better quality and use better materials than most of the non Chinese manufacturers

Google for "Huawei spying" returns quite a number of articles on this.

I had a Huawei Ascend P1 LTE for a while, and it was rubbish: flaky wifi and screen delaminating.

That's a 2012 phone. I saw the Huawei G610 in 2013 and chose not to buy it at the time, due to very bad reviews concerning their software mainly, but also due to some hardware problems. I chose an LG G2 mini that had much more reliable hardware, but ironically their software was incredibly crappy (and some incredibly idiotic decisions like their volume keys on the back of the device).

Huawei are making their phones a LOT better these days, I have an Ascend P7 that's been working extremely well.

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