robert lee he’s not complaining about China, he’s just showing the side of living there, and the differences we have between China and US/EU that people DONT talk about. Every country has its problems, is it wrong to talk about real issues you face where you live?
I have to admit, the salesman for the phone seemed like a really good salesman. Kind, knowledgeable, looked happy at his job, and did some fancy package opening when he open the phone. 10 coughs/10 coughs.
I am European, but to me this was kinda rude. My understanding is, that the security guy is just doing his job and he did not seem to be impolite. Unless he made up that rule and bothered him for nothing, but from what I understood that is a general rule. And I think he felt completely ignored. If I were in his shoes, I would think that someone is trying to be a jerk to me. But I get where the opposition to the rule comes from, as it seems to be made only to protect some shady counterfeit business going on.
@@roberthardy5171 Sorry my mistake, I wanted to say that due to China's expansionist policies and trade wars between US and China, a cold-war like situation has been created
I’m glad you still have your sensibilities about you - you aren’t convinced by the Chinese propaganda, but you aren’t always knocking china down to promote the West’s superiority either. Very balanced and honest, I appreciate that.
I swear, it's a Chinese thing, it's like you can't even go to a Chinese supermarket and take a picture of an exotic fruit as if they're illegally importing them like wtf?
@@kolise_koll no respect, and he is clueless about china. nobody buys their phone in the market he visits, we buy everything online, with no fakes. he lectures chinese people bad manners yet he is unable to respect the injunction to not film within a commercial area (you can't vlog in planet fitness, you can't vlog in markets or schools or many places, just blog in your bedroom and don't act as if you had some kind of game, I can see you are a loser)
Just for the record, you will finds that credit cards, coins, and money, are handed to customers by cashiers reverently, and with two hands, throughout China and Taiwan. pretty standard.
@Mr. Bipolar Sapien The mall cop was clearly more interested in trying to shield shady business practices, than just do his job. Firstly "Wrong does not cease to be wrong just because the majority share in it." Secondly when has this dude ever been blatantly disrespectful? If he offends you you need sensitivity training my friend.
Hahahha... Oh yes. That was hilarious.. I have played a game that had that exact sound and exclamation mark during game play. I just cannot remember the name of the game.
L Lots I meant...how was the lag? Build quality? Anything that stopped working after a month or something like that? Does the phone takes reasonable pictures and videos?
@@josephliptakplease tell me how do you know. I'm genuinely curious. do You think a foreigner have "rights" in china? Come on now, foreigner in a suit, recoding in a bootleg mall for phones in a country that is known for producing counterfeit products. If youve been following this channel you know how china is
He went to China to learn the language to insult Chinese products. BTW, his suit must have been 'Made in China'? To me, it did not look good, because he went to some 'cheap' tailor.
@@wondercat3516 yes he has given bad impression on china, nothing good from his mouth. Like those western reporters, nothing positive about china. Why must he goes round and take video of shopping center.
😂Got my sister an OPPO and it have annoying navigation and icons that is almost like an iPhone 😠. OPPO is like an android version of iPhone. DAMN SLIDE TO TURN OFF PHONE ICON.
My brother got a tablet years ago that was refurbished. I remember him using it and it worked just fine. Then, one day, it began to slow down. Apps opened slowly and frame rates on games dropped drastically. We thought maybe it was a bad internet connection, but our home wifi signal was good. He looked through a list of apps and noticed all of them in English except one in Chinese. He used google translate on another device and saw that it translated to "Camera" in Chinese. Makes sense because the app icon was a camera lens. Thinking this suspicious, he deleted the app and his tablet returned to normal. He did some research and we think that this app was fraudulent somehow and was possibly streaming what was happening on his tablet. Maybe someone hoped to catch him entering passwords or something. No idea why this mysterious app was using so much resource power while hiding the fact that it was even running.
I have the same problem with my Huawei Y6 it's became slow as fuck, the battery life decreasing and my phone storage reduced from 16g to almost nothing I deleted all my apps and it still has memory of 98 to 99% so I had to constantly clean and even stopped my self from going to the internet. One day when I was cleaning I saw an app that I have never seen that you can't search or look up on my phone at all, while cleaning I saw a particular app that was kind of secretly running the cleanind I noticed this when I saw the text next to it saying WeChart in progress, so far its the only hidden Chinese app on my phone and it destroyed my storage, speed and battery life yet I have never used it not even once and when I constantly have to clean it is the one that sought off indirectly runs it, I would never have realized it if I didn't see a documentary on it on RU-vid the only way I might use it was to delete everything
@@greedyk No, I'm saying that a program like the one that you use for your smartphone should not be pushing any significant usage at all, and leaving it open over time is not going to cause it to draw more resources.
13:04 I'm Italian, the guy didn't truly say "stay awesome" , he got a little creative and said "continue to watch this channel, it's awesome". I mean I know this is kinda irrelevant, but it's just a little curiosity 😃
"Google services are blocked in China." Goes to Oppo store "We can install the play store for you." LMAO ligit thats really cool, I hope you didn't get that guy in trouble!
Your so right about the coverage, it’s phenomenal in China. I was at the last Chagan Lake Ice Festival in the middle of nowhere in northern Jilin province and they put temporary cell towers. The thousands of people attending in -20+ still enjoyed excellent reception and data speeds like as if they were in a 1st tier city.
I have a Xiaomi mi max 2. Fab phone, massive screen, good camera and huge battery - £220 with global rom, also beautiful design. My previous phone was Samsung Note 8 - hated the aspect ratio of the screen, terrible fingerprint location. Gorgeous camera, though - but worth £900? Not a chance. People need to know that a lot of Chinese phones won't work on band 20 in UK, so that excludes O2, Sky mobile, Giff Gaff and Tesco.
Well, in China newer phones are made to be "full range network accessable" (required by code I think), but that "full range" is only "the full range Chinese carriers can use", and there are only 3 carriers in China so... I guess it's really hard to tell if a phone works somewhere else, and the chance might be pretty low.
I've got the same phone and I agree. The value for money is insane. One big problem I've had is notifications not coming through, but they seemed to have fixed that in a software update. Software updates happen frequently and they continue to release updates for years.
Yep, I've got the MiMax 2. Love it. Had the MiMax loved it. I will buy the MiMax 3.... A new phone every year and still $400 in my pocket over 1 supposedly OVERPRICED FLAGSHIP PHONE.
That Security Guard though......."you can't be filming all this contraband!" "Cool, I'll just leave then where is the down escalator" "Just over there past those fake IPads!!" Only China.
Winston seems to be giving his own first person opinion of products. I know he loves China and chooses to live in The M|iddle Kingdom. If you disagree, so be it. Obviously China is producing excellent product, I use Huawei and I am thrilled with it. Theway in which he contrasts both the good and not so good in his China experience is informative, humorous and well executed. It's too bad that you, Lian Shi, are unable to embrace the good and challenge the drawbacks in modern day China.
@Lian Shi, he is not wrong in saying that the design is copied from current successful phones in the market. But then again why reinvent the wheel; all phone makers are copying and innovating features from their competitors. Also, he praised the software leaps from Chinese phone makers so I am not sure how you missed that. You can't just point fingers when he says something negative about China and ignore the positive remarks..
Christopher Coutts not fake. The intellectual property was stolen but then they focus on quality so are beating us. Compare any real product scientifically. Their stuff is becoming better. Our steal is terrible for instance. Nobody wants it, hence the Tarrif. We do better or gonna lose
Also as a phone engineer I can say that a lot of the cheaper Chinese phones do not follow electronic and RF safety standards. Some of the phones output huge amounts of power and the danger of that is pretty huge (battery fire, RadHaz etc).
i'm not an engineer or anything like that, but I have some experience with Chinese phones. For example, I've seen Huawei Y6 (2018 model i think). The battery was bad after 6 months and the overvoltage destroyed the motherboard, the battery connector and the LCD flex cable. And this wasn't some 30 dollar shit phone, this was huawei...
@@fattyMcGee97 |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> from where you have that bullshit? 1 usd = 7-8 rmb I lived in china and know that very good |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |>
Actually you can use google play in Chinese smart phone... you'll just need a nice VPN.. I'm using HUAWEI and XIAOMI, have no problem with google play..
3:42 there’s a security guard that was just about to throw you out for being foreign and to give him something to do but you were saved by someone asking him where’s the toilette so you were saved. My mistake. He caught you
When you buying a Chinese phone in China, just make sure DO NOT buy the contract phone, some contract phone has special built-in firmware which might unable to root by most software you could find online, and lead you to NO GOOGLE SERVICE FRAME issue.
Jacques .C They sell them here like they sell other phones so they won't be cheap knockoffs. Australia wouldn't allow that. I think the real brands work fine. I have to say I've so far only heard of Huawei here, not the others I've seen mentioned but they may come with time.
I trust no one who makes 9er prices. Especially not private sellers. (Yes, I have experienced such. Selling a used item on Ebay and making it a 9er price.)
+abhishek kumar Even a clean Windows 10 comes with a ton of blaotware on desktop. Groove Music, M$ office, Xbox connect, One Drive, Edge (its only purpose is to download Chrome or Firefox), Cortana, and a lot of other useless junk. I need to reinstall windows 10 again, so I'll be removing these just like I do after every brand new install.
This is very generous of you, Winston, yes, shipping costs are murderous! Spend your money on tech you need, because we want you to have all you need for this channel! 😃
And yet they don't block the stuff that maybe they should? The intellectual content of today's pop music, has fallen into the toilet. Really? Just a few nonsense sentences and they stretch it into a so-called song? What kind of backwards country censors what people can access? What business is that of Big Brother corrupt government?
@@yosefmacgruber1920 I mean, for the Chinese it's just music with some gibberish vocal, they don't understand or care about the lyrics and "intellectual content" of those songs has no relevance, it could be the most elaborate English poetry but it would still sound exactly the same to the non-English speakers. What probably actually affects the nation way more in this sense is the songs in the native language(s).
@Cliven Longsight Liberals are educated idiots. They hardly have a clue when it comes to morality. Nor do they often ask sensible questions like, "What is all of this pathetic socialism really going to cost?" So obviously, you just made all of that garbage up? "You don't have to think to be a liberal" -Rush Limbaugh "A liberal will give the shirt off of somebody else's back." -somebody said "Liberals have an inadequate grasp of reality."
@@yosefmacgruber1920 Morality? You are telling to use a book written during Rome's Era to talk about Morality. Also grasp on reality? Right, talk about Sky Daddy and how we should prepare for his Son to come back,such grasp in reality. HAHAHAHAHA.
@@CuongNguyen-le5ic Where did you find the term "Sky Daddy" in the Bible? How do you pretend that today's wicked generation has a sufficient grasp of morality?
I live in Waco Texas And I'm using the HUAWEI honor 8x max And my mom has the 8x And they both work great on criket Watching on my Huawei honor 8x max here in Texas and my service is with cricket This is the best big budget smart phone created by a Chinese company And the reason why I got it was because Samsung and apple are to expensive And are a lot smaller than my phablet So in my opinion Huawei isn't cheating there customers Apple and Samsung are And America is jealous that Huawei is better And the whole spying on us is just a lie to try to divert people from buying Huawei devices Fuck These overrated companies HUAWEI IS THE BEST
I've always assumed it's more because it's a 6 foot + westerner in a black suit and tie who's doing the vlogging. I imagine the security guards get so worked up because they think he's some kind of American secret agent.
bruh, the security guy was just tryna do his job + i think from the way he approached you with respect, seems he has seen u before u kinda wronged him when u said he is bugging u when all he wants is not to get into trouble with the shop owners after all *he works there*..with u holding up the camera even after the time he stated ur not allowed to film , he didnt care whether u are filming yourself or not coz it didnt matter, but by holding the camera up and continuing to film doesnt show positive vibes/bravery or how much nuts u got coz its more of a matter of respect. (just saying)
Huawei have a Chinese subsidiary called Honor. They work all over the world, have authorised Android and is not in Chinese only. No lock and key. Great products.
Just got myself a Chinese phone having seen from your review that they were as good as the ones in Europe. I paid £150 for a brand new Xiaomi Mi Redmi 5 Plus and people keep asking how much was the phone because it's so nice :)
My contract on my iphone finished in november 2019 and i considered upgrading to an Huawei,but have seen so many negative reports on chinas attitude around the world i finally went back to a Samsung which i had had previous to my iphone....SO GLAD I DID!
The iPhones also spy you mate. You’re only choosing if you’d rather be spied by the US or China. Both countries are shit and I’m writing this from a 5 yo iPhone.
I always liked Huaweis, the camera, the system all. But duo the problem with the US (I'm European) the phones now will have a different store and other things. In characteristics, for me, usually, really good phones and cute design. iPhones are not bad but I don't see the Apple system better than the Android. My actual and past phone was bought online, it's not a brand that we see in physical shops, at least here. Because of customs fees I don't buy directly from China, but look the same or an equivalent in a seller from Europe, specifically Spain in my case because as a portuguese its way easier ship from Spain. What I see is online we can buy good phones, way cheaper and it will do really well what it's expected.
Oh I Loved too my Motorola RAZR V3 !!. It was the first phone that looked and felled like i was living in the Future - Star Trek like. 13 years later it's like a museum exhibit of an Era long gone and forgotten. It's like we live in a fast forward society... Ps: I Just Loved Your Metal Gear Solid Background Story ! - LMAO
I've been using Chinese phones in the US for a long time without any problem. The problem is, if you wanna use a phone from the US in another country, chances are it cannot work properly, especially for those contract phones.
yaorong guan I will concur. USA runs a quad band - dual format(gsm/cdma) cell system. Every phone works here... just not the other way 'round... for that, typically only high-end devices or devices marked as "world phones" will work overseas from the USA.
Newer generations of AT& T and T-mobile GSM network phones should work outside of North America without issues. Att does use a different bandwidth than other GSM networks but their phones should work on any GSM network, and the reverse should also be true with newer models.The issue is with the Verizon and Sprint CDMA phones, unless you get a model that has both GSM/CDMA capabilities such as the Samsung G8 etc. Most mid to high end phone models that Verizon sells should have both capabilities that it is best to check to make sure the model you get has both network capabilities.
Charles Schutz not sure how recent of phones you mean, but, I've been with AT&T for a very long time and all my products for the past 10 years have been international capable, no issues, except needing to maybe buy a different sim card... Yet, all in all, aye aye! Edit: but, the other way 'round, Sending almost any phone to "The States" should work...
always flash global/dev roms on Xiaomi devices/oppo or chinese OEM software or custom trusted ROM when buying online. aliexpres sellers put this garbage spyware ROM on
Yes, the Chinese government spies on you. I bought an AT&T branded Hisense cell phone in Mexico. Every time I cross the border with it into the US, the phone starts acting strange. Hmmmmm.
GeekBoy03 Actually I can relate to what the guy's trying to say - I bought several phones on Aliexpress, and most of them came with virus-riddled firmware, reflashed by the seller hell knows for what reasons. Probably they think I will benefit somehow from it, I dunno.
xponen in my example they came with a build number, that doesn't match any official build, neither chinese, nor global, it was pre-rooted, which means it was actually a hacked rom, it refused to ota-update and had a ton of bloatware installed, that even flashed pop-up windows on the home screen, or any other app at that. It goes without saying, that it still was a miui, and when I activated the built-in antivirus, it found things. So I just intalled the clean official firmware.
Benito Camelas actually they are exactly the same. Same manufacturer in a different plant most of the time. They just don't up charge 6000% can't be a knockoff if made by same people. F
It nearly brings a tear to my eye seeing a South African like yourself spending money for his subscribers. With what's going on in your home country Winston I pray for your family and your fellow countrymen's safety. There are so many great South Africans out there and it really hurts me to see what's currently happening to them.
Thanks mate, it’s a hard burden to carry knowing that no one cares that we’re being slaughtered, marginalised and discriminated against and being forced out of the land of our birth
@Serpentza: In case you didn't get the memo: *Lauren Southern* is pretty influential youtube'r amongst the Conservatives/Anti-Globalists/Anti-SLW's world wide. She's often accused of being a guy in disguise, and being an 'Inkwell' too! I don't know how true those rumors are. She's gone to S.A. to get some coverage to the Plaasmoorde in a new documentary. Not sure if this hit's too close to home, but you might wish to see it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ONs1gpwkCrk.html
As a United States citizen I always have the thought of "why don't all the white South Africans just leave" but I have to remember how people form bonds to the land they grew to know and love. Patriotism. That, and also how much of the west doesn't want them, which is saddening. If S.A. was the U.S. I'd hope Scotland or Bulgaria would accept me back. The most gruesome stories come out of S.A. though and it makes me wish the Afrikaners would leave. As a foreigner it's not really my position to push my beliefs on those people. Hopefully something can be done to bring peace.
@S.M. Media Productions: I'm hearing/seeing great things about: Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and ex-Soviet Georgia. My advice to the Akfrikaaners: go there, rebuild, train, stockpile, await the famine, and the Driver Ant pestilance to eat the Bantu's alive, and then resettle!
Similar experience using a Korean smart phone. They have some cheap ones but they are full of apps that are just useless unless you understand the language sans the no google access thing. I have to say that is one of the quickest phone purchases I have ever seen though. Here in the states the Verizon store could be empty and you still have to wait for 20 minutes for someone to even ask why you are there.
I once bought a router from China, and the idiots forgot to switch the language to English. Good ol Google Translate on a smart phone helped me out with that problem.
I was stationed in Korea twice so I wasn't completely lost, the second time. Not everything displayed in English, icons for example. The first time I had a Korean phone I had no clue as it was just a dumb flip thing. Tiny and really cool but not very smart. It did txt though which was science fiction in the states at that time. lol That was in 1999.
On the box and phone, the majority of phones is still label "Made in China", no matter which country designed. Therefore, I'm being lazy to pick and choose.
Ironically I feel my Samsung has more bloatware. Useful stuff but still bloatware. Whereas the Xiaomi international version is very bare bones like and you don't get a bunch of useless crap.
Not many international companies left (good ones) . Only Samsung and Apple . Even Motorola is now Chinese . So ofcourse you have to buy Chinese phones .
Whoa hang on there.. Huawei phones are good I'm using one now......but the last couple months the US propaganda is that there Huawei phones are spying on people example like Russian Intel an China spy to rigg elections in USA.... I'm not a senator or a political figure an so I don't care
Your videos make me miss China so much. Been to Shenzhen and Hangzhou in 2009 and 2017 respectively. I would be happy to go there again. Love your videos. Keep 'em coming.
ALL literally ALL phones which are in chinese are also able to display in english. And they are soo much cheaper and better than their western counterparts. Could tell you 1000 points and you would never buy western "brands" again
