Tips and buying guides for CECT Cell phone

You might notice that CECT cell phones are getting more and more popular nowadays, you can see then on eBay, youtube and other online advertisements. Actually CECT cell phone is owned by QXMC Corporation, a leading domestic manufacturers of mobile handsets in China.

The most typical CECT cell phones are big touch screen, Iphone alike appearance, dual SIM card supported, well equipped speakers, extremely long standby and talk time and the all-in-one features. And the main reason why CECT are getting popular, it’s because of the price, it costs USD 100 something, and you can get a brand new cell phone with 1 year warranty. It shines with its price and quality. 

And there are something you should know before making a purchase for CECT Cell phones.

In General - The good :

Most of the CECT Cell Phone has the decent features like 3.2/3.5 inch touch screen, few button control interface, surround sound system, Bluetooth, MP3/MP4 multimedia playback, 1.3 Mega pixel camera, video recording, WAP browser, MMS, 8-12 languages, dual SIM card supported (manually switch the SIM card), extremely long talking time and standby time, unlocked phone (you can use any carrier you want, not only limited to T-Mobile or AT&T) and some other features that a normal cell phone have.

In General - The Bad:

Most of the CECT Cell Phones are not PDA, so there is no mobile OS installed like Symbian and Windows Mobile. So you can’t install software on it. And the firmware for the phone is not updatable, unlike Iphone, the firmware can be updated easily. CECT cell phones didn’t come with this feature, so when you got the CECT Phone on hand, you should understand that you can’t install software, applications and games on it, and the firmware is not updatable too, scalability is almost impossible.

And here we stated the Specifications for P168, the most popular cell phone from CECT for reference.

Here is the specifications for P168+

Video: MP3 / MPEG4 Playing and Video Recording

Camera: Internal 2.0 M pixel camera

Touch-screen technology display

Operating Frequency: GSM 900/1800/1900HZ

Internal 260K Color 3.0 inch QVGA Display (320 x 240 pixel).

Size: 117 x 65 x 17 mm; Weight: 125g

Call / Idle Mode Time: 120 mins /200 hours

Camera: Internal 2.0 mega pixel camera

Language: English, French, Arabic, German, Russian, Thai, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese

Video: MP3 /MIDI/ MPEG4 Playing and Video Recording

Audio: 64 Chord Polyphonic Ring Tones

Audio Recording

Capable of downloading software

Messaging: SMS, MMS GPRS

T-flash Memory Card Slot

WAP Browser1.2.1

Touch-screen technology display