Cherry Mobile teases Flame, 5.3″ Omega on Jellybean

The left leaning gyro of the Flare is very slight. It won’t affect gameplay that much. Easy to compensate. You don’t play that game with the phone seated flat naman. But some other games, might not work as well.

I don’t find the gyro on the Flare annoying. It’s the battery life. It won’t last an afternoon, if you hang around a wifi hotspot and surf for a couple of hour or two. Even a fully charge phone will have it’s battery indicator drop 5% in a few minutes with light surfing. (Download Battery Circle for numeric battery readings).

As for the Thrill 430x, The battery is huge and should last much longer. But so would the charging time. From low batt to full charging should take more than 5 hours.

Another thing with the Thrill 430x, is that it has a awesome screen. But the casing is very spartan. It doesn’t look classy (unlike myPhone a919). You can tell that it is a Chinaphone at first glance. The plastics are kind of like that of the Orbitz (One of Cherry Mobile’s first Android phone). The Battery is huge but it also has that Chinaphone quality to it.

Then their the weight. The Flare with it’s 4″screen have a nice feel to it. Right size, right weight. If it has lower battery life and the screen is truly IPS, it would have been a perfect phone. The Thrill 430x on the other hand is a heavyweight. Although you can get use to it after awhile. Nakakapagod lang siguro, if you hold it for long sessions. And don’t ever use it while in bed, baka antukin at mahulog sa ulo mo. Bigat niyan… :)

Another word on almost all these rebranded phones. The 3G is very very weak. Mapa-myPhone, Cherry Mobile, Starmobile, or Cloudfone. Most only registered on their 2-G network. Paminsan-minsan lang nag-3G. Almost useless ang 3G unless malakas signal sa lugar mo. My Samsung S2/Pocket will register on 3G, even if talagang medyo mahina signal sa amin. I use these Smartphone almost exclusively on Wifi… be warned…

And lastly, not all ICS are created equal. myPhone and Starmobile Astra’s interface is neat with the dual sim labeled by name and color coded. The Flare labeled it as Sim 1 and Sim 2. Cloudfone have it as Sim 1 and Sim 2 (but you can rename it but not color code). Other Cherry Mobile might have a different ICS , since iba-iba source yata nila. Their W100 (Dragon Phone/Single Sim/Gingerbread) has a very nice UI, but wala nito sa Flare.

Another nice feature from MyPhone and Starmobile Astra is scheduled power-on and off. Wala yata sa iba…

Of these phone mentioned, the myPhone a919 has style (parang Galaxy SIII). The Cloudfone Thrill 430X has the best screen and best battery. The Flare has the best form-factor but anemic battery life. I hate the Titan non-IPS screen, so I didn’t play with it too long to form an impression. The Starmobile Astra seems decent and with analog TV bonus, but I wonder if it’s battery is any better than the Flare (same 1500mah rating). Personally, I go for the Thrill 430x since Smartphones are not smart if it conks out on you in the middle of the day. But that’s just my own opinion.

Cloudfone is a competitor to CM. The Thrill 430x is their pang-tapat sa Flame at Skyfire.

Foxconn is an OEM company, it (or its subsidiaries) assemble PC/Laptops/iPhones for other companies. But I think most of it’s clients are multinational companies like Dell, HP, and of course, Apple.

I think most of these rebranded local Smartphones are made by smaller OEM companies, these have more dubious quality control. But i could be wrong. After all, many of Cherry Mobile’s Tablets are made by Ainol.

Eh ung CM w100 po. Anu po ung rebrand name nya??