Recent content by system11

The photography kit case is really good, but as noted above its not something you will want to keep fitting and removing. The lens cap is wonderful.

Yeah 100% band 20 works, tonight the local broadband is in a mess and so is 4G, it's stuck on band 20 only. Glad I took a chance on the seller.

Seems fine to me, only thing I don't like so far is the Mi Browser, so I installed Brave.

I think so? How do you definitively test? I installed an app called Network Signal Guru, it only shows band 1 normally but if I put the phone into airplane mode for 10 seconds then back out, I see it pick up band 20 for a while before going back to 7/1 or just 1 most of the time. I assume...

I see someone helpfully tanked that sellers feedback by not understanding how the world works. Yes, when you import things from Malaysia to the UK via Fedex you get to pay customs charges. I think that's the most unreasonable negative feedback I've seen in years.

Oh there's a 'protect your consumer rights keep this sticker intact' ugly sticker on the back - do they mean peel it off and keep it safe or literally leave it there like nobody appears to? Excellent pictures already. I've ordered a camera kit from Wonda mainly for the lens cap style cover.

Ok I got it, box had been opened and resealed presumably to check, all the writing on the side of the box is in English, UI was all English out of the box. I'm assuming it's a proper global handset - the ROM is MIUI Global 14.0.2, model 2304FPN6DG. The packaging was fine, it arrived quickly, I...

Fixed - it's actually due to my absolute mess of google accounts - long story but I have 3 with different parts of my data scattered among them and I've never been able to actually clean it up. Happened due to my original account and personal domain being part of another service Google...

13 Ultra arrived today, I've signed into google and it synced all my contacts and such which seems fine, but Gmail won't sync - if I try to launch it, it asks me to add an email address. If I type it in, it tells me the account already exists on the device. If I go to the Google sync stuff, I...

Sorry, I learned a while ago not to post specific details for things that 'might' be good or bad, until I know one way or another. As yet, I don't have a tracking number but I did only pay on Friday. My suspicion is they basically take orders, hop across the border and buy whatever they've...

I found a seller in Malaysia who claims to have global handsets. I also have a friend in Singapore who went to a Mi store and checked - Singapore models are definitely band 20 (got a photo of the sealed box), so given that it's literally next door it seems a safe bet that's how they're getting...

I'm half considering just getting a Chinese one and 'dealing with it' on the band 20 issue. The only seller I can find who claims to definitely have a handset supporting b20 is sat behind t&c pages saying there is no right to return etc.

The big problem is a lot are saying 'global version' when it's just a CN handset with a global ROM.

I'm struggling to find one myself, band 20 needed. Wonda only seem to have Chinese sets, Gomibo don't have any, Amazon Spain only has 1 used one. Xiaomi France possibly has them but won't ship outside France. Various ebay sellers have claimed that the global version doesn't even exist while...