Yeah that's legit

^

Better to wait for the Note 4X

Banggood is actually quite quick for postage, pay the extra $2 for fast shipping

You shouldn't grab mediatek CPUs unless you have to.

battery whores and heat like a bitch.

high-end snapdragons are bae, even if they have a slightly lower amount of cores or clock speed.

that and little to no rom support for mediatek phones

So, like.

What is the best shit to use Banggood for?

Is Chinese phone malware preinstalled on your phone a meme or is it a widespread issue?

From what I've read it's on resellers

chinese roms have advertisements on them

Which is why you always asked for a sealed box

only*

I don't want boxes if i buy chink rippoffs from ioffer

Can I flash it and remove the spyware and shit, or is it just in there for good?

ofc

it just depends on the phone

don't buy a leeco x520 and then try to find a rom

Some Hardware has backdoors

because they dont exist

yeah that's what I'm worried about furfag

hardware backdoors are the least of your worries

Well I got a Zuk Z2, so here's hoping.

if youre worried about hardware backdoors then do us a favor and stop using everything

hasn't come in yet

and just go offline

entirely

Someday Windatica.

@gnorc Youre not a target of interesst though. If you really care about your privacy build your own..

or get something old and simple

so they are still "good thing" as long as you are not target of interest

yes that makes all sense now

That's a poor excuse to allow people to spy and collect your info and possibly use it in a criminal manner.

@gnorc Its not an excuse its reality

tfw nignog is burning mix tapes on his laptop next to me

please for gods sake dont shoot down people who are legitimately worried about their security

when it comes to new hardware

this is why we have so much idiots in world already

It's why things are as bad as they are now