Is this crazy iPhone 6 clone better than the iPhone 6?

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

iPhone clones made from cheap components and a skinned-up version of Android made to look like iOS are nothing new, but one of the latest iPhone 6 knock-offs out of China could be one of the first that's actually a better phone than the one it imitates -- at least where some key specs are concerned.
 

The Dakele 3, also known as "Big Cola 3," claims to have the sapphire screen that the iPhone 6 was rumored to get early on; an eight-core, 1.7GHz MediaTek processor; and a whopping 3GB of RAM. That's compared with a dual-core 1.4GHz A8 processor with 1GB of RAM in the iPhone 6. (About the name: the phrase "ke le" is part of the trademark Coca-Cola uses in China, but can also be translated as "be happy," which might be more what the company is going for.)
 

To be fair, other flagship phones have had better specs on paper than the iPhone for years now, but Apple has always done a notable job designing iOS to squeeze tons of performance out of its hardware.

According to the Dakele website (after being run through Google Translate), Big Cola 3 also boasts a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 1,920x1,080 (that's a pixel density of 441 pixels per inch, compared with the iPhone 6's pixel density of 326ppi); a fast-charging 2,500mAh battery; a 13-megapixel main camera; and an 8-megapixel selfie cam. Oh, and it's also worth mentioning that the rear camera lens doesn't protrude from the back as much as the shooter on the iPhone 6 does.
 

Of course, a knock-off is still a knock-off, and specs on paper don't tell us much about how this phone will perform. Not to mention that it's still an Android phone that's going to have a hard time accessing your Apple account, so this is all just an elaborate game of make-believe or projecting a certain consumer image.
 

While the look of both the phone hardware and the Android KitKat skin jobs are clearly meant to be iPhone rip-offs, the price certainly isn't. GizmoChina reports the Big Cola 3 will cost about $240 (about £158, $AU309).

 

Source : http://www.cnet.com/news/this-iphone-6-clone-is-more-powerful-than-the-iphone-6/

[szomeret]

The 1.4GHz A8 processor will completely trounce the craptastic MediaTek eight-core processor in this device for much the same reason Intel's cores out perform AMD's. They make those absolutely terrible 8-core high clock processors simply to appeal to people who have never heard of things like "IPC" or "instruction level parallelism".

There aren't many processors in phones that are better than the iPhone 6's. The closest is the Samsung Exynos 5433 in the Korean Galaxy Note 4. The Tegra K1 chips, so far, have only been in tablets. The GPU is also a beast compared to the Mali cores in those MT 6xxx series chips. In total, iPhone 6 will have vastly superior performance in most cases.

[minibois]

It's an Android phone, make it better automatically /jk

 

Anyways, looks solid. 3GB RAM and a 1.7 GHz processor..

Also a 5 inch 1080p screen, seems cool.

 

Maybe it's the next 1+1 (<- not gonna happen probably..)

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Is this crazy iPhone 6 clone better than the iPhone 6?

 

No.

[brownninja97]

optimized OS versus unoptimized with a bad processor, IOS shatters it simple as that. We have got to the point where IOS users dont give two shits and a fuck about performance. 

[Aniallation]

The 1.4GHz A8 processor will completely trounce the craptastic MediaTek eight-core processor in this device for much the same reason Intel's cores out perform AMD's. They make those absolutely terrible 8-core high clock processors simply to appeal to people who have never heard of things like "IPC" or "instruction level parallelism".

Although I do agree, it's not as hard to understand as Intel vs AMD.

 

MediaTek's MT6592 uses Cortex-A7 cores like the "budget" Snapdragon 400. So basically, in most everyday (lightly threaded) tasks, the 8-core MediaTek will perform the same as a Snapdragon 400.

[flibberdipper]

I always thought MediaTek CPUs were weak as fuck.

[IMPERIUS]

I dont like the chip

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I'd actually purchase this thing over an iPhone just because android and it looks hot as balls.

[Mew]

optimized OS versus unoptimized with a bad processor, IOS shatters it simple as that. We have got to the point where IOS users dont give two shits and a fuck about performance. 

 

Oh really? I choose the 5s at the time of purchase because I wanted the fastest phone available. For weeks before making the decision, I was really really tempted to get the One M8. The reasons that convinced me to stay with iOS was much better single threaded performance yet similar multithreaded performance, physical home button to easily wake device, much better one handed use, and much better camera. 

 

Edit: Correction- Not much better camera, just slightly better camera.