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The Star S4 N9500 is a Chinese Samsung Galaxy S4. It costs less than a third as much as the Galaxy S4 and looks almost exactly the same despite having really impressive specs.

It has a 5.0 inch super HD IPS display, MTK6589 chipset with 1.2GHz quad core Cortex A7, Power SGX544 GPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB ROM, Android 4.2, 12MP back camera and 8MP front camera and 3G-enabled dual-SIM slots.

This video is a detailed unboxing of the Star S4 N9500. The accessories it comes with include two 2100mAh batteries, a flip cover, a hard plastic case, headphones and USB cable and a power charger.

Since this unboxing we’ve used the phone quite a bit and have found that its screen is lovely (and high resolution) and the 12 megapixel camera isn’t bad either. Even better, it has a great battery life as well as dual-SIM capability.

Stay tuned for much more including a full benchmark test of the phone as well as our official review coming soon.

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Hot off the heels of their wildly-successful A820 and its follow-up, the A830, Lenovo just announced their latest Android smartphone a few months ago. Since then, we’ve been following the news and rumours and checking our mailroom every day for signs of the brand-new A850.

We’ve already given the in-depth review treatment to other the Lenovo A789 and the Lenovo A820, its A-series brethren, and they both scored very highly in our in-house tests.

However, the A850 looked to be really taking things to the next level. The screen size has been bumped up to a humongous 5.5″ diagonal and the new MT6582M chipset boasts a quad-core 1.3Ghz CPU. But we wouldn’t know much about the actual device until we got our hands on it.

Luckily, a mysterious looking parcel from China recently turned up at MNC HQ and we quickly made the following unboxing video of the stunning Lenovo A850. Check it out now for all the details and full specs of this phone:

Stay tuned for much more including a full benchmark test of the phone as well as our official review and, if you’re very lucky, some simple-to-follow ROM installation tutorials…

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