iOcean have been taking their time before releasing their new flagship phone and I am glad they did as from the specifications the iOcean X8 appears to be the most desirable octacore phone from China to date!
Since 2014 has begun we have tested the Zopo ZP998, THL T100S and the GooPhone N3, whats more there have been 65 octacore Chinese phones listed in a matter of a just 2 months!
Disappointingly, but not all that surprising, many of the octacore devices we have seen to date have just been updates with very little in the way of evolution or innovation.
iOcean on the other hand have realised that relying on a processor update is not the way to win the octacore war, so their latest flagship phone not only receives some nice updates over the X7, but an all new slim body protected by Corning Gorilla Glass on both sides!
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iOcean X8
The iOcean X8 had been spotted in a leak months ago where it was wrongly rumoured to the companies new phablet. The iOCean X8 certainly does have a larger display measuring 5.7-inch but it isn’t the largest phone in the new iOcean line-up. The display is an OGS unit, Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 1920 x 1080 FHD resolution and can be used while wearing gloves.
Turn the X8 over and more Gorilla Glass takes up the rear of the phone. Glass on both sides and a magnesium alloy frame in the middle make for a quality unibody device which not only looks but measures just 7.7mm with a 2700mAh battery.
From the press images which iOcean have released of the X8, the phone looks quite similar to the smaller Oppo R1 smartphone released late last year.
Also inside the wafter thin body are a 2.0Ghz octacore MT6592T Mediatek Processor, 2GB RAM , 32GB memory, dual sim for WCDMA and GSM networks, WIFI, Bluetooth GPS and 2.4/5.0Ghz WIFI.
The iOcean X8 is exactly the type of phone I expected to see in the octacore era in China. The past two years Chinese phone makers have been lucky in that technology has helped them to easily move ahead in the game. 2014 will be all about quality and innovation!
The X8 along with other iOcean octacore phones will go on sale in the middle of next month here in China.
it would be a dream, if it got 5inch display, not bigger
Yes, I think a phone should be controlable with one hand using your thumb.
Now that seems to be ticking all the boxes Andi. Lets hope they can do what they say as I think I will be in line for one of these. Maybe there will be an offer around CNY. !! We can only wait and see.
for me too, 5inch not higher. Why nobody released an Octa Core with 5Inch, all companies 5.5 and bigger. Is the chip so big that it only fits into a 5.5Inch Smartphone. Than make a better Quad Core Mediatek. Still the Octa Core is slow and even an Snapdragon 600 beats it with 1.7 Quad Core. Doesn’t matter what Benchmarks says, most reviews I saw everybody says the same.
anyway, nice Design iOcean. Really sad that China Smartphone companies can only to big phones right now. Hope that Xiaomi releases an Mi3 mini with the same Power.
P.S. 2700mAh is also nice, but not really big for such a big screen, this means again charging at evening. Why the hell nobody listens to customers and doesn’t understand that nobody wants a bigger phone but everybody wants a phone that holds 2-4 days.
(Huawei does big batteries, but also in the biggest phones, no feat)
You can buy THL T100S, TCL (Alcatel) Idol X+ (S960), Zopo ZP980+ and many other 5inch phones so what is your problem ?
Zopo ZP980+ is a CPU MTK6589T, so past year. THL T1000S, really a 2300mAh battery for a 5inch screen, what should I charge at midday. Ok TCL idol X+ hadn’t this on my screen, looks pretty good, but still only 2500mAh on a 5inch screen AND SCREEN is what is causing the most battery consumption. Why making it 7mm think, why not 8mm and putting extra battery power in. Anyway, MTK CPU’s are cheap, but also not so good in performance as Qualcomm. Lenovo and Huawei are one of the only ones that putting big batteries in their devices, but also expansive.
He’s talking about the new ZP980 plus with mtk6592. The ThL T100 also comes with a 2700mAh version and the difference in footprint between the T100 and ZP998 is pretty negligible anyway. There’s also the JiaYu G4 Octa coming soon, which should more than satisfy all your needs. Also, if the Meizu MX3 can survive on a 2400mAh battery then the TCL Idol X+ should be fine with a 2500mAh battery. Other than that, there’s also the other post with a list of 65 upcoming octa core phones. You’re also forgetting that there are people who don’t need an extremely large batteries since they can charge their phones everyday anyway. Also, please don’t post on the comments if you’re just going to go on about how you can’t use a large phone because you’ve got small hands. It’s annoying.
How do you know Jiayu G4 Octacore is coming ?
Andi said it was coming in his top 65 upcoming octa core phones. I trust what he says.
Finally phone for me! To bad that battery is not 3200+
Please, 12mm thick version with 4000 mAh battery!
Why? There’s already a 8.9mm thick Chinese phone with 5000 mAh battery. Anything thicker than 1cm is too thick.
Looks really nice.
what the actual phone dimension ? i want compare with my current phone
Aw… I was hoping for a 4000mha+ battery.. There must be more people like me who is waiting for a 5″ fhd octa core with LARGE battery?
Sony Xperia Z2 will have 3700 mHA if I remember correctly, go for that.
Actually the rom will be 32g or 16g like the other ones. Remember that zopo 998 was announced with 32g rom too, before its real production….
Really nice phone! Reminds me the look if former iPhone4, but so much better and so much larger!
+1 for WCDMA bands.
A beautiful device. Finally a thin phone with a large battery capacity!
It looks beautiful, but does it perform beautifully ? (I don’t want a phone that non functions after a few months)
Can’t wait to be released. Iocean is going in right direction. Definitely the G7 and X8 on my shopping list. Perfect configurations.
Please make phone like Lenovo P780.. baterry 3500mah minimal better 4000mah++ and 32Gb Rom(+micro SD). 2Gb ram, max. 5.3 INCH!!! and 8 core with LTE and everybody BUY IT!! price max. 350USD.. its so hard to do IT???
And what about Glonass support or nope?
Please make a phone that works flawlessly first and then start adding in features. I don’t need eight cores when bt, gps and other basic features just don’t work. I have t100s and it’s the worst behaving phone I had to date.
anything about the price?
looks really sweet… hope they dont mess some stupid things up again (like non-lit buttons on the X7)
You can bet they will, and not only one. I have t100s that runs much worse than their own lower model w200.
so handsome!
andi
havent u heard of the thunderbird i6?
is it for real or just a rumours?
the screen is really nice…
@Zaffar Looks very nice (if you like iOS theme & 4.5″) according to FastCardTech:
http://www.fastcardtech.com/Thunderbird-i6
Apparently it has KitKat 4.4 aswell (if that is to be believed)
I’d like to know if you had the money to buy one phone in 2014 would this be it ?
OnePlus One if it is under or equal to 5 inches
Sounds good to me Yash. Will all One Plus One phones have CyanogenMod or are there different versions to be released ?
Pretty certain its going to be CM all the way.
Is that good or bad ?
Well, I’m sure OnePlus devices will be dev-friendly, so if not good, it won’t be bad for sure.
If the battery is a concern (which it appears to be for quite a few people), would you still buy this over the Umi X3 ?
lot people don’t know what they talkin about, they really have to learn more about battery
5.0-5.2 size of this would indeed be dream. 😀
No LTE oh nooooooo
And a gps that will take you nowhere, like the x7.
Max width for a phone should be 70mm.
Can Anyone kindly update me regarding thunderbird i6?
Will the iocean x8 have kitkat on it ? and what date will he be released on webshops.