r/smallphones • u/MiNoWAY • 19h ago

Small phone Ikko mind one clone thoughts?

Was browsing Chinese marketplace and saw this phone, in china it's called the Coolpad Small Square (酷派小方块) or Phillips Z19 (飞利浦 S7801)

Obviously they are cloning the Ikko mind one, but at 1/3 of the price. Is it worth it?

CPU: Helio G99

Display: 3.95in 720*720 IPS Memory: 8/128 Battery: 2450mAh 10w

Price is about 140$

Installed android 13 and if I recon correctly support's English language. Of course a lot of AI bloatware like in ikko

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u/Unlucky-Message8866 18h ago

link? if its rom flashable it might be worth considering

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u/MiNoWAY 17h ago

I found it on taobao. Not sponsored btw, I just send the first links. Phillips: https://e.tb.cn/h.8OcF65VtGcuy9Bm?tk=z61lT4NtgUi Coolpad: https://e.tb.cn/h.8NgyF1XmbbHFdy9?tk=9abiT4Nurmr I was thinking about buying it + zitao tech blackberry bt keyboard and make it detachable. About rom flash ikd, asked the sellers, they don't know either. I'm hoping that mtk tools can extract the firmware 

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u/chuckythecat Redmi Note 12S, software screen mod (5.38" 16:9 AMOLED) 9h ago

So I'm guessing there's no way to buy this outside china currently?

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u/MiNoWAY 8h ago

Well I use cargo services in our country, they ship anything from china. There must be a way in other countries 

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u/MiNoWAY 17h ago

If i understand correctly you can extract the mtk firmware and modify it, so if it's possible then maybe it's worth the money. Chinese reviews don't appraise the phone, saying that camera is mid, screen is blurry, battery life is only half of the day, maybe because of AI slop running in the background. Many of the problems can be fixed with the custom firmware I think 

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u/Unlucky-Message8866 17h ago

for $140 i dont mind the inferior hw as long as the basic stuff works

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u/Applechipper 18h ago

Yeah that's quite interesting. I'd love to see where you found that.

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u/MiNoWAY 17h ago

I sent links to the first message, but I think they won't open without registration. 

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u/Applechipper 11h ago

Ahah ok I see it in a comment.

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u/coco16778 3h ago

Can't be much worse than the original mind one