I am looking at Huawei P20 and waiting for Xiaomi Mi7 right now.
It is OT indeed by now when it departed from BDS.
It is OT indeed by now when it departed from BDS.
However, I'd like to share my thought of the phone. The two things that kept me from buying a Chinese phone to this day are 1) most of them are huge in size, while I insist easy single hand operation, 2) most of them (except Huawei P and Mate series, Oneplus) lack support of Band 20 LTE, a problem in Europe. I may give up the demand 2, but still insist on 1. So my choice of Chinese phone is pretty limited. While Samsung S8 or S9 are good in size, I just hate the design language, a bit cheesy if you ask me.
Have you taken a look at the signal sign in the status bar when you go to the country side? Was it "3G" or "LTE/4G". Also depends on which European country, a few does have B20, but very few. B20 is not used in the cities, so if you stayed in cities (very likely) you won't notice the problem. It is really a minor issue, as the phone would fall back to 3G WCDMA which can still provide decent data rate.
I'm rather perplexed over the whole Tiangong 1 thing. Some commentators in the BBC refer to it as an embarrassing setback/failure for China's space ambitions.Howeaver as I understand, Tiangong 1 accomplished its original mission goals,so where's the embarrassing failure?I feel the need to clarify the "Tiangong-1 out of control, to crash the earth" fuss.
First let me show what the western media is talking, from the MSM to the more preffesional source. Here is a link to the satellite tracking web site who draw its tracking data from Defense Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) of US military. and I quote
The is the so called official confirmation, that other western MSM based on to make the fuss.
Here is the true , and I quote
What the west is saying is "telemetry services ceased". What the Chinese said was "data service ceased". The data here includes "earth remote sensing and other space detection", we are talking about huge load of photographs, radar data in giga bytes and tera bytes over three years since 2013. It is that data service ceased on March 2016. In no place or occation did China announced or confirmed the ceasing of telemetry data.
I would not be surprised if this "misinterpretation" (deliberately or not) comes from CNN or BBC. I am "shocked" by the same mistake from a web site supposed to be built by amature enthusiasts like who does have the deep knowledge to make the difference. Language is not an issue if the person is as serious as a scientist who has the mind of scientific proving and critical thinking.
Here is again another official diplomatic note from China to the UN regarding the Tiangong reentering. Here the wording is "cease of function", not lost of control.
They're spin doctors. The most ridiculous title I've ever heard went along the lines of "China's failed out-of-control space station to spew toxic chemicals all over the world as it crashes back to earth."
It's not surprise at all that MSM like BBC tried to spin the Tiangong reentry as a failure when they can spin the highly technical information and feed the twisted story to the general public. That's what BBC and others were doing all these years. Remember how Nepalese policemen became Chinese when they dispersed exiled Tibetans' demonstration in Katmandu in 2008?
