Huawei

A more useful than expected device – These types of modems have been around for some years but I recently had cause to buy one. There were two motivations; 1. I live in an area where due… Read more

to topography the Telstra mobile data signal is unreliable and I wanted to test the Optus alternative before changing the sims on any of our devices; 2. the 'smarts' on our Samsung Smart TV had quickly reached its upgrade limit so I downloaded all of our favourite internet channels onto a small laptop computer which plugs into the TV. This laptop can be used to make any home TV 'Smart' and when traveling on holiday it is easy to take and it plug into any available TV. Often however, the 'in-house' WiFi is inadequate for streaming or lacks security so I thought the Optus modem could be the answer. The modem has proved to be fully capable of streaming HD movies with little if any buffering and it is capable of running all of our WiFi dependent devices such as tablets and laptops. A further unexpected use of the portable modem which has its own battery lasting around six hours is that living in a rural area we experience fairly frequent planned power outages and our broadband WiFi goes down within an hour or two so the portable modem provides back-up for tablet or laptop use during these times. The Optus portable modem came with a sim card pre-loaded with 50 giga-bytes of data and reloads of 80 giga-bytes lasting up to 12 months are available at around $130.00. The setup and tuning into any WiFi dependent device was quite simple and so far we have experienced no drop-outs. It is small and very easy to carry in a pocket, purse or pack. A very useful item which can be used simultaneously by several devices which has obviated the need for expensive sim cards in a number of devices.

My favourite phone – It is my favourite phone and will be. I changed to a different company just because of the google store. The quality of photos - no-one does it better!

Had my P30 for more than 6.5 years. Still get almost a full day out of the battery. This product is so good the West decided to ban it for fear of… Read more

Apple and Samsung being demolished by its superior longevity and reliability, nothing to do with spying.. I want a new Huawei but no where to buy one in Australia, how shameful that something is banned for its superiority.

Very intermittent performance – I have had this modem on 500GB Optus plan for 15 months. Performance has always been “hot”and “cold”. I had to go this route as Optus adsl2… Read more

performance was abysmal in Maroochydore and my house was 1 of 6 in street that could not get NBN. Optus support have always said slow speeds were due to 4g congestion (2pm?). The odd thing is that by rebooting the modem download speed would be approximately 30Mbs before reducing to 2Mbs or less over 10 minutes or so. Reboot then required again and again and again. I have now moved (closer to tower) and situation has not changed. Looks like changing to NBN will be necessary even though I will have to pay out balance on the modem. Would I recommend this modem (or plan) to anybody? Not unless you have absolutely no other alternative.

Good during the day but at night it sucks – The speed this has during the day is fine, it's nice and does what it's meant to. But as soon as somebody else starts to use the internet or it's dark out it totally falls flat. Other then that I'm perfectly content with this.

Device works! – SIM had expired. Had to buy a new SIM, only $2, and it works well with surprisingly high speeds.

Huawei AU distributed a 4G mobile phone that can't call-Out (or receive call)...a basic function of a phone – I am using Vodafone 4G network & they have recently shut down their 3G network. This phone now can't call-Out (or receive call)...a basic function of… Read more

a phone.

4G capability was a key-criteria of my purchase: talk of eventual 3G shut down were found on the internet in 2019. Huawei claims that their Y5 2019 has 4G capability: see ‘Network’ section-> https://consumer.huawei.com/mu/phones/y5-2019/specs/

I bought in late-2019 from Big-W, & NOT a 'parallel import'. Huawei-AU approved it for sale in Australia & gave it warranty-> https://consumer.huawei.com/AU/support/phones/y5-2019/

I have tried, 1.different sim-card retailers, & 2.including Telstra 4G network, in this phone & it can’t call-OUT.

Huawei-AU blames Vodafone for NOT-supporting their phone & hence CALL-problem?

Zappp – Absolutely loved this watch as it stays charged for over a week without going flat. I like the addition of the stress calculator too. I had issues… Read more

with it actually zapping me on the wrist after a while though. I have no idea why it was doing this but I stopped using it. It was a shame because it’s a lovely looking watch as well

Excellent Smart Phone – Best smartphone for value for money, incredible high resolution cameras both front and back, ease of use, heaps of memory, duel sim, same features as phones twice the price, great long life battery use and fast charging

terrible service – My mobile phone stopped working after 9 months so within 12 months warranty, rang huawei and they arranged to collect the phone by courier and… Read more

assured me it would take 2-3 days to get interstate and then another 2-3 days to repair or replace and then another 2-3 days to courier back so 1-2 weeks all together, I agreed and now its been over 1 month and I still don't have a phone, I have rung the repairer in Australia and the call centre in malaysia and neither can help they both say they are waiting for the phone to be sent from china and I am not allowed to talk to any one in china that actually works for huawei to find out what is happening, I can only talk to the call centre who tell me they are doing there best to get the phone out to be in the next 1-2 weeks. I have been ringing up several times a week and always get the same response, it will be with you in the next 1-2 weeks!

If they told me it would take over a month up front I would of just paid to have it repaired locally, now I am without a phone for over a month, what terrible service!

Value for money – Purchased this as a cheap step counter and hasn't disappointed, Works well, Simple and the app is easy to use, For $20 I think it does pretty good. If you want all the bells and whistles you might want to look elsewhere.

Terrible product – Worked for a month then Vodafone closed Crazy John's. Now, won't connect, claims to be on H network but still can't load more than 4 pages an hour.… Read more

Forget Vodafone and this. Coverage now useless in the city. Perhaps suitable for a paperweight? Please, do yourself a favour - avoid the hardware and the company. Small Doesn't work reliably

WORST PHONE EVER!! – This is a loan phone given to me by TELSTRA whilst the el cheapo ZTE 4GX Buzz is being fixed or replaced. This phone is SLOW with the annoying Google… Read more

Play Services hogging the memory!

It also tends to freeze a lot and the touch screen isn't very responsive! More chinese rubbish.