ALDI Bauhn 4.5" Android 4.1

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Bauhn phone from Aldi – I all so purchased a Bauhn phone from Aldi and the battery died after only 3 years and I am unable to find replacement. I ring their service number from their booklet and get no responce. No after sales service = Crap Also the phone memory says there is sufficient space but the applications tell me there is not?? And Bauhn, no help! No more Bauhn products from Aldi, for me!  Show details

Great, but – Well, reasonably cheap phone from Aldi, simple to set up with an Aldi sim card and $30 prepaid credit which uses the telstra network and gives cheap calls, sms and data use. I had the phone for about 3, maybe 4 years and it performed well, never giving any cause for complaint. That is, until the battery died, No replacement batteries are… Read more

available!!. So I have a good, reasonable phone with plenty of life still in it, and bo bloody working battery. Words fail me!

Rubbish Very Disappointed – I purchased the new 5" dual sim 2 weeks ago. At first the camera didn't work then the whole phone shut down. I returned it to Aldi and was quite happy to get a replacement because I was convinced it should be a good phone but I just got a bad one. Unfortunately this new one will not connect to the internet so I cannot receive emails. I have… Read more

spent more than an hour in the shop of my server, but they say it is definitely a faulty phone. I will be returning it tomorrow for a refund and will go back to Samsung.

Pretty good to this stage – This smart phone is ok, it's better than another brand I had. Perhaps I didn't need such a big one, I think mine is 5.5" Bauhn Sphere... I've read complaints about it in other comments, The only thing with mine is the Battery does die when it says 50% approx. then I have to get the charger onto it within seconds, or it turns off. But it lasts… Read more

about 3 days till the next charge. The camera is clear, but the keyboard is touchy, so you just have to get used to it. But I love it. I hope I can get the photos I've taken onto the computer or I'll be devastated. Otherwise, Great.

August 1st 2018 Update: My Android Mobile from Aldi

I found it great, and still do, but the battery needs replacing and I can't seem to get one in Australia. So now I'm in between a rock and a hard place. Too scared to get another one, in case it's the same. I don't mind the battery losing power after a couple of years, but would expect to be able to get a replacement ........ Darn i t!!!!!

Waste of Money – The Phone Battery is dead only after 8 months, God help where can I get a new battery? It very difficult to find phone accessories and battery in any mobile phone shops. The phone is now useless without the battery. Will not recommend it to anyone. It's just a waste of money. Better to buy popular brands Samsung, iphones, Nokia etc that have their accessories available.

No Good – Lots of software problems with this phone. e.g. phone switches on randomly and consequently the battery would go flat, camera icon to switch from front to rear mysteriously disappeared. I also have the problem of not having enough space available for apps even though there was more than 80% of available space. Phone also gets hot even when not in use.

I couldn't live with this phone :( – I bought the next version up of this phone at the end of 2014 but ended up having to take it back. It was constantly telling me I had no space available for apps, despite a so called "32GB" of storage, was full of irremovable bloatware and I could not update the firmware. I tried contacting customer support but couldn't get through. Luckily the returns process was easy with the original receipt. Don't fall for it!

Bad phone – Needs charging every couple of hours Now after only having it for 6 months the battery has swollen and is not safe to use.

Biggest piece of rubbish – I've had this phone for two weeks It worked well up until now the phone turns on and off a lot without warning it freezes and the alarms barely work with full sounds on speakers are crap have to try twice to send a message front camera is shocking and now when people call I can't hear their voices my voicemail doesn't have any sound either I… Read more

wouldntt buy this phone and my parents tried to tell me it was over $300 lucky I have my old phone still

Worst phone ever purchased!! – Don't buy this phone!! Msg frustrating to write as inputs random letters. .makes calls when msging can't do anything while charging. Camera only works good on sunny days & bad focus. Worked fine first 2wks then played up. Can't get money back or get fixed. Stuck with it till can Afford new one. Good paperweight!! -10000000000 rating

The phone was good for 15 months – After 15 months: The battery only last 10 hours, Not being used no Apps open. The phones freezes when you make a call,so you have to reboot the phone. The phones do not except incoming calls. I contacted the after sales service dept, Batteries not available and as the phones are out of warranty they cannot repair the phones. We have two phones both are doing the same things. Good for 12 months NO AFTER SALES SERVICE

Great for the price – Seriously, I wanted a phone that I could make calls with and get a few emails on. Not much more. I understand that for 199 it's not top of the range, but for that price, it's a great buy and does everything I want. I am fairly tech savvy, and so have explored all areas of the menus etc. I am constantly amazed at the complexity of the unit -… Read more

for the price. If you want a wiz bang , state of the art phone with a zillion pixel camera, no lag, every bell and whistle under the sun, you will need to pay 4 times the price. Don't buy a dirt bike and then expect it to perform like a Goldwing. So what if they don't import replacement parts? Get a new one - or pay upwards of 800 in the first place. If you are realistic in your expectations, then you will have a very very good phone. I went from an iPhone to this and I am very happy with it still after 12 months or so and I am prepared to REPLACE it if and when it breaks. Complexity of menu operations Nothing for the price.

camera issues ..please help – Hi all, I absolutely love the aldi bauhn 5" smartphone, I have had it for about 7 months and my camera memory if full, you see I have to download the pictures on my computer, and it won't work the files come up like 'camera or 'screenshot ' and 'snapchat' with no files in it...please someone help asap I need the camera for school work and other use great use easy to work and figure out cant download photos on my computer ...:(

Best Value For Money – I have the quad core version of this device with the 8mp camera and I can say its rather fantastic. I'm one of those people who uses the phone for almost everything including emulation and other graphically intensive processes. I think most of the people complaining here arent looking after it properly, its not a sturdy phone, its a very powerful… Read more

and impressive and large phone which is very prone to breaking if you don't look after it properly.

I think people need a reality check, it has better specs than the newest iPhone (minus the screen resolution) and is one quarter of the price. Very powerful/fast for the price, large screen excellent for streaming, decent camera and camera software, takes movies well, excellent for gaming, no lag ever. Not the sturdiest phone, some light leakage from the sides of the screen, screen is only 720p as opposed to 1080p, accessories difficult to find outside of aldi.

Great value – Bought this for my 12yo who wanted an IPhone, everyone is very happy. Run it on Telstra prepaid no problems at all, she uses less that $100 per year. Still have not seen more phone for the money. Excellent value indeed. Recommended to another friend who is also happy with it. Great value for teenager None

Bauhn 4.5" Android 4.1 – The Bauhn phone Aldi is the biggest rubbish from China, no value at all - who approved to sell this phone!!!!! Please do not buy. I bought two units, silly me :) :), How to write the review now, one phone is almost dead, another one just about to die - connection is dropping very frequently, headphone/speakers not working now, but yes - I can… Read more

send / receive a massage, Big Deal :) however has to be recharged very few hours, It is a dog toy Unwanted rubbish

I like this Phone – Very cheap phone and I need cheap phones because I drop them more than I should. 3 in 12 months. Needed to replace screen on Gal S 5, screen cost more than Bauhn phone so I bought the 4.3 and was so happy with it I bought another, just in case. The only problem is the manual, there isn't one! Cheap, easy to use, OK reception, clear screen Needs better manual

Disposible Phone – no replacement parts available for this phone sorry I had to give 1 star, as it would not accept no stars as I wanted. Samsung galaxy young is far better value at around $100AU .our bauhn has a faulty speaker due to perspiration in the gym. not under warrantee and no spare part available. now you cannot hear it ring. its no use a a phone anymore… Read more

so I replaced it. price is good not repairable if ots dammaged or breaks down after the 1st 12 momths just chuck it and buy a new phone.

Covers, maps & eduting – Had it with my Apple 4s, so changed to this el cheapo. Most issues, such as editing contacts (bottom right double rectangle) were easy enough. Maps works in mysterious ways. Hands free microphone is [censored word removed]. Lack if availability of case anywhere a pain. Paid $249 & on $35 month, rather than $100 p.m. previously. It's a phone.… Read more

Works. Cheap to own, good screen Microphone on speaker, battery life, MAPS, liusy instruction manual, no case or screen protector

Get rid of it as soon as possible. Terrible! – This phone started off great, then week by week started failing. At three months age, it won't connect to any Bluetooth device. The GPS doesn't work. It can't find my home wifi if I return to the house. It's loosing network reception when my husband has full level, standing next to me, same network! Turns itself off and won't restart without… Read more

removing and replacing battery. Just keeps getting worse. Customer care expects me to send it for "service" check taking 2-4 weeks with no loan phone. It's going back to the shop tomorrow. Affordable List of failing functions just keeps growing.

a great phone for basic use – I must say I have enjoyed the experience with this phone the mic and speaker are decent. Have not really used the camera much both sim cards slots support 3g just one can only be running 3g at once. the screen size is a bonus and that it is unlocked and supports a wide range of feq. The battery life is not bad I've personally found it to be good… Read more

for the price range. The only downside I've found is the ram is only 512mb and has only got 4gb internal storage it can get annoying when you are browsing the internet then all of a sudden low memory. and the power button being at the top of the phone get annoying also. But I must say I believe that this is good value for money with it being dual sims and supports 3g is great

Cheap and Functional but Camera Quality let down – Bought the phone early during Aldi catalog promotion. Put it to work with great difficulty due to poor manual. Had to google search for help on firstly how to open the phone to put in the SIMs and many other functions eg. setting up email, wifi, downloading photos etc. Took many hours to get it to work. Once set up, the dual sim worked well. … Read more

Battery was reasonable, lasting over a day of mainly stand-by + moderate web-browsing and camera use. The email format (yahoo) was much different from the look on PC and hard to use but maybe it's the Android problem.

The deciding factor for me to return the phone was the quality of pictures taken from the phone camera. Somehow red color on the pictures was shown more as brownish pink or orange and not red red. This also impacted other color that has red tint eg. my redish cement ground was shown as dark orange/light brown, my red geranium became orange/light brown too. The color difference was very obvious when compared with the pictures taken on my iphone 3GS or my Nikon camera (although I must admit that the picture sharpness was much better from this Aldi phone than my iphone). Initially, I thought it might be the problem with the phone screen so I downloaded the photo to view on PC (again not easy to figure out how to download the photos). However, the downloaded photos still had the same color problem.

Although I want a dual sim phone and this phone served the purpose with low price tag, I do use my phone to take photos occasionally and the color problem is just not acceptable for me so I decided to return it. The return to Aldi was easy and no problem. Only the process of wiping off all information and photos from the phone was time consuming. Cheap, Dual sim works, all functionality works Red color on photos taken with the phone was not vibrant red but more like dark orange/light brown.

Great performance for even better price! – Hi I purchased this phone to take to Vietnam on holidays. Using a vietel sim for 3g and a outgoing calls SMS etc. Get incoming calls on Telstra sim. Works a treat. Very happy and wasn't expe ting much but quite impressed so far. Good battery life. Works as expected. I'll see if a custom ROM I'd possible. Can't complain really. … Read more

Camera works well in good light. Not so well in poor light.

Overall a good purchase

Cheers. All round good performer. dual sim really good Cameta in low light

A big disappointment – I've had the phone for a few months now and it's been a complete disaster: - The battery doesn't last for a day, even if you have the phone sitting on your desk with all applications closed and bluetooth and GPS turned off. - When you're outside, you can't see a thing on the screen. - My 'home' and 'return' buttons are already starting to… Read more

become temperamental.

- I dropped the phone for the first time the other day, from 30 cm above the floor, and I've got about 20 cracks in the screen. I've made various phone calles to Aldi, Bauhn and some other company that distributes the phone to Aldi, but no replacement screens are available. it's only a matter of days before the loose bits start falling out and the phone can no longer be used.

- You can't buy any accessories for this phone.

- The photo quality is pathetic.

I've been a big fan of Aldi since they first appeared in Europe, but their phone sucks. Inexpensive Battery, absence of accessories and after-sale service, photo quality, screen

Not happy - taking it back to Aldi tomorrow – I waited many months for this in hope it would live up to the expectation of the Ad Aldi put in it's brochure however I have since found many other phones cheaper which run much better. Battery power is pathetic - it doesn't even last 24hrs with nothing running, I don't want to have to charge it up every single night - today it just turned… Read more

itself off with no warning of the battery even being low.

When you run duel sim cards you cannot have two separate ring tones so you know who is who - if you can I cannot find it anywhere to do it.

Photo quality is very ordinary and will never replace a proper camera.

Most of all NO accessories anywhere - I don't want a phone protector you have to pull it out of it's cover everytime you want to use it - a good old fashion sock works just as well for that and it appears nothing will be coming out anytime soon.

For me it is too big for a pocket and not loud enough for any handbag.

I also find it awkward to have to press the top of the phone to use it - most phones its on the side or bottom which is more a normal hold when in the hand.

Sorry for being so negative but that is just my personal opinion with using it over the past couple of weeks. Colour Battery power, no covers, bad photo's, plus all of the above

happy with this fone with one exception – i missed out on the very first day it was out, so i put my name on the waiting list...got a call after 7 weeks & been using it for 4 wks now...the fone is ok especially price wise but I noticed the battery does not last long, had to recharge all the time...

Excellent value for money! – Bought this phone first week of June 2013. Using with ALDImobile, signal and speeds are great, getting download speeds between 3Mbps and 6.7Mbps so far. Got a screen guard fitted easily, they just trimmed it to size. The manual was fine, print isn't huge, but definitely readable. At least it comes with a manual unlike some other cheaper phones.… Read more ·  6

Hubby using a Samsung Galaxy W which cost $200 6 months ago. It is much slower and lags, often freezes, runs gingerbread. For the same cost, the ALDI phone is far better, better photos and resolution too. The outside casing is plastic and not the best quality, I'm just careful when removing the battery cover. The Samsung is the same though.

There were about 12 phones in the display cabinet when I purchased mine, but the next week, only one, so I think finding one is a bit of a lottery still.

Have to rate this phone highly, it does everything the higher end phones do (certainly more than my previous phone S34G) and for a much better price.

The ONLY real downside is that I have yet to find a case to fit. Will just keep an eye out online and hopefully someone somewhere will find the case that fits. Screen & resolution great, fast processing, runs JB really smoothly Can't find a cover to fit yet.

My wife's Bauhn mobile – Writing this on behalf of my wife. She has owned a Bauhn smart phone for around 1 week now. It is quite different from anything we both have used before, however that does not make it bad... just different. The biggest problem we see with it is lack of accessories. No cases or covers, and no screen guards to fit. We have tried to find out who is… Read more

the manufacturer so we can try to find cases/guards to fit their phones, but have not yet been able to work this out.

We live in regional Victoria on the Princes Hwy so phone signal is not an issue. The phone makes and receives calls well. Texting is simple enough. It takes great photos from the primary camera, and I think the quality of the photos is very good.

The instruction manual is very poor. The writing is so small you will need a magnifying glass to read it. My wife also says the info in the manual is quite poor. The phone will sometimes beep (or make a tone) when it is in "idle" mode and we cannot work out what this is.

If I remember to do so, I will come back and update this write up as we learn more about the phone. Initial impression is that the phone is good for the money. camera is very good quality no accessories - case/cover or screen guard

Aldi Bauhn 4.5" Android 4.1 Smartphone – Got phone on launch day 6/3/13. Love it! Great phone great value at $199. Backlight could be more evenly spread - only notice if screen is all black or white - normal operation its fine. Backlit home etc icons aren;t masked well but not a deal breaker. IPS screen is good at all angles. Nice size at 4.5" but not too big. Dualsim is… Read more ·  1

excellent with easy to change operations/selection of SIMs. I use Kogan and Telstra. Could not justify an iphone that goes for $500-$900 although I have ipads, macpro, imac etc. Would recommend to someone after a good value smartphone - use the money saved for another good purpose. Screen size and resolution. Masking of backlit icons could be better. LCD backlight could be more even (being critical here).

Short of quantity – The special buy was on 06/03/2013 their open hour is 08:30 and I was already in their shop at 08:37 and I was told the phone has sold out. The phone itself has a good specifications but it is not that cheap !! Alcatel and Motorolla offer similar phone for the same price. My daughter wants it just because it comes in white. I was so keen to… Read more

visit other stores and they sold out aswell. and I was told to register and expect to wait for 70 days..... Is Aldi trying to turn people off on their special buy ? it definitely work for me. Intersting special buy items Lack of quality and they treat their customer like dirt.