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On the subject of Chinese phones, check out the Mi Two.

http://www.xiaomi.com/mi2

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 Quad core, 1500 MHz, Krait Adreno 320 2GB RAM

Pretty impressive, especially for the price.

These guys are pretty well known for running a very polished custom ROM as well, MIUI.

Ran it on my devices until 4.x was (kind of, not really, in a crappy way) available. If you have an older android handset which won't receive any future upgrades: Might be worth checking out these guys.

Same here. I ran it until my device (HTC Desire Z, T-Mobile G2 in the US) was discontinued by the MIUIAndroid folks.

Xiaomi has cult followers in China, fyi. Its like the Apple for Android phones in China. And Mi Two is running Android 4.1.

Apple is a mass-market cult, Xiaomi is Peter-jackson-before-he-was-famous cult-movie cult.

Everyone I have ever asked in China about Xiaomi and Meizu phones brushed them off as "shānzhài iPhone..."

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