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3.0 out of 5 starsLong battery life, big screen and storage, but performance is low-end
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2024
First and foremost, this phone is beautiful to look at. It's got a tactical look and feel to it and just from the outside looks like a really high-end phone. It feels really nice in your hand and the screen is nice and bright. However, looks are only part of the equation for a phone. Below is a breakdown of each aspect of the phone.
Camera: (from Pro and Portrait modes)
1. 50 MP - Highest resolution but provides the least appealing picture. Soft and diluted.
2. Pro - You can change settings and fine tune your camera app. Pretty good results for but web only.
3. Portrait - Probably the best camera setting on the phone with the best image results.
Note: low light is really grainy and bad. This phone is made for outdoors photography only. The pictures were taken mid morning with full sunlight to get a good picture.
Gaming:
Gaming on this phone is doable, but your gameplay will be subpar. The graphics on this phone are underwhelming and gameplay is choppy on almost all games. On Madden Mobile, compared to the iPhone I have, the performance is about 50% of what the iPhone can do (less detailed models, choppy framerates, and lots of screen hanging). You can play games like solitaire or other less intense games and it will be fine, but don't expect any newer games to run well.
Video playback:
This was the biggest disappointment for me. Playing back videos on YouTube was limited to 1080p in Fullscreen. Anything higher than that and the phone would hang and struggle to play the video. The smoothest playback is 480p, but that's SD quality. Watching anything 4k on the phone results in laggy/stuttering performance from Netflix to Amazon Prime video.
At the end of the day, you get what you pay for. If I was looking for a cheaper phone with a big screen, I might look at this device. But if I wanted to play a little game, watch a little video, or do some work on my phone, I would not use this device. It's nice to look at, but there's a big performance dip.
Note: Phone does not get hot under heavy use, so that's a major plus.