Overview Prestigio MultiPhone 3400 DUO: budget Android than good

For obvious reasons, the web we are much more likely to come across reviews on the flagship Android-smartphone, occupying the top price niche, but representatives of the budget of a large family with a green robot on board are much less attention.

In fact, the budget Android - an ideal choice for a practical person looking for the best balance of features and price, and there are no alternatives here. Bitty fichefony not compete with even the most unpretentious Android - at an identical price at fichefonov little common touch-screens, operating system look and act as if the end of the nineties stayed with them forever, and, of course, no sensible store applications. Since most applications that make mobile Android-device capabilities expand to infinity. I have a Google Play Android with a million applications. Who else can boast of such a database software? Only the Apple App Store, but the company's own understanding of the budgetary system. It is believed that Apple's byudzhetkoy considered before last smartphone model, that is, at the moment, this iPhone 4S with an average price of 22 thousand rubles in Yandex Market. Somehow it is not a budget.

Today we will tell you about the full Android-smartphone for 3700 rubles. Only Android can offer all its power on the device for the money. In the hands of Layfhakeru got an interesting budget device MultiPhone 3400 DUO Prestigio from the manufacturer, and its share had the honor to develop a theme of advantages, drawbacks and peculiarities of the representatives of inexpensive Android-smartphone.

Type of housing

Since we are talking about byudzhetkah, you first need to deal with the first and one of the most common complaints about the products in this category. Like as the housing in such devices are made and assembled so that all backlash, squeaks, falling apart, and so forth. In general, contrary to pick up. Is it so bad?

Not really. Of course, here you will not see a polycarbonate or metal, but plastic is used nicely in the hand. The smartphone does not slip and do not try to escape from the hands of the owner. The reason for this texture pleasant to the touch, is used on the back and side surfaces.

When working with the screen, as well as an attempt to press harder on the body, any sounds and backlash was seen housing. Monoblock keeps well, and this in view of a removable back cover. Most likely, the reliability has been achieved at the expense of the broad side faces of the housing cover. smartphone body as if immersed in it, which results in a reliable grip parts.

The buttons sit straight and not loose. Due to good fixation, pressing occurs precisely and generally nicer. And yet the machine is quite easy - just 120 grams. In general, the cabinet performance claims we did not have.

Probably prejudiced "cheap = poor quality" happened long ago, in the days of active import "that" Chinese products. However, much has changed. Now everything made in China, and specifically to the electronics imposes very high standards (in fact, these devices fall in Europe, too). In general, the myth of the collapsing cheap Chinese smartphone, in this case, does not work.

Screen

Under the screen is here understood not only the matrix, but also the coating. This is not the Corning Gorilla Glass third version, but to touch him quite nicely. Finger good slides on the surface of the gestures are performed smoothly. Soiled can be called average, but greasy fingerprints, as a result, easy to remove, even with a dry cloth.

Glass hides a 4-inch TFT-LCD. The matrix has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. Against the background of a top-end flagship FullHD - modestly, but in practice, when you look at the screen from a distance of 30-40 cm - very fine. Pixels do not appear, the picture looks nice even when set as wallpaper images with fine detail.

You must have read about the controversy between the fans (myself, to be honest, I belong to their number) large tsiferok, which boasts the very masthead Android, and apple fans, whose love objects can not yet boast 445 ppi. So, comparing the practice super heaped 1920 × 1080 IPS-matrix with a much more modest TFT with a resolution of 800x480, comes to the conclusion that the difference really is not so critical. More precisely, it is not critical. It is, rather, the effect of marketing and personal desire to show off or prove the superiority of the gadget is used, rather than the real advantage of a top-end technologies.

The filling and the operating system

Let's start with the principal. Bukovki «DUO» in the model name, as well as the characteristic «MultiPhone» line of smartphones name indicate the presence of the devices in the two slots for SIM-card. Such a decision on all sides is convenient for the user and has dozens of options to apply in practice. You can connect a card with inexpensive conversation and use it in parallel with the second SIM-ku with a nice rate on the Internet. You can keep in touch while on the personal and work numbers. And all this without the need to keep to yourself option.

In contrast to the trend nowadays trends of clean smartphones slots for SD-memory card, Prestigio left MultiPhone 3400 DUO expansion option. Existing internal storage 4GB always be increased to the desired volume by Buy-SD-shki. Complete card no.

Iron in byudzhetkah traditionally not a top. This can significantly reduce the final cost of the device, and here from the manufacturer required a lot of attention to the selection of the optimal variant. Too weak processor will cause the brakes to OSes and overly productive solution inevitably raises the price, more and more alienating the product from its original status.

In this case, it works on the 2-core MediaTek MT6572 1.2 GHz without graphics accelerator. The amount of memory is 512 MB. Actual communication modules on the site: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G and have work as they should. That's just disappeared somewhere GPS. To be honest, at first we did not quite understand the reason for the exclusion of useful chips, but then all became clear. For simple user applications, such as Google-maps and various services with the option geopositioning mark, GPS is not required. His perfectly replaces the 3G + Wi-Fi. But for motorists Prestigio makes full individual navigators. Overall, the strategy is clear, and, in fact, such a situation does not complicate the lives of ordinary user. Internet in the city everywhere, and with two SIM-kami organize cheap connection even easier.

Give here a table of performance benchmarks - is meaningless, because the result will be much floating, depending on your version of Android. We have not rearranged the system, leaving the native factory assembled, and for good reason: it is stable and fast. Video playback is smooth, the music sounds without interruption (in standard applications). When you run heavy applications performance remains at an acceptable level, and the only exception here would be heaped game. Yes, in 3400 DUO no Snapdragon 800 and Adreno 330 graphics, so as toys for this smartphone should be seen but not too demanding options.

Meanwhile, another myth that budget Android necessarily tupit successfully destroyed.

Prestigio is integrated updater that allows the package to upgrade the OS and native apps over the air, but at the moment 4.2.2 remains the last supported version.

Of course, you can experiment with custom bikes, but the task is complicated by the small spread of this particular model. Simply put, custom bikes under it do not actually have, but they like and do not need. Local Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean the most similar to the "standard" stock of Google and only slightly diluted with its own software from the manufacturer.

camera

Two of them, and they really unpretentious. Front camera for video calling 0.3 megapixel. Not great, but in reality the quality of our mobile network is not everywhere working acceptably, more is needed.

The main camera of 3 megapixels, but do not forget - in the hands of byudzhetka for 3700 rubles. With it you can make standard shots without frills, capture the right information, to recognize the codes and text using specialized applications.

Battery

Battery capacity 3400 DUO is 1500 mAh, and in this case it is enough. Not the most powerful processor, there is no need to spend resources on a separate drawing graphics, the screen - all this reduces requirements to the battery, resulting in the characteristic of Android-devices as possible work in the most relevant modes. On the day of in the normal mode (the talk, a little music, surfing, a little the YouTube, e-mail) is enough charge.

So what is good budget Android

He is good because of the unrealistically small sum gives users all the chips and buns, which can give Android. Access and comfortable work in thousands of applications for every need, two SIM-ki for even greater convenience. At the same time, in the hands of some kind of freak, and quite a good bar with a good screen. In fact, apart from the concepts of "bluff", "status", "fashion" and "trend", while focusing on common sense and logic, this budget-suddenly all udelyvaet the most complex of Android-smartphone, because it sold almost everything the user needs, and there is no surplus, for which we are overpaying thousands.

It is the ideal "first smartphone" for the child. With it, you can start your acquaintance with the world of Android. Perhaps dependent imposed consumerist ideology of human rights will be uncomfortable to get such a hard worker in the iPhone environment 5S and Galaxy S4, but at the same time, in the head had the clear understanding: and yet this thing I can do all the same, what I'm doing on my Nexus 5.

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