Overview Highscreen Power Ice Max - a strong budget smartphone with a large battery
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Happens to you is that you use a smartphone, and with the exception of two or three things he was good, and then there is a new model, which takes into account absolutely all your wishes? It seems as though the manufacturer read your thoughts. About the feeling it had Layfhakera edition, when the review came Highscreen Power Ice Max.
More recently did Layfhaker comparative review Highscreen budget with capacious batteries. Then readers liked the model Power Ice Evo, although there were complaints. In particular, one comment sounded something like this:
Would make a powerful and Power Ice in a metal case - would be gorgeous.
Actually, the way it happened. Here is a smartphone Highscreen Power Ice MaxAnd it is precisely this what they wanted to see.
Instead of the plastic housing is now aluminum, inside - a more advanced processor, graphics and camera. Increased the size of the display, the amount of memory and storage capacity, and supplied, in addition to standard cables and plugs, It includes in-ear monitor, OTG-cable, transparent silicone case and additional protective sticker screen.
Characteristics
Price | 13 990 rubles |
Battery | 4000 mAh, Li-pol, nonremovable |
housing material | Aluminum |
Screen | 5,3 "IPS, HD 1280 × 720, 277 ppi, in-cell, protection Asahi Glass Dragontail |
CPU | MediaTek MT6750, 8 nuclei 1.5GHz |
Graphic arts | Mali T-860 |
RAM | 3 GB |
read-only memory | 32 GB |
Memory card | Dedicated slot microSD up to 128 GB or less |
the SIM | Dedicated slot for two microSIM |
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The main camera | 13 MP, AF, flash |
Front-camera | 5MP |
System | Android 6.0 |
Dimensions | 149 × 73.2 × 8.2 mm |
Weight | 176 g |
Colour | Gold |
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Performance and autonomy
Although Power Ice Max and left "to 15 thousand" in the price range, the characteristics it is not budget-and a very solid middling, not shy of heavy mobile games and able to pull the job with a lot of processes, applications and browser tabs without sacrificing speed and smoothness.
MediaTek MT6750 eight-graphics Mali-T860 and 3 GB of RAM providing steady 35+ fps in World of Tanks Blitz on medium settings. Last Asphalt Xtreme at the default graph goes without brakes. Obviously, with such a performance in the games to speak of ordinary smooth operation of applications and systems is no longer necessary.
Most likely, a smartphone with an average by the standards of high-end flagships filling pulls heavy games due to choose the right resolution of the display and an adequate approach to the operating system build.
HD-display with a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels is sufficient to 5.3 inches diagonal, because the human eye is no longer visible pixels when approaching their density to 300 pieces per inch, and in this case the index is 277, that is actually Retina.
At the same time drawing pictures for HD-display requires significantly less resources and energy than for Full HD, and therefore, you can get more performance and battery life at the same hardware and the same capacity battery.
The operating system uses essentially pure and virginal Android 6.0 from Google a minimal set of additional applications and a pack of wallpapers, hinting at Russian origin Brand Highscreen.
There is a rule: the farther part of producers kept by the system, the better it works. Less unnecessary waste in the memory - more resources to pressing challenges, and less battery consumption.
Taken together, the rational screen resolution, adaptive brightness control, optimized operating system and battery at 4000 mAh enable Power Ice Max boasts the following results:
- Playback of HD-video at the maximum brightness of the screen - 11.5 hours.
- World of Tanks Blitz with adaptive brightness adjustment - 6.5 hours.
- Mixed mode (camera, video streaming, instant messengers, navigation, games) with a continuously on-screen adaptive brightness adjustment - 7.5 hours.
Accordingly, under standard use cases, when the screen is not always included, and heavy applications run infrequently, you can safely rely on two or three days of work without recharging.
Screen
As mentioned above, in the Power Ice Max installed IPS-HD-display with a diagonal of 5.3 inches. Pixels on it really is not visible and the color quality corresponding typical parameters of this type of matrices.
The sensor is implemented by in-cell technology, which allows you to make the screen and the device as a whole is thinner, but in this case, such a solution is used not so much for the sake of elegance, and to compensate for the body thickening due to the large battery.
2,5D-glass is missing, and it is good in terms of security.
In case of fall hit with a high probability to have an aluminum frame, rather than a brittle material. For protection against mechanical damage to applied glass from Asahi.
camera
Resolution main camera Power Ice Max is 13 Mn. In the presence of autofocus and flash. The front 5-megapixel camera with fixed focus set on selfie with outstretched arms.
The quality of the photos you can appreciate yourself. So remove the main camera.
But it turns selfie with frontalki.
Special mention worthy of the native camera app.
Let it be inferior to the minimalistic and intuitive solution from Google, but it includes a number of useful additional functions.
- Mode "Retouch" for the correction of facial skin.
- scan mode and text cards.
- Night mode.
- code scanner.
- Creating GIF.
- Screen for selfie flash in low light.
Manual shooting mode allows you to set each parameter in its sole discretion, however, to go into fine-tuning of photography is not recommended without a good understanding.
Smart phone shoots video in Full HD at 30 frames per second and can connect a special beauty-filter with adjustable intensity in real time.
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Smartphone supports all of the latest forms of communication, including the 5 GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS / GLONASS, and can also act as a remote control through the IR port.
Special attention is given support LTE-A, which is in fact an improved LTE and in theory provides data rates up to 300 Mbit / s. In practice, everything depends on the support of the technology provider in a specific location and the current network load, and therefore rely on such speed in reality quite naive.
Honest dvuhsimochnik with Memory Card
Power Ice Max works with two SIM cards and, unlike many other smartphones, making it honestly. Often, manufacturers use cunning and force the user to choose between two SIM cards and memory cards. In this case, the design provides two separate tray for connection and microSD.
Accordingly, it is possible to carry out any manipulations on the memory card, not bothering with the SIM card, and vice versa.
Verdict
With each new device to survey the experience of Highscreen products are getting better. Recall that the company offered four years ago? Frankly uncompetitive product. Now it is well-balanced, reliable, practical, beautiful, modern, and, last but not least, is still affordable smartphones that will satisfy the vast majority of users. If you do not want to overpay for the inscription on the body and do not want to deal with shipping from China, then pay attention to Highscreen.
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