Overview Poptel P9000 Max - good smartphone for tourism and self-defense

Table of contents

1. Specifications
2. Packaging and appearance
3. Protection
4. Display and Audio
5. Performance
6. autonomy
7. Camera
8. Software
9. results

In recent years, Chinese manufacturers are seriously carried away with third-tier production protected smartphones. The explanation is simple: it is almost the only remaining niche, which have not yet reached a serious company and especially Xiaomi. Therefore, small companies are trying not to lose time, releasing one after another anti-smartphone.

Poptel company completely unknown in our market, but on the website It reported that it was founded back in 2006. So far, she engaged in the production of various high-tech products, including mobile phones, commissioned by other companies; now it produces smartphones under its own brand.

P9000 Max - the first and only smartphone Poptel. It has the NFC, a strong body and a battery of 9000 mAh, which should provide autonomous operation for several days. This combination of features seemed interesting to us, so we decided to get to know more closely the device.

Specifications

Specifications Poptel P9000 Max are not inferior to any mid-range smartphone. It is based on SoC MediaTek MT6750V, which was introduced almost two years ago, but is still widely used by Chinese manufacturers.

This enviable longevity has only one explanation: the processor until copes with all current mobile tasks. At the 4 GB memory, it provides sufficient speed of operation and good multitasking applications. 64 GB of internal memory is enough not only to install all necessary software, but also for storing photos, music and even videos.

The battery on the 9000 mAh should provide a good autonomy, which is an important factor for protected smartphone, which is often purchased for use in the travel and tourism campaigns. One can not but note the presence of NFC. It's great that there are more affordable smartphones that support this technology.

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Packaging and appearance

The smartphone has come to us in a beautiful box of black cardboard. On its cover of the company's name and model and the side has a sticker with the basic features and device IMEI.

Inside, in a separate paper boxes, we found the charger connector cable, headphones and adapter, with which you can recharge other gadgets. In addition, there is a protective film for the screen and strange blue stickers that purpose remained a mystery for us.

The smartphone looks quite brutal, as befits a secure device. his body is made of hard shockproof rubber, which is designed to protect electronic components from knocks and bumps. The back cover has a ribbed, allowing confidently keep your device even with gloves on.

In Poptel P9000 Max has a powerful LED flash that successfully replaces the field flashlight. It is located on the back side, just above a fingerprint scanner. Besides, here there is a special bracket that allows you to attach your phone to your arm or backpack. Useful thing in the campaign, when the fallen smartphone can fly hundreds of meters down the slope.

The side faces are protected by metal plates, fastened by screws with countersunk heads. On the right are the volume control buttons and a start button of the camera. But the power button for some reason turned out to be on the opposite side at the bottom. Turn on and off the little finger of the phone is not very convenient, so can not be called a manufacturer's decision a good one.

All connectors and holes in the phone: a 3.5-mm audio jack on top, USB Type-C below and a slot for placing the SIM card on the left side - protected waterproof plugs.

Surrounded by the giant screen of the device just by today's standards framework. On each side of the thickness is 7 mm, and the size of the top and bottom is 23 mm. But let's not forget that protected smartphones - is a genre in which there are very special canons of beauty. Here the focus is on reliability of the design, rather than effektnosti and fashion.

In general appearance and assembly Poptel P9000 Max fully meet the expectations of the protected smartphone. It should look like this device to extreme entertainment: simple, assertive and persuasive.

Thanks to the robust body and a large mass of the phone can serve as a tool for self-defense. One well-aimed throw in the head - and the enemy is defeated.

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Protection

Protected smartphones are not just for travelersBut also for people working in difficult conditions: geologists, builders, car mechanics. "In life there is always a feat," - we thought and decided to arrange for Poptel P9000 Max test of a beach holiday.

First we dug the phone in the sand, to see how he is able to resist the sands and dust. However, several distracted and forgot the exact place of burial, so we had to make the call and find the smartphone from the sound.

Then we have a good gadget bathed in salt water, making at the same time even more underwater images and video. Photos turned out not very good, but body moisture did not cause any complaints.

After that we left the smartphone to dry under the scorching sun. The day was hot, so that the body warmed up to about 50 degrees. Electronic components is no impact - the gadget worked without any problems.

Finally on the way home, we some times deliberately dropped the phone on the pavement. These were controlled fall from a height of about 1 meter in which exclude the possibility of landing on a screen. Corps withstood the test without injury, except for a few minor scratches.

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Display and Audio

In Poptel P9000 Max is set 5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. It is powered by technology One Glass Solution (OGS). The touch layer in this case combined with a screen that allows you to achieve a small thickness and excellent visual characteristics.

Due to the high density of pixels the picture looks just fine. Clear fonts, lines, smooth, gradient transitions right. We did not have any comments regarding the definition of the image, color palette, and white balance.

But the level of brightness seemed a bit understated. In a dark room this fact can even be called dignity, not tired eyes from bright light. However, when used outdoors in bright sunlight the maximum brightness level is obviously not enough for comfortable work, so you have to seek shade or close the smart hand.

Sound external speaker is loud enough to not miss an incoming call, but not enough quality to use it for listening to music. After bathing in the hole for the speaker remains water, so while it sounds completely muffled. As the drying device returns sound quality.

Complete headphones do not sound too good, but do not rush to throw them out. The fact is that the 3.5-mm jack so deeply sunk into the body that connect it to succeed far from each wired headset. Therefore, the only way out for those who like comfort and quality sound - it's to get a decent wireless headphones.

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Performance

At the heart of Poptel P9000 Max - chipset MediaTek MT6750, which is equipped with an 8-core processor with four nuclei Cortex-A53 and a frequency of 1.0 GHz and four cores Cortex-A53, at a maximum operating frequency of 1.5 GHz. This is enough to ensure a good performance in all the user tasks.

During the synthetic tests, the results of which you can see in the screenshots, the smartphone proved itself better than its competitors in the same price category. During actual use of the device vividly reacts to user actions, launch applications quickly and just as quickly switch between them. A large amount of memory allows you to work with several programs in the split screen.

Responsible for the graphics video accelerator Mali-T860 MP2. It is quite easy to cope with simple toys and decoding video in high definition. However, complex three-dimensional game can only be run with low graphics settings, so fans play World of Tanks or PUBG at maximum speed, this smartphone is hardly suitable.

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autonomy

Poptel P9000 Max is equipped with a battery capacity of 9,000 mAh. In the test, PCMark Work 2.0 Battery Test smartphone lasted as much as 23 hours. Excellent result. Recall that all this time the script worked on a device that simulates the performance of a typical user tasks: surfing, imaging, document editing, playback video and audio.

In practice, this means that a smartphone can easily survive without recharging for 4-5 days. Standard equipment includes a special adapter that allows you to charge from Poptel P9000 Max other gadgets. Thus, it may well take on the role of an external battery.

Smartphone Charging took us about 3 hours, and the device body a little hot. The gadget supports quick charging, which greatly speeds up the process.

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Camera

two conventional cameras have been installed in your phone. As used Samsung main sensor 13 Mn, front - OmniVision 5 Mn. It's great that the manufacturer did not succumb to the universal passion for dual cameras. In the protected smartphone such excesses completely useless.

In good light main camera Poptel P9000 Max is able to produce good images. They have good clarity, and correct color. However, exposure to all the photographs seemed to us too low, so to the ideal state they will have to bring in a photo editor.

In the evening or in low light conditions the pictures are much worse. All colors are converted to shades of brown, and digital noise fills the space frame. There has no editor will not help.

As for the front camera, it has a very utilitarian purpose: video calling and recording a short message. Of any artistic portrait for Instagram or home album in this case, and can be no question.

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Software

Poptel P9000 Max runs on Android 7.0 operating system. For your phone, released in 2018, this is a disadvantage.

Another drawback - the dull and unattractive icons that Poptel programmers introduced in the shell. Because of their desktop smartphone looks like a greeting from the past decade. Well, you can set your launcher and replace the set of icons to something more modern, which we did.

In all other respects the work of software satisfy us. During the test it was not noticed any mistakes, slowdown or failure. As part of the pre-installed software there is nothing superfluous - only a few necessary tools and services to Google. Everything else can be set independently from the store Google Play applications.

We should also note the presence of the NFC smartphone. With this technology, you can conveniently pay for purchases, pay for public transportation and use in all other places where the tap and pay. Google Pay app to install and operate the phone without any problems.

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results

Smartphone Poptel P9000 Max like first of all to those people who need a well-protected smartphone, not afraid of dust, dirt and water. From this perspective, the device is fully met our expectations. The undoubted pluses Poptel P9000 Max can also be considered an excellent screen, long battery work and full support for NFC, which is still very rare in smartphones in this price range categories.

The performance of this unit can not be called a record, but it is still enough for all applications. But the camera disappointed us. If you need a really high-quality images, you should look for something else.

At the time of this writing, the price of the smartphone is Poptel P9000 Max 14 189 rubles.

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The author expresses his gratitude to the company Poptel for providing the test device.