Overview Leagoo T5c - the first smartphone chip Spreadtrum SC9853i

Historically, the chips are most commonly used in modern smartphones just two manufacturers - Qualcomm and MediaTek. The former have a reputation more productive and efficient, but the latter are much cheaper.

However Leagoo company decided to break the established tradition and brought to market a smartphone with an entirely new processor. It was developed by Spreadtrum Communications and is based on Intel Airmont architecture. According to the manufacturer, the new chip combines Qualcomm performance and low cost products MediaTek. We decided to test the claims in practice.

Specifications

Leagoo T5c - an improved model already visited on our review Leagoo T5. The new version number of memory has been reduced from 4 to 3 GB, and there are fewer places for storage of user data. But the main difference - a completely new chip Spreadtrum SC9853i.

Packaging and appearance

The phone comes in a neat white box, on top of the device that hosts the photo, and on all faces - the company name.

Packaging Standard: Charger, Connecting Cable, Silicone Case and clip to eject the SIM card tray. Headphones, so that surprised us in the last model, no. But it's for the better - the use of them is still no.

Appearance Leagoo T5c against the backdrop of new products, filled the shelves last year, looks a bit archaic. No complaints on the narrow screen or frameless. This phone is suitable conservative people, who prefer the time-tested solutions.

The housing is made of metal and the impression of sufficient strength. The rear surface has only two plastic inserts for antennas. Matte finish body, by the way, is almost does not collect fingerprints, which is an advantage of this model.

Design Leagoo T5c though and does not contain any fancy frills, but it looks interesting. To assemble the device no complaints either.

Display and Audio

As the quality of the screen is used IPS-matrix manufactured by Sharp. It has a diagonal of 5.5 inches and a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels.

The smartphone boasts a juicy picture, which is due to the brightness automatically change looks good in daylight and in the evening. The horizontal viewing angles and vertical account for nearly 180 degrees, the image almost does not change color.

Screen device correctly displays all the colors, the picture is bright and saturated. However MiraVision settings for some reason are not available, so adjust the image to your taste will not work.

The audio subsystem Leagoo T5c can hardly anybody much good news. Weak, flat and expressionless sound external speaker is only suitable for the ringtones and notifications. The situation is somewhat better headphones. Listen to music, you can, but only for lack of better sources.

Performance

The main feature of Leagoo T5c is to use the new chip Spreadtrum SC9853i. Therefore, it was very interesting, as its performance is different from that used in the previous model MTK6750T.

Synthetic test results show that the rate of Spreadtrum SC9853i MTK6750T exceeds by almost a quarter. This means that users will be able to buy a faster smartphone. It is worth it even cheaper than Leagoo T5.

However, this video accelerator chip is not as good as we would like. In 3DMark smartphone scored very few points, which indicates its low gaming performance. Therefore, fans of mobile games better get this party model.

autonomy

In Leagoo T5c used battery capacity of 3000 mAh. This is quite a bit, so that the wonders of autonomy should not expect from a smartphone.

In the test, PCMark Work 2.0 Battery Life device lasted only 5 hours and 48 minutes. On one day of normal use you can still count, but at night the smartphone necessarily have to put on additional charge.

Camera

The company's website says that as the main camera in the smartphone used production unit Samsung c resolution of 13 megapixels. We do not undertake to refute or confirm this statement, because the most popular Device Info HW fails to recognize the device.

However, the picture quality is very good, so it's possible that we are not cheated. Pictures obtained with the correct white balance, good contrast and detail. Little short of saturation, but this drawback is easily eliminated in a graphics program.

You can also praise the creators Leagoo T5c for the work of the second module of the main chamber. Thanks to the support chip-level and advanced software in the smartphone Get one of the most realistic bokeh effects in comparison with other devices of the same price categories.

Software

Leagoo T5c running Android 7.0 operating system. However, as the shell uses its own design, reminiscent clearance iOS. This, in our opinion, is not a good idea - a good smartphone looks like a cheap Chinese fake.

Well, that instead of the default launcher, you can install any other, such as Nova Launcher, and the result of the desktop in order. This increases the speed of the device, since the optimization standard shell is far from perfect.

As in the previous model, the device can be controlled not only via the onscreen buttons, but the central button, which houses the fingerprint. In this case, a simple touch of a button corresponds to a transition back a long touch returns on the desktop, and sliding motion left to right or from right to left is manager running applications. A very handy feature that allows you to hide the navigation bar and set the place on the screen to display the information.

results

Smartphone Leagoo T5c please users who do not intend to overpay for fashion design and advertised chips. This is a simple and affordable machine that copes with all the main tasks: communication, providing access to the Internet, a simple mobile entertainment.

The new chip company Spreadtrum has shown itself on the positive side. He demonstrated reliable communication for all interfaces, enough for comfortable use performance, and compatibility with any software for Android. Affordable solution that can compete with low-cost chips from Qualcomm and MediaTek.

Not really liked only the battery unit and an external speaker sound is wishy-washy. However, for the money, these shortcomings can be forgiven.

At the time of writing the price of the smartphone is Leagoo T5c 6453 ruble.

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