Overview Leagoo T5 - Chinese leader at $ 150

Company Leagoo was established to export products to Iran, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, India and other countries with low incomes. Therefore smartphones brand familiar to users who are interested ultrabudgetary devices.

However, in 2017 he embarked on the expansion of geography of deliveries at the expense of Canada, USA, Mexico, Russia. Therefore, in the model range has several smartphones that have a decent performance, but at the same time inexpensive. This review will consider Layfhaker Leagoo T5 - the most recent flagship smartphone of the brand.

Specifications

Packaging and appearance

Impression on the smartphone is beginning to emerge from the moment when you take into the hands of the box. The manufacturer tried to make this impression was positive.

Leagoo T5 is packed in a stylish white box of high quality cardboard. On the top cover of the model name and the stylized image of its main chips - dual camera lens.

Inside we found a charger, USB-cable, and silicone case - you would not believe it - the headphones! Exactly wire ear headset with push-button, what all smartphones were completed about 10 years ago. Without headphones it was quite possible to do, but for the case thanks. Looks good, reliably protects your phone from scratches, drops, and other surprises.

Appearance Leagoo T5 is difficult to describe. Just because he does not have any striking features that distinguish it from several other Chinese smartphones. Standard metal bar black dual camera on the back, the main key to the fingerprint at the front and the volume buttons and the right nutrition.

The only constructive innovation - 3.5-mm jack, which is why the manufacturer has posted on the bottom. Not too good solution, since it is difficult to connect the headphone when the smartphone is in a pocket or bag. Still, the usual location of the mini-jack on top is much more convenient.

As for the assembly, there are no claims for this part no. Housing Leagoo T5 never bends and creaks, despite the fact that it has a thickness of less than 8 millimeters. Buttons tightly sitting in their nests, SIM-card tray can be easily removed. Thanks to the matte surface of the rear cover and the film on the screen, swiping on your smartphone almost does not remain.

Display and Audio

The manufacturer claims that the quality Leagoo T5 used IPS-matrix of the company Sharp. And we have absolutely no reason to doubt this statement.

Smartphone shows a bright juicy picture with excellent contrast and color reproduction. Stock brightness devices enough for use in bright outdoor lighting. Viewing angle of nearly 180 degrees, and the picture almost does not change color. There adaptive brightness control and adjustment of image MiraVision system.

And that's about the sound, unfortunately, nothing good can be said. Even with a discount on the budget sound system looks shabby. External speaker categorically refuses to give low and high frequencies, limited to a meager range somewhere in the middle. Volume is low. And what is bad, the sound is not much better with headphones.

Performance

MTK6750T processor can not be attributed to the record holders, but it copes with its tasks. In normal mode, there are 4 nucleus at 1 GHz, and if they fail, then the connected core 4 more at a frequency of 1.5 GHz. This scheme allows you to achieve a good performance at economical use of battery power.

In synthetic tests Leagoo T5 shows average results. Nevertheless, this level of performance is enough for any purpose, including for computer games. If you do not use your smartphone for the calculation of the trajectories of space bodies, or of mining of electronic currencies, there are no performance problems just do not occur.

You should not ignore the fact that the smartphone is equipped with 4 GB of RAM. It allows you to instantly switch between running applications even if they are quite resource-intensive. The operating system is running smoothly and quickly.

autonomy

In Leagoo T5 used battery capacity of 3000 mAh. The promotional material says that the phone supports fast charging, but in fact no traces were found of its presence. Charging time is about 3 hours, which can not be called a record.

But it is much more than we wanted to know how quickly the battery is discharged. As a result of our testing, we found that the smartphone battery is hardly enough to provide 4-5 hours of screen. This means that the smartphone can work from morning till night, but no more. And then only in that case, if you use it to make calls, surf the Web, listen to music and the other is not too demanding tasks. Gamers will have to charge your phone more often.

Camera

The site of the company great attention is paid to the photographic capabilities of the smartphone. Emphasis is placed on the main dual camera which, according to the manufacturer, allows you to create extremely attractive pictures with bokeh effect.

About bokeh we Fooled Again. In shooting mode, two cameras simply use a software algorithm blur around the focus point that has nothing to do with real bokeh. It seems that a lot of time will pass more as long as the presence of a double chamber in the Chinese smartphone is really justified.

But ordinary snapshots pleased. In normal daylight get decent pictures with the correct white balance, good contrast and detail. The only remark concerns the saturation level - the photos are somewhat faded. However, this disadvantage can be easily eliminated in a graphics program.

Regarding the work of the front camera, it is beyond praise. The front camera has a resolution of 13 MP, equipped with autofocus and flash. This allows just gorgeous pictures in no way inferior to the quality of photographs taken the main camera. Selfie lovers will be happy.

Software

Leagoo T5 runs on Android 7.0 operating system. However, the manufacturer has made it in some useful additions.

The most important of them is the method of interaction with the main unit button. It is not only used to unlock the phone (fingerprint work, by the way, is surprisingly good), but also for a substitute on-screen buttons. In this case, a single tap corresponds to a transition back, double-tap return to the desktop, and the sliding motion from left to right is the manager of running applications.

In addition, the smartphone setting has several sections related to the so-called intelligent functions. It is about awakening capabilities of the device by double tapom, control playback using gestures, disabling the alarm signal or the incoming call screen smartphone tumbling down, and so Further.

It did not escape his attention, programmers and smartphone casing. Launcher Leagoo T5 supports smart sorting applications into folders, change the icon size, a lot of transition effects between desktops. There is also a support to those that can be used in one fell swoop change the desktop background and lock screen, as well as the appearance of the icons.

results

As a result, Leagoo T5 testing we have formed a positive impression of him. Like the thin device body, good build quality and screen. Smartphone can be commended for 4 GB and 64 GB permanent memory, which last long. Pleasantly surprised by a camera that produces pictures are not of inferior quality than the device much more well-known brands.

No claims have arisen performance. With the main tasks of a smartphone copes without any problems. And even the majority of video games do not cause Leagoo T5 difficulties, if not use the maximum graphics settings.

Not only device like battery and a faint sound. Even for the declared capacity of the smartphone is too small that it can be attributed to poor optimization software in this part. One can only hope that this omission will be corrected in subsequent updates.

Buy Leagoo T5 smartphone can be a discount for the on AliExpress 7821 ruble.

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