by SteveBinUK
GBR
on 2014-10-11 03:36:46 | | Overall 8.5/10 but the price helped.
The overall feel is a decent, slightly-weighty = solid phone with a removable battery; OK speaker, good headphone sound, sensitive mic, does everything I need.
In the pack was a screen protector, which I immediately fitted (slightly tricky, need some patience). This gives a super-smooth finish and decent touch sensitivity, finger or stylus.
This phone would have been state of the art 2012 - and is still good today.
Clearly, the comments put in here DO effect the dispatch items - the cable (complained about elsewhere) is now as good as you can get - better than the one on my expensive tablet. Thanks, complainer!
Battery life: get a USB => micro USB cable (I use a normal PC USB > 3 port hub with micro-USB cable) for occasional charging from PCs, and an app killer (I use Battery Doctor) to lighten the CPU load / save power.
In general light use (20 mins phone, 1hr reading on Kindle etc) with un-needed apps killed, the battery just lasts......... 2 days. But, expect to charge overnight, or from a PC when there is one about.
Good screen.
Overall, excellent! :)
I run quite a few apps... next time, I'd go for a phone with more than 512M ram; it gets 'app-choked' sometimes and then runs VERY slow. RAM free-up apps are a necessity.
Also, need more cores and perhaps a trick from Nvidia: use many cores + a super-low-power, slow as anything core which ticks over during times the unit is 'off'; that method pays dividends.
!! There are NO specific bad points. For many this is an ideal 1st phone, for your parents or your teenager. This is not a top-end phone, but a decent/competent middle-ground player. And, as long as you keep them in hand, you can run the major apps OK.
Recommended.
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