Turbo X5 Z - a great and inexpensive smartphone
Every person before buying a smartphone has a specific list of criteria that must be met gadget and usually, the list includes a list of incompatible settings. Everyone wants the perfect device that is both compact and at the same time with a large screen, with a huge battery, worked with the 2nd SIM card that supports all modern wireless communication protocols and, of course, would be worth very little. Our guest today - Turbo X5 Z smartphone has all these properties and may compete for the title of "golden mean."
Grade, traditionally Turbo, very rich - 2 batteries, charger 220V, cable MicroUSB, headphones, two protective films on the screen (one of them already glued) and Case-book with a window on the functional similarity of S-View. Case glued to your phone and, honestly, I do not really like it, because he hides rather beautiful appearance smartphone than adds convenience. Window "S-view" allows you to answer / reset calls without opening the cover and in the same closed form, due to the earpiece slot, you can talk on the phone.
Appearance
TURBO X5 Z is somewhat reminiscent of a 6-inch smartphone Turbo X6 Z, however, is much more compact it, and lateral metal faces painted black. The entire back surface is made of soft-touch plastic, which is very pleasant to the touch and leaves no traces of touch.
Unlike the "big brother» X5 Z has no hardware camera button, and functional hardware buttons and connectors are moved to the other side of the device. So port for charging / sync and headphone jack "moved" to the top of the smartphone, the power button is now on the left, and the volume rocker, respectively, on the right. All of these changes will not interfere with the work of the unit and from the first seconds of communication with him - there is addictive.
At the lower end X5 Z from different angles there is a perforation, which can be misleading, implying the presence of stereo speakers, but the speaker in only one smartphone and it is located on the back side of the gadget.
MicroUSB port has OTG support and allows you to connect compatible USB-drives. My USB-flash drive Kingston DataTraveler microDuo it without any problems identified and connected as additional memory (and when connected asks permission to install applications in the memory).
When connected to a PC offers several options for the smartphone - only for recharging in removable disk mode, as the camera (PTP), media device (MTP) and even as a CD-ROM (a virtual drive with a useful software).
Under the back cover of the smartphone, which built the NFC antenna is a slot for memory cards MicroSD (officially supports cards up to 32GB, but the excellent start the card 64 GB) and two slots for SIM cards. As is the case with Turbo X6 Z - one slot full-size, and the second card MicroSIM, which can be very handy while traveling.
One of the "attractions" gadget is its thickness, it is only 6.5 mm. This is certainly not a record figure, but considering also beveled side - felt incredibly thin smartphone.
Display
TURBO X5 Z screen has a diagonal equal to 5 inches, made by technology IPS-OGS and has a HD resolution (1280 x 720 pixels). He has excellent viewing angles and good color, but WOW-effect such as TURBO X6 Z he did not call me. He's a good, but not much more. Perhaps blame differences in resolution and, consequently, in the density of pixels, but after X6 Z is difficult to surprise me display.
Brightness a smartphone 2 times more than you need, and maybe even more. Every home use enough 5% of the maximum brightness, and at 100% you will dazzle even outdoors. By the way, the sun glare screen, but read very well. Performance and Graphics Heart TURBO X5 Z is a 4-core processor with a frequency of 1300 MTK6582 MHz, works in conjunction with a 2-yadernogy graphics Mali 400 and 1 GB of RAM. Performance test in AnTuTu Benchmark showed exactly 17000 "parrots" that almost comparable with the performance of the smartphone Galaxy S3. This power smartphone enough to comfortably pull all modern 3D games.
On personal experience convinced smooth operation 8 Asphalt, Modern Combat 4, Balance 3D, Shadowgun: DeadZone, Death Rally and Frontline Commando. If in the case of Turbo X6 Z about games was better not to speak, X5 Z we can safely recommend to fans of heavy 3D games.
In the "stability test" smartphone showed very good results, and the CPU temperature did not exceed 34-degrees (ambient temperature was 25 degrees).
Battery
Battery in modern smartphones - is the Achilles' heel. Diagonal display increases, productivity increases and the amount of internal memory and it's not even speaking about the growing number of various sensors and modules, and batteries do not have any progress in the development and where they were 10 years ago, and remain there. And for the sake of fashion manufacturers try to make more subtle body devices, while establishing a small battery capacity, which only exacerbates the situation. Smartphone Turbo X5 Z did not some special exception, though, and comes complete with a 2nd battery, but from for ultra-low-body thickness (6.5mm) both are small capacity - 1830 mAh. True, there was a surprise for me. The first thing I started - testing autonomy phone gently: 1 installed SIM card, provided no more than 10 minutes of phone calls a day, 5-10 images, checking e-mail and permanently connected WiFi (without sleeping and Eco mode). Screen in this case total running about 20-25 minutes a day (at 10% brightness.) from 100% to 11% charge smartphone lasted 4 days 22 hours and 48 minutes! 11% - can be considered a complete depletion of the battery, because the last 10 percent - it is rather an opportunity to have time to run to the charger than sufficient time to use the device. These percentages are fraught eyes.
The result seemed a somewhat implausible and I spent another after such a test.
At this time, from 100% to 3% of smartphone lasted 4 days 5 hours 22 minutes. For lovers of autonomy - in my opinion more than excellent performance, especially given the very small battery.
Test No. 3: added module GPS (use it 2-3 times a day to determine the coordinates, checks congestion and roadside assistance), connects a lot of different software. Number of phone calls up to 20 minutes a day, and the time is already included screen 1 hour per day. Total from 100% to 23% (no further time to take a screenshot and finally landed on the GPS battery) - 2 days and 51 minutes.
Honestly - for me these results came as a surprise. At first thought I would have to wear a second battery, but with my style I use a smartphone these 1830 mAh enough for 2 days. During this time, you can certainly get to the charger. Camera
The smartphone has two cameras - a front with a resolution of 5 MP and 13 MP rear. In good light, including cloudy weather, the pictures are very decent, and the rest - is the standard camera, not better or worse than others.
GPS
About GPS, probably would have to write down what it is, but I decided to "torture." Unfortunately, the Chinese navigation MTK or works "so-so", or not working at all. In the case of Turbo X5 Z first run in the open countryside took about 15 minutes, it was improper for a long time. After reset and update AGPS, installation service maps Google, application installation and configuration FasterGPS unit under my region - cold start now takes less than 1 minute, and hot / warm start for 5-10 seconds, which I think is a normal job.
How it looks in comparison with a smartphone Galaxy S4 - look at the video. Both smartphones stood on the window sill of the second floor. Certainly S4 unconditionally wins in this comparison, but also to determine the coordinates for 5 seconds at Turbo X5 Z consider very good result.
SOFT.
X5 Turbo Z out of the box is powered by Android 4.2.2. Firmware virtually pristine clean, not cluttered with stuff, not a customized, it lacks all unnecessary. Provider is present only GOOGLE search, maps and Play.Market. All this is extremely convenient because you can always install what you need and do not suffer with the installation of root-access, in order to remove the "trash." If necessary, free up space - you can delete several preset programs, including AIType Keyboard, compass, Navitel (demo version) and LitRes. And this is done quickly and easily, without the route-rights.
Conclusion:
Share conclusion on the pros and cons did not, because objective minuses smartphone is not revealed. With a relatively small battery Turbo X5 Z can give odds of autonomy in a large number of smartphones that have more capacious battery. GPS, thankfully, works pretty well, but its sensitivity is poor and the place where other smartphones see 12 satellites, our hero is able to consider only 7. Otherwise was very balanced smartphone with stylish looks, high-quality 5-inch display and very productive iron, able to cope with heavy applications and 3D-games. With all this on his Yandex.market price starts with a mark of 7700 rubles, making Turbo X5 Z very bargain.
