Everyone knows that clothes make the man. Today, our review covers the smartphone’s name BQS-5515 Wide world of the brand BQ. Phone to test the provided Internet shop Bayonne.<url>. Judging by the descriptions, this is a budget camera, but not without a generous serving of features. I wonder what is hiding in this colorful box? Let’s see.
Packaging equipment
About packing we are talking not just. Few manufacturers in the budget segment box pay as much attention as it did in BQ. A trifle, you will think, but from such small things is life. And once the company has decided to delight us during the display of the facade, inside you everything will be even more interesting.
Inside the box was the phone, separately in a bag, battery, USB cable, charger, warranty card and instruction in Russian. The package is quite standard. Headphones or other accessories not supplied. To expect something like this from a smartphone for 6990 rubles would be unwise. We were not expecting, so was not disappointed.
Case
On the test we got the coral modification BQS-5515 Wide. But the manufacturer has other colors. Of particular interest is the bright orange model (carrot). Also looks good white colour. Of course, there is the universal black color.
The smartphone is made of plastic. Moreover, the feeling that the frame is not metal. But strangely enough, negativity is absolutely not the cause. The plastic is very high quality, it is really nice to hold in hands. Encircling the perimeter of the side frame is made in metal. Hopefully, if it’s paint, but it’s not oblezet. Around the screen is a bezel, protrudes slightly over the front plane is a good thing, because this design will protect the glass when the phone is lying screen-down.
Just want to say that the build is executed perfectly, with it even without annotations “for their money.” Nothing to complain about. We checked the apparatus, torsion and other external influence — it’s all right. Attempt to press on the back cover when you remove the battery to deflection does not hold. Frame although not metal, but keeps the design perfectly.
Turn the smartphone back cover up. At the top, a large eye of the main camera. Gone are the times when the camera is protruded from the enclosure a couple of millimeters. In 2016, this would be already a Chur. BQ is well aware, and therefore the camera lens is recessed deep as deep as technology allows. If the lens slightly and rises above the back cover, is barely.
Just below the camera lens is located an led flash. It is, unfortunately, a single, so we foresee some problems when shooting in low light conditions. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Who knows, maybe BQS-5515 Wide will behave differently?
Handsfree speaker mounted in the lower part of the back cover. While holding a smartphone in your hand to block it will be very difficult, except if you hold the smartphone in some unusual way. It’s loud with a large margin.
When opening the cover had to be as careful as possible. It’s thin enough, and it was feared her strength. Luckily the cap failed to open, nothing broke off and not damaging. Inside is a microSD slot and two slots for installation of SIM-cards, one of which is for uncircumcised SIM, other is micro-SIM. The microSD card does not support hot swap, it must be borne in mind.
On the top face BQ provided a 3.5 millimetrovie connector under earphones, he left, and a micro-USB port, to the right. Of the phone control buttons, the volume rocker and power button placed on the right side. The left side is completely free from any controls. Almost the entire front panel is 5.5-inch touch screen. At the top is the earpiece and next to it you can see the proximity sensors and ambient light, and the front camera lens. In the lower part there are three traditional touch buttons to control the OS.
Screen
Fans to consider every pixel on the screen of the smartphone will surely be happy. I hasten to inform you that, armed with a good magnifying glass, the pixels on the screen BQS-5515 Wide you can see. The screen has a resolution of 1280×720 pixels, referred to in protonirovanie “HD”. The others silenced. P — in normal operation, the smartphone pixels are not visible, they can only be detected if indeed either to arm a magnifying glass, or stare at the screen, leaning close to him.
The advantages of the IPS screen can be attributed to natural colors, excellent color balance and saturation at medium and low ambient light. Sun-screen, of course, fade as any IPS. Still this is not OLED. The display is covered with oleophobic coating, your fingers easily adhere but are also easily removed. But the sensor seems not very responsive. Phone responded to touch every time.
Iron
Inside BQS-5515 Wide is the chipset MediaTek MT6735 with four processor cores Cortex-A53. This processor is not particularly fast, but its performance is enough for operation of the system, and third-party software. The amount of RAM is 1 GB flash memory installed 8 GB. These three parameters (CPU, RAM and ROM) and output BQS-5515 Wide typical state employees.
Link
The smartphone has all major interfaces, including Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth 4.0. What is especially important is the fact that the smartphone support 4G/LTE. We have installed the SIM-card operator “MegaFon”, no problems with the wings 4G arose. A satellite positioning system GPS works fine, cold start took 32 seconds, hot — five. Satellites caught confidently, location not jumping.
The interlocutor hears you medium. The smartphone does not have a second microphone to filter out the noise, so in the subway, bus or during riots, revolutions, and civil unrest a football match you will hear outside noise. The earpiece is of average volume. Probably this can partly be corrected by making changes via the engineering menu.
Battery
Battery capacity up to 2800 mAh. Whereas not too wasteful chipset, screen with HD resolution, as well as the mentality of the users of these smartphones, we can expect to predict the operating time of the device in the area of a half to two days. But consider the multiplicity of the better all day. So for two days of operation of the device is not enough.
BQS-5515 Wide proved quite hardy. View video in HD quality for 1.5 hours ate about 20% of the battery. After we listened to music for about two hours and one hour was on the phone. By the end of the day the battery level dropped to approximately 40%. So one battery charge smartphone enough to use in active mode. During maximum load (watching videos) the device is not warming up. This is probably due not only processor, but also with a plastic housing, conductive heat much less than metal.
Camera
Another detail that left a pleasant aftertaste, is the main camera. It has a 13-megapixel sensor. The pictures are of average quality, it is better to remove day, or when the outbreak. The main gripe is the slow autofocus. The front camera shoots at 3+. Especially expect it is not worth it.
The software that accompanies the camera, nothing special. The manufacturer did not engage in extensive software optimizations. Still the device is not positioned not as selvihan or camera phone. Camera here — rather a nice bonus, not too outstanding, but not outright depressing.
Operating system
Smartphone BQS-5515 Wide runs on Android 5.1. On the one hand, it’s not bad. A couple of years wearing it would be very easy. The manufacturer didn’t say anything about whether the device is updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow or Nougat 7.0. Intuition tells us that is unlikely.
As for software, here BQ made an interesting move. With the Wallpaper she posted a lot of shortcuts to apps and games that you can set when you activate the shortcuts of the programs and games not on the device, the memory they occupy. That is, on the one hand, nothing more installed, with another — all within reach.
Benchmarks
Budget smartphones special meaning to test in the benchmark no. One another a thousand parrots in AnTuTu weather does and the performance is not particularly affected. However, below we have attached the screenshots of test results in the popular benchmark, looking at that everyone can draw conclusions for himself.
Insights
Before us is a typical state employees. Miracles or pleasant surprises from him no one expected, more surprising was their chance to discover. In the smartphone there is no fingerprint scanner, there is a lack of internal memory. Well, low RAM can cause the OS will close background apps if they are in her way. However, BQS-5515 Wide can be recommended for acquisition because of his 6990 rubles (mid-September 2016), this phone works at a decent level.
And if we buy it in online shop Bayonne, you can additionally count on fast and free shipping. Moreover, Bayonne declares interesting policy that involves not return any product within 15 days. If by some chance the item was in a non-operational state, the Bayon promises to pay to the victim of the poor product of one million rubles. The motto of Bayonne is to make online shopping convenient for all.
The main advantages of the smartphone can be called a great Assembly, saturated color images in daylight and long battery life. The disadvantages include not overly sensitive screen sensor.
