Another smartphone that has arrived to us for testing, became a unit of the domestic brand Mobile with BQ BQS name-5020 Strike. On Russian language Strike can be translated as “strike, quick, sharp and powerful. Let’s see how the name in fact fits the smartphone. The device was kindly provided to us online store buyon.ru, for which separate him thanks.
Packaging equipment
Like the previous smartphone BQ Wide, Strike came to us in a beautiful red and white cardboard box. Once again, the packaging BQ is very careful, knowing that the first impression the user receives from the packaging material. The box lists the main features of this smartphone.
Inside was found the smartphone, apart from the battery, charging cable, power supply, user manual in Russian, warranty card and earphone plugs. The latest accessory was the most surprising. BQ Strike — a typical budjet, however, the manufacturer has managed to add to the kit, headset, and as it turned out later, not the very poor quality.
Appearance
A small problem we have encountered is the battery installation. Plastic cover to cover up the module, made of very thin plastic, although coated metal sheet. Treat her to be extremely cautious. Opening the lid had little trouble. Fortunately, the lid was opened, and even without losses.
A smartphone in hand seems heavy. Despite the 5-inch screen the weight with the battery is 174 grams. To some it may seem excessive to someone, on the contrary, heavy phones like. The main advantage of BQ BQS-5020 Strike is the appearance. Indeed, it looks very good. Almost everyone who saw the device in person note that the appearance of smartphone makes a positive impression. As the material of the hull is plastic and sometimes metal. The exact proportions we find out we will not need only keep in mind that not all of what this device looks like a metal, it really is.
On the bottom there is a slot for microphone, on the right side is the power button and volume rocker, the left side is left clean. On the top face BQ posted a 3.5 mm Jack and micro-USB port. On the back side of the eye of the main camera, flash and external speaker.
Screen
Almost the entire front panel is a 5 — inch display with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels. The screen has a matrix type IPS, but between the touch layer and the glass layer of air is affecting the viewing angles, which is not very good. The sensor screen is not very sensitive. Smartphone for $300 this is simply impossible, and BQ Strike for $90 — can. Although you need to understand that for some things this type of sensor is unsuitable, for example, for dynamic games. The screen supports two simultaneous touches.
The picture quality is quite decent. In the sun the screen fades, but in other situations, the colors look good. On the screen is glued protective film. Lovers of fine settings go to Settings/screen/MiraVision where you can adjust the required parameters: brightness, contrast, sharpness, color temperature, and saturation. For this you need to switch to “User mode”.
At the bottom of the screen are three standard buttons without backlight. At the top are: front camera, earpiece, proximity sensors and lighting and indicators of different events. For example, when charging the indicator light at the top blinks red, and at the end starts to burn green. Options display can be controlled from the settings.
Iron
BQS-5020 Strike got a 4-core 32-bit processor MediaTek MT6580, 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. Iron enough for a smooth interface of Android 6.0, fast opening apps, simple games. Immediately sense to install a memory card. Eight GB ROM, and is barely enough, especially since the user has slightly more than half. Card supported microSD up to 64 GB.
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Support 4G is no Strike, will have to make do with 3G. The smartphone has two SIM slots, one of which is full sized and the other for card type micro-SIM. Expansion slot, incidentally, is in a separate module, the manufacturer did not combine it with any SIM card. Both the SIM slots support 3G network. The connection quality we would rate four points, there is a slight voice distortion, however, is not too critical. Well proved Wi-Fi 802.11 n. All evening the Internet connection has never been off. The connection is stable, speed on high level. To Bluetooth also no complaints.
GPS navigation works about as well as in BQ Wide, that is good. Cold start took about three minutes, but the latter is most likely due to not dependent on smartphone conditions (dense buildings of concrete yard). Further satellites were caught within a few seconds. The app AndroiTS GPS Test showed five GPS satellites from the apartment window. When entering the courtyard the number of satellites was increased to eight. Domestic navigation system GLONASS smartphone is not supported.
Camera
The main camera in BQ Strike has a 13-megapixel sensor. Made it using pictures is quite tolerable. But the important drawback that was discovered when testing BQ Strike, is the problem with the autofocus. In low light conditions a delay in the autofocus was very stressful. Apparently, the sensors main of the cameras in BQ and BQ Wide Strike either very similar or identical. In bright light the pictures are tolerable on both smartphones, with a pleasant, rich color palette.
The camera app offers the possibility to use “professional” mode. Here you can set many settings manually, like exposure, white balance and other tweaks. All pictures are taken in “normal” mode default.
The front camera has 5 megapixel sensor is nothing special in itself does not represent. For video it is quite suitable for Amateur selfie too but no more.
Battery
The smartphone has a 2000mAh battery, and It’s one of his weaknesses. No 5-inch HD screen, nor the processor the situation is not saved. If you use battery thoughtlessly, by the end of the day there is risk to remain without communication. Charge a smartphone to 100%, we launched the film in HD quality. An hour and a half viewing the battery level fell to 59%. Brightness was set at 100%, the sound was also extended by 100%, used an external speaker. By the way, when you load the phone noticeably heats up. While watching the film to hold it in hands was not too comfortable.
Then we began to talk on the phone, surf the Internet and listen to music through the bundled headphones, which ate three hours of time. The quality of the headphones by the way, very pleased. In the end, Android 6.0 has kindly offered to turn battery saving mode. I had to agree, otherwise there was a risk to not make it to the end of the day. In the evening, the smartphone went on charging. Needless to say, that no Express or Pump Quick Charge the device for 5 490 rubles out of the question. Charging from 5% to 100% took two hours 34 minutes. While charging the phone practically did not change.
Benchmarks
We tested the BQ Strike in three popular benchmarks: Quadrant, AnTuTu and GeekBench. The results were predictable. For low-cost smartphones are still more important stability and responsiveness, battery life, and subjective sensations from the device in his hands.
Operating system
The lack of memory has led to the fact that the BQ did not overload the smartphone games and software. On the desktop placed the shortcuts of some apps and games by clicking which you can download and install on your device. By the way, when you run the app Press Apps, the phone suddenly thrown out the window with the buttons “OK” and “Cancel”. Attempt to close the window means has not led to anything, in the end had to pull the battery. After the device reboots from the gallery disappeared all the prior photos. We have updated the smartphone “over the air” and to reproduce this error more failed, so we assume that it was a minor glitch the first firmware that the developer corrected.
As we have already mentioned, the very Android 6.0 behaves on this device is very responsive. In all likelihood, one Gigabyte of RAM and CPU MT6580 it was enough. Most mobile games work well, but the low sensitivity of the sensor still makes BQ Strike is not the best choice for mobile gamers.
Insights
BQ BQS-5020 Strike appeared to be ambiguous. On the one hand, there are: a beautiful building, adequate in the daytime camera and a normal GPS. On the other, there is a “hard” touch screen that does not respond to every click, weak battery and glitches of software. However, the price 5490 rubles in the online store Buyon will allow many to close their eyes to these shortcomings. Order it at a specified price either on the website of the online store, or through a special application.
Regardless of how the order was placed, the customer receives the entire package of services including free shipping, return within 15 days and a compensation for a malfunctioning device, although the rating of satisfaction with store Bayonne is 94%, and this ensures that there is nothing wrong with a purchased merchandise is not going to happen. Guarantee the Bayon is estimated nearly one million rubles.
To summarize, we assume that “blow”, as translated into Russian name Strike will occur on the user’s senses at the sight of the appearance of this smartphone and its price. And the feeling from the “udar” will be extremely positive. But the public sector is still a compromise between those faults which the user is willing to tolerate, and such, which he was not prepared to tolerate under any circumstances. But that Strike is the advantage and disadvantage — let everyone decide for themselves.
