Smartphone VERTEX Impress Phonic - advantages and disadvantages

The Russian cell phone market offers its customers a diverse range of smartphone models from different manufacturers, both branded and little-known, differing in functionality and price. What brand of device is better to choose and what popular models to pay attention to? We will talk about this and the VERTEX Impress Phonic smartphone below.

Key achievements of VERTEX

Most people are still convinced that domestic manufacturers of communications equipment cannot compete with foreign ones. But the St. Petersburg company VERTEX survived the crisis years and remained afloat, and at the moment it is considered a fairly well-known brand offering budget phones, smartphones and various gadgets with characteristics that surpass many of its competitors.

Last year's rating of inexpensive and high-quality smartphones proved that VERTEX really deserves popularity, the brand took 6th place. Even many eminent firms that have been leading the Russian market for the past decades have not overtaken it. In 2018, he entered the top six best-selling phones in the Megafon network with a sales share of 6.5%.

The success of this domestic brand directly depends on the internal policy of the company, whose management has made bets not only on the low price of their products, but also paid great attention to quality and design. The popularity of the models of this brand lies in the attractive appearance, build quality and functionality.

The company offers customers inexpensive smartphones, but at the same time, all the novelties of this brand have an actual technological “zest”.

When thinking about which model is better to buy, the selection criteria should depend on both the design of the device and what functionality it has.

How to choose from such a variety of models? In modern times, the phone is recognized not only as a means of communication, but also as a repository of documents, photos, passwords and other personal information. VERTEX, aiming to create a device that cares about the safety of customers, in May 2018 developed a smartphone with one of the most important technological achievements - the latest fingerprint scanning system. This device was the smartphone VERTEX Impress Phonic.

The advantages of this device are the comprehensive protection of the phone. The metal case protects from mechanical impact, and the protection of internal data and sole access is provided by built-in biometric sensors, thanks to which unlocking occurs using a fingerprint.But like all products of this brand, it has an attractive appearance, user-friendly design and excellent performance.

Equipment

The compact box contains a standard set:

• smartphone (size - 156 * 76 * 8.7 mm, weight - 173 g);
• charger (1 A);
• charging cord (90 cm);
• a clip to open the slot (on a plastic basis);
• documentation;
• warranty card.

The size of the device is convenient to use. The weight of the phone is relatively heavy, but the comfortable position in the hand allows you not to feel it. The case is classic, monolithic, the materials used for the manufacture of the case are plastic and metal. The model is presented in black and golden-pink color. The phone is equipped with dual sim technology, which allows you to use the slot in two variations: either 2 nano sim cards, or a sim card together with a memory card up to 32 GB. Also, the device is equipped with connectors for micro-USB and headset. The speaker and microphone produce a clear and loud sound. The only thing that does not look harmonious on such a solid body is not tightly seated power and volume buttons.

Charging the device would be faster with an increase in the current strength in the charger, the battery capacity allows this, but such an indicator of 1 A is at least minimal, but acceptable.

But the length of the cord is a little frustrating, it would certainly be nice to lengthen it. Quite often, a large amount of wire is required.

A paper clip of a traditional look, but here VERTEX decided to "stand out from the crowd" and made it not iron, like most manufacturers, but on a plastic basis.

Smartphone Specifications

Screen

Display characteristics correspond to more expensive models:

• technology - touch, color IPS;
• type - capacitive, multi-touch;
• diagonal - 5.99 inches;
• extension - 720 * 1440;
• pixel density - 269 ppi;
• number of colors - 1677216;
• ratio - 18:9;
• auto-rotate - yes;
• multitouch - yes.

The screen expansion of 1440×720 with a density of 269 ppi corresponds to HD and creates a high-quality picture without the slightest “graininess”, creating comfortable conditions for vision, without overworking the eyes. The presence of an IPS-matrix saturates the screen with bright colors, increasing the color gamut. Black is closer to black than in previous technologies. The viewing angle is increased to 178°, allowing you to view the image from any angle.

But for all this contrast and brightness, some characteristics had to be sacrificed: an increase in response time and high energy costs, which are considered important drawbacks for fans of active games.

The 18:9 aspect ratio means more screen real estate, which is protected by 2.5D curved glass that prevents glare in the sun. The large display diagonal, which occupies 78.35% of the body, makes it easier to work with information and does not require constant scrolling of the page. Display size specifications and plus multi-touch for gamers is just a gift.

The interface is quite simple and does not call for difficulties when using.

Unlocking occurs using a fingerprint, but it can also be done in standard ways: a password, pattern or pin code.

Performance

• operating system - Android 8.1 Oreo;
• processor - Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53;
• chipset - Mediatek MTK 6739;
• GPU - PowerVR GE8100;
• RAM - 2 GB;
• built-in memory - 16 GB;
• memory card - microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC;
• The maximum size of a memory card is 32 GB.

User reviews claim that this is a smart and productive device. This is helped by the filling of the device. A high-performance 4-core processor that supports a wide range of mobile applications provides the phone with the ability to execute multiple commands at the same time and has advanced power saving features.

The MTK 6739 chipset supports almost the entire set of standard connections (LTE, GSM, HSDPA, GPRS, EDGE), makes it possible to use a multi-pixel camera and shoot at 30 frames per minute. Equipped with noise reduction, speed boost and autofocus technologies. Although the battery of this model is not large, only 2800 mAh, but Mediatek (chipset manufacturer) endowed his invention with the ability to stabilize and save energy when entering the Internet.

The battery capacity ensures the autonomy of the smartphone when fully charged for about 90 hours in rest mode, and with resource-intensive processes (talking, video and games), the battery runs out in 8 hours.

VERTEX Impress Phonic is powered by Android 8.1 platform with improved user interface. The device is not crammed with useless programs that few people use. The manufacturer has just installed its Vertex Club app to download the software and get help from the support team.

The amount of memory is standard, but in modern times, with a large amount of information, it is usually not enough.

Thanks to this functionality, VERTEX Impress Phonic allows you to maintain wireless connections at a speed of 30 Mbps over a distance of 100 m:

• WiFi (Wi-Fi 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n);
• microusb(0);
• bluetooth (v4.0);
• GPS (support A-GPS);
• WiFi Hotspot (Wi-Fi Access Point);
• bluetooth A2DP (High Quality Stereo Audio Transmission).

Additional pluses are the presence of such functional applications as a flashlight and an accelerometer, which determines the spatial position of the device and, in accordance with this, changes the information displayed on the display. The accelerometer provides the ability to comfortably use the phone in any comfortable position and is indispensable when using a pedometer and for active games.

Camera

One of the important indicators when choosing a smartphone at the moment for the average user is the characteristics of photo and video shooting. How she photographs, and what quality selfies are obtained is the main question of buyers. Having a good camera is an essential attribute of a popular phone and VERTEX Impress Phonic has something to be proud of in this regard.

• rear camera (13 MP);
• resolution (4160*3120 pixels);
• video ();
• flash (LED(LCD));
• front camera (5 MP);
• front camera resolution (2592*1944 pixels);
• front camera video ().

Such card parameters and conventional focusing and autofocus built into the optics provide high speed pointing and object recognition, which allows you to increase the sharpness and clarity of images and shoot high-quality videos. It's a pity the lack of a front-facing camera flash makes it difficult to take selfies in the dark, but the rear-facing LED flash on the main camera produces contrasty photos that are no different from what the Impress Phonic shoots in the daytime or how it photographs at night.

To improve the quality of shooting and eliminate shortcomings in the transfer of details, manufacturers have endowed the camera with useful properties:

• autofocus;
• continuous shooting;
• geotagging;
• HDR
• face recognition;
• ISO settings;
• touch focus.

Where and for how much can I buy this model profitably?

With slight differences in price, the Impress Phonic smartphone can be purchased from 2018 in its own VERTEX online store, but also, of course, on various other online resources and in online electronics stores.

How much does a reliable phone with such characteristics cost from other manufacturers? Either it will be a low-quality device, or a rather expensive price. The average price for this model is 6990 rubles.

Summing up, we can highlight minor disadvantages and a large number of advantages.

• aesthetically pleasing design;
• comfortable in using;
• user-friendly interface;
• reliable protection of the case and internal information;
• good camera setting;
• widescreen display;
• great functionality of the hardware;
• low price.

• short cord for charging;
• low battery power;
• small amount of memory.

After analyzing the above information, we can confidently conclude that the shortcomings that are present in the VERTEX Impress Phonic are so insignificant that they are easily covered by the advantages of this model. The perfect combination of cost and features of a smartphone.