Smartphone VERTEX Impress Wolf - advantages and disadvantages

The VERTEX Impress Wolf smartphone has become one of the many models of 2018 in the budget class. The diversity in the market of budget models has led to the fact that potential buyers began to ask the question “which one is better to buy?” Even the best phone manufacturers, having appreciated the popularity of budget-class models, began to actively release new items in this particular segment.

What is the price?

Let's start with the cost, because for many, the price of a phone is one of the main selection criteria. Buyers are trying to find a relatively inexpensive but reliable model, comparing prices in different places, trying to find where it is profitable to buy a phone. As mentioned earlier, the model is budgetary, so the average price in Russia is 3,500 rubles.

But such a low cost should not scare away buyers.Don't judge the quality of a phone by its price. After all, even the most expensive phones, despite all their advantages, also have disadvantages. Inexpensive phones are often on par with their more expensive competitors, and some features even make budget models the preferred choice.

Design and general characteristics of the model

Appearance

The phone is quite comfortable, has a classic plastic case. Other materials such as metal or glass are missing here. Of the external buttons, it has 2 side keys familiar to devices based on the Android operating system - an unlock and a combined volume control key. They press a little tight. Even in a child's hand, the phone is easy to hold, because it has a relatively small weight - 147 grams, and has dimensions that do not interfere with comfortable holding on either side - 72x143x10.3 mm.

General characteristics

Like many other models released in 2018, the VERTEX Impress Wolf phone runs on the Android 7.0 operating system. Despite its budget, the device has retained all the basic functionality inherent in a modern smartphone. So, VERTEX Impress Wolf supports 2 active SIM cards (dual-sim), has a micro-sd memory card slot, supports USB interface for synchronization with a computer, also supports bluetooth 4.0 devices, Wi-Fi and GPS networks.

Equipment

In terms of its configuration, the VERTEX Impress Wolf model is no different from its competitors. In addition to the phone itself, inside the package you can find a micro-USB cable used to connect to a computer (the standard cord length is 1m), a plug for charging from the mains, and a user manual. Looking at the price of the phone, it was hardly worth expecting gifts in the form of headphones, screen protectors or cases.

Screen

The screen diagonal is 5 inches, standard for a phone of this size, and the maximum resolution of the sides is 1280x720. This is quite enough for watching medium or low resolution video. The convenience of watching videos is supported by the auto-rotate screen function. It does not look very good in the sun, but this problem is easily eliminated by adding screen brightness.

The phone has a capacitive multi-touch display, which is able to work out no more than 3 touches at the same time. This is enough to work with the basic functions of the phone, but fans of playing games, especially the Action or RPG genre using their smartphone, will most likely not be satisfied with this situation. User reviews indicate that the sensor works stably, works even with a light touch, without requiring any effort.

Battery

The smartphone is equipped with a lithium-polymer battery with a capacity of 2200 mA/h.The phone withstands the standby time set by the developers at 240 hours, but for active games, surfing the Internet, watching movies and listening to music, this amount of battery, unfortunately, is not quite enough. This can be attributed to one of the few shortcomings of the phone. But when charging from the network, the smartphone shows how “nimble” it is. After all, a full charge from the network takes only 55 minutes. This is very convenient when there is simply no time for long-term charging of several hours.

The phone is charged using a micro-USB cable, to which, if necessary, there is a plug to connect to the network. The problem of a not quite powerful battery is easily solved by purchasing an additional external charger. In this case, you can forget about this lack of a phone. The phone is quite capable of working in active use mode for half a day, but if more is required of it - for example, a long road, where you can’t do without listening to music and actively using the Internet, an external charger will be a great helper.

CPU

The smartphone is equipped with a 4-core Spreadtrum SC9832 processor. Clock frequency - 1300 MHz. Compared to competitors who released their new products in the same time period, the processor is slightly inferior in clock speed, but this does not particularly affect performance. The phone is quite productive, in this regard it has mostly positive reviews - it can be freely used for games, applications, the Internet, video and music. There were no noticeable freezes during operation, the processor does not overheat even when performing several tasks at the same time.

Memory

RAM

If we talk about the amount of RAM used for the operation of the system itself, applications and games, then its volume is 1GB. When compared with modern flagships, it may seem that this volume is not quite enough. But for a budget model, this is quite a normal indicator. To service the processor of medium power installed in the phone - 1 GB of RAM is sufficient, and does not cause problems when using.

Inner memory

As for the internal memory, its volume is 8GB, and this is already an excellent indicator for a budget model, most of which receive half as much - 4GB of internal memory. Even without installing a Micro-SD card, this volume may well be enough not only to install all the necessary applications and games, but also to safely store multimedia files on the device - photos, videos and music. If this is not enough for the user, then the smartphone additionally supports the installation of a Micro-SD card, up to 32 GB.

In this case, installing applications and games is also possible on such a card, instead of the phone's memory. This, of course, is an advantageous advantage of the phone over competing models. Not all competitors have such an opportunity, because on many budget models, installing applications is allowed only in the root of the phone, in the built-in memory. It is not possible to install an application or game on a flash card in such MicroSD models.

Camera

Main camera

The smartphone is equipped with two cameras. The rear camera (main) has a maximum image resolution of 8 megapixels. This camera has an LED flash located below the camera itself.The camera interface allows you to make basic settings that affect the quality of pictures: focusing, sharpening, flash control, color effects, etc. True, most of these options are not available when shooting video.

Front-camera

The phone also has an additional front camera with a maximum resolution of 5 megapixels. Pictures from it, although inferior in quality to the main camera, but from this camera you can also get photos of good, average quality. You can see how the Vertex Impress Wolf takes pictures by looking at the sample photos from both cameras at the end of the article.

Examples of pictures from the front and rear camera of the phone:

Multimedia and other phone features

As for the sound, it is moderately loud, but quite high-quality, and in any mode - when listening through headphones and from the phone's speaker, when watching videos and when listening to music. Supports all major audio and video formats: MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, WMV, 3GP, 4GP, MP4, AVI and many more. It has a built-in FM-receiver (for operation, you need to connect headphones as an antenna), a standard headphone jack (3.5 mm), a flashlight (powered by the flash of the rear camera).

Conclusion

As mentioned earlier, in 2018 there were many smartphone models in the budget class. How to choose a really reliable phone? Many Internet portals even offer their readers a rating of high-quality and inexpensive new products. A worthy place in such a ranking could take the smartphone Vertex Impress Wolf. Due to not the most promoted brand, this phone is not included in the most popular models, although, as our review showed, it deserves it for its quality.It has a number of advantageous advantages over phones in the corresponding price category: high-quality sound, support for installing applications on a Micro-SD card, and a good user-friendly design.

Perhaps only a small battery power can be attributed to more or less tangible shortcomings. But, as we noted earlier, with the active use of the multimedia capabilities of the phone, the purchase of an external battery will be an excellent salvation. Then using the phone should not cause any serious complaints.

• convenient design;
• high-quality sound;
• installing applications on the microSD card.

• weak battery power;
• low clock frequency of the processor.

The Vertex Impress Wolf is well worth the money, being a high-quality budget-class smartphone that does not stand out for having any advanced features or technologies, but still meets all modern smartphone standards, as not only a means of communication, but also a multifunctional multimedia device.