Highscreen omega q characteristics. Highscreen Omega Q - what kind of person are you, Omega? Design, dimensions, control elements
General characteristics
Type
Deciding on the type of device (phone or smartphone?) is quite simple. If you need a simple and inexpensive device for calls and SMS, it is recommended to choose a telephone. A smartphone is more expensive, but it offers a wide variety of options: games, videos, the Internet, thousands of programs for all occasions. However, its battery life is significantly less than that of a regular phone.
smartphone operating system(at the start of sales) Android 4.1 Case type classic Controls touch buttons Number of SIM cards 2 Weight 135 g Dimensions (WxHxD) 66x134.5x9 mmScreen
Screen type color IPS, touch Diagonal 4.5 inches. Image Size 960x540 Pixels per inch (PPI) 245 Aspect Ratio 16:9 Automatic screen rotation There isMultimedia capabilities
Number of main (rear) cameras 1 Main (rear) camera resolution 5 MP Rear flash Recording videos There is Front-camera yes, 0.3 MP Audio MP3, FM radio Headphone jack 3.5 mmConnection
Standard GSM 900/1800/1900, 3G Interfaces
Almost all modern smartphones have Wi-Fi and USB interfaces. Bluetooth and IRDA are a little less common. Wi-Fi is used to connect to the Internet. USB is used to connect your phone to a computer. Bluetooth is also found in many phones. It is used to connect wireless headphones, to connect the phone to wireless speakers, as well as for transferring files. A smartphone equipped with an IRDA interface can be used as universal remote control remote control. Glossary of terms for the category Mobile phones
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB Satellite navigation
Built-in GPS and GLONASS modules allow you to determine the phone's coordinates using signals from satellites. If there is no GPS modern smartphone can determine its own location based on signals from base stations mobile operator. However, finding coordinates using satellite signals is usually much more accurate. Glossary of terms for the category Mobile phones
GPSMemory and processor
CPU
Modern phones and smartphones usually use special processors - SoC (System on Chip, system on a chip), which, in addition to the processor itself, houses the graphics core, memory controller, input/output device controller, etc. Therefore, the processor largely determines the set of functions and device performance. Glossary of terms for the category Mobile phones
Qualcomm MSM8225Q, 1200 MHz Number of processor cores 4 Video processor Adreno 203 Built-in memory capacity 4 GB Volume random access memory 1 GB Memory card slot Yes, up to 32 GBAlpha, Beta, Gamma... Omega, the twenty-fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, and, concurrently, the last. It would be logical to assume that a device with such a name should be the simplest in its line, but no - this device is positioned by the manufacturing company Highscreen as a sub-flagship (second in the hierarchy of “coolness”), the first place was taken by, which is practically complete analogue of last year Galaxy flagship S3 from Samsung, but at a significantly lower cost. What will the user get for his $282, will it be a worthy “workhorse”, or really the last letter of the alphabet? Let's figure it out together.
Packaging and equipment
Like all other devices from this company, Highscreen Omega Q comes in an environmentally friendly cardboard box, on which everything is beautifully displayed and beautifully painted. specifications. However, its appearance has undergone some changes here, the texture of the cardboard has changed. Whether it has become better or worse is difficult to say; I liked the design of the old boxes better. Opening it, inside you will find a phone, a couple of stickers with two IMEI and serial number, user manual, warranty card, earbuds (earbuds), microUSB-USB cable and Charger with an output voltage of 5V. Everything is standard, no frills.
Appearance, build quality and materials, ease of use
More and more often, lately I have been hearing people’s complaints that new devices are “impersonal” and are “black rectangular bars”, and even though I don’t exactly agree with this, Highscreen Omega Q directly confirms these theses as well as possible, there are no There is simply nothing for the eye to catch on with designer delights; “out of a thousand in the crowd” you certainly won’t recognize him. However, it is worth considering the fact that this is a classic “work machine”, dual-SIM and designed to be in your pocket at any time of the day, wherever you are; you are unlikely to take care of it or care about the safety of its appearance. The triumph of black color (front and back) is slightly diluted with a silver line running along the entire perimeter of the device’s body. By the way, it is plastic, but this is not immediately clear; the resemblance to aluminum (or other metal) is very high and it is easy to make a mistake at a casual glance.
What do we imagine when we hear “ chinese phone"? Something so terrible and ugly, unpleasant and simply unbearable for any living creature on the planet, but the trend of releasing “premium” Chinese devices can be seen more and more clearly - somehow or simply changing this opinion for the better. Our patient today, alas, does not belong to the top class in any way, but is assembled and made quite decently, although not without its drawbacks - there is a vanishingly small play in the upper end and over time the lower part of the back cover begins to creak (the latter, however, manifests itself only if you take it off and put it on often, initially everything is tip-top and very good). One could also complain about the varnished glossy plastic, from which the entire back surface of the smartphone is made, but now this is common on almost every device, and there are people who prefer it to others available options, so if this is a minus, it is dubious and purely individual for each individual person. Otherwise, I had no questions about the assembly of this device, although the glass could have been better - after a long interaction with flagship devices, the difference is immediately noticeable, it gets dirty very easily and is difficult to wipe off from fingerprints.
The arrangement of the working elements here is somewhat non-standard, because under the display there are as many as four buttons, as in the best times of the formation of the Android operating system - “home”, “menu”, “back” and a rudimentary “search”. This layout does not cause any complaints, even somewhat unusual by today's standards.
On the right side there is a paired volume key, and on the top is the power key. For this I would like to scold the company’s engineers, because the dimensions here are definitely not “iPhone”, this is a fairly large device, and to press a key you have to reach up with your index finger (or grab your smartphone), which is often inconvenient or simply not possible due to for the high probability of the smartphone falling to the ground.
Screen and image quality
By the way, let's press the power key, because the screen, whatever one may say, is the main link in the human-smartphone chain. We feel a distinct click with our finger (this is inherent in all the buttons here, the vibration is also very pleasant, which is good) and voila! – a 4.5-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels (qHD, 245 PPI) appears before us in all its limited beauty. Is it a lot or a little, why “limited beauty”?
I won’t be lying if I say that I didn’t experience any problems such as excessive pixelation of the image or anything like that while using the device - except that the display of small font in the browser was affected, and that’s all. The colors are quite saturated, although they can hardly be called close to reality - however, there is no “green” or “blue” here, the main problem lies not here at all, but in the whitish black (it’s more like gray, albeit very dark ), low viewing angles and almost zero visibility in bright sunlight, the screen fades greatly and becomes very difficult to use, it does not have enough contrast. It may seem strange, but the brightness here is quite sufficient, turn it up to the maximum, turning it off along the way auto mode, I would not recommend it - there is a high risk of starting to catch red bunnies due to the resulting spectacular light shock to the eyes in the darkness of the night.
Camera
As you may know (especially if you're listening), I don't like to take photographs - I do it rarely and reluctantly, usually only when absolutely necessary. However, I wouldn't take this phone on, say, a vacation to capture a lot of scenic photos and moments - it's definitely not just another "galaxy" that allows you to take decent photos mobile devices pictures. Low detail, noise that comes through here and there even during the day, “dips” in the dark - all this is about the 5 MP camera built into this smartphone. Neither give nor take, as they say. The situation with video is similar; you are unlikely to want to post it anywhere, or simply store it on your computer.
I suggest you just forget about the front 0.3 MP module like a bad dream.
Impressions from working with the device
Reading all the criticism from above, you might think that there are no advantages at all, but this is not so - they exist, and relate directly to the operation of the smartphone itself. The operating system used here is a slightly modified version of Android 4.1.2 (kernel version 3.4.0), and works surprisingly well; This is most likely due to optimization of programs (certainly not with the power of the device itself), but most of them behave just fine on the local quad-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8225Q processor (Adreno 203 video accelerator)! No slowdowns in everyday use (which means making calls, surfing the Internet, reading Pocket, Twitter and others social networks), I didn’t notice - however, it’s worth installing a third-party “launcher” like Apex or Nova for a better effect, the standard one does not work as smoothly as we would like.
Do not forget that this smartphone is a dual-SIM device, which means it supports working with two miniSIM cards simultaneously, with some reservations.
Contents of delivery:
- Telephone
- Battery
- Wired headset
- Power adapter with USB cable
- Warranty card
- Film on screen
Introduction
As soon as cheap quad-core chips were released, smartphone manufacturers began purchasing them en masse and using them in all their devices. For example, the Fly company didn’t even bother with some models: the same body, the same controls, screen, battery, and so on, but there is a processor with four cores on board. Highscreen is in roughly the same situation now. All new products are either based on Qualcom chips or Emtek chips. There is nothing wrong with this; on the contrary, high speed in budget devices is great. But sometimes, apparently, it is worth releasing one or two successful models rather than producing some “entities”.
Today we'll talk about Omega Q, from my point of view, a very strange smartphone. Judge for yourself: on the one hand - powerful processor, good display diagonal, not the highest price; on the other hand, there is a low-quality screen matrix, a primitive camera and a battery with a capacity of only 1600 mAh, and on top of that, a glossy black back cover! But first things first.
Design, dimensions, control elements
The device has a rectangular shape, the corners are slightly beveled, the upper and lower ends are slightly convex. The screen frames are quite large: 4.5 mm on the right and left, 17 mm on the top, and 18 mm on the bottom. Omega Q looks strictly, there are no decorative elements. Dimensions 134x66x9 mm, weight 135 grams. The usual dimensions for most phones with 4.5-inch screens, it’s good that at least the thickness is small.
The front side is protected by glass, underneath there is glossy black plastic. The thin edging forms a small side. Along the perimeter there is a chrome-plated plastic insert made to look like metal. Back cover made of black glossy plastic. Naturally, the surface of the entire phone is very easily soiled, fortunately, fingerprints are easily erased.
Everything is fine with the assembly: it doesn’t creak, doesn’t play, and doesn’t crunch when squeezed in your hand, but the central area of the back panel bends a little towards the battery. The Highscreen fits quite well in the hand due to the fact that the body is slightly elongated vertically and has a relatively small thickness.
On the top of the front side there is a speech speaker. Its volume is average, there is clearly not enough headroom, the timbre is not very pleasant, mainly high frequencies are heard. The interlocutor can be heard clearly, but intelligibility is not the best.
Next to the speaker there is a front camera and two sensors (lighting and proximity). They work great and there are no questions about them.
Below the display there are four touch buttons “Back”, “Menu”, “Home” and the archaic “Search”. They have a bright white backlight. The glow time is not adjustable; they go out after five seconds.
At the bottom there is a microUSB and a microphone, at the top there is a standard 3.5 mm audio output for headphones or a headset, and a power button. It is relatively narrow, but long, pressed gently, and the stroke is minimal. There are no elements on the left, and a volume rocker on the right. Thin and quite easy to handle.
On the back of the gadget there is a speaker, a flash and a camera, slightly rising above the body.
To remove the back panel, you need to pry it behind the special recess on the left. Above the battery on the right are two slots for regular large SIM cards, and to the left is a slot for a microSD memory card.
Comparative sizes:
Highscreen and HTC One
Highscreen and Apple iPhone 5
Display
This model has a screen with a diagonal of 4.5 inches. Physical size – 55x98 mm, aspect – 16x9, qHD resolution, i.e. 540x960 pixels, density – 244 pixels per inch. Pixelation is almost invisible. The manufacturer's website states that the matrix is made using IPS technology. Unfortunately, even if this is the case, its quality leaves much to be desired: if you look at the display on the right and left, the picture fades, if you tilt the phone away from you, the brightness decreases, and the colors are sharply inverted toward you. In general, this behavior is clearly not similar to IPS. The situation is saved only by high color saturation and good brightness of the matrix illumination at right viewing angles.
In the light the image looks normal, in the sun it fades, but remains quite readable.
In the screen settings, the proximity sensor and G-sensor are calibrated. Brightness can be adjusted manually or automatically.
Screen viewing angles:
Battery
The manufacturer decided to make fun of the consumer a little, so he couldn’t think of anything better how to install a 1600 mAh battery in a device with a quad-core processor and a 4.5-inch display. If you took such a step, it would be worth putting in the kit extra battery, even if it is of the same capacity. Most likely, a device with simpler parameters should have been released initially: for example, on MTK6577 - it consumes less and less energy. While we were thinking about launching the device, an inexpensive chip from Qualcomm arrived.
If you use the phone for about 6-7 hours, the battery will be completely discharged provided: 20-25 minutes of calls per day, 2 hours of constant use of Wi-Fi Internet (Twitter, mail, downloading applications and installing them), about 4- x hours of mobile Internet.
Antutu Tester:
You can listen only to music for 30 hours, watch only video (maximum screen brightness, high volume, movie resolution - HD 720p) - just over 2 hours. If you want to play games (for example, Modern Combat 4), the battery will run out after 1.5 hours.
Communication capabilities
The phone works in cellular networks 2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and 3G (900/2100 MHz). In this case, one SIM card functions only in 2G, the other in 2G or 3G.
Available Bluetooth version 3.0 (EDR) for file and voice transfer. Present wireless connection Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n. The device, of course, can be used as an access point (Wi-Fi Hotspot) or modem. In the settings, this item is listed as “Modem mode”. There is Wi-Fi Direct.
Memory and memory card
This model has 1 GB of RAM. On average, about 500 MB of “giga” RAM is free.
Built-in memory is 4 GB, about 2.5 GB is available for storing data and applications. There is a slot for a microSDHC memory card up to 32 GB (I haven’t tried installing 64).
Camera
Two camera modules are used here: the main one is 5 MP with autofocus, the front one is 0.3 MP. The maximum resolution of photos is 2592x1944 pixels, videos - 1280x720 at 24 frames per second.
The photo quality is mediocre, the main complaints are about the exposure metering: the frames come out either overexposed or dark, it is not possible to maintain balance even with the HDR function. Detailing is weak, color rendition is normal. Focusing is relatively fast and accurate.
Shooting videos is not better photo. It seems that a higher bitrate is not enough, since in motion the image crumbles into squares, and besides, there are only 24 frames. But the sound is clear.
If you set the aspect ratio to 16x9, you can take photos and videos simultaneously from two cameras. A separate window appears with a broadcast of the image from the front camera.
It’s strange, but in this mode the videos receive even fewer frames and worst quality: fps – 21, and when the camera moves, almost the entire picture crumbles into artifacts.
Video file characteristics:
- File Format: 3GP
- Video codec: MPEG-4, 12.4 Mbit/s
- Resolution: 1280 x 720, 30 fps
- Audio codec: AAC, 128 Kbps
- Channels: 1 channel, 16 kHz
Examples of photos taken with the main camera:
Panorama:
Example of a photo taken with the front camera:
Performance and Software Platform
Smartphone Highscreen Omega Q operates on Qualcomm’s chipset – Snapdragon S4 Play, model number – MSM8225Q. It uses a quad-core ARM Cortex-A5 processor, technological process which is 45 nm, the instruction set is ARMv7, the frequency of each core is 1.2 GHz. The graphics accelerator is Adreno 203.
If we compare the MTK6589 and MSM8225Q chipsets, the latter definitely loses: it cannot play FullHD video (it records 720p with great difficulty). Does not support cameras larger than 8 MP, weaker graphics capabilities (output speed 49 m/s and 294 m/s pixel fill rate versus 55/1600 for MTK6589), 45 nm process technology versus 28 nm for MTK6589.
However, most complex games run without problems (tested on Modern Combat 4), the interface does not lag or glitch.
brief information and performance tests:
The device works in the operating room Google system Android versions 4.1. On this moment There are no other firmwares. Most likely, 4.2 will be available, since it has already been released on the Alpha GTX.
Highscreen Omega Q - A simple review of a smartphone called a sub-flagship for some reason
11.08.2013
Lyrical introduction
This review falls into the "simple" category. Those. I did not use the Highscreen Omega Q as my combat smartphone. Almost.
Highscreen is a unique company. I don't know anyone else like him. So that it would be completely impossible to guess from the initial performance characteristics of the device whether you will like this device or not. So that half of the smartphones evoke the reaction “wow, they did a good thing,” and the second - “oh, what is this and why?”
And I praised their previous two smartphones...
Brief conclusion
And everything would be fine if it weren’t for the viewing angles. If you tilt the device towards you, then at an angle of 45 degrees you can’t see anything at all. Inversion of colors in all its glory. Bring the bottom corner closer to you - the color rendition does not suffer much, but the picture instantly becomes faded, a good black color turns into a nondescript gray.
In general, the behavior is similar to that of simple TFT-TN matrices. I've never seen this with IPS. I had no idea that IPS matrices could be so bad. Or were they simply confused, the specification was written incorrectly and we have a typical TN matrix?
Behavior in the sun? So-so.
Operating system and other software
Clean operating room Android system 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. No shells, no pre-installed software. Everything is fine.
Battery
Battery capacity - 1600 mAh. Such volumes in mid-2013 are perceived as very modest. And yes, the battery is weak. Two hours of not the most powerful game is the worst result in this test for the entire time that I have been conducting this testing. 4 hours 40 minutes of regular video or 3 hours of exactly HD video - it’s also never been worse. At the same time, a pure white screen lasts almost 10 hours. Not a record, but worthy. That is, it seems that the main battery devourer is not the screen, but the hardware.
Just one morning I put my combat SIM card into Omega Q. And he went somewhere. I was driving almost the entire time, so I can’t say that the device was too active that day. Well, half an hour of Twitter, half an hour of navigator. In fact, that's all. To my surprise, even before sunset the device was completely discharged.
The video is recorded in a resolution of 1280x720, but I personally was not pleased with the quality. Example.
Highscreen Omega Q as a GPS navigator
Alas, a frankly weak battery does not make it possible to seriously consider Omega as a navigator.
The smartphone does not know about GLONASS satellites. Two cold start attempts yielded results of three and a half and seven minutes, respectively, which is quite tolerable.
Highscreen Omega Q as a video player
The pre-installed video player is not very comprehensive, so it is better to install something like MX Player and watch the video through a software decoder. Up to HD resolution inclusive, there are no problems. FullHD - sometimes lags occur and sound desynchronization may occur. But, let’s say, the cartoon that I show in the “demonstration of work” is shown quite well even in FullHD.
Highscreen Omega Q as an audio player
Standard headphones - hug and throw away. Good headphones- in principle, not bad. But somehow there is absolutely no volume reserve.
Highscreen Omega Q and the Internet
Omega is well suited for surfing the Internet and reading Twitter and VKontakte. Comfortable screen size, normal resolution, sufficient hardware power for such tasks.
Highscreen Omega Q is an elegant fashion smartphone in a thin body with a 4.5-inch screen diagonal. The stylish device easily and naturally works in highly loaded applications, featuring excellent graphics, an abundance of touch devices and correct support for 2 SIM cards.
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