8/2/12

review Cross X Andromeda A7




design

Dimensions: 12.5 x 6.7 x 1.2 cm; full touchscreen; plastic material; 3.5 mm audio port; mic hole; the power / lock, volume rocker, microUSB port; (around phones from the top); 4 haptic buttons below the screen (menu , home, back and search)
It is nothing new when China adopted the design of mobile phones have been branded a widely recognized, as did the w & g gadgets found on this A7 Andromeda.

This phone seems to adopt the design of Lumia 900 made ​​by Nokia, but not completely. Area with metal accents that cover the main camera lens is placed slightly to the left, not the middle as well as on Lumia.
Back cover of this phone can also be opened to access the battery, SIM and microSD card slot, while not so in Lumia.

Display

IPS capacitive touch screen panel, LCD WVGA 480x800 pixels, 4.3 inches (~ 217 ppi pixel density), multi-touch
The screen became one of the hallmarks Andromeda A7, where the phone has become one of China's mobile phone with the screen width. And that becomes an important point for users of course a relatively friendly price tag.

This phone uses IPS panel LCD screen, it's just that you should not expect the phone screen will display the quality of the iPhone's equivalent of the retina display 4 which also uses the LG panel display manufacturers.

Although relatively cheap for an Android phone with big screen, this phone uses capacitive technology that will only respond to the touch of a finger or special stylus to static electricity. In addition to support multi-touch you can enlarge (zoom) the image on the display screen with just a pinch gesture (pinch).


Operating System and UI

Android OS, v2.3.6 (gingerbread), Switch Style
Starting from your lockscreen will be directly served the time, date and day plus other important notifications such as missed calls or incoming messages.

Display home has 5 panel side by side with three virtual buttons on the side of the dock area of ​​the screen, each is a telephone, and messaging application drawer.

Interestingly you can create a folder to bring together some of the icons of your application to be more well-organized and easy when searched. Android-style display You can change this default style by pressing the menu button and then click Switch Style.


Personalize with Video Wallpaper

You are already familiar with the Android operating system would be familiar with the features of Live wallpapers, which you can use wallpaper featuring animatif or effects that allow you to interact with the touch.
A7 take one step more advanced features than just Live Wallpaper, Video Wallpaper phone call.
As the name implies, the user can select the video files stored in the phone to be used as wallpaper. Users can even specify a particular part to be screened.

Telephone features

Dual GSM SIM, Call Recorder
Dual SIM mobile phone is identical with the local or Chinese products, but in fact some of the branded vendors such as Samsung and LG already adopted this technology in its products and Optimus Galaxy Y Duos Dual-SIM, and even other vendors such as Sony and was followed by Xperia HTC Dual Tipo, Desire V and VC. This phone also supports it technologically.

The interesting thing on the features of mobile telephony is not just the Dual SIM capability, but you also can record your phone conversations. w & g gadget was confused at first tried it because the phone does not provide information on where the records are stored. But with a little exploration w & g gadget find recordings that are stored on the folder "PhoneRecord" on the memory card. To access this folder, users can use the application File Explore ES provided by default.


camera

5 MP, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection, a secondary camera: 1.3MP; VGA video recording @ 30fps
For the size of a smartphone for sejutaan, 5MP resolution brought Andromeda A7 quite tempting especially this camera comes with a number of interesting settings.

A7 has a choice of 4 focus modes, 15 scene modes, eight color effects, six capture modes, choice of burst mode, focus meterface detection and some other interesting options.

Barely there, the phone also mdilengkapi front camera for video call, unfortunately produced disappointing picture quality.


results Camera

Compared to mobile phones in its class, the catch A7 is quite satisfactory. This phone is able to produce images with natural color and contrast quality and sharpness is quite good. Unfortunately, when transferred to the front of the camera, the resulting image is very bad. Used in the room with the room lighting is displayed appears much darker than its natural state.


FM Transmitter

As with any other Android, the mobile phone is of course equipped with a standard entertainment features like music player and video by default. Also available as an alternative FM Radio playlist you start to feel boring.

But there is another interesting feature of this phone is, the FM Transmitter. This feature allows the phone to emit radio waves at a frequency determined. A7 can even help provide options that are not used by the wave radio station.

Afterwards you can listen to music played on the A7 in the Andromeda device that features FM Radio, for example, your car audio device.

Not only the music, the voice of the playable video or telephone conversations using a mobile phone is also broadcast live on radio waves which have been previously determined.


excess

• Android gingerbread
• Widescreen
• Dual SIM
• 5 MP Camera
• FM Transmitter
• Telephone Recorder
• Relatively Cheap Price

shortage

• Slow Performance

conclusion
Talking about performance, the Chinese Android phone is still difficult to compete with branded products. Moreover, for push prices to remain low, the vendor would have to sacrifice some things.

Strength of China's mobile phone instead on some additional features that sounded trivial and rarely adopted by branded mobile phone products, but bringing the benefits of, or at least can add style to users. For the A7, this phone brings a number of features such as Video Wallpaper, recording phone conversations and FM transmitter w & g which is very interesting gadget




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