To increase the autonomy of the device in different ways, for example, to use modern components that will eventually lead to higher total cost. You can also take the battery in high capacity and to combine it with legacy hardware that does not require a lot of energy.
But there is a third option: assemble the smartphone is quite relevant components and equip it with a very capacious battery, as did the new BQ Strike Powermax 4G. This smartphone is already sold in the Russian market at the price of 7,500 rubles, and it is available in three body colors – black, gold and gray.
In our case, the new Powermax 4G is gray, and, looking ahead, we note that chosen for his color not really grey, but when buying you need to stop it, because that’s how beautiful even the infamous IPhone will never happen. Read more about flowers talk section, but for now let’s get to unpacking.
Packaging
So, the new BQ Strike Powermax 4G comes in a traditional BQ double cardboard box, made, first, for beauty, and secondly, for additional premium, third, for greater reliability, because the more layers of packaging, especially of thick, as here, the cardboard, the lower the possibility of damage to the gadget when transporting.
Protective box functionality with BQ Strike Powermax 4G on top, but still above its informational content: it gives an idea about the appearance of the smartphone and its key features, and configuration along with hardware characteristics. On the back, by the way, shows all three available shade of the hull, and the gray is drawn correctly – he’s probably bronze, and is very original.
Equipment
A number of accessories smartphone BQ Strike Powermax 4G, alas, is not happy: everything here is Spartan and simple, minimalist, even headphones are not brought, although the entry under the next round of smartphone features. Of additional accessories note only the protective film pre-applied on the front panel of the chassis.
Everything else, like a data cable, user manual, warranty card and AC charger, but without the quick charge – only 5 volts and 2 amperes with no other options. Express charging, of course, would not hurt since the energy is compensated by a complete smartphone memory long enough to pump 5000 mAh is not so simple.
Features
BQ Strike Powermax 4G is not the flagship smartphone by modern standards it can be attributed to devices basic level, if judged from the point of view of CPU and memory. But the screen, communication modules, firmware is definitely his positive side, which can be attributed also both cameras. But everything in order, and consider first the full list of components.
– screen: 5.5 inch, HD, IPS, 1280×720 pixels;
– processor: MediaTek MT6737, 4 cores, 1,25 GHz;
– video card: built in, Mali-T720;
– memory: 1 GB RAM, 8 GB ROM, microSD up to 128 GB;
– operating system: Android 7, interface, Material UI;
– interfaces: microSD, microUSB 2.0, 2xSIM, 3.5 mm;
– wireless connectivity: GSM, 3G, LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, FM;
camera: basic 13 MP, front 8MP;
– battery: non-removable, Li-polymer, 5000 mAh;
– features: a fingerprint scanner;
– dimensions: 155х78х10 mm;
– weight: 198 grams;
– casing material: plastic, metal;
– case color: black, Golden, gray.
Total, the smartphone for 7500 rubles has a very powerful battery, modern operating system and support LTE along with VoLTE, but no normal memory modules and RAM and ROM is very small as the smartphone in 5000 rubles.
Appearance
The exterior is one of the main advantages of the smartphone BQ Strike Powermax 4G, especially in that color, which is called BQ grey. This is one of the few machines on which you really want to see that you want to touch. Grey here is a masterpiece: it’s so deep, rich, even rich, that just beyond words, and the camera all the game color to convey is also not. It is necessary to look with your own eyes, because it is never grey, it’s bronze color, and one thing is certain: as of October 2017, none of the available smartphones in this shade did not come out. Black and gold color – it is trivial, almost every cell is painted, and then obviously the original shade, which worked.
But enough of the praises, now dry facts. The front panel of the smartphone in our case, black and the brand, touch the control buttons are missing and replaced by on-screen for that unit minus the fat. Above the screen are all standard sensors of approximation and lighting, camera Yes a speaker in the back is the main camera with flash, fingerprint scanner and the bars of the main loudspeaker, the lower bound has a microphone, so I placed the inputs under the headphones, and charging cable. The volume buttons and the inclusion are, as always, on the right side. Under the rear cover there are giant size removable battery and three separate slots, two SIM and one microSD, supports hot-swapping. The back bar BQ Strike Powermax 4G is made of metal and has a plastic insert to output antennas. Thanks to its material and rough surface of the fingerprint features.
Ergonomics
Smartphone BQ Strike Powermax 4G has a standard for 5.5-inch models height and width, but it is smaller iPhone 8 Plus due to a more compact upper and lower part of the screen. For women this machine would be too big and, most importantly, heavy: weight it really feels good in the hand, and the General style gives him a purely masculine smartphone. It is possible that the exterior of the Golden version will produce the exact opposite impression, but at our disposal it is not.
Case thickness of the smartphone is up to 10 millimeters, and that, on the one hand, a lot, on the other hand, it provides very sure grip smartphone do not slip out of your hands, no matter how you try. For comparison, a very thin flagship OnePlus 5, on the contrary, is constantly falling, and use it without a case because it is impossible.
Metal back cover is removable pretty easy, which for devices from BQ is very very rare, and in General to use the smartphone itself is quite comfortable, no unpleasant emotions or sensations in the process of exploitation it has caused. Even before dactyloscopy no need to reach – it is right where it should be.
And no, there is one drawback in smartfonchik: where the hell is the individual touch button? Why buying a smartphone with a screen of 5.5 inches, the resulting 5 inches and a length of the given under the painted buttons? It’s just terrible, even the Chinese Xiaomi smartphones cost 7-8 thousand rubles these buttons have. Fail and have to retake to the time of release BQ Strike Powermax 4G second generation, everything was fixed. Plus, you can note the wrong location of the primary dynamics: it is constantly closed by hand, a stand or countertop.
Screen
The display at the BQ Strike Powermax 4G notable: large, solid, and even HD does not spoil the impression because of the grain there, and the scale of the image can be reduced programmatically and get a great likeness Full HD. Seriously, this is the case.
The matrix screen there is a good – IPS wide-and, most importantly, honest angles. If you look at almost 180 degrees, there’s a noticeable inversion of the black, but on speed, as they say, no impact – during use it will not be noticeable.
Screen brightness is not enough, but only a little: in the sun the readability is maintained, however, could be a little better. The glass coating could not be assessed due to the presence of the factory film, and the touch layer we tested, reacts very sensitively and properly by reading up to 2 simultaneous touches. In the end, the screen at BQ Strike Powermax 4G is very pleased with the score of 4+ out of 5 possible.
Sound
Earpiece BQ Strike Powermax 4G default relatively quiet, often have to listen to what the interlocutor says, as indoors and outdoors. The situation is remedied through the engineering menu for a couple of minutes – the instructions and the software is on the Internet.
To the basic dynamics of the issues have arisen, with the exception of its deployment: loud enough at maximum slightly pohramyvaet, but high and mid frequency outputs properly, and even has hints of bass.
With microphone, alas, all is so rosy: in this instance the sensitivity of this component left much to be desired, but it is by default: all the same engineering menu saves the day. At the same time, the microphone is practically not susceptible to wind noise, and this is its main and very strong advantage.
Fingerprint scanner
Dactyloscopy in BQ Strike Powermax 4G launched on the back panel and located so that to it could reach all users, regardless of the length of their fingers. The rate of positives is quite high – between touching and unlocking takes less than one second, which is good for budget decisions.
But the accuracy, on the contrary, low: 10 target touches the print was recognized in 6 cases. To increase the accuracy by creating additional print of the same finger, and in this case of the 10 taps correctly processed for 8.
Camera
Camera from BQ Strike Powermax 4G is relatively good, especially on the surprise front: takes excellent (for its price, of course) by day and under poor artificial lighting. The main camera also copes with the duties in sunlight, but in twilight reduces detail, but the noise in the photo becomes much more.
Work both cameras very fast autofocus in the main camera snapper, triggers, as a rule, unmistakable, and touch focus too. Flash, however, not happy: it’s dim due to the use of the tiny size of the led, and because the picture quality is not affected. As a flashlight it can be used, but in fact, shines noticeably brighter.
Software
With the smartphone everything is exactly the same as in most models of sample BQ 2017: in addition to the standard Google apps added 9 more third-party, to remove which it is impossible – only disabled. The list includes AppsPress, which, as you can see in the screenshot, cluttering up the desktop with shortcuts to even more junk apps. There’s only one way to remove all this obscenity: by rooting support, but this is beyond the knowledge of most users.
The rest is pure Android OS without any additional settings, but it arrives regularly updates, as shown in the screenshot. The firmware works very quickly, without brakes and lags, but the memory of the smartphone, as mentioned earlier, very little: from 1 GB of RAM after the first run available only 217 MB, which is a consequence of the presence of third-party applications. 8 GB ROM user available 3.83 GB.
Performance
In BQ Strike Powermax 4G has a powerful for its class MediaTek processor MT6737, time-tested and capable of processing large amounts of data in moments. This was confirmed in the test GeekBench, where he earned 535 points in single-core mode and 1551 points in multi-core mode, but this is all about the computation power.
Graphics processor is rather weak and unsuitable for modern games with heavy 3D graphics in AnTuTu the smartphone has almost 29400 points, and Quadrant Standard – slightly more than 10600. However, for simple games, but also for all everyday tasks, including watching videos on YouTube in HD, a smartphone is more than enough.
Work offline
The smartphone is positioned as a long lasting battery is the essential component, and here the capacity is 5000 mAh honest, given its size and overall weight of the phone. On the background is not the most power hungry components of the smartphone BQ Strike Powermax 4G needs to operate without recharging for a very long time, and it copes with it.
Almost three days – just enough to drain the battery from 100 to 0% with moderate use. For a modern smartphone is not just good, it’s a great indicator that many top models endowed with an energy efficient CPU, not capable of this and live an average of 1.5 days.
When using BQ Strike Powermax 4G max that includes 4G, streaming video, toys, surfing the web, instant messengers and all this with maximum screen brightness and without breaks, during the day, it is still possible to defuse it, but in this mode is not very popular gadgets. On charging from complete memory of the smartphone takes a long time – almost 5 hours.
Conclusion
Smartphone BQ Strike Powermax 4G pleased with its unique color of the body, and its main competitive advantage, along with a solid battery. The device is exclusively male due to their mass and thickness of the shell, it makes high-quality images and connects to cellular networks and, seemingly, all of them good, if not one nuance.
And it’s not even on-screen buttons because they can still be used, we are talking about small amounts of memory 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB ROM for the smartphone of 2017 is already very serious. If for you the main thing is to charge your smartphone as little as possible, and that it was metal, heavy and with a large bright screen, then take the BQ Strike Powermax 4G definitely will not regret, and even a bonus of a modern firmware with regular updates get.
Pros BQ Strike Powermax 4G
– capacious battery;
– fresh OS;
– firmware updates;
– metal housing;
good camera;
– support 4G.
Cons BQ Strike Powermax 4G
– not enough memory;
– on-screen control buttons;
– third party advertising.
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