Smartphones Prestigio: review, specs, reviews

Prestigio is a large Chinese electronics manufacturer. Its products are widely represented in several categories of devices: under this logo are produced tablets, record players, devices for the car and, of course, phones. We'll talk about them in this article.

Prestigio smartphones are positioned most often as budget, but functional devices. These are typical "Chinese", having promising technical characteristics and a lot of additional options. At the same time, the cost of such devices is relatively low - it is due to it, according to official information on the site, the company is conquering all new markets.

In fact, we can talk about the serious successes that Prestigio managed to achieve. Multiphone - a popular line of smartphones in the company's model range, is sold in almost 70 countries. As you can imagine, in the territory of the post-Soviet space, where such a class of devices is in demand, and also in the Eastern region (China, India) and some European countries, the described smartphones occupy high positions in the sales ratings. And let the popularity of the brand is much lower than that of the "top" brands, smartphones Prestigio still continue to be sold in millions of copies, enriching the company's shareholders.

To learn more about Prestigio, we will prepare an overview of several models sold under this brand. On them it will be possible to judge the quality of the product and what kind of reviews people leave about it.

Prestigio Multiphone 5550 Duo

This model is the current representative of the line of mobile devices of the brand, which is described in the review. This can be indicated by its presentation on the company's website (where, among other things, it can be purchased) as a "world of mobile entertainment." This indicates the multimedia orientation of the phone. What is the model? What technical parameters are characteristic for it?

Screen

Smartphone Prestigio Multiphone is equipped with a 5.5-inch display, covered with a protective glass Gorilla Glass 3. Its resolution is 1280 by 720 pixels - with it the clarity of the picture, the density of points on the screen meet high criteria.

Also, thanks to the IPS display technology on which the display functions, it is commendable to respond to viewing angles - they do not change as the smartphone leans over.

CPU

The phone operates on a 4-core processor capable of providing good performance. The clock frequency of the cores is up to 1.3 GHz, paired with 1 GB of RAM, these criteria allow us to state that before us - not the flagship, of course, but, rather, the "average" class of the device.

At the same time, it is well optimized for interaction with a battery whose capacity is 3000 mAh. Of course, this bundle allows us to talk about increased autonomy of the gadget.

Camera

Prestigio Multiphone smartphones are equipped with two cameras; The main one has a matrix resolution of 13 megapixels (interpolated with 8). The quality of pictures, judging by the feedback of buyers, is quite bearable - but far from being "excellent". The image quality is saved by a special sensor from Sony and laser autofocus.

We also need to praise the software part of the camera, which produces computing activity, processes images to the desired quality.

Smartphone Prestigio Grace X7 (7505)

This is another interesting device presented in the assortment of the developer. It, if you believe the technical characteristics, has more powerful equipment, and therefore has several advanced features.

Screen

The display, however, it does not concern - on the phone there is the same solution as in the case of Multiphone. Like the smartphone Prestigio Grace X5, the "seventh" generation of the developer installed a screen with a resolution of 720 at 1280 pixels. Provided that the physical size of its diagonal is 5 inches, we can conclude that the image density here is quite high and is about 300 points.

CPU

Version X5 runs on a 4-core "heart" with a clock speed of up to 1.3 GHz; While the smartphone Prestigio X7 operates on the basis of 8 cores with a frequency of up to 1.7. Accordingly, the performance between these lines is different. The amount of RAM that is used in the modification of x 7, reaches 2 GB, while the X5 has only 1 gigabyte. This characteristic significantly determines the speed and response speed of the smartphone.

Camera

Just like with the Multiphone, Grace has two cameras with a resolution of 13 and 5 megapixels. In this case, similarly, the manufacturer took care that the described smartphones Prestigio had the same software platform that provides high quality of images. In particular, it's focusing, quality sensor, flash.

Prestigio Wize

In the framework of this review, I would like to touch on one more group of models. It's about the smartphone Prestigio Wize, represented by modifications A3, D3, C3. If we talk briefly about this representative, then this is clearly a representative of budget devices. At least, its characteristics can testify to it.

Screen

Take at least a display. With its size of 5 (or 4.5) inches, it has a resolution of 480 to 854 pixels, which creates a low density of points. Due to this, image quality seriously suffers, the effect of "graininess" appears. The picture displayed on the screen can not compete with how the image is represented on other devices (which we mentioned above).

CPU

On the described smartphones Prestigio (reviews confirm this) installed 4-core "hearts", having a clock speed of up to 1.2 GHz. This is a relatively good indicator, unless you take into account the presence of 512 MB of RAM. This is really bad, because a modern smartphone will not be able to function properly with such a small operating resource. As a result, there can be various problems with speed, when you start the program, which will completely occupy this volume, the device will simply hang.

Camera

The fact that Wize smartphones are at a lower level of hierarchy than its "competitors" - other devices of the company, is also evidenced by the characteristics of the camera. As the main here is 5-megapixel, and secondary - 0.3-megapixel camera. The quality of shooting on them leaves much to be desired.

Prestigio Muze

The ruler of Muze devices, also included in reviews of smartphones Prestigio, is, to some extent, similar in its capabilities apparatus. It is also more budgetary than the same Multiphone, due to what and its characteristics are not so bright and indicative.

Screen

With the model display the situation is about the same as on the Wize models - low pixel density, low resolution, although still - the brightness and color saturation provided by the IPS function. When tilted, as the testimonies testify, the brightness of the image does not change, the picture remains saturated and does not "fade", which is already commendable.

CPU

As for the hardware platform, in this issue phones repeat the characteristics of Wize - it's a quad-core, acceptable base, combined with 512 MB. Not without reason, buyers who worked with this model, criticized the developers for this kind of savings when developing the device. Everyone writes that the smartphone "hangs" when downloading a particular program, which makes working with it not very comfortable.

Camera

Optics here are the same as the previous line of devices in our review. This is a 5-megapixel main matrix and 0.3-megapixel - secondary (front camera). The images are of medium quality, in some ways the stabilization system saves - but it, in general, is powerless against weak equipment. In this regard, developers also position the smartphone as a budget solution, from which one should not expect anything demonstrative.

Reviews

In fact, having looked through a lot of technical reviews, it's difficult to say anything about the device. The thing is that some parameters can be expressed (in digital form) the same way, whereas in practice the difference between them will be enormous. Therefore, in order to understand what is this or that device, it is necessary to pay attention to the reviews left by the buyers. So we will proceed.

Recommendations that we managed to find, mostly praise the device from Prestigio. The arguments include a wide range of smartphone data, high-quality technical equipment, a strong software platform, cheapness. If you collect these factors and give them one or the other device - indeed, you can get a very popular and beloved by everyone "bestseller" in the world of electronics. But even this is impossible, given the constant flaws, errors, various deviations of the smartphone's performance from the norm.

For example, in the reviews we were able to find information on the excessively rapid discharge of the battery. For what reasons it happens - it is difficult to say, most likely, the error lies in the wrongly organized work, in the absence of optimization of the interaction between the battery and the processor, and so on. But the fact remains - the user sees that his device, equipped with a capacious battery, is not able to hold a charge more than a day.

Another situation is marriage in some smartphones. Since we are talking about Chinese manufacturers whose reputation is significantly undermined by low-quality goods, the buyer may well expect some kind of dirty trick, a defect and so on. Again, an example from the reviews is a blurry image from the camera. Perhaps, somehow the lens of the camera has failed, and another option is the presence of system errors. Whatever it was, again, the buyer does not understand why the 13 megapixels purchased by him are not even removed by 1.

Sometimes the cause of problems are substandard (or insufficiently high-quality) components. Here, for example, touch screens on the Multiphone. If you ever had the opportunity to get acquainted with this smartphone, then for sure you could notice an excessively high degree of sensor sensitivity - the main control element. Even if you have slightly damp hands and you touch the screen - the device starts to "go crazy." In some situations, this "sensitivity" is really positive, allowing the smartphone to react more quickly - but at the same time, the developers had to think about other cases.

All this is real information and, perhaps because of their existence, there is some mistrust on the part of the client towards this brand.

conclusions

However, each of us has our own prejudices - and the fact that they have developed independently with respect to each manufacturer of mobile devices is a fact. There are people who, going to cheap Chinese smartphones (and Prestigio is just that, since its cost does not exceed $ 200), are satisfied. Moreover, there are those who become real fans of this category of devices, beginning with the time to purchase the same tablet, headphones and other types of electronics.

If Prestigio with its models (which we described above) you are interested in, perhaps even as an assistant to the old smartphone, it is worth buying a phone of this brand and see how it behaves in real life. In case of success (and this also may well be), you will continue to refer to smartphones from Prestigio.

Finally, even if their products do not inspire you, there are a number of other Chinese brands also gaining rapid popularity. But this is already a story for another article.