Tablet "Megaphone Login 2": characteristics, firmware

The company "Megaphone" - one of the pioneers of the Russian market of mobile devices, released under the brand of a mobile operator. In many Western countries this format of sales of electronics has existed for many years, in our country it is only gaining momentum. According to many experts, the possibilities of the very first tablet from the operator - the device "Login" - were very modest.

In turn, the second product functions, as experts believe, should be significantly more. The new tablet - "Megaphone Login 2" - the characteristics, experts believe, should have more impressive. Moreover, many experts are sure that the operator released its second "tablet" on the market with a specific goal: to make the device one of the leaders in its segment. Due to what characteristics the device from "Megaphone" will withstand competition with the decisions of other players of the "big three"?

Design, dimensions

First, with what we will begin to study the tablet "Megaphone Login 2" - the characteristics of the case. Its main body is made of black smooth plastic. Edging of the case of a silvery hue. The tablet has rather small dimensions. Its length is 198 mm, width - 122, thickness - 12. The apparatus is quite convenient to hold with one hand. At the top of the case - the volume control button, next to the power button. The main part of the slots is on the right side. There's an audio jack and a microUSB output. There is an outward slot for microSD, as well as for a standard SIM card. The body of the brand-manufacturer decided to make an all-in-one. Experts note the high quality of the assembly of the tablet body.

Display

The screen is covered with a sheath of plastic, sufficiently resistant to scratching. Diagonal display - 7 inches, resolution - 1024 by 600 pixels, manufacturing technology - TFT, type - capacitive. Supports up to 262 thousand colors. Since the technology of the matrix is not the most modern, the quality of the picture can vary under different viewing angles.

At the same time, experts say, for most users this feature will not bring any discomfort, since almost always video or photos are viewed at the front display location. Which, in turn, provides a very good picture quality.

Performance

The tablet has a rather modern MSM 8225 chipset with two cores and a clock speed of 1 GHz. RAM - 512 MB, on the built-in flash drive is available 4 GB (actually available about 1). Is it possible to consider a sufficiently productive tablet "Megaphone Login 2"? The characteristics of its hardware components are relatively modest. Will this affect its competitiveness?

Experts are sure: the above resources are enough to run and correctly operate most modern applications. With games more difficult - three-dimensional will be launched with great difficulty. However, according to experts, this brand of tablet is absolutely not "gaming". And so the support of games here is one of the least significant criteria. The tablet is quite good at its main task - providing access to the Internet with the built-in browser, browsing web pages, photos, listening to music, playing video clips.

Battery

In what is really little less than competing solutions, the tablet "Megaphone Login 2" - the characteristics of the battery. The device is equipped with a large enough for its class of devices capacity of the battery - 3 thousand mAh. At the same time, experts note, the MSM 8225 chipset, as well as a number of other hardware solutions, are considered to be among the most energy efficient. As a result, a sufficiently long autonomous work of the smartphone is provided. Some experts fixed 4-5 days of moderate use of the device to discharge the battery. Many experts note the high speed of charging the battery - within 2 hours.

Camera

The cameras in the phone are two - main and front. The first has a resolution of 2 megapixels, the autofocus function is not equipped. Should the camera be considered an important criterion for the functionality of such a device as the "Megaphone Login 2" tablet? The characteristics of photos and videos - how important are they to the user in this case? To answer this question, we will study a small discussion that has arisen in the online environment between individual groups of experts and users.

Many users respond about the quality of video communication using a smartphone is not very positive. However, there are also "lawyers". Their position is this: the device is designed primarily for use in 3G networks. If there was even a powerful camera on the smartphone, then the bandwidth (and stability) of the mobile Internet channel, most likely, in most cases would not suffice for comfortable work. And so it's even good that the quality of the video stream in this case is low: already at the hardware level it adapts to the resources of the Internet channel. It is better, in this way, to communicate with the interlocutor with a not very detailed, but stable picture, than with the one that has a high resolution, but with constant interruptions of communication.

The same can be said about the camera's functions from the point of view of creating photo and video. Quality samples of multimedia have a large weight in megabytes, and therefore poorly adapted to the transfer when using 3G-channels. The option in which one person will give another photo not in an ideal quality is probably more preferable than one in which the user can not transfer a large file due to an unstable Internet connection at all.

Software

No sensations on the software, which is equipped with a tablet "Megaphone login 2". The firmware here is the Android OS. There are very few preinstalled applications, but you can find anything you need in the Google Play directory. There is a built-in file manager, a program for recording voice , etc.

Among the useful branded applications from Megafon, you can note "Money" (useful in some cases, the payment tool), "Navigator", as well as several system utilities. There is also a Yandex browser (along with the regular one, which is part of the OS). There is an interface for listening to radio broadcasts in the FM-band, experts note the convenience of using it and the stability of the work.

Connectivity

Like many other devices from "Megaphone", this tablet is compatible with the SIM-card only from this operator. However, this rule is valid only in cases where the user is located on the territory of Russia. If you try to insert a SIM card of a foreign carrier abroad - the tablet will work.

The secret is, experts believe, that the firmware installed on the "Megaphone Login 2" tablet is supplemented with a branded software module that can recognize SIM cards of direct competitors of the operator. Thus, experts believe, "Megaphone" consciously opposes the operation of the device by the owners of only those SIM cards that are issued by a certain group of market players.

Regarding wireless interfaces - the device works in 2G and 3G standards of communication, supports connection via Wi-Fi (and itself can be an access point). The quality of communication on the fact of testing in all available channels experts rated as high. Data owners who tested the tablet "Megaphone Login 2" characteristics, feedback regarding the stability of communication, on the whole coincide with the experts' estimates. The device is well adapted to the main task - access to the Internet via a mobile channel.

User Reviews

What are the prevailing among people who owns the tablet "Megaphone Login 2", characteristics and reviews about the device? Did the device justify the expectations of enthusiasts and brand loyalists? The most important advantage of the tablet, according to many users - the price. Having paid 3-4 thousand rubles to the dealer, a person acquires a device that is generally comparable in functions and capabilities with the devices of the world's leading brands, produced in the same class. What is not surprising, experts say: it often happens that tablets manufactured by order of a conditional Samsung or HTC, and those that will then bring to Russia under its Megafon brand, are assembled in Chinese factories on a single conveyor belt.

Gadgets of international brands very often have similar devices to the class to which the tablet "Megaphone Login 2", characteristics belongs. Omsk, Moscow, Yekaterinburg will receive on their municipal markets products branded by the Big Three operator with a quality not worse than, say, Warsaw, Dresden and Budapest, where the largest transnational players in the mobile electronics market are operating.

Branded functionality

The users are not at all baffled by the rigid binding of the device to the operator's SIM card. First, they believe, Megafon has some of the most profitable Internet tariffs on the market. And therefore, even if the tablet was compatible with any operator, then it would be Megafon with a high probability. Secondly, no one interferes not to use the SIM card from this brand, but at the same time to use the tablet through Wi-Fi, to use any necessary functions. The possibilities of the device do not disappear anywhere. In full, all the factory-installed circuitry in the "Megaphone Login 2" tablet is used. The user's manual for this device and those manuals that are written for many of its analogues produced under international brands, largely coincide. This indicates that the Russian mobile operator has released a modern from a technological point of view and competitive product.