VERTEX Impress Phonic smartphone - advantages and disadvantages

The Russian market of cell phones offers its customers a diverse range of models of smartphones from different manufacturers, both branded and little-known, differing in functionality and price. Which company is the best device to choose and which popular models to pay attention to? We will tell you about this and the VERTEX Impress Phonic smartphone below.

The main achievements of the VERTEX company

Most people are still convinced that domestic manufacturers of communications equipment cannot compete with foreign ones. But the St. Petersburg company VERTEX survived the crisis years and stayed afloat, and at the moment it is considered a fairly well-known brand, offering budget phones, smartphones and various gadgets with characteristics that surpass many of its competitors.

Last year's rating of low-cost and high-quality smartphones proved that VERTEX really deserves popularity, the brand took 6th place. Even many eminent firms that have been leaders in the Russian market for the last decades have not overtaken it. In 2018, it entered the top six best-selling phones on the Megafon network with a 6.5% sales share.

The success of this domestic brand directly depends on the internal policy of the company, whose management has made bets not only on the low price of its products, but also paid great attention to quality and design. The popularity of the models of this brand lies in the attractive appearance, build quality and functionality.

The company offers its customers inexpensive smartphones, but all the novelties of this brand have an actual technological zest.

Thinking about what is the best model to buy, the selection criteria should depend on both the design of the device and what functionality it has.

How to choose from such a variety of models? In modern times, the phone is recognized not only as a means of communication, but also as a repository of documents, photos, passwords and other personal information. VERTEX, in pursuit of the goal of creating a device that cares about the safety of customers, in May 2018 developed a smartphone with one of the important technological achievements - the latest system for scanning fingerprints. This device is the VERTEX Impress Phonic smartphone.

The advantages of this device lie in the comprehensive protection of the phone. The metal case protects against mechanical stress, and the protection of internal data and personal access is ensured by built-in biometric sensors, thanks to which unlocking occurs using a fingerprint. But like all products of this brand, it has an attractive appearance, convenient design and excellent performance.

Equipment

The compact box contains a standard set:

• smartphone (size - 156 * 76 * 8.7 mm, weight - 173 g);
• charger (1 A);
• charging cord (90 cm);
• a clip for opening the slot (on a plastic base);
• documentation;
• warranty card.

The size of the device is convenient to use. The weight of the phone is relatively heavy, but the comfortable position in the hand allows you not to feel it. The case is classic, monolithic; the materials used for the case are plastic and metal. The model is available in black and golden pink.The phone is equipped with dual sim technology, which allows you to use the slot in two variations: either 2 nano sim cards, or a sim card together with a memory card up to 32 GB. The device is also equipped with connectors for micro-USB and a headset. The speaker and microphone produce clear and loud sound. The only thing that does not look harmonious on such a solid case is the not tightly seated power and volume buttons.

The device would charge faster with an increase in the current in the charger, the volume of the battery allows this, but such an indicator of 1 A is at least minimal, but acceptable.

But the length of the cord is a little upsetting, it would certainly be nice to lengthen it. Quite often, a large amount of wire is required.

A paper clip of a traditional look, but here VERTEX decided to "stand out from the crowd" and made it not iron, as in most manufacturers, but on a plastic base.

Smartphone specifications

Screen

Display characteristics correspond to more expensive models:

• technology - touch, color IPS;
• type - capacitive, multi-touch;
• diagonal - 5.99 inches;
• extension - 720 * 1440;
• pixel density - 269 ppi;
• the number of colors - 1677216;
• ratio - 18: 9;
• auto-rotate - yes;
• multitouch - is.

The screen expansion of 1440 × 720 with a density of 269 ppi corresponds to HD and creates a high-quality picture without the slightest "graininess", creating a comfortable environment for vision, without overworking the eyes. The presence of an IPS-matrix saturates the screen with bright colors, increasing the color gamut. Black is closer to black than in previous technologies. The viewing angle is increased to 178 °, allowing you to view the image from any angle.

But for all this contrast and brightness, some characteristics had to be sacrificed: an increase in response time and high energy consumption, which are considered important disadvantages for fans of active games.

The 18: 9 aspect ratio translates into increased screen real estate, protected by 2.5D curved glass to prevent glare in the sun. The large diagonal of the display, occupying 78.35% of the body, makes it easier to work with information and does not need to constantly scroll the page. The characteristics of the display size and plus the multi-touch for game lovers is a gift

The interface is quite simple and easy to use.

Unlocking occurs using a fingerprint, but it can also be done using standard methods: password, pattern or pin-code.

Performance

• operating system - Android 8.1 Oreo;
• processor - Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53;
• chipset - Mediatek MTK 6739;
• graphics processor - PowerVR GE8100;
• RAM - 2 GB;
• built-in memory - 16 GB;
• memory card - microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC;
• the maximum size of a memory card is 32 GB.

User reviews claim that this is a smart and productive device. This is helped by the filling of the device. The high-performance 4-core processor supporting a wide range of mobile applications provides the phone with the ability to execute multiple commands at the same time and has advanced power saving features.

The MTK 6739 chipset supports almost the entire range of standard connections (LTE, GSM, HSDPA, GPRS, EDGE), makes it possible to use a multi-pixel camera and shoot 30 frames per minute. Equipped with technologies for noise reduction, speed increase and autofocus. Although the battery of this model is not large, only 2800 mAh, Mediatek (the chipset manufacturer) has endowed its invention with the ability to stabilize and save energy when accessing the Internet.

The battery capacity ensures the autonomy of the smartphone when fully charged for about 90 hours in rest mode, and during resource-intensive processes (talking, video and games), the battery is drained in 8 hours.

VERTEX Impress Phonic is powered by Android 8.1 platform with improved user interface. The device is not stuffed with useless programs that few people use. The manufacturer has just installed its Vertex Club application to download software and receive support assistance.

The amount of memory is standard, but in modern times with a large amount of information, it is usually not enough.

Thanks to this functionality, VERTEX Impress Phonic allows you to maintain wireless connections at a speed of 30 Mbps over a distance of 100 m:

• WiFi (Wi-Fi 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n);
• microusb (0);
• bluetooth (v4.0);
• GPS (support for A-GPS);
• WiFi Hotspot (Wi-Fi access point);
• bluetooth A2DP (High quality stereo sound transmission).

Additional advantages are the presence of such functional applications as a flashlight and an accelerometer, which determines the spatial position of the device and, accordingly, changes the information displayed on the display. The accelerometer makes it possible to comfortably use the phone in any convenient position and is indispensable when using a pedometer and for active games.

Camera

One of the important indicators when choosing a smartphone at the moment for an ordinary user is the characteristics of photo and video shooting. How she photographs and what quality selfies are obtained is the main question of buyers. Having a good camera is an essential attribute of a popular phone and VERTEX Impress Phonic has something to be proud of in this regard.

• rear camera (13 MP);
• resolution (4160 * 3120 pixels);
• video (720p @ 30fps);
• flash (LED (LCD));
• front camera (5 MP);
• front camera resolution (2592 * 1944 pixels);
• front camera video (480p @ 30fps).

These card parameters and the conventional focus and autofocus built into the optics provide high speed targeting and object recognition, which allows you to increase the sharpness and clarity of images and shoot high-quality videos. It is unfortunate that there is no flash on the front camera, which makes it difficult to take selfies in the dark, but the rear LED flash on the main camera produces contrasting photos that are no different from what the Impress Phonic takes in the daytime or how it photographs at night.

To improve the quality of shooting and eliminate defects in the transfer of details, manufacturers have endowed the camera with useful properties:

• autofocus;
• continuous shooting;
• geotagging;
• HDR;
• face recognition;
• ISO settings;
• touch focus.

Where and for how much can you buy this model profitably?

With slight discrepancies in price, the Impress Phonic smartphone can be purchased from 2018 in its own online store VERTEX, but, of course, on various other Internet resources and in electronics chain stores.

How much does a reliable phone with these characteristics cost from other manufacturers? Either it will be a low-quality device, or a rather expensive price. The average price for this model is 6990 rubles.

Summing up, there are minor disadvantages and a large number of advantages.

• aesthetically pleasing design;
• comfortable in using;
• user-friendly interface;
• reliable protection of the body and internal information;
• good camera setting;
• widescreen display;
• great functionality of the hardware;
• low price.

• short charging cord;
• low battery power;
• small amount of memory.

After analyzing the above information, we can confidently conclude that the shortcomings that are present in the VERTEX Impress Phonic are so insignificant that they easily overlap the advantages of this model. The perfect combination of cost and smartphone capabilities.