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Review Cubot Cheetah 2 5.5 "FHD MT6753 1.3 GHz 3 / 32Gb - Fingerprint- 3000mAh

Packaging, Content, Aesthetics:

The packaging is a classic from a year now for Cubot, on the back there is a label with the model and on the low side of the IMEI numbers.

Box contents: Smartphone incorporated in its transparent silicone cover, further covered with a plastic seat cover with double-sided adhesive, 1 Power Adapter with USB 5V 1A White EU socket, 1 USB cable Type-C, an instruction manual and the "Compliance Certification Regulatory ".

- External dimensions of the smartphone average of 5.5inches ChinaPhone "; it measures 153.6 x 75 x 8.5mm for a little over weight 189g.

- High quality construction, the materials return a good feeling to the touch, the metallic finish of the side frame gives strength and elegance, the back cover plastic still fulfills its purpose well although it is very smooth and slippery (and in blue version retains much fingerprints).

- On the right side we find the volume rocker on the top and the power button slightly lower.

- On the upper side we find the only audio jack; on the underside there is the Type-C USB jack, the microphone in the left grid and the speaker in the right one.

- In the back top center there is the 16-megapixel camera from Samsung S5k3l8 13Mpixel f / 2.2 (16Mpixel interpolated), slightly to the side of the double LED flash (not dual tone).

- On the front we find at the top the capsule headset, 8Mpixel camera Sony IMX219 f / 2.8, the brightness / proximity sensors, the notification LED (colors red and green); down the central physical key features of footprints and the soft outer side touch buttons to the screen reader, but not backlit ..

- Outer pane with pre-applied film; It has a rounded 2.5D machining but the film does not have a good oleophobic treatment and thus holds the fingerprints and is quite reflective.

- Display brightness and excellent viewing angles; LCD FHD IPS OGS screen with good color fidelity, excellent sharpness for the category, good white balance and possibility of adjustment through Miravision menu.

- Touch sensitive and equipped with multi-touch 5-touch, quick writing and with swipe feature that you type with two fingers (used SwiftKey / google keyboard); with film applied to the sensitivity it tends to decrease slightly due to the excessive thickness, so if you use its silicone cover, you can also remove it.

- Fingerprint performs well, always recommend to store many times the same finger in additional memory locations after the first (5 memory locations and you might as well use them all to have a recognition reliability, for example the right thumb, close to 100 %.

- Two sim slots: 2 slot Micro + Nano Sim (dynamic 4G from software menu) and slot for MicroSD tested up to 128Gb.

- Battery is not removable 3000mAh declared, to the test with ammeter we found about 2800mAh, which can cover the average day with about 4 hours of heated screen (more if alternate data sim with wifi)

- Android 6 without any customization and usually launcher with 3 standard now obsolete icons (there are no unwanted apps or as it was for his brother Cheetah of Cheetah Mobile bloatware that slowed down the system unnecessarily and could not be uninstalled)

- Open app and switch between apps quickly .. browser stock enough usable but we recommend Chrome that makes it quick and enjoyable navigation.

- Excellent management of internal rom 32Gb which are available in a 25GB partition for apps and data.

- Good management ram 3Gb by Android .. more than 1.6 GB of RAM left over after loading some apps into memory at startup.

connectivity:

WiFi b / g with no problem, stable coupling, good power, the presence of the 5Ghz band.

BT 4 tested pairing with headsets, car and other smartphones without problems

OTG: Properly functioning.

GPS: very good, the outside is cold fixato in 20 seconds, 13 satellites, with an accuracy of a few meters; Glonass compatibility!

camera:

- Main camera from Samsung 35k3l8 13Mpixel f / 2.2 that produces good confiscated in daylight; pretty fast focus; mediatek camera interface; the good power flash.

In low light conditions, the cove sharpness and focus limps, the iso with the stock app does not rise above 600, the result is slightly moved shots without flash and a tendency to knead.

- Good performance with FullHD video files but with some critical issues in focus

- Second Camera for Selfies 8Mpixel Sony IMX219 with face detection function, and video shots higher than the category average (just think that this sensor is used by many other brands to the main camera)

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Bench:

Antutu 6 more than 37000 punti..risultato in line with the other MT6753 CPU 1.3Ghz.

Geekbench with 2470 points in the multi-core test and 600 in the single core test.

https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/1214302

Audio:

Audio without infamy and without praise, good the speaker volume and earbud (even slightly too low and tend to distort a bit at the most), good microphone, the other party has no problem and feel the voice is free from noise or interference or metallic effect.

Good vibrations and sound in very good quality headphone.

of Fingerprint Reader

The fingerprint has a menu that allows the storage of different fingerprints, up to 5; the memorization stage is driven (although parts of the menus are in English, without translation into our language) and allows you to complete the stage in no time (access the fingerprint of the security menu).

The front print reader position is easy to reach by inches and indexes and makes it definitely more secure smartphone.

conclusions:

PROs:

- Aggressive price from about 140 to about 160 € according to the store; good for a terminal with medium level specs, 3Gb RAM / 32GB ROM and fingerprint reader.

- Screen 5.5 "FULL HD showing good brightness, color and viewing angle of the display; 2.5D glass and the metallic finish of the frame lend elegance and style.

- Led Notification Green / Red.

- Great assembling, the materials used, consistent with the class of the device.

- Good reception and above average audio.

- MicroSD card support with separate slot (support up to 128GB tested).

- Two Sim Slot (Micro and Nano) with the switch via software 4G traffic between a slot one and the other.

- WIFI with 5Ghz band

- Ability to select a different ring tone for the two sim directly from the audio menu.

- 4G supported in 1,3,7,20 bands to the advantage of compatibility with European regions.

- Pretty much stock Android 6 dated October 2016.

- Fast and accurate GPS, fix also inside home where others failed.

- Compass and Gyroscope implemented.

- OTG supported.

- Transparent silicon case in bundle.

- Fingerprint reader which further increases the security of your data if entitled to do so.

- Certification and Declaration of Conformity:

UL + SAR http://www.cubot.net/pdf/ce/CHEETAH2-ce.pdf

Safety: http://www.cubot.net/pdf/doc/CHEETAH_2_DOC_Form.pdf

RoHS: http://www.cubot.net/pdf/rohs/cheetah2-rohs.rar

- Modding (Root) possible via the TWRP compiled by me

CONs:

- Charger Standard 1A with a charging time of about 2h and 50 minutes.

- Soft Touch NOT Backlighted.

- Heavy, 190g for a device with a plastic cover and battery 3000mAh, are objectively too much.

- NON Removable Battery.

- Black frames and even asymmetrical as seen in previous Cubot (fortunately not so visible since the dark blue of my sample)

- Notification LED that although present, has no settings in the menu, no double tap for unlocking (even if we have the middle button which is also physical).

- Main Camera sensor from Samsung, that in the face of a good specs, fails to realize its potential because of the usual mediatek software and drivers poorly optimized (common evil to the vast majority of devices Camera).

Sorry for mistakes due to automatic translation!

For reference, here's stuffs for development thread:

Rom RC_mt6753_n378bh_6143cgms_chuanqi_cc-cubot_256gbitp24d3_m_lte_3m-fdd-cs_mul_20161027-143211_songlixin_PC

https://mega.nz/#!VUc1TIjK!0FK1U5bt0NIL8RNEt-LkV-U5byVBroqV0PU92VzM5iE

Flashtool 6.1644 windows:

https://mega.nz/#!iINRFLAC!VZTD2enLeh5HzkJUWVwvV0nP_8cmvjPRRHt-1BWQoeo

TWRP 3.0.2-1 porting by megthebest:

https://mega.nz/#!TUdXiRyJ!CasPXBbA-CYuKL58w3QES0MYw5VNol8MTbB0L21RqlQ