The difficulty of product evaluation is usually that one is never entirely objective. You have with the device is fun and happy, one might well justify his purchase decision and inform other - you are disappointed for any reason - even if that is only a partial aspect of the full scope one tends the whole concept into the ground to . talk
Since I have very very long time to do with smartphones - far ahead of Iphone and co ... - I'm in some areas certainly suffer a little better than other users. In addition, it also extremely strong in my opinion it depends on what one uses the device.
For me it is primarily:
- Email + Calendar Syncronisation
- Wireless internet
- MP3 Player
- Apps for News etc ..
- Apps for network management and remote maintenance
- Bluetooth audio streaming to the audio system of a vehicle
My product review therefore refers primarily to this point and the maintenance of the instrument in this regard.
As old-established Iphone users with 2maligem transition test on Android in the last few years it fell just not very easy to take the good old IOS farewell - 2 reasons were decisive here:
- The current iPhone can not LTE (at least not the 800MHZ band)
- The 4-inch screen is just too small to me now
So I decided 4 months ago for changing providers (for LTE usage to rural) and the Galaxy Note II LTE.
This is followed by two months of ups and downs - one hand enthusiastically by the powerful battery of NoteII and excellent AMOLED screen - on the other hand shocked by lousy variables LTE reception, the extremely BUGGY firmware Note II various problems missed during the handshake between GSM / 3G and LTE calls etc ...
Also 3 exchange units and 2 firmware updates later I would Note II LTE with LTE use call BETA instrument and had actually already completed with "red Provider" and the company Samsung.
A brief interlude had then for a further 2 weeks, also LTE-capable Sony Xperia Z - but anscheinenend well Sony has not yet done its homework really: Buggy also in LTE field disconnections, in LTE mode, the battery consumption is a disaster.
Inwardly, I had the issue been choppy Android Smartphone + LTE and prepared me for an upcoming Iphone6 - as my Galaxy Mega falls by chance in the eye and that's where I would like to start the actual assessment:
One can certainly argue about the look - I feel it is not very "noble" - but I have a cell phone and not as a piece of jewelry still a status symbol - the built polycarbonate makes the device very easily and despite the> 200g, the thing just feels because of size very easily. The case back is very smooth - here I would have permanently to be afraid ever drop the device - here helps a rubberized HART Cover.
Although often written that the built-up display - as only LCD and AMOLED not - can not come close to that of S4 and Note II I find this excellent. Whether HD or Full HD - I have not even on my 55Zoll TV HD - because it's me xxx-regardless of whether the 6.3Zoll display "FULL HD" has - it can not be seen. Much more important:
- Clean illumination
- Angle Stable
- Natural colors
- Good black level
- And above all: "weiss = white" and not gray ...
In addition, the screen is estimated 85% of the front face - alone this is a show with a black device because you hold almost only "screen" in his hand.
CPU: This is sufficient for the device. I have seen also in devices with significantly stronger CPU stuttering and dropouts - I can also provoke here - but that's all in the "normal" range.
Battery: This point is the secret highlight of the device - because that is the Achilles heel of each current smartphones. The Xperia Z was with me (WLAN, LTE, brightness 90% almost every day for 4-5 hours when empty Note 1 full day -. During MEGA definitely from 7-23 clock - with intensive use - LTE + WiFi + . Brightness 90% + Bluetooth Audio Streaming This is "madness" If I would economize on some functions -.. possibly 2-3 days here, some manufacturers should cut 2 slices.
Camera: The camera is good - no revelation - but good. Photos in daylight are on iPhone4 / 4S Nievau. Photos in artificial light are more noisy.
User interface / UI: The device comes innately with 4.2 (Android) with the so-called Touch UI joke - here is often about whining. I like the personal "plain Android" quite well - but the Touch Wiz UI is simple and functional - I feel especially the shortcuts to WiFi and other functions much better resolved than the UI uses the Sony. But that's a matter of taste.
Reception (GSM and LTE): The reception of the Xperia Z (especially LTE) was better - but unstable - for the entire LTE / 3G / GSM Umschalterei here runs absolutely smoothly and without "dropouts" - well, I have not yet found "Missed Calls". Here could obstruct certainly better internal antennae Samsung. There is so far the best LTE device that I could test (previously tested with LTE: NOTE II, S4, HTC One and Xperia Z.
Miscellaneous: Although the battery pack in the MEGA is really a revelation, one has apparently thought about at Samsung made as you can reasonably charge the device during use: Micro USB plugged from below - so you can easily even during loading work and calls , What the developers have only thought at Sony and other case, the charging jack on the side to install above me is not entirely clear - possibly the device was ready and we had to quickly find a place for the female? - Aside joke ....
The stability of the device / firmware can be described as excellent - after 3 weeks no crashes or reboots overdue. (The Note II I had from time to time to restart eg: GSM running again move to ...
Conclusion:
The Galaxy Mega shows clearly that the current mania in the mobile phone industry with only bare facts and features about to throw is the wrong way and eyewash. Even Samsung called the Galaxy Mega as "middle class" device. Why? - Because the screen is not FULL HD - or because the CPU has only 4x 1.5GHz?
According to my experience of the last four months with a total of 5 "TOP SMARTPHONES" I have my salvation now found in a mid-range device - already somehow strange and yet characteristically again - since last last is all a question of what you want to do with the device - and for my standards it represents the perfect solution.
Regards
