The general features of Y550 can see everyone on the website of Huawei (huaweidevices.de).
First Kontakaufnahme:
The unit is supplied in a plain box containing data / charging cable, battery and the typical "throwaway" headphones next to the phone even an AC adapter, USB.
Assembly:
On the back of the phone, the slots (slots) are for MicroSD and Micro SIM (15x12mm). The battery will slide in easily.
The back cover is designed as a fully enclosed bowl, holds around the sides of the Y550 and makes a strong impression, seems rather blocky as filigree, could serve as a protection even during a fall. For the camera lens cover, it has a raised notch. He latched securely.
Also located at the rear mounted speaker grille (Chen) an elevation, so the phone is not smooth on the table. But since it is 3 points of support and the phone has a fairly high weight, it hardly wobbles when it is operated while lying down.
Commissioning:
The first charging the battery lasted for 1.5 hours although he estimated was about 1/2 full ...
The first launch took an unusually long time also, after then began the usual establishment procedure.
Experiences in real life:
The appliance heats up to the back bottom left noticeable when it "thinking" must, therefore, especially when setting up, installing, and other compute-intensive work. I could also see that it will be warm when it is a long time in the border area of 4G / 3G / GSM reception (which is where I work at some points in the space of the case).
Otherwise, no warming is detectable.
The mobile phone was previously non-stop without reset or hanger.
The size of a normal pocket at the border.
The back cover is smooth, so it is not easy to grip, but is due to the rather high weight still comfortably in the hand.
Audio:
The rear speaker is surprisingly loud and should be sufficient in quite a quiet area for sound when making calls in handsfree mode. Thanks to the hump in the speaker grill will it echo loud enough when it is still on a hard surface.
The earpiece is a bit too quiet for my taste, I have the volume regulate always at the top.
The headphone output, however, is clearly to be loud enough to kill time with ear headphones, the auditory cells, which is obviously not the fall of many senior Huawei phones they are much too low.
Even at one Aux In it provides an acceptable level, and I'm not sure if it perhaps a little lacking in bass.
Display:
I can not see any pixels Although the display "only" 854 x 480 px with 221ppi dissolves during normal operation, the fonts are all razor sharp. I do not know what to make a display with higher ppi number here.
The brightness of the display is my subjective opinion, also in order, by default the average illuminance is selected in automatic mode, which is possibly outdoors in direct sunlight is not bright enough (but you can manually despite automatic readjust).
In bright surroundings it clearly reflects, I have unfortunately not yet been able to compare with top phones like Galaxy or Apple parts.
How scratch the display is I can not say, but I suspect that it is sufficient (my y201pro without Gorilla glass has for 2 years without foil and despite several falls no visible operational scratches!), But you should not attempt dare together with to put keys in his pocket.
Top left is a status LED attached I have stayed at a variety of colors see light, it is bright enough to be noticed.
The edge of the screen protrudes slightly so that it does not rest (eg on the table) when turning.
Touchscreen:
Again, I am happy, even if I sometimes when scrolling web pages have the effect that when you lift your finger, the side slightly upwards "snaps".
If you have cleaned the display with a damp microfibre cloth, the Finger brakes hard on the display There are certainly better surfaces. If the display contrast, wiped dry (I rub it either on the jeans or the shirt), the display is clean and the finger "popped".
Keys:
The 3 keys are attached to the back cover (adventurous Seeming) offer but after putting the Covers clear pressure points (much better than the P7mini) and are also felt and operated by a pair of jeans.
The touch keys below the display react reliable but are not illuminated! This is used to, I can not get over considering the price.
Performance:
The phone is very fast in normal applications, I still can not find any application that brings it to its limits, everything runs smoothly and if the data is loaded (browser) and jerky nothing. Right, I do not use games on the phone, then it might be different.
I use for my data fast SD card (SanDisk Extreme UHS-I), so I've also when loading photos hardly delays.
Google Maps, Navigation, Books, Youtube, Whatsapp - no problem.
Connectivity:
The Wi-Fi reception is good, neither my laptop nor my tablet can the Y550 even begin to hold a candle. However strange the behavior if there is a repeater in the wireless, that have the same SSID: Here the mobile phone does not connect automatically to the best AP, special "wobbles" often on the AP with lousy signal around though next door a AP is the full signal strength brings. I suspect this is an Android problem that could be solved by apps like "BestWiFi" policy.
Bluetooth works perfectly, the mobile controls in addition to the title transfer with A2DP even the MAP profile (SMS can be read, for example, on a matching radio)!
Via USB, it asks whether the connection is only Laden, would be connected as a mass storage or MTP. In MTP mode, both the internal memory as well as the SD card is available.
Battery life:
At this point, it comes naturally heavily on the use - I surf for several minutes (20 - 40) on the day, listen to music with headphones on a regular basis (1-3 hours), and bring a lot of phone calls. Since I only just got the phone a week, I constantly adapt to something here and there and install an app.
Nevertheless, I shall pass over the day and charge it only when I go to bed and peg it when you get up again.
In case of prolonged and heavy use of the potential power it could also be just, we're all nunja- live near power outlets, so not really a big penalty.
The mobile phone has an extra "Ultra-battery" profile (all "superfluous" is deactivated), which can be activated from the status bar.
Free space:
Here the Achilles heel of the mobile phones is coming in lower Preissegment- without a memory card, the phone is hard to use. In Android you can then also the external memory card as Default (Settings, All, storage, Stanadrd memory). Some apps can be moved to the SD card. Then the place to install dozens of apps should be sufficient.
Cameras:
The rear camera (5 MP) is expected to use for snapshots only, hardly it will dim a strong image noise can be seen. Even in daylight, they disappointed with moderate white balance under a cloudy sky (usually slightly bluish).
The autofocus will work reliably, of course, requires some time to focus (and thus is a fixed focus camera as y201pro not always to poor :-)).
The scanning of QR codes also works reliably.
Videos are recorded at 720p.
This applies to the front camera (2MP) same as for the rear camera: image noise, otherwise for the price range acceptable.
Others regard HW.:
Interesting for Smartphone geocachers: The Y550 has a true (magnetic) compass.
In addition to GPS, it can also receive Glonass.
The GPS fix is very fast and accurate in my opinion.
The GPS reception sensitivity is good.
Installed software:
Here is actually to find the usual stuff, but I think in quite lush facilities (for example, a swipe keyboard case), so I list here only the "lowlights".
As apparently all Huawei phones connect the supplied music player any albums in the correct order to play, but sorts the titles alphabetically. Remedy delivers one of the many players from the Market.
The contacts app is having problems with the letters "SS" - they smeared in sole command of this point from now on. Searches for individual letters and a name that contains a ß one contains this letter crashes the app also from as you move the Ergbnisliste. OK we leave the church in the village: Whose name begins with SS? Who scrolls through the Ergbnisliste?
Apparently there are a few more constraints which lead to this error (sort order, display order, ...).
My Conclusion:
The Y550 might of its features produces a "bang" as the Y300 are, I for one am pleasantly surprised and will report here if should change this impression something fundamental.
