Tele2 Mini and Midi: What do you need to know about ultra-budget smartphones of the popular cellular operator?

Published by B. Android / Tele 2
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25 Sep 2016.

In the online store of the cellular operator Tele2, smartphones appeared under their own logo. These budget models will help to become the owner of "smart phones" and test the Android operating system to everyone who does not want to spend a lot of money on this kind of device. In this article we will tell if you should buy them.

Specifications

Devices possess in most similar characteristics. The main difference is the size of the screen. MINI is 4 inches, and MIDI has 4.5 inches. It is believed that very soon Tele 2 will present a 5-inch smartphone - MAXI. Also, from important differences, it is worth noting the presence of a 3.2-megapixelno cameras at MIDI. In Mini, the resolution of the chamber is 2 megapixels.

Characteristics of smartphones

Characteristics of smartphones

Banchmark "ANTUTU" It rates a 4-inch smartphone in 12384 points, and its older brother at 14,534 points. For ultra-budget devices, it is very good. But, rely on the fact that the owner of this smartphone will be able to play modern "heavy" games of course not worth playing in modern "heavy" games.

Yes, and 512 MB of RAM is frankly very little. Smartphones not only with difficulty pull even simple games. But when using twitter Watching trimming and small freezes. It was possible to increase the cost of a device for several hundred and bring the number of "RAM" to 1 GB.

And the characteristics of the screen on the troechka. You can hardly read your favorite books from such a screen for more than 30 minutes per approach. Fuzziness fonts will be very tired. But, for such a price, Chinese partners Tele2 installed a fairly good screen with TFT technology. An important advantage is the presence of utilities Mira Vision. (The older model) for soft brightness and contrast settings. So you can adjust the screen and easy your sufferings Customize it for yourself.

Hand Compressing Smartphone Tele2

Hand Compressing Smartphone Tele2

As for the main chamber, it is possible to get pretty good photos with its help. Of course, provided that the shooting took place with sufficient lighting. As for the premises, it is not worth waiting for the "state employee" of a clear shot from this "state employee". Built-in flash cannot give enough light.

But the frontal is very bad. ONLY for video calls. Let your interlocutor himself suffer and "collects you on pixels." By the way, for some reason, the default quality in 1.3 MP is set in the settings. But, from this not only the quality of photos does not increase, but the file size grows. If you become the owner of such a smartphone, then change this value by 0.3 mp.

As for the speakers and the microphone, they have shown well at surprise. But, expect some miracles from the acoustics of these devices at least strange. Thanks and on the fact that the voice speaker sounds very decent.

Also, it is also worth attributed to a removable battery. By the way, about the battery. He showed itself quite "lively". Of course, due to the low characteristics, the smartphone cannot be used as the devices of the average price segment and the more, more flagships. But, in standby mode, the smartphone spends only 5% in 8 hours.

True, the battery of this Tele2 MIDI has one "feature." When the charge level becomes below 20%, it decreases faster than when its more than a quarter. But, this is rather the problem of the battery charge control sensor than the battery itself. Yes, and you can get used to this enough quickly.

Manufacturer in order to save and memory for files. Therefore, when using MINI and MIDI smartphones without microSD memory card almost impossible. Devices support card up to 32 GB.

As for data transfer, then these devices will give odds to many flagships. And even though they do not support 4G networks. Tele2 MIDI and especially MINI work where other smartphones refused to work. But, at the speed (the maximum managed to "discern" to 21.6 Mbit / s), all alas are not very good. Yes, the smartphones themselves can be used to check their mail, communicating in social networks or with the help of messengers. But, for the modem, they are not suitable.

There is no complaints on the Wi-Fi network. Smartphones well hold the network and work consistently. Moreover, this is not a statement of manufacturers. When comparing Wi-Fi-Traffic with some smartphones from the price segment, the loss and reduction of the speed is not detected. The same can be said about GPS.

Tele 2 Midi.

Tele 2 Midi.

These devices definitely stand their money. And if you compare these smartphones from Tele 2 with a competitor MTS Smart Start 2. That last will lose about a thousand rubles. As for the ability to use this smartphone with a single operator sim card, then at the moment it can be done by entering the unlock code 34127856. Although there are all suspicions that the developer can close this loophole.

If you need an ultra-budget smartphone with an Android operating system, then Tele2 mini and MIDI for this will fit very well. Of course, it's no need to wait for the devices for such a price of something more, in addition to making calls, checks your email and reading news on the Internet.

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