Smartphone "Prestige 5500": review, description, characteristics and reviews of the owners

Chinese mobile phones are quite in demand, including in the CIS market. These devices have low cost, acceptable build quality and wide functionality, which makes them so popular in the domestic market. It's not difficult to make sure of this - take a look at the window of any supermarket of electronics, and you'll notice there are dozens of devices from any of the most famous manufacturers like Huawei, Lenovo, Meizu or some Prestigio. And this is official trade! What can we say about illegally imported trademarks selling their "copies of iPhones" through online stores.

In this article, however, we will not touch on this topic - and pay attention to the last of the above companies - Prestigio. Her smartphone model "Prestige 5500" will be described in the following sections. Read this material if you are interested in what the model is and what you should expect of it.

Concept

We will begin with a description of the overall concept of the device, its positioning. Note that all smartphones released under the Prestigio brand (5500 are not an exception) are inexpensive but functional gadgets for everyday use.The target audience for working with these phones, however, can act as people who are absolutely not important The price of a smartphone ("just call"), and those who want to get the most out of their device purchased at the most favorable cost.It can be said that the "Prestige 5500" described by us successfully connects the interests of both.

The model itself is a classic "Chinese" with the Android operating system. Descriptions of such gadgets are the same, under whose brand they would be issued. The difference is only in the names, design elements and overall positioning of the gadget on the market.

Design

As for the appearance, in this regard, to surprise the phone "Prestige 5500" we simply have nothing. The case of the smartphone is made in the classical style: "brick" made of pleasant to touch plastics with traditionally located control elements. The keys to go to the home page, open options, and go back here have a physical form (and are not represented in the touch form, as it is often found on different devices).

"Rocker" sound adjustment is on the left, and the button for unlocking the screen is on the right side panels. On the frontal surface is a camera for "Selfie" and a speaker (oval in shape, reminiscent of the characteristic functional openings of "apple" devices).

As the official characteristic notes, the phone "Prestige 5500" is offered in different color variations due to replaceable rear panels. With their help, everyone can change the style of their device in the simplest way - through the rearrangement of the housing cover. At the time of sale, the phone had 4 different covers.

Screen

"Prestige 5500" is a somewhat outdated model, because it was replaced by new devices with improved technical parameters and, consequently, new features. However, despite this, do not underestimate the capabilities of the smartphone itself 5500. The display, at least, has a resolution of 854 by 480 pixels. Despite the fact that it is based on TFT technology, the image quality, due to its small size, is quite high here. At least, outwardly the picture retains its proper appearance, not blurring.

The physical size of the screen, which has a smartphone "Prestige 5500", by the way, is equal to 5 inches. This is a classic size for phones of this class, which is considered the most convenient (and, incidentally, popular) among users. The sensor installed on the screen supports the possibility of simultaneous pressing in several places.

CPU

As we all know, with the "iron" of Chinese smartphones, as a rule, there are the greatest problems. Developers from the Middle Kingdom often save on components, installing on their products the cheapest parts that can only be found. For this reason, among such phones, the Mediatek processor is so widespread (and not, say, from NVidia or Qualcomm). The "Prestige 5500" is no exception. The characteristics of the gadget clearly indicate that it is equipped with a "heart" MT6572, running on two cores. The frequency of each of the latter is determined at 1.2 GHz. Due to this, we can talk about more or less stable work and opportunities to play most games from the same Google Play.

Camera

We have become accustomed to the fact that most modern smartphones are equipped with two cameras - front (front) and rear (main). As for the "Prestige 5500" (reviews confirm this information), the model has two "eyes". The main camera (for creating images) has a resolution of 5 megapixels and various "add-ons", like autofocus and LED flash. Another thing - front camera, which has a matrix with a resolution of 0.3 megapixels. It, accordingly, is intended for the creation of "Selfie", for videoconferences and communication on Skype.

As the reviews show, with some simple pictures in excellent conditions (with good illumination and normal visibility of the photographing object), the main camera handles normally. With the front camera, judging by the reviews, things are much worse - it is not able to normally transmit the color gamut and outlines of objects, so it will not be so easy to examine them in the photo.

Connectivity

Smartphone Prestigio 5500 has all the "classic set", which we saw on other similar devices of Chinese origin. This includes, inter alia, a Bluetooth system for file sharing, GPS for orientation on the ground, a Wi-Fi module for connecting to the wireless Internet.

As for mobile communication, the phone works with two mini-SIM cards, which are serviced in the standard GSM and UMTS frequency set.

Thus, nothing new can boast of a model, but everything that is necessary for an ordinary user is here. Yes, and the presence of two slots for "Simok" - it's also an excellent opportunity to save on mobile services, choosing the operator for a particular task.

operating system

Of course, the "Prestige 5500" (whose price, while it was sold, was 4-5 thousand rubles at different times) is offered with Android 4.2. This, of course, is an outdated modification, but it remains stable enough to successfully support work with everyday tasks. In addition, as described by advanced users on various Android forums, the device can be reflashed using other versions of the OS.

The graphical shell on Prestigio is used "native", with small additions in the form of an individually developed application store from the developer and some more "standard" programs. If desired, they can easily "demolish" and get, thus, the standard version of Android specified modification.

Reviews

What does this phone users write in their reviews? Most, of course, praise the device for the benefits that it can boast. For example, this is the price. The phone is super-accessible, which in no small part plays in favor of its popularity. In addition, the device has a cool design, which positively complements the style of its owner (it looks in someone's hands, he really cute). Also, the advantages include a colorful screen, support for two cards for communication, the availability of headphones, complete with the device. Concerning the performance of the device, in the comments we found a lot of disputes. Some users claim that they have no problems with the "braking" of the phone, its freezes and graphical jerks during operation. While the other part of the review authors testifies that the device has obvious performance problems. Perhaps it all depends on what programs to work with and for what purposes to use the device.

Another important role played by the cases in the set of covers on the "Prestige 5500".

The disadvantages of the device include a weak functional. Anyway, 512 MB of RAM is not enough for a modern device. Yes, and the quality of individual modules (cameras, speakers and sometimes - the processor) also leaves much to be desired.

conclusions

Whatever they write about the negative about this smartphone, it continues to be very popular on the domestic market. And now we have in mind not specifically the model 5500, but in general - the entire line of Prestigio. Taking into account the growth in sales, we will undoubtedly see an increase in the quality of the work of this brand, which will mean an increase in the level of its products. So, it is quite possible that in a few years "Prestigio" will reach the level of such well-known Chinese manufacturers as Meizu and Huawei and make them worthy of competition.