Philips W732 - model overview, customer reviews and experts

The smartphone Xenium W732, according to the brand-manufacturer, is intended to become a worthy continuer of the line of so-called "long-playing" gadgets.

If we are talking about "Xenium", then the first association here is a powerful battery. It is present in the apparatus, its capacity is 2.4 thousand mAh. What other notable features and features are equipped with a smartphone Philips W732?

Design

The case of the device is plastic. A real design find can be called elegant edging, starting on the front side and smoothly flowing into the side elements. On the left side of the case the corporate label looks great. Top and bottom on the rear panel there is a sheath of rubberized polymer material, designed to reduce the slide of the Philips Xenium W732 in the hand.

The quality of the assembly is determined by experts as very high. No backlashes, no gaps, no creaks were seen. Materials of the case do not leave visible fingerprints. Resistance to scratching plastic from Philips - the highest. At the same time, the display is protected by completely ordinary glass (unlike many other analogues covered with high-strength technological material such as Gorilla Glass).

Dimensions of the device are common for gadgets of this type. The length of the smartphone is 126.4 mm, the width is 67.3, and the thickness is 12.3. The second parameter, however, is more "average" in terms of analogs, but this is explained by the increased battery size (which the phone has more capacious than many other devices).

The smartphone Philips W732 is equipped with two standard sensors - motion (approximation) and illumination. Experts note the high rate of reaction of each of them. Next to these elements, on the front side, is an additional camera that can be used while communicating via Skype and other soft for video calls. Immediately - voice speaker. The quality of his work is assessed by experts as high.

At the bottom of the front side of the body are three standard buttons: "Menu", "Return" and "Home". Each of them is equipped with a backlight, sufficiently bright. Immediately - the microphone device.

Interestingly, there are no slots in the lower end of the case (as well as on the left). The audio connector is located at the top, near - the port for connection via microUSB, as well as the power button of the device. On the right side of the case there are two keys that control the sound level. Behind - the main camera with a flash, as well as a speaker.

If you lift the cover of the case, then the slots for two SIM-cards and microSD flash memory will open (the phone's design, by the way, allows them to be inserted and removed even if the device is turned on).

The smartphone comes in different color versions. For example, the black-gray case is very common (in this case the name of the model of the device sounds like Philips Xenium W732 Black Gray).

Screen

The smartphone is equipped with a 4.3 inch display (the actual value is 56 by 94 mm). The resolution of the matrix is 480 by 800 pixels. The manufacturing process is a combination of IPS-LCD. Sensor - capacitive, like most modern gadgets, type. Supports 5 simultaneous touches. Experts note the very high sensitivity of the sensor (comparable to that of premium phones).

The quality of the picture on the screen of the Philips W732 is excellent, regardless of the viewing angle (under a strong slope, unless the brightness is slightly reduced). The transfer of color is noted by experts as very natural. The level of pixelation is minimal, almost imperceptible. In general, the screen of the Philips W732 is characterized by experts very positively.

"Exterior" of the phone we studied. Next stage of the research of Philips W732 is next.

Battery

As we said above, for "Xenium" is characterized by a very long battery life. Does this rule apply to this model of smartphone? Tests conducted by experts showed that charging the battery lasts about 20 hours at an average intensity of gadget operation. That is, it can be, for example, 25-30 minutes of conversations, 4-5 hours of communication on the Internet via Wi-Fi, as much - through mobile channels and about half of this time remains for listening to songs. Many of these results may seem modest. However, as the tests showed, if the phone is used only for listening to music, then the battery charge will last for more than 2 days. If you watch only movies with a high volume and the highest brightness of the display - it will work for about 10 hours. If you run the game, then the battery will last about 6-7 hours. There can be no talk of "modesty" here, experts believe. Excellent results. Even users who leave reviews about Philips W732, in general, confirm the theses of experts regarding the performance of the device.

Connectivity

The phone is capable of working in mobile networks of 2G and 3G standards. As with most other devices that support 2 SIM cards, you can not use the services of both operators in 3G simultaneously. At least 1 card must operate in 2G mode. There is an interesting option in the form of restriction of "mobile" Internet traffic. By using it, the user can significantly reduce communication costs.

There is a Bluetooth module, though not the most modern - in version 2.1. Wi-Fi is supported, router and modem functions are present. To communicate with a PC and other devices in a wired mode, the USB interface is used. Experts note the very high sensitivity of the Wi-Fi-module. Wireless communication, as shown by the tests, keeps confidently, without failures and freezes.

Memory resources

The phone is equipped with a 512 MB RAM module. Although this is not enough, most phone functions are performed at such a resource level normally. Experts note the high level of optimization of system processes in the smartphone: this is evidenced by the fact that there is about 250 MB of memory freely available. While in many analogues its volume, as a rule, varies around 170 MB.

Camera

There are two cameras in the phone. The main one has a resolution of 5 megapixels, the additional (frontal) is very modest with respect to this characteristic - only 0.3. The maximum value of the photo obtained with the help of the smartphone is 2560 at 1920 points. The video, at the same time, is shot in a rather large resolution - 1280 by 720 pixels. The flow rate is 30 frames per second.

Many experts noted the fact that the camera can focus on a very small distance (about 3-4 cm). Traditionally, the level of color reproduction is traditionally high for the Dutch brand devices, the quality balance of white color (this is evidenced by reviews received from experts who tested Philips smartphones). In the software of the camera there is a mode that allows you to provide photos with the effect of vector animation.

Videos are created by the smartphone in good quality, with a sufficient level of sharpness. Some owners note that the sound quality is not high enough. But experts with this remark refer to the possibility of increasing the "bitrate" with the help of specialized applications available in Android-directories, such as, for example, LG Camera.

Speed of work

The smartphone is equipped with MTK 6575 chipset, Cortex A9 processor and SGX 531 graphics processing module (which supports technologies such as OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX in version 10.1). These resources, experts believe, are sufficient to realize most of the functions inherent in the device. Users commenting on their experience of operating the smartphone and leaving the results shown by Philips W732, reviews, generally agree with this thesis.

Cards

The phone has a regular GPS-navigator. There is support for the innovative EPO standard, which analyzes the motion of satellites in orbit in order to calculate the most accurate position of the device. The GPS module starts in the "cold" state for 3 minutes. To navigate, there are several pre-installed applications.

Software

Firmware Philips W732 - Android OS in the 4-th version. Among the pre-installed applications - address book, calendar, module for working with GPS-maps, calculator. There is a Philips engineering menu W732, allowing you to flexibly configure the device. To run it, you just need to enter a special command on the screen: * # * # 3646633 # * # *.

There is a regular browser, which, according to experts, works very quickly. To fully display the pages you will need to download the Flash player separately, since it has not been installed on Android platforms recently.

There is a pre-installed package of Kingsoft Office. Using it on a smartphone, you can not only open test documents and spreadsheets (as is the case with most other applications of this type), but also edit files and even create new ones in formats that can be recognized by other office programs, including Word And Excel. The application can also work with cloud data stores.

There is a convenient and simple music player in the phone with equalizer functions, frequency control and a three-dimensional sound effect. Experts note the highest quality of sound. There is a hardware-software module for receiving FM broadcasts. You can record radio air to a file.

There is no regular video player in the smartphone, however you can easily download an external (like MX Video Player) from the Google directory. Technologically, the phone supports playing almost any file format.

Summary of Experts

The "leitmotif" of many expert reviews of the device can be defined as follows: Philips Xenium W732 - a device characterized primarily by the high quality of the functions. Starting with voice calls and ending with the launch of games. The smartphone works quickly, without significant glitches and hangs. The battery, designed to provide long autonomous work, perfectly copes with its task.

As we said above, the Philips W732 firmware is the Android OS released by Google. According to some experts, Philips managed to successfully combine a capacious battery and the said platform. The fact is that these two technological undertakings, as many experts note, can not always "coexist peacefully" at the same time. The predecessors of the Philips W732 - 4PDA devices, many of which were not considered smartphones at all - showed very mediocre results for this part. For the early Android-devices charging every day, and even several times a day was considered the norm. In the case of a smartphone from Philips, this feature, as experts say, manifests itself much less noticeably than in the case of gadgets from other brands.

User Reviews

What do the owners of Philips W732 say? Many of them, like experts, note the advantages of the device over analogues in terms of the quality of the functions. Phone Philips Xenium W732, they say, provides fast application operation, and also allows you to perform many tasks in multiple windows.

Users praise the battery, which, given its size and capacity, is certainly not at all surprising. Many owners of the smartphone emphasize that the actual duration of the autonomous operation of the device exceeds the figures noted by specialists in individual reviews. Positive feedback from consumers deserved a matrix display, showing a high level of sensitivity to depression.

Installed by the brand-manufacturer W732 (Philips) the price (6-7 thousand rubles., Depending on the particular store) in combination with the functionality is quite satisfied with the majority of users.

The smartphone owners also like the high quality of wireless interfaces. It is known that many mobile gadgets are not too "loyal" to Wi-Fi: do not see the network, keep the signal is not very stable, constantly reconnect. Users, who decided to leave on the pages of the thematic forums where the discussion of the Philips W732 is concerned, say that such problems are not typical for this model of the smartphone.

As for the video camera, the points of view are quite different here. There are opinions that, using high technologies in the manufacture of the eyepiece, Philips could also take care of the quality of the flash. Indeed, this element, as experts have found, is not the brightest and most functional on the background of solutions from analogs. At the same time, there are users who claim that any flaws in the flash are uniquely compensated by the highest quality of the camera itself.