Prestigio is a major Chinese electronics manufacturer. Its products are widely represented in several categories of devices: tablets, players, devices for the car and, of course, phones are produced under this logo. We will talk about them in this article.
Prestigio smartphones are most often positioned as budget, but functional devices. These are typical "Chinese" with promising specifications and a lot of additional options. At the same time, the cost of such devices is relatively low - it is due to it, according to the official information on the website, that the company is conquering new markets.
In fact, we can talk about the serious success that Prestigio has achieved. Multiphone is a popular line of smartphones in the company's model range, sold in almost 70 countries. As you can imagine, in the post-Soviet space, where this class of devices is in demand, as well as in the Eastern region (China, India) and some European countries, the described smartphones occupy high positions in the sales ratings. And even though the brand’s popularity is significantly lower than that of the “top” brands, Prestigio smartphones still continue to be sold in millions of copies, enriching shareholderscompany.
To learn a little more about Prestigio, we will prepare an overview of several models sold under this brand. They will be used to judge the quality of the product and what kind of feedback people leave about it.
Prestigio Multiphone 5550 Duo
This model is the current representative of the line of mobile devices of the brand, which is described in the review. This can be evidenced by its presentation on the company's website (where, among other things, it can be purchased) as the "world of mobile entertainment." This indicates the multimedia orientation of the phone. What is a model? What technical parameters are typical for it?
Screen
Smartphone Prestigio Multiphone is equipped with a 5.5-inch display covered with protective glass Gorilla Glass 3. Its resolution is 1280 by 720 pixels - with it the clarity of the picture, the density of dots on the screen meet high criteria.
Also, thanks to the IPS display technology on which the display functions, viewing angles can be praised - they do not change as the smartphone tilts.
Processor
The phone runs on a 4-core processor capable of providing good performance. The clock frequency of the cores is up to 1.3 GHz, paired with 1 GB of RAM, these criteria allow us to assert that we are not a flagship, of course, but rather an “average” device in its class.
At the same time, it is well enough optimized forinteraction with the battery, whose capacity is 3000 mAh. Of course, such a bunch allows us to talk about the increased autonomy of the gadget.
Camera
Prestigio Multiphone smartphones are equipped with two cameras; the main one has a matrix resolution of 13 megapixels (interpolated from 8). The quality of the pictures, judging by customer reviews, is quite tolerable - but far from “excellent”. The quality of the pictures is saved by a special sensor from Sony and laser autofocus.
You also need to praise the software part of the camera, which performs computational activities, processes images to the desired quality.
Smartphone Prestigio Grace X7 (7505)
This is another interesting device presented in the developer's assortment. It, according to the technical characteristics, has more powerful equipment, which means it has somewhat advanced functionality.
Screen
The display, however, does not concern - the phone has the same solution as in the case of Multiphone. As on the Prestigio Grace X5 smartphone, the developer installed a screen with a resolution of 720 by 1280 pixels on the “seventh” generation. Given that the physical size of its diagonal is 5 inches, we can conclude that the image density here is quite high and is about 300 dots.
Processor
X5 version runs on a 4-core “heart” clocked at up to 1.3 GHz; while the Prestigio X7 smartphone operates onbase of 8 cores with a frequency of up to 1.7. Accordingly, the performance between these lines is different. The amount of RAM used in the modification x7 reaches 2 GB, while X5 has only 1 gigabyte. This characteristic significantly determines the performance and responsiveness of a smartphone.
Camera
Same as in the case of Multiphone, Grace has two cameras with a resolution of 13 and 5 megapixels. In this case, similarly, the manufacturer made sure that the described Prestigio smartphones have the same software platform that provides high quality images. In particular, it is focusing, high-quality sensor, flash.
Prestigio Wize
As part of this review, I would like to touch on another group of models. We are talking about the smartphone Prestigio Wize, represented by modifications A3, D3, C3. If we talk briefly about this representative, then this is clearly a representative of budget devices. At least that's what its characteristics would suggest.
Screen
Take at least the display. At 5 (or 4.5) inches, it has a resolution of 480 by 854 pixels, which creates a low dot density. Due to this, the image quality suffers seriously, the “grainy” effect appears. The image displayed on the screen cannot compete with how the image is presented on other devices (which we mentioned above).
Processor
For the described Prestigio smartphones (reviews confirm this)installed 4-core “hearts” with a clock frequency of up to 1.2 GHz. This is a relatively good indicator, if you do not take into account the presence of 512 MB of RAM. This is really bad, because a modern smartphone will not be able to function normally with such a small operating resource. As a result, various performance problems may occur; when you run a program that completely occupies this volume, the device simply freezes.
Camera
The fact that Wize smartphones are at a lower level of the hierarchy than its “competitors” - other devices of the company, is also evidenced by the characteristics of the camera. There is a 5-megapixel camera as the main one, and a 0.3-megapixel camera as the secondary one. The quality of shooting on them leaves much to be desired.
Prestigio Muze
The line of Muze devices, also included in the reviews of Prestigio smartphones, is, to some extent, a device similar in its capabilities. It is also more budgetary than the same Multiphone, due to which its characteristics are not so bright and revealing.
Screen
With the model's display, the situation is about the same as on Wize models - low pixel density, low resolution, although still - brightness and color saturation, provided by the IPS function. When tilted, as testified by the reviews, the brightness of the image does not change, the picture retains saturation and does not “fade”, which is already commendable.
Processor
As for the hardware platform, in this matterthe phones mimic the Wize specs - it's a quad-core, acceptable base, combined with 512 MB. No wonder the buyers who worked with this model criticized the developers for this kind of savings when developing the device. Everyone writes that the smartphone “freezes” when loading a particular program, which makes working with it not entirely comfortable.
Camera
The optics here are the same as the previous line of devices in our review. This is a 5-megapixel main matrix and a 0.3-megapixel secondary (front camera). The pictures are of average quality, the stabilization system saves in some way - but it, in general, is powerless against weak equipment. In this regard, the developers also position the smartphone as a budget solution, from which one should not expect anything significant.
Reviews
In fact, after looking at a lot of technical reviews, it is rather difficult to say anything about the device. The thing is that some parameters can be expressed (in numerical form) in the same way, while in practice the difference between them will be enormous. Therefore, in order to understand what a particular device is, it is necessary to pay attention to the reviews left by customers. That's what we'll do.
Recommendations that we managed to find, most of them praise the devices from Prestigio. As arguments, the wide functionality of these smartphones, high-quality technical equipment, a strong software platform, and low cost are given. If you collect these factors and endow them with one or another device - indeed, it can turn out to be verypopular and loved by all "bestseller" in the world of electronics. But this is also impossible, given the constant flaws, errors, various deviations from the norm of the smartphone.
For example, in the reviews we were able to find information about excessively fast battery drain. For what reasons this happens - it's hard to say, most likely, the error lies in improperly organized work, in the absence of optimization of the interaction between the battery and the processor, and so on. But the fact remains - the user sees that his device, equipped with a capacious battery, is not able to hold a charge for more than a day.
Another situation is marriage in some smartphones. Since we are talking about Chinese manufacturers whose reputation has been significantly undermined by low-quality goods, the buyer may well expect some kind of catch, defect, and so on. Again, an example from the feedback is a blurry image taken from a camera. It is possible that the camera lens has somehow failed, and another option is the presence of system errors. Be that as it may, again, the buyer does not understand why the 13 megapixels he bought do not shoot even at 1.
Sometimes the cause of problems is low-quality (or not enough quality) components. Here, for example, touch screens on Multiphone. If you have ever had the opportunity to familiarize yourself with this smartphone, you may have noticed an excessively high degree of sensitivity of the sensor - the main control element. Even if your hands are slightly damp and you touchscreen - the device starts to go crazy. In some situations, this "sensitivity" is indeed positive, allowing the smartphone to respond faster - but at the same time, the developers had to think about other cases.
All this is real information and, perhaps, due to their existence, there is some distrust on the part of the client towards this brand.
Conclusions
However, each of us has our own prejudices - and the fact that they have developed independently regarding each manufacturer of mobile devices is a fact. There are people who, having switched to cheap Chinese smartphones (and Prestigio is just such, since its cost does not exceed $ 200), are satisfied. Moreover, there are those who become real fans of this category of devices, starting to purchase the same tablet, headphones and other types of electronics over time.
If you are interested in Prestigio with its models (which we described above), perhaps even as a substitute for an old smartphone, you should buy a phone of this brand and see how it behaves in real life. If successful (and this may well be the case), you will continue to use smartphones from Prestigio.
Finally, even if their products do not inspire you, there are a number of other Chinese brands that are also gaining popularity. But that's a story for another article.
