Company "MegaFon" is one of the pioneers of the Russian market of mobile devices released under the brand of a mobile operator. In many Western countries, this format of electronics sales has existed for many years, in our country it is only gaining momentum. According to many experts, the capabilities of the very first tablet from the operator - the "Login" device - were very modest.
In turn, the second product of functions, according to experts, should be significantly more. The new tablet - "Megaphone Login 2" - the characteristics, experts believe, should have more impressive. Moreover, many experts are sure that the operator has launched its second "tablet" on the market with a specific goal: to make the device one of the sales leaders in its segment. Due to what characteristics will the device from Megafon compete with the solutions of other players of the Big Three?
Design, dimensions
The first thing we will begin to study the Megafon Login 2 tablet is the characteristics of the case. Its main array is made of black smooth plastic. Silver body trim. The tablet has a fairly small size. Its length is 198 mm, width - 122, thickness - 12. The device is quite comfortable to hold with one hand. At the top of the case is the volume rocker, next to it is the power button. The main part of the slots is on the right side. There is an audio jack and a microUSB output. There is an external microSD slot, as well as a standard size SIM card. The brand manufacturer decided to make the case one-piece. Experts note the high build quality of the tablet case.
Display
The screen is covered with a plastic shell that is sufficiently resistant to scratching. Display diagonal - 7 inches, resolution - 1024 x 600 pixels, manufacturing technology - TFT, type - capacitive. Supports up to 262K colors. Since the matrix technology is not the most modern, the picture quality may change at different viewing angles.
At the same time, experts say, for most users, this feature will not bring discomfort, since almost always viewing videos or photos is carried out with the front display. Which, in turn, provides a very good picture quality.
Performance
The tablet has a fairly modern MSM 8225 chipset with two cores and a clock speed of 1 GHz. RAM - 512 MB, 4 GB available on the built-in flash drive (actually about 1 is available). Can it be considered sufficientleast productive tablet "Megafon Login 2"? The specifications of its hardware components are relatively modest. Will this affect its competitiveness?
Experts are sure that the above resources are enough to launch and work correctly most modern applications. With games it is more difficult - three-dimensional ones will run with great difficulty. However, according to experts, this brand of tablet is absolutely not "gaming". And because the support of games here is one of the least significant criteria. The tablet copes quite well with its main task - providing access to the Internet using the built-in browser, browsing web pages, photos, listening to music, playing videos.
Battery
In what is really not much inferior to competing solutions, the tablet "Megafon Login 2" - battery characteristics. The device is equipped with a fairly large battery capacity for its class of devices - 3 thousand mAh. At the same time, experts note that the MSM 8225 chipset, as well as a number of other hardware solutions, are considered one of the most energy efficient. As a result, a fairly long battery life of the smartphone is ensured. Some experts recorded 4-5 days of average intensity of use of the device before the battery runs out. Many experts note the high speed of charging the battery - within 2 hours.
Camera
There are two cameras in the phone - the main one and the front one. The first has a resolution of 2 megapixels, the functionit does not have autofocus. Should the camera be considered an important criterion for the functionality of such a device as the Megafon Login 2 tablet? Characteristics of photos and videos - how important are they in this case for the user? To answer this question, let's examine a small discussion that has arisen in the online environment between separate groups of experts and users.
Many users are not very positive about the quality of video calling using a smartphone. However, there are also "lawyers". Their position is as follows: the device is designed primarily for use in 3G networks. Even if a smartphone had a powerful camera, then the bandwidth (and stability) of the mobile Internet channel, most likely, would not be enough for comfortable work in most cases. And therefore it is even good that the quality of the video stream in this case is not high: already at the hardware level it adapts to the resources of the Internet channel. It is better, therefore, to communicate with the interlocutor with a not very detailed, but stable picture, than with one that has a high resolution, but with constant disconnections.
The same can be said about the functions of the camera in terms of taking photos and videos. High-quality multimedia samples have a large weight in megabytes, and therefore are poorly adapted to transmission when using 3G channels. An option where one person transfers a photo of less than ideal quality to another is probably more preferable than one in which the user cannot transfer a large file at all due to an unstable Internet connection.
Soft
Nonesensations regarding the software that the Megafon Login 2 tablet is equipped with. The firmware here is Android OS. There are very few pre-installed applications, but anything you need can be found in the Google Play catalog. There is a built-in file manager, voice recorder, etc.
Among the useful branded applications from "MegaFon" are "Money" (a useful payment tool in some cases), "Navigator", as well as several system utilities. There is also a Yandex browser (along with the standard one included in the OS). There is an interface for listening to radio broadcasts in the FM band, experts note its ease of use and stability.
Communication
Like many other devices from Megafon, this tablet is compatible with a SIM card only from this operator. True, this rule applies only in cases where the user is located on the territory of Russia. If you try to insert a SIM card of a foreign operator abroad, the tablet will work.
The secret is, experts believe, that the firmware installed on the Megafon Login 2 tablet is supplemented with a branded software module that can recognize SIM cards of the operator's direct competitors. Thus, experts believe, MegaFon deliberately opposes the use of the device by the owners of only those SIM-cards that are issued by a certain group of market players.
Regarding wireless interfaces - the device works in 2G and 3G communication standards, supports connection via Wi-Fi (and can itself be an access point). The quality of communication after testing in all available channels was assessed by experts as high. The characteristics given by the owners who tested the Megafon Login 2 tablet, reviews regarding the stability of communication, generally coincide with the assessments of experts. The device is well adapted to the main task - accessing the Internet via a mobile channel.
User reviews
What are the characteristics and reviews of the device prevailing among people who own the Megafon Login 2 tablet? Did the device live up to the expectations of enthusiasts and brand adherents? The most important advantage of the tablet, according to many users, is the price. Having paid 3-4 thousand rubles to a dealer, a person acquires a device that is generally comparable in terms of functions and capabilities with devices from the world's leading brands produced in the same class. What is not surprising, experts say: it often happens that tablets manufactured by order of a conditional Samsung or HTC, and those that will then be brought to Russia under its Megafon brand, are assembled at Chinese factories on the same conveyor.
Gadgets of international brands very often have characteristics similar to devices of the class to which the Megafon Login 2 tablet belongs. Omsk, Moscow, Yekaterinburgwill receive on their municipal markets goods branded by the Big Three operator with a quality no worse than, relatively speaking, Warsaw, Dresden and Budapest, where the largest transnational players in the mobile electronics market operate.
Branded functionality
Users are not at all embarrassed by the rigid binding of the device to the operator's SIM card. First, they believe, MegaFon has some of the best Internet tariffs on the market. And therefore, even if the tablet was compatible with any operator, then Megafon would have been chosen with a high probability. Secondly, no one bothers not to use a SIM card from this brand, but at the same time use the tablet via Wi-Fi, use any necessary functions. The capabilities of the device do not disappear anywhere. All the characteristics laid down by the factory scheme in the Megafon Login 2 tablet are fully utilized. The user manual for this device and those manuals that are written for many of its analogues produced under international brands are largely the same. This suggests that the Russian mobile operator has released a technologically advanced and competitive product.
