From the moment that Android became a “national” operating system, smart phones began to develop in waves. First, their flagship roll out rich, advanced brands as an example of what the coolest you can buy for a certain amount. And the next step becomes “Chinese answer” to competitors overrated technique — a little-known world brands offer the same hardware, but cheaper.
And here is the second “coming” is much more important than the first, because it is a good smartphone for an endlessly huge sum few people are tempted, but an inexpensive model that will work quickly will be a runaway hit retail with a Bang.
Friends against Qualcomm’s fun and exciting
In addition to fun for English-speaking users in the name of the company Zopo boasts a decent smartphone without arrogant claims to the premium, as instituted many brands in China. Classic well “packaged” twists Chinese smartphones low prices and very recent presence on the market – the first models went into production in 2012. But the main thing — Zopo remains one of the few brands that in the vast majority of smart phones uses MediaTek processors and promote their greatness. For this (and half a million sold smartphones on the chips MT per month), a young Chinese brands have the appropriate privileges.
For anybody not a secret that Qualcomm in 2012 worked on the image of “expensive-rich”, towards a young Chinese brands was not especially willingly (why, if there are Samsung, LG, Sony and others as wealthy clients?). It is not surprising that the army basement and not very electronics manufacturers from China supplying his less scrupulous competitor MediaTek. Moreover, the Taiwanese chipmaker, sorry, “cut the cabbage from the heart” and sold their chips without thinking about how good the device will be released based on them. Therefore, the most heartbreaking instances of Chinese phone – and planetstrike have something in common with the acronym MTK.
Then the situation is balanced – Qualcomm realized that the “newcomers” from China can be profitable and created a “mass consumption” Snapdragon 200 and 400 and MediaTek continued to produce a dead chetyrekhyadernye MT6582 until rastochitel them, even the Chinese, then to make a “knight’s move” and the first in the world to roll out OCTA-core processor MT6592. And processor-“supermodel” again with great success making his debut in smartphones Zopo. And in 2016, as we see the Chinese had the honor to roll out to the public already decategory chip MediaTek.
The front panel Zopo Speed 8
Features
Zopo Speed 8 ZP995
Operating system
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Screen
5.5”, 1920×1080, IPS 401 ppi
Processor
MediaTek Helio X20 MT6797 (10 cores, 4x Cortex-A53 1.4 GHz + 4x Cortex-A53 2 GHz + 2x Cortex-A72 2.5 GHz)
Graphics
Mali-T880 MP4
RAM
4 GB
Permanent memory
32 GB, microSD slot
Link
4G, 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS
Camera
primary: 21 MP, autofocus, video recording 1920×1080,
front: 8 MP
Battery
3500 mAh, non-removable
The price at the time of publication
no data
Where to buy
Lobation in the style of “retro”
After hours of exploring the MWC is so satiated that the powerful “train”, but outwardly unremarkable Chinese flagship proper impression already produces. Mainly because the new Zopo looks greetings from the past rebuilt with the new processor. For some reason it comes to mind the budgetary “lobation” IconBit three years ago. Since then, the iPhone managed a couple of times to change the design, Samsung stopped making the white plastic “remnants” and the smartphone IconBit extinct because gluing Russian nameplates on the Chinese model became unprofitable.
The smartphone is based on an “empty” Android 6.0, which is good
Only minor touches to give the Zopo 8 Speed modern smartphone
But look at Zopo Speed 8 – and see it as of the last guest. Great (when its 5.5 inches close by size to 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 4), and thick plastic everywhere you look. It’s amazing that such external data in 8 Speed set modern connector USB Type-C.
Two variants of the heydays of the smartphone, we prefer white – matte cover any dust, scratches aren’t visible, plus it doesn’t slide in your palm. But the soft-touch black plastic regularly accumulate dirt and fingerprints on the case.
Body white a much less easily soiled
On the sides and the top and bottom of the smartphone is framed by a plastic panel ‘chrome’. I really – like this plastic looks cheap and loses its Shine, it is necessary to touch it with your finger but remains slippery in almost any conditions. But without metal in the outer frame body our decategory was surprisingly lightweight – stand MWC no weights were not, but believe on the word of the owner of the old “Lopatina”.
The left side of Zopo Speed 8
Plastic, imitating metal, not only looks cheap but also very slippery
Right face Zopo Speed 8
The slits for the speaker and microphones in the front look good, and the rear camera is inscribed into the body neatly. However, photographing this the camera is controlled by medium and ugly archaic interface, from which most of the producers have long got rid.
The archaic interface of the camera flagship mobile phone not to face
The front camera takes sharp and not noisy selfies even in strange lighting conditions at the show, but here’s the color it turns out some kind of a — the author of this article is not as pale in life as a test photo.
An example of a photo taken on the rear camera Zopo Speed 8
An example of a photo taken on the rear camera Zopo Speed 8
Example photos taken with the front camera Zopo Speed 8
The fingerprint scanner at the rear is average quality – not all cases will be triggered the first time, but today there are few smartphone which boasts.
Nitpicking? Maybe so, but in 2016 we’ve learned that flagship look bright even in young Chinese brands, but the price Speed 8 representatives Zopo has not announced so far!
The flagship, only last year
And now about the main thing — the processor. MediaTek for a very long time was running with his desacuerdos Helio, back in the spring of 2015. And then there were “leaks” kuchinashi was done screenshots of benchmarks and blowing the atmosphere “hold me seven, our decategory all win!”. Only smartphones based on this processor came in a series of nor spring, nor summer, nor autumn.
During this time, the previous “super-processor” MediaTek, Helio X10, the de facto has become a middle class model curve and the lame Snapdragon 810 got rid of the overheating in my old age, and the Samsung was free to license the coolest last year’s processor, the Exynos 7420, the Chinese partners. Here it is at times and was to appear less expensive and just as powerful 10-yadernik.
The result Zopo Speed 8 (Helio X20) in Antutu Benchmark 6
The result Meizu Pro 5 (Exynos 7420) in Antutu Benchmark 6
The result 6P Huawei Nexus (Snapdragon 810) in Antutu Benchmark 6
Result the Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos 8890) in Antutu Benchmark 6
But before the end of 2015, 10-core MediaTek did not go to series, and in February 2016 rumors that Helio from the use of X20 has refused Lenovo, Xiaomi and HTC that say CPU overheats during long load and loses power. Here the heat generated by the flagship of Zopo, we did not wait (on the contrary, the smartphone was very stable, and the case remained cold under any load), but as for power… according to the combined parameters “supermodel” MediaTek has finally caught up with last year’s Snapdragon 810/Exynos 7420, and gaming performance inferior to them to this day.
The flagship 2016 Helio X20 competition does not stand — Samsung Galaxy S7 is killing our hero almost in 2 times and really can compete only with the “upper middle” class, (Samsung Galaxy A9, Alcatel Idol 4S).