Vernee Thor E Big Battery Smartphone First Impressions & Quick Review

Posted in Jul 21, 2017 in Reviews, no comment

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Vernee had release a new smartphone in MWC 2017, which had a long life battery meets the needs. Meet Vernee Thor E Big Battery Smartphone! This product had spent a lot attention in the industrial design, hardware matching, material selection, to the system-level power optimization, and it can make sure that the Thor E would last 72hrs, and made customers go out without mobile power.

Meanwhile, The Thor E had different look from old-style cellphone, it had a 5020mAh long life battery in the 5 inch x 8.2mm body, which was an incredible form factor size in the past. That’s all? Of course not! Thor E had put a 9V2A fast charge and a long life button in its tiny body. Those two functions were rare used in smart cellphone. Charging fast and lasting long make a perfect long life battery cellphone. Thor E not only had good quality but also high technology, this was the different from other cellphone. Thor E comes with Android Noughat 7.0 as operating system, it can save energy and have a clear interface, Vernee also add intelligent power scheduling and synchronization wake-up function, they can help allocate each core to open and close and frequency level, analysis APP, classify APP, and make sure each APP went well, and solve also other common problems.

Here you can read about the unboxing of Vernee Thor E Big Battery Smartphone.

Next, watch the first impressions and the first experience on Vos version 1.0.0 based on Android Nougat 7.0

Firmware tested: Customized vernee Vos based on Android Nougat 7.0
Build number: alps-mp-n0.mp1-V1.0.2_nb6753.66.n_P36
Custom Build version: Thor_E_20170704
Kernel version: 3.18.35
Android security patch level: June 5, 2017
Root: Firmware is not rooted.

Available features: Dual SIM, Radio FM, WiFi, WiFi Hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS, GPS, Microphone, Front & Back Camera, Camera Flash, USB Host, OTA Sync, Ultra Power-Saving mode, Voice Search, Sound Recorder, Calculator, MiraVision, DuraSpeed, Fingerprint sensor, Unlock with Fingerprint, FlashLight, Airplane Mode, App Widgets, Audio Output, USB Accessory, Multitouch, Audio low-latency, Printing, Smart Assistance (Buttons, Motion Gestures, Intelligent Assist & Status Bar), MiraVision, Adaptive Brightness, Screen Cast, Notifications, Sound Enhancement – BesLoudness, Location, Schedule power on & off, TouchPal, Invert colors.

Sensors available on device: 7 sensors on boad: Battery, GPS, WiFi, Accelerometer, Proximity,Light & Fingerprint.

Cameras. Main camera: 8.0MP (SW 13.0MP) with f/ 2.4 aperture. Feratures: Autofocus, Continuous shooting, Digital zoom, Face detection, Geotagging, HDR, ISO settings, Macro mode, Panorama, Scene mode, Self-timer & Touch focus. Selfie camera: 2.0MP front camera (SW 5.0MP).

Display. Diagonal: 5″. Type: LCD IPS. Resolution: HD 720 x 1280. Density: Medium, 294 Pixels per inch. Others: 2.5D curved glass screen, Capacitive, Color LED Notifications, Full Lamination Technology, Multi-touch, Scratch resistant, Viewing angle – 178°. Featuring a 5-inch display using IPS display technology, Thor E has a much wider 178-degree viewing angle. Along with the 294 PPI display, which is appropriate for human eyes discerning granular detail, the phone allows you to see a vivid world through its beautiful display.

E-ink key – Ultra Power-Saving mode. Just press the E-ink key on the side of the device and the screen shifts to black and white, the display brightness is lowered, the CPU and GPU are underclocked, and background tasks and push notifications are restricted. In other words, the feature is sort of like Android’s battery saver mode… but it is more. With this power saving measure, you can keep using your phone for about 24 hours with only 20% battery.

Battery. Capacity: 5.020mAh with 9V/2A fast charge. Type: Non-Removable Li-Polymer. Charging fast and lasting long make a perfect long life battery cellphone. To ensure the safety, Vernee equipped the charger and the phone each with a power management chip, which can monitor the charging status in real time, control heating and adjust charging current/voltage or cut off electricity directly in case of abnormality.

Internal storage. Capacity: 16 GB. Available: 8.67 GB (84%). SD slot up to 128 GB. Tested with Mixza Tohaoll 128GB SDXC Micro SD Memory Card.

Vernees Vos. Thor E comes with VOS, slightly optimized operating system based on Android 7.0. No extra apps so it is purer and cleaner. New features like custom quick settings, notification direct reply, split-screen mode and quick switch between recent apps are all available. It delivers smooth operation experience with great power efficiency. VOS is optimized on system level, such as dual SIM management, power allocation and storage management. It replaces MTK’s unfriendly UI with a more gorgeous one which is very close to the original Google OS. Thanks to those optimization, Thor E’s battery life has reached a new height.

Vos OTA Updates. Vernee seems to care a lot about its users, I just turned on the Thor E and 4 consecutive firmware updates were waiting for me. The phone comes with Thor_E_20170506 custom build firmware version. Then firmwares updates kept going on: Thor_E_20170524182822 (76.01 MB), Thor_E_20170607181536 (64.29 MB), Thor_E_20170615231526 (71.34 MB) and finally the latest and actual firmware: Thor_E_20170704174452 (88.65 MB).

Cost-effective.8 from 10 – pretty good.

In Antutu Benchmark 6.2.7 Vernee Thor E smartphone achieves a decent score, over 38.200 points.

In Antutu Video Tester 3.0 Vernee Thor E smartphone scores about 600 points, a fair score in this test ranking. It played smoothly almost all video file types; this firmware version fully supports 11 video & audio format files, it partially supports 7 video & audio format files and doesn’t manage to play 12 files.

Wifi Internet speed tested gets also pretty good values: over 22 Mbps in download and the upload speed was also almost 8 Mbps. The router used in this test is Xiaomi Mi WiFi Router, mounted in another room.

Conclusion
The Vos on the Vernee Thor E smartphone is very smooth, being a very well customized operating system. Transitions, animations, apps switching and general OS fluidity is just great, I really like it a lot. During our tests, we experienced zero force closes, hangups or stability issues. Google Play and gapps are working without issue. Google Play Services updated no problem. 3rd party apps downloaded and updated without issues.

Vernee Thor E Big Battery Smartphone has an amazing affordable price and very good value for the money.

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