Operating experience. innos D6000 vs Samsung Galaxy S7: convenience in the details

    Hello! The following post is a bit of an In Use format overview. This means that I will not talk with all the details about each button, screw and icon (this has been done for a long time ), but I will tell about the operational features of innos D6000. And at the same time I will compare it in this context with the flagship Samsung Galaxy S7, which I also use. Immediately I consider it necessary to emphasize: do not take this text as a comparative review of the two above-mentioned devices. They are very different, and the first costs 15,990 rubles, and the second costs 49,990 rubles. It is clear that in the Korean flagship a lot is realized at a much higher level, and there is no point arguing with this. However, some points that I discovered over almost half a year with innos D6000 make me consider the latter to be a no less (or even more!) Thought-out device.



    Moment number 1: fall . Unfortunately, once I dropped innos D6000. Well, from a height of a meter. And on the asphalt. The device fell on one of the upper corners "face" down. Fell - and ... nothing happened to the screen. The reason for this luck is a small, a fraction of a millimeter high frame around the perimeter of the front panel. A couple of years ago, such a framework was an attribute of almost all smartphones (say, it is also in the Galaxy S5), but now manufacturers are carried away by 2.5D glass and have refused such “security features”.



    In the same Galaxy S7, it is precisely a slightly curved glass that is used, and if this device were in place of the innos D6000, then I would probably have to fork out for a screen replacement. This is what I mean: beauty is beauty (2.5D-glass looks really excellent), but personally I am for reliability. And innos D6000 provides it.

    Moment number 2: graphics in games . It would seem that the more powerful the chipset, the (in theory) a particular smartphone displays 3D games better. In practice, everything is somewhat different, in any case, when comparing innos D6000 and Samsung Galaxy S7. The first uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, which has been seen, and the second uses the latest Samsung Exynos 8890 with a much more powerful graphics core. However, in my favorite toy - Asphalt 8 - the details of the cars are higher in the case of innos D6000. Just look at the screenshots below:


    Above is a screenshot from innos D6000, below is from Samsung Galaxy S7

    It’s clear that sooner or later Gameloft will release an update that will raise the graphics quality on the Samsung Galaxy S7 to innos D6000 or even higher. It cannot be otherwise. Nevertheless, this point is quite indicative: Qualcomm chipsets with their Adreno graphics are the most popular solutions for Android smartphones designed for wealthy countries with solvent population (USA, Europe, Japan, etc.). This means that game developers optimize their titles primarily for Qualcomm solutions, and not for Samsung, and especially not for MediaTek, which are used in most smartphones of young Chinese brands.

    Moment number 3: ergonomics in games. I was not really upset when I saw that the Galaxy S7 is still showing a lower level of graphics in games. Why? Yes, just playing on ultra-thin smartphones with fairly “sharp” metal frames around the perimeter is corny is not convenient. That is why I hardly made a couple of races on the Galaxy S7 in Asphalt 8 - and realized that I would not play on it again. Never.


    "Chubby" devices are better for games than ultra-thin

    Meanwhile, “hanging” with innos D6000 in the aforementioned toy for a couple of three or five hours is not a problem at all. Because thanks to a thickness of 12 mm, the device almost perfectly fits in your hands. Moreover, during the game you do not touch the touch keys under the screen, because innos D6000 does not have them. (Hitting them on other devices sometimes leads to a crash from the game or, for example, to loss of progress.) The Galaxy S7, however, has a special setting for deactivating them in game mode, but in the case of a host of other smartphones - for example, Galaxy S5 and Lenovo K900 - I’ve lost my progress more than once because I accidentally pressed these buttons with my finger.

    Moment number 4: the durability of the housing. Someone can blame innos D6000 for excessive obesity: they say, 12 mm is a lot. I will say this: firstly, in practice, the device does not seem fat. Yes, it is thicker than the average modern smartphone, but not much. Secondly, the materials used allow you to operate innos D6000 in the tail and in the mane, without fear of spoiling the exterior of the device. So, the back panel is made of polycarbonate - and after three months of wearing in a jeans pocket, the smart looks like new.


    After six months of operation, the innos D6000 back cover is in a state of new

    Samsung Galaxy S7 is made of glass, that is, it is used both front and rear. On the third day after the purchase, a couple of very noticeable scratches formed on the back - and this despite the fact that the device never fell and was not worn in the pocket at all. Yes, I am aware that this is Gorilla Glass 4 (the latest generation), and that many owners of the "seven" call it almost indestructible. But I did it like this. In order to avoid the appearance of new scratches on an expensive device, I had to enclose the Galaxy S7 in a proprietary case. And in the end, its thickness has become exactly the same as that of the innos D6000, which, due to its high wear resistance, does not need covers.


    In the branded cover, the thickness of the Samsung Galaxy S7 is the same as that of the innos D6000. At the same time, playing the “Korean” is still not convenient: if you flip the flip cover over the back panel, the device cannot be held tightly in your hands.

    Moment number 5: design of card slots. At Samsung, for some reason (and much to my regret) we went about a strange Chinese fashion: there are two SIM card slots in the Galaxy S7, but you can insert a USB flash drive into one of them instead of a SIM card. Is it convenient? This is terrible! Yes, you can make a so-called “sandwich” by cutting a piece from nanoSIM and gluing this very piece to a sawn (!) MicroSD, and then try to insert it all into the device ... Someone succeeds and the smartphone works simultaneously with two SIM cards and a flash drive . And someone as a result remains without a SIM card, without a memory card, or even without a smartphone, which, due to the above actions, fails.


    Either two SIM cards, or a SIM card + flash drive. The logic of the developers of the device for 50 thousand rubles is not clear to me personally

    At innos D6000, everything is much more convenient: you can insert two SIM-cards (with at least microSIM, at least nanoSIM - the design of the slots allows) and a separate memory card. I hope that sooner or later, smartphone makers will forget this stupid slot-combining trick and get back to what we see in the innos model. And today combined slots are observed in more than half of the "Chinese". And also in some "Koreans" ...


    innos D6000: three full-fledged slots.

    Moment number 6: interface connector. In almost all the top flagships of 2016, we see the USB Type-C - the one where you can insert the cable on either side (which is very, very convenient). And only Samsung for some reason remained faithful to the MicroUSB, which managed to get bored with the order precisely because in the dark you need to try to plug the cord three (five, ten ...) times in order to finally choose its correct position.

    Meanwhile, in the innos D6000 we see just the symmetrical USB Type-C. Today it is rarely found in devices priced up to 20 thousand rubles, and this model, recall, costs 15,990 rubles.



    Moment number 7 (the most important and basic): battery life .

    The innos D6000 has two batteries: built-in for 2,480 and removable for 3,520 mAh. Total 6,000 mAh. Video in DVD-quality, the device can “turn” up to 24 hours, in HD-quality - up to 14. Samsung Galaxy S7 in the same modes lives about 14 and 8 hours, respectively (with a battery capacity of 3,000 mAh). The results for the device with a QHD screen and a chipset that provides 120 thousand points in AnTuTu are actually excellent. Nevertheless, on business trips - and they are usually accompanied by daily travel by train - I take innos D6000 with me. Because he has no equal in battery life anyway. And if you buy a couple more removable batteries (990 rubles apiece at innos.com/ru ), then you don’t have to carry a charge with you.


    innos D6000 works with a removed external battery, in addition, you can buy as many batteries as you like and increase the capacity almost unlimited.

    In everyday operation (without video, but with the Internet, social networks, photos and so on) Samsung Galaxy S7 lives with me for up to two days and innos D6000 - up to four.

    Moment number 8 (bonus): oleophobic coating quality. In Asphalt 8, I started playing back in 2010 on the Samsung Wave - and two months later the screen went stained. This erased the oleophobic coating in those places where the fingers most often touch the screen as a result. The same spots appeared after three months of playing on the Motorola Droid Turbo screen, after the same three months - on the screen of the Samsung Galaxy S4. But on the innos D6000 I have been playing for about six months, and the oleophobic coating has not been erased at all. There are no spots. So much for the inexpensive Chinese!

    And I called this moment bonus because I cannot compare innos D6000 with Samsung Galaxy S7 - as already mentioned above, I can’t play on the latter.

    Total. Once again: I do not want to say that the Samsung Galaxy S7 is a bad smartphone, and the innos D6000 is a good one. They are both good and worth their money. Just to get the maximum opportunities in my particular case, they have to be combined. Games and business trips are part of innos D6000, photographing and image tasks are the Galaxy S7. At the same time, to be honest, I don’t quite understand why, in the case of innos D6000, the developers thought over certain points (interface connector, slot design) and added a lot of pleasant little things that radically increase the usability, but Korean magicians did not think about these important things at all. After all, their offspring costs more than three times more expensive than innos D6000.

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