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Rouxenator
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It's been a while since I last reviews a cheapie, so here goes, the Proline XV-402.
A month ago my Proline XV-402 arrived from Takealot for R505 and I was quite excited to once more have a phone sporting a AMOLED screen. In this case one very similar to the Nokia X7-00 I played around with some years ago, 4" with a 640x360 resolution.
In fact I won't be surprised if Proline found a stock pile of unused AMOLED screens destined to be used in those ill fated Symbian music phones. When the display is off it has the silver sheen to it. Never been a fan of that. The biggest downfall of this screen is that while Symbian was polished to run at 640x360 (and only that) it is not the same with Android. Sure it can scale to any resolution, but is certainly does not look good in nHD.
The XV-402 plays in the overcrowed 4GB ROM, 512MB RAM, Dual SIM, Android 6 league, and it looses out to the competition.
Don't let these performance results fool you.
The phone runs a stock version of Android 6 with a launcher that looks like it was taken from Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Despite having the newer style Triangle, Circle, Square buttons they are still behaving like on Android 2 with the square button bringing up setting and only when holding it will it show a task switcher. Speaking of which - it is painfully slow. If you leave this phone for a couple of hours and comeback switching tasks is horrendously slow. Trying to multitask between Whatsapp and the SMS app is a terrible experience. Typing on the lower than normal resolution screen is inaccurate.
For the money I cannot recommend this phone. Even with the out of the box included silicone case and screen protector fitted you will only end up being frustrated by this phone.
(camera review follows below)
A month ago my Proline XV-402 arrived from Takealot for R505 and I was quite excited to once more have a phone sporting a AMOLED screen. In this case one very similar to the Nokia X7-00 I played around with some years ago, 4" with a 640x360 resolution.
In fact I won't be surprised if Proline found a stock pile of unused AMOLED screens destined to be used in those ill fated Symbian music phones. When the display is off it has the silver sheen to it. Never been a fan of that. The biggest downfall of this screen is that while Symbian was polished to run at 640x360 (and only that) it is not the same with Android. Sure it can scale to any resolution, but is certainly does not look good in nHD.
The XV-402 plays in the overcrowed 4GB ROM, 512MB RAM, Dual SIM, Android 6 league, and it looses out to the competition.
Don't let these performance results fool you.
The phone runs a stock version of Android 6 with a launcher that looks like it was taken from Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Despite having the newer style Triangle, Circle, Square buttons they are still behaving like on Android 2 with the square button bringing up setting and only when holding it will it show a task switcher. Speaking of which - it is painfully slow. If you leave this phone for a couple of hours and comeback switching tasks is horrendously slow. Trying to multitask between Whatsapp and the SMS app is a terrible experience. Typing on the lower than normal resolution screen is inaccurate.
For the money I cannot recommend this phone. Even with the out of the box included silicone case and screen protector fitted you will only end up being frustrated by this phone.
(camera review follows below)
