Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Review : Himax Pure S

Review : Himax Pure S

Himax Pure S

Himax Pure S - In today's age of globalization, human and smartphones is something that can not be released. Smartphones, is now greatly helps people to perform daily activities, such as communicating, sharing something and so forth.

Now, the Tokyo-based company will release a smartphone, named Himax Pure S. Himax  Pure S is the thinnest smartphone in the world with a thickness of only 5.5 mm. Equipped with MediaTek MT6592 chipset using octa-core 1.7Ghz make this smartphone's performance is good enough to support the day-to-day activities.

Then, what kind of overall performance Himax Pure S ? Here we present to you more.

Design

Yes, Himax Pure S has an advantages not possessed by other smartphones. This handset is the thinnest smartphone in the world with a thickness of only 5.5 mm. Carved to perfection using magnesium alloy unibody produce designs into elegant and luxurious. In addition, on the front and back of Himax Pure S uses layers of glass with high quality and do not contain hazardous materials.
Himax Pure S

The first impression of grasping Himax Pure S, quite comfortable to hold. However, if you want to make typing on your smartphone, you have to hold with two hands in order to be able to type well. With heavy weights 133 grams with dimensions of 145.1 x 70.2 x 5.5 mm smartphone is very uncomfortable when inserted into a pants pocket.

Himax Pure S

On the bottom side of the frame, this handset provides a slot for a 3.5 mm audio jack. Then, on the right side of the frame, there are volume up and down buttons. Under the volume button, the power button or lock. On the left, there is only a slot to put the simcard that opened using pins available on this smartphone sales package. Switch to the top. On the upper side of the frame there is only one slot is a slot for a USB port.
Himax Pure S

On the back, there is a size 13 MP camera with LED flash. Then, right in the middle there is a logo Himax and logo inscribed Pure S at the bottom. Besides the logo that reads Pure S, there is a loudspeaker. Then, to the front there is a light sensor and front camera 5 MP size.

Screen and Interface

The screen used Himax Pure S AMOLED which has a size of 5 with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and has a density of up to -441 ppi. In addition, the screen has been equipped with Crystal Clear technology that can produce exceptional clarity shown this smartphone. For the protection section, Himax Pure S not using Corning Gorilla Glass that is vulnerable scratched screen handset.

Himax Pure S has been running the operating system Android 4.4.2 KitKat, which is wrapped with the latest Amigo interface. On the lockscreen area, there is only time display. However, for the shortcut icon, you just need to scroll the screen left, you are directly connected to the camera application. To lock the settings, Himax Pure S only provides the pin types and patterns. Turning to the homescreen, this smartphone does not have the features of the app drawer, so the applications in this handset will appear on the homescreen as the main menu. In this section, the page can be maximized as much as 5 pages.

Himax Pure S

Himax Pure S has a fairly thin bezel size is wrapped with two variants of colors namely black caviar and white army. Then, switch to typing, this smartphone has 3 types of keyboard, the keyboard Android (AOSP), Google and Google voice typing keyboard. In the visible, there is no difference in the two types of this keyboard. However, in terms of functionality, Google keyboard has the advantage that in the typing pool cue. Where in this type have such arrangements enable typing gesture, dynamic floating preview, show signaling pathways, and cue phrases. In addition, two keyboards have default settings such as automatic capitalization, vibrating when the button is pressed, and so forth. However, for both these types, typing feels quite comfortable without any lag or stuttering. Not only that, Himax provide Google voice typing features that really help you when you're feeling lazy typing very comfortable with the process.

In the notification center, shortcut icons such as Alarm, Auto Rotation, General, Meeting, GPS, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, data connection, Guest Mode, Quick power saving, Deadline, access to log in to Google+, and status battery. In addition, there is a brightness level settings at the bottom of the icons. To the top of the notification center, there is a memory booster that looks looks like a rocket and also provides the percentage of memory usage.

Performance

What about the performance of this smartphone? Himax Pure S has been equipped spesifkasi include MediaTek MT6592 chipset that uses octa-core 1.7 GHz Cortek A-57, the GPU MALI 450. Not only that, Himax Pure equip S with the power of 2 GB of RAM. Thus, the performance of Himax Pure S can be considered qualified to carry out your daily activities. In addition, this smartphone was able to devour all the hard work without any obstacles, such as playing games or watching movies with Full HD quality.

Camera

Himax Pure S offers a main camera that measures 13 MP with the Sony IMX135 sensor and aperture 2.0. Equipped with auto-focus and LED flash. For part features, Himax Pure S not offer as many features. Features available only auto scene, Panorama, HDR, Night mode and sport mode only. In Capture mode settings, there is a mode that is quite unique as the V-sign shot and smile shot. Moreover, setting the standard Himax enough like Pure S smartphones in general.
Himax Pure S :camera

For the front camera Himax Pure S, measuring 5 MP. Features and other settings the same as the main camera and there is no difference between the detail on the front and rear camera. However, the front camera is not available LED flash as the rear camera.

The video quality is pretty good smartphone. This camera presents a full HD 1080p quality. The features offered are Anti-Shaking, scene modes, white balance, and exposure value. Both photos and video cameras, each getting Geo-tagging feature.

Other

Himax Pure S equip with the default application that is very abundant. Applications include Drive, Adobe Flash Player 11.1, Baidu Browser, Camera, Capsa Boyaa, Calculator, Compass, Contacts, CharmCam, Color, Clock, Calendar, Downloads, Email, FM Radio, File Explorer,  Facebook, Gallery, Gmail, Google, Google Chrome,  Google+ , Google settings,  Himax Store, Hangouts, Kaskus, Maps, Music, Theme,  Messaging and Browser. Notes, Video, Phone, Photos, Poker Texas Boyaa, Sound Recorder,  Settings,  System Manager, Voice Search,  Weather, Torch, Twitter, WeChat, DU Battery Saver, Skype, Youtube,

Smartphone named Hima Pure S combines photo album and video recordings on the camera into the Gallery application. However, you can not set the display in this Gallery application. You directly exposed to the view that shows all the albums. Moreover, here you can mark your favorite people and the image is in the bookmarks folder. Then, the other features available, there is a slide show with a selection of Happy, Nostalgia, Peace, Passion, Romantic, and Silence. Not only that, the files contained in the gallery can be instantly shared to social media and messenger available. If you just want to display the files in the form of photos, here too there is a default application that Photos, which displays only files such as photos. Then, if you want to edit your photos, on Himax Pure S has been providing default photo editing features of this smartphone.

To the music player, the application provided a default application of Himax Pure S namely Music. Before you enter into this app, you will be faced with the view that this application would be to scan existing music files on the smartphone. Then, after pressing Let's Listen Music, you will see an icon like Collects, Artists, Albums, Folders, and Songs. You also can set the Sleep Timer when listening to songs on this application. In addition, you can adjust the sound effects on this application in feature DTS Effect. Format that can be played on this Music applications, including MP3, WMA, and WAV.

For a video player, Himax equip the default application that video. In this application displays the folder where the file is stored video. Then, when you have chosen the video you want to play, you will be shown the appearance of a guide that shows if you slide the screen left and right, it is useful to adjust the playback position. If you move the screen up and down, it is useful to adjust the volume. Format that can be played on this application include #GP, MP4, MKV, and AVI.

Himax Pure S is equipped with a web browser built Himax. Additionally, Google Chrome and Baidu Browser also comes as explorers machine cyberspace. Performance when opening the desktop version of a website with quite a lot of content, it looks a little slow and a little stilted. If you wear with the use of a number of tabs that pretty much, its performance remains stable. Available standard with features such as Save to bookmarks, Share, Find on page, Request desktop site and Bookmasrks / History.

Connectivity

  • Single SIM (Micro SIM)
  • Frequency: GSM / EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHZ);
  • WCDMA / HSPA + / DC-HSDPA (900, 1900 2100);
  • WIFI: 802.11 n / b / g
  • Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0


Battery Life

Smartphone Himax Pure S has supported 2,300 mAh battery powered. The battery capacity is not too big power with a specification that is quite high. Thus, this smartphone will definitely drain a lot of battery power. The battery life can last no longer than one day under normal use and connectivity data is active.

We test the battery life is to watch full HD 1080p video, in a time of 1 hour 17 minutes, the battery is reduced from 98% to 72%

BENCHMARK RESULTS

  • Antutu: 32 224 points
  • Geekbench 3.0: single-core 444 points, multi-core 2436 points
  • Quadran Standart: 13 682 points
  • GPU Bench: 11 934 points, 24 746 points normalized screen resolution
  • HTML5test.com: 404 points


Excess
  • Premium design
  • Layer of glass for the front and rear
  • Applications built galore
  • Relatively affordable price


Shortage
  • Battery power is not too large
  • No Corning Gorilla Glass
  • The camera features a slightly


Conclusion

Himax Pure S is a smartphone which is pretty good in the mid-end class. With a fairly high specification despite using MediaTek chipset, but the smartphone is powerful enough to help your everyday needs. With a very thin design made from magnesium alloy unibody, making the handset feel of this premium impressed.


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