Friday, July 25, 2014

THL 5000 Review

The THL 5000 is one of the first THL phones to be released that has actually made us stop in our tracks and say ‘WOW’. No the phone isn’t a Snapdragon fire breather, and no it isn’t the most beautiful phone in the world, but it certainly excels in one certain regard: battery life.



THL 5000 packs a gargantuan 5000mAh cell in an extremely compact 8.9 mm thin body. Yes, you read that right, that's 5000mAh -- a capacity worthy of even a large-sized tablet. Indeed, battery life has shot up to the top of the food chain as of late, and that makes a whole lot of sense, seeing how even hardware for the low-to-mid tier has become capable enough to drive Android and pretty much each and every app it has to offer. But what makes the THL 5000 even more enticing is its well-rounded specs sheet that leaves very little to desire.



Starting off with the display, THL 5000 equips with a now standard 5-inch, 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution IPS dispaly with Gorilla Glass 3 on top for protection. The device is powered by a true octa-core MediaTek MTK6592T chipset, and making use of a very potent, quad-core Mali 450 GPU, MTK6592T, aka MT6592 Turbo, is the overclocked 2GHz version of MTK6592. There's also 2GB of RAM coupled with healthy 16GB of (expandable) on-board storage. The THL 5000 doesn't drop the ball in terms of camera, either, as it has a 13-megapixel Sony Exmor RS sensor (IMX135) with super-wide, f/2.0 lens at the rear, and a 5-megapixel snapper up front. In terms of extras, you also get an NXP audio amplifier for a better and richer audio output, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, FM Radio, OTG, and a wide array of practical features, including pocket mode functionality, smart gesture to customize quick shortcuts (e.g. draw a "C" to start the camera when the screen is locked), and others.



Going back to the highlight of the THL 5000 -- its 5000mAh silicon anode Li-polymer battery -- allows for such a small physical footprint due to proprietary tech that allows some 25% to 30% increase in capacity without a subsequent increase in size. What's more, the THL 5000 supports 1.5A Quick Charging, and can even be used to charge other devices. According to figures provided by THL, the unit is good for up to 1,000 hours of standby time, 47 hours of talk time, 11 hours of web browsing over Wi-Fi, 125 hours of music playback, and 11.6 hours of video playback. Now that's what you call endurance.


THL 5000 is currently listing and available on TinyDeal.com, priced at 269.99. We guess that there is much chance for THL 5000 to become the best all round smartphone in 2014.



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