Amoi N828 is the manufacturer’s attempt to compete with established smartphone makers. The successor to Amoi’s N821, now available with a 4.5-inch display and a quad-core processor, is designed to give its competitors a lesson in fear. See if this works in our tests. We only recently tested the Amoi N821.
Now we have its successor in our hands. Like its predecessor, the N828 has a unique rounded appearance and rubberized back. However, the internal functionality has been improved in many ways: instead of two , there are four working cores in the chassis, and the Amoi N821’s 2 GB of flash memory has been doubled.
Amoi N821’s Battery capacity, display format and resolution remain unchanged. It also still supports dual-SIM cards and comes with a low price of €180 (~$234).
Samsung Galaxy S Duos is a mid-range smartphone that also comes with dual-SIM functionality. Sony’s Xperia E Dual is a dual-SIM capable smartphone that costs about the same as the Amoi N828 but has a much smaller screen. The Jiayu G3 and Huawei Ascend W1 are also from China and come in the same price range. The Samsung Galaxy Express and Google Nexus 4 are mid-range and high-end in terms of performance and connectivity. software
Amoi N828 is powered by the latest version of Google Android operating system: 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. There are very few changes compared to the previous version. It now offers quick access to frequently used functions in a drop-down menu at the top of the screen, and it also has some new features like “Turn on and off by schedule.” Overall, though, not much has changed. At least the user interface is in English, so you don’t have to dig through Chinese menus first to finally get to the language settings.
There are just a few extra apps installed: one of them is in Chinese, which won’t make much sense to Western users. Apart from that, it also has a laptop app and equalizer as well as sound improvements for speakers and headphones.
Communications and Global Positioning SystemQuad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS are common among mid-range smartphones. The Amoi N828 is both. The manufacturer has also installed WLAN 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0. The WLAN module was only average in the range test: at a distance of 10 meters (~33 feet) and through 3 walls, only 3/4 of the received power was still available. If you add a fourth wall, it only receives half the power.
A GPS module is also installed. Although the satellite signal it received wasn’t as clear as other devices, it was still able to pinpoint its location precisely: the difference was just slightly less than four meters (about 13 feet). Measurements up to several meters long are possible even in enclosed spaces.
phone functionAmoi will not change the Google-integrated phone app. This is not necessary as the way it works is very intuitive and reliable. Only one mistake was made; even in German settings, if you want to add a number to a contact, the message appears in English. Amoi N828 battery lifeEven though the Amoi N828 is equipped with a 7.6-watt-hour Amoi Cell Phone battery, its battery life was actually only middling in real-world WLAN testing: 5 hours and 26 hours, almost twice as long as the Sony Xperia E. A powerful battery can only reach its potential when charged. Loaded up and fully achieved a good run time of 4:05 hours.
What particularly caught our attention during testing was that the Amoi N828 requires very little energy when on standby: it can therefore last up to a week when not in use. But in practice, the Amoi N828’s Amoi N828 battery drained faster. We rated its
Amoi Mobile Batteriesruntime as “Very Good” due to its long standby time and good runtime under load.
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