Vernee Thor Review
Design
The device isn’t a full metal blown handset, but has a Titanium Alloy
frame, which makes it quite solid in terms of build quality. Honestly,
in this price range, you hardly see a handset with such attractive
design language. All thanks to the rounded corner construction, it has a
comfortable feel in the hand. I can definitely say that it is one of
the best handling experiences we have come across among the 5-inch sized
handset tested in the past couple months. You get backlit capacitive
buttons on the front and a baby skin rubber paint that just feels
amazing while holding the device in hand. The Vernee Thor is bound to
give you great comfortable user handling the experience. It might not be
quite thin at 7.9mm, but with 3D Arc back cover, it fits in your hand
comfortably.
Display
We don’t get easily happy with 720p displays, because they generally doesn’t offer good color output, but the 5-inch 720p display on Vernee Thor is pretty good when it comes to the talk of color reproduction. Moreover, it isn’t a fingerprint magnet unlike many handsets in this price range. The viewing angles are also great, which means the sunlight legibility is good as well, although, one has to make sure that brightness level is at the highest in order to see the content in bright sunlight. I wouldn’t say it’s a good for viewing movies, but casual YouTube viewing wouldn’t hurt. It offers a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, which is a 2.5D curved glass. The display uses oncell full laminated setup, which gives display anti-shock strength of up to 9H. Overall, it’s a good 720p display.
Interface, Apps
The software experience is one of the important factors that we think
should be good no matter what. And that’s the philosophy Vernee Thor
tries to adopt, as it offers stock Android interface. You’ll see the
device runs on the Android Marshmallow 6.0, which is pretty recent
stable Android OS. So, it’s a win for a smartphone to offer the latest
system OS out of the box. Though there was a disappointment in terms of
animation lag, we don’t know if it was because of the low-powered
processor, but it was surely there and didn’t quite make user experience
wonderful as we hoped for. In terms of the bloatware, you’ll be
surprised to see UBER, the ride-sharing app pre-installed on the device.
n fact, it is the only app that is not the default for the stock
Android. Well, it is because the company has partnered up with the
ride-sharing app and thus the result you see their app pre-loaded on the
device. It is only good news, as you don’t have to see bloatware on the
device. The internal storage available for the user would be around
10GB, which should be good enough. Though you can expand the storage via
microSD card slot, and moreover, it has a support of OTG drive.
Hardware & Performance
The device comes powered with an Octa-core processor, which a MediaTek MT6753, clocking at 1.3GHz. It is accompanied by Mali T-720 GPU and a 3GB of RAM. These days, the smartphone manufacturers are offering 3GB as a standard RAM in the mid-range handset, but that doesn’t mean the handset is a good performer. The MediaTek chipset that you see is not a high-end performer, so we expect an average performance, and that’s why we got. Despite the fact that company was claiming it to be a fast performer, we thought it didn’t handle multitasking or gaming very well. So, Vernee Thor is not a great performer, in my overall experience. But if you’re not looking for multitasking, then it’s pretty fine. The fingerprint sensor is placed on the rear side, which is not really an ideal position for me. Again, it’s a personal choice. Though, the biometric sensor quickly senses the fingerprints and unlocks the device quite fast.
Camera
The camera package includes 13-megapixel image sensor on the rear, which
is accompanied by LED Flash. The company hasn’t shared the detail about
what sensor they have used, but they do specific that it’s a CMOS type.
The rear module has an aperture number of f/2.0, which is in line with
other 13MP modules in the segment. Regarding the performance in all
three lighting conditions- natural, artificial and low light, it didn’t
pan out to be as good as we expected. The camera app interface isn’t
that feature rich as we would have liked. There’s just not much to play
around with. The video recording capability of the device is up to
1080p, which wasn’t quite good as well. The front-facing module is of
5-megapixel resolution, I won’t say that it is a good selfie snapper,
but it captures decent images. Though I wouldn’t recommend you to take
selfies at the dinner table with your family; it will disappoint you.
The camera package includes 13-megapixel image sensor on the rear, which
is accompanied by LED Flash. The company hasn’t shared the detail about
what sensor they have used, but they do specific that it’s a CMOS type.
The rear module has an aperture number of f/2.0, which is in line with
other 13MP modules in the segment. Regarding the performance in all
three lighting conditions- natural, artificial and low light, it didn’t
pan out to be as good as we expected. The camera app interface isn’t
that feature rich as we would have liked. There’s just not much to play
around with. The video recording capability of the device is up to
1080p, which wasn’t quite good as well. The front-facing module is of
5-megapixel resolution, I won’t say that it is a good selfie snapper,
but it captures decent images. Though I wouldn’t recommend you to take
selfies at the dinner table with your family; it will disappoint you.
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