Charmpin G7 (ENGLISH)

The last december i take part of the activity "Free Trial" on Pandawill

I was selected to test the Charmpin G7, a new brand, with a few participation in the market.

The packing are simple, you can see it in the next pictures,

 

The package content the next stuff:
- Android 4.2 Smarthphone Charmpin G7 Utime

- First time Manual in English/Spanish.

- American WallCharger + European Adapter

- USD Data Cable.

- Hands Free.

- 1600 Mhz Battery.

- Chinesse manual.

- Screen Protector.

- Aditional back cover color black.

 


First look:
A Funny fact that i already see in many forums. I thought the phone didn't work but then i realize that there was a plastic covering the poles of the battery...
The border of the phone bring me to my mind like a fusion of a Sony Xperia and Walkman, i love the combination of the colors (Black+white+organge).
Only have 2 fisical keys, Power and Volumen.



Caracteristics:
- 4.5 Inches Screen QHD 960*540
- 1600 Mhz Battery
- Android 4.2
- Processor MTK 6589  Quadcore 1.2Ghz
- GSM All bands
- WCDMA (3G) 900 y 2100 (Official description says only 2100, but in the app MobileUncle Tools shows the band 900 available)

- 1GB RAM y 4GB ROM.


The phone on my hands:

Screen:
I love the phones between 4.5 -4.7 inches, have the enought size to fit on one hand.
The color and brightness of the screen are aceptable considering the price of the phone (86 to 99 US). The only negative thing was the multitouch, only recognize 2 fingers, something weird because the most of the times they recognize 5.

Sound:
I'm not fan of listen to music with the loud speaker of the phone, but what can i say, i get a shower and i listened well my playlist on the phone. for another side the hands free get me surprise. They have a really good built in quality.

Processor/Rendiment:
I has have in my hands another MTK 6589 phone, it was a Zopo, but the price was the double of this movil, but the rendiment is the same around 13,000 points in the antutu benchmark. Obviusly the zopo have better caracteristics in the rest of the hardware build in.
Antutu test results:

This video show the fluidity of the phone when i play with it. Don't look at the quality of the video, the app where i record it do that.

Battery:
Duration... In FULL Standby mode, almost i get 48 hrs of duration, with a normal use i get around 14 hrs, and with hard use i get 8 hrs. Wich is good considering that the battery is one of the smallest on the market.

Camera:
Nothing from another world, it says 8mpx, but the pictures looks like 5mpx, but i can't complain, i'm not a professional photograph, for any memory are really good, i let you 2 pictures of my cat in the window, one with HDR and other without HDR.

WITHOUT HDR

WITH HDR

Resume:
POSITIVE
- Cheap and competitive Price
- MTK 6589 Quadcore processor = Very Good Performance for a basic user
- Camera of 5mpx (interpolated to 8mpx) and front 2mpx.
- Nice and unic design.


NEGATIVE
- Screen with only 2 fingers sensitive
- Battery is the smallest of the market, it could be better if got a 2000 Mhz.

In the price/caracteristic comparition, is a great phone, where you can only win/win, maybe for an basic-medium smarthphone user, if you are a advanced user, who like to install and install and play and do everything you can imagine in your phone, there are another phone in the market, but if you only want it to basics phone utility, play some games when you are bored in the bath or in the waiting room or listen to music in any ocation... or to navigate and social networking this is a great option for a small price.



Personal advice for Playstore,

I did some tests in the phone, because it didn't have pre-installed the playstore and wasn't easy install it.

First you need to make it ROOT, that is easy with the app "framaroot" just googleit and in one click the phone is ready, restart the phone and voalá!


Beeing ROOT user, there is two ways, one is changing the ROM, and the other is following the steps in this forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069329
Just follow the steps at the mid of the post where it says "Alternative Method (Manual Installation):"

Then i found this ROMs compatibles with the Charmpin G7 Utime without Fisic menu Keys

ROMS

Rom rusa cp_g7 (multi-idioma) 

link: http://files.china-iphone.ru/948CP_G7_by_Agibi.zip
Pros:
- Everything good at general
contra: 
- The camera dont focus well.

ROM original 2.0 (Chino - Chino Simp. - Ingles): 

Link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/17oq0d 

Pros: 
- Nice Design
- Fix the Focus problem.
Contras: 
- The screen don't turn for example in the galery view.
- A little slower
- Only Chinese and english (for me who like in spanish)



Mod MOD_Charmpin_G7_v1.06_by_Recoba23

This is a MOD that can be install it from the Recovery. This is not a ROM, just clean the trash apps and install another ones. (It install in spanish, but is multilanguage)

Link: http://d-h.st/WZY

Pros:
- Install this apps: 
Flash player, Adway , es file explorer, gps status, root explorer, supersu, keyboard google kitkat, galeria Quickpick, androidap.
- Nice start animation.
- Erase trash apps.

Contras: 
- If you have troubles with the focus it didnt correct it.


Thanks for read me! Have a nice day!