Video & Photo Gallery: GEOTEL Note Smartphone First Impressions & Quick Review

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Geotel Note - Stand Out, from inside to outside.  

Note comes with a powerful Mediatek 64bit Quad-core processor, 3GB RAM and 16 GB of internal storage, at a reasonable price around $90, which is the best price among 4G LTE 3GB smartphone at the market right now. 3GB LPDDR3 RAM is the biggest shining point of this mid-range beast, low power DDR3 technology lets it save 17% power than DDR2 and works more efficient by 50%. Too much background apps are no longer the trouble for slowing Android system down. You can play a game while you are downloading or listening a music. It looks like Note is aiming to reach the hearts of gamers and heavy users with the device’s rapid speed and power.

Another spotlight that comes with the design, a new material finishing, that GEOTEL calls as MetalPrint, which makes the phone look so premium from the back sight, and holds together by a metallic painting frame which even looks classy. MetalPrint is a natural beauty inspired by the spirit of star trails, the signature concentric-circle patterning to create the visual effect of metallic, 11 super process has let the back surface reflect uniquely in the light.Being different from other 5.5-inch display, NOTE contains a new technology on its 5.5-inch HD optimized screen, GEOTEL calls it TruView technology. As per GEOTEL, their engineers removed the white back light LED from the original LCD, and chose a blue LED instead, which has much more color range. The test result shows new TruView display increasing 21% color gamut and 50% displaying contrast than the old one. That could be the revolution for the display, that makes NOTE’s display looking more vivid and colorful. Looking around the rest specs of the device, the main camera is a 13 megapixel sensor with an F2.0 aperture. Up front is an 8MP selfie shooter with 84° wide angle lens, that allows you shoot more friends around in just one picture. The battery in the Note is removable and sized at 3200mAh which should be able to make it through one whole day’s usage. For network, 4G-LTE provides you to access internet world by 10x faster, 802.11ac WI-FI is supported unexpectedly on this device. Google Play is pre-installed on the device and there is full access to all of Google’s apps including Gmail, YouTube and Google Keyboard.

Here you can read about the unboxing of GEOTEL Note Smartphone.

You can now buy Geotel Note Smartphone from TomTop.com for only $89.99 with free shipping world wide.

Next, watch the first impressions and the first experience on Android Marshmallow 6.0
Firmware tested: Pure Android Marshmallow 6.0.
Build number: The phone came with Note-GEOTEL-V1.1-20170302. As soon as I connected to WiFi hotspot, the system announced me there is a new OTA firmware update. After updating the new build numver is Note-GEOTEL-V1.4-20170317.
Kernel version:  3.18.19
Model number: GEOTEL_Note
Android Patch Level: December 5, 2016
Baseband version: MOLY.LR9.W1444.MD.LWTG.MP.V88.P7 
Root: Firmware is not rooted.

 

 

 

 

Available features: Dual SIM,  Radio FM, Dual Band AC WiFi, WiFi Hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0,  A-GPS, GPS, Microphone, Front & Back Camera, USB Host, OTA Sync, Scheduled Power On & Off, Printing, Flashlight, Voice Search, Sound Recorder, Calculator, Audio Enhancement (BesAudEnh, BesLoudness & BesSurround), Adaptive Brightness, MiraVision, Virtual Key Settings, Breathing light, micro SD card up to 128GB, Smart Wake, Xender Assistant.

Sensors available on device: 6 sensors on boad: Battery, GPS, WiFi, Accelerometer, Proximity & Light. 

Cameras. Main camera: Omnivision OV8865 8.0MP （SW 13.0MP）rear camera with dual LED flash, F/2.0 aperture & Auto HDR, the picture taken obtains high brightness, high definition and real colors. Selfie camera:  5.0MP (SW 8.0MP) front camera with 84º Wide Angle & f/2.0 aperture and Smile Capture for more fun.

Display. Diagonal: 5.5". Type: LCD IPS TrueView. Resolution: HD 720 x 1280. Density: Medium, 294 Pixels per inch. Others: Capacitive, 1.3 mm bezel, 85% NTSC, Bluelight Filter, LED Notifications, 16:9 Aspect Ratio.

Battery. Capacity: 3.200mAh 3.8V. Type: Removable Li-Polymer. Charging limit: 4.35V 12.16Wh. The battery is removable and easily replaceable.

Internal storage.   Capacity: 16 GB. Total space: 10.78 GB. Available: 9.29 GB (86.2%). SD slot up to 128 GB. Tested with  Mixza Tohaoll 128GB SDXC Micro SD Memory Card.

Pure Android Marshmallow 6.0
No unnecessary applications, no bloatware, no customized UI, just pure Android for a amazing pure user experience.

Cost-effective. 8.5 from 10 - pretty good ratio.

Real Life Benchmark & Tests
In Antutu Benchmark 6.2.7 GEOTEL Note Smartphone a good score, over 28.800 points. In Antutu Video Tester 3.0 Note scores 538 points, an average score in this test ranking. It played smoothly almost all video file types; this firmware version fully supports 11 video & audio format files, it partially supports 8 video & audio format files and doesn't manage to play 11 files.

Wifi Internet speed tested gets also pretty good values: about 33 Mbps in download and the upload speed was also over 33 Mbps. The router used in this test is Xiaomi Mi WiFi Router, mounted in another room. 

Conclusion
The Pure Android Marsmallow on the GEOTEL Note is very smooth, giving to the user a pure Android experience, just simple and fast. Transitions, animations, apps switching and general OS fluidity is just great, I really like it a lot. During our tests, we experienced zero force closes, hangups or stability issues. Google Play and gapps are working without issue. Google Play Services updated no problem. 3rd party apps downloaded and updated without issues. Firmware OTA update works very well too.

GEOTEL Note Smartphone has an amazing affordable price and very good value for the money.

Pros
- Pure Android Experience;
- 3GB of RAM;
- micro SD card up to 128GB tested;
- High Speed Dual Band Wifi;
- TruView technology, the display colors are just amazing;
- Support for 4G LTE;
- Dual SIM support;
- OTA firmware updates;
- Big Li-polymer battery 3.200mAh.

Cons
- No Gorilla Glass screen protection.

Photo gallery full album here. Official webpage here.

 

About Geotel. About Geotel. Being a value-added Smartphone ODM/OEM manufacture since 2011, GEOTEL(OEM Business) has provided millions of smart devices, high-quality service for those world-leading brands in North America, Africa, South-east Asia, East Asia, Europe, which totals over 10 countries and 30 local brands. In the end of 2016, GEOTEL has launched their online brand, with strong R&D team, which currently has over 200 engineers, fully quality control system, bunch of international certificates and qualifications, two manufacturing factories in Huizhou and Shenzhen. In 2017, They are pretty bold and focused in entering the smartphone market with amazingly designed yet powerful product at a reasonable price. A brand aimed for the mass.

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