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Smartphone Wileyfox Swift from birth it has good data: a 5-inch IPS screen, a 4-core Snapdragon 410 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of ROM, support for 4G and two SIM cards, Cyanogen OS 12.1 shell (Android 5.1). And the price is "delicious" - $89 (if you take into account the $20 discount). Alas, from March 1, the discount was canceled, now the device costs $109. Let's see what kind of "beast" it is, what its pros and cons are.

At the end of October, a new telephone brand Wileyfox (which can be translated as "sly fox") and two smartphones were presented in Russia: Wileyfox Swift and Wileyfox Storm. Later it turned out that Wileyfox is a subsidiary of the popular Fly brand, a well-known manufacturer of budget smartphones. Wileyfox was created to conquer the segment of more expensive smartphones. And this is logical, since the market is gradually saturated with budget devices: consumers want more best performance. True, they still do not want to pay a lot: the crisis is not over yet.

Pros of the Wileyfox Swift smartphone
1. Price. Swift costs $109. Or $89, so you can easily get a $20 discount. In rubles, this is a little more than 8 thousand rubles. For such money it is not so easy to buy a smartphone with similar characteristics. So Wileyfox Swift is a bargain. And if the dollar exchange rate drops to 35 rubles, there will be no price - “chocolate” (just kidding).
2. Memory. There are 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of ROM on board, of which about 10 GB will be available to you. This is a decent volume (it is believed that this is the merit of Cyanogen). In addition, there is a slot for microSD memory cards. Cards up to 32 GB are supported, but larger memory cards should work.
3. Screen. Diagonal 5 inches, resolution - 720 × 1280, pixel density - 294 ppi. Today, these are optimal parameters for five-inch screens. Multi-touch: 10 touches (why so many is unclear, but let it be). The screen is quite bright (up to 530 cd / m2) and contrast, it fades in the sun, but not much.
The display is made using Oncell Full Lamination technology (protective glass and touch panel are one whole). Protective glass - Gorilla glass 3, there is an oleophobic coating.
In addition, in the settings you can adjust the color reproduction (LiveDisplay option), set the color temperature, change the size of icons and fonts (see the "Screen Density" option in the settings - another feature of Cyanogen).
4. Design. Budget smartphones usually do not have an interesting design. Swift is the exception to the rule. Along the perimeter of the phone there is a thin metal border, on the back side there is a convex logo of the company and a camera framed by a thin orange border. The back side of the smartphone has a rough coating that prevents slipping (however, it gets dirty and scratched easily). There are two colors of the phone: white and black.

5. Working with memory cards. You don't need to be rooted to be able to transfer apps and games from phone memory to memory card (and vice versa).
6. Two SIM cards, 4G (LTE). Now you won’t be surprised by this, but support for two SIM cards, as well as fourth-generation cellular communications, cannot but be written down as pluses. Both slots support 4G, but if you insert a 4G SIM card into one slot, the other slot can only work in 2G format.
7. Good cameras. The main camera has a 13 MP sensor (4160x3120) with f/2.0 aperture. There is autofocus and dual flash. The front camera has 5 MP (2560x1920) and fixed focus. At 720p, you can shoot video in slow-mo mode (slow motion). With good lighting, good pictures are obtained.
8. Cyanogen OS 12.1. For more information about this firmware, see the "Software" section. Here I also note the ease of obtaining root rights. To do this, you only need to launch the Files application and enable root in the settings.

Cons smartphone Wileyfox Swift
1. Scheme of purchase. You can buy a phone only through two online stores: https://ru.wileyfox.com/ and http://www.jd.ru/. Nobody sells Wileyfox smartphones anymore. And if so, you will not be able to check the screen for the presence of dead pixels(a common problem in early batches of Swift). Delivery within 1-2 weeks.
The second minus is the price in dollars. At the time of the start of sales, the dollar exchange rate was 62 rubles, now it is 76 rubles. Accordingly, for 4 months the price increased by 1.5 thousand rubles.
2. Warranty. Wileyfox models can be serviced in more than 200 authorized service centers throughout Russia. But it can be difficult to return a defective or defective device. You can read more here: http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=695612 .
3. Working time. 6-6.5 hours (watching online video via Wi-Fi). This is a good result for a budget device, but the “cunning fox” was expected to last longer without recharging.
4. Poor equipment. Not included in the kit charger, no headset. There is a microUSB-USB cable, but it is short - only 40 cm. It is not very convenient to use it. The manufacturer took such a step in order to reduce the final cost of the smartphone. If necessary, branded memory and headset can be proven on the site. However, you can charge the phone from the USB port of the computer and any memory.
5. GPS. The sensitivity of the GPS receiver is average. On a cloudy day, the phone connected to 11-12 satellites in two minutes (19-20 satellites were detected), and the measurement accuracy was 10-11 meters.
6. Button layout. They are located on the screen itself, taking up useful area. At the same time, there is an unused area below the screen, where they would fit perfectly (see the picture: Fly Cirrus 2 on the left, Swift on the right).

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Wileyfox Swift has Cyanogen OS 12.1 firmware built on Android based 5.1. Cyanogen OS gives you access to a large number options that allow you to change many system parameters. Due to this, this once fan firmware has become popular among users and is now officially released.
The list of applications is shown not in the form of icons, but in alphabetical order (as in Windows 10).
A number of proprietary Cyanogen OS applications are preinstalled: browser, Audio FX equalizer, mail client and TrueCaller, which works in conjunction with the dialer and helps to determine unknown numbers and block unwanted calls. There is an application for recording video from the screen and sound from the built-in microphone.
You can easily change the theme (you just need to create an account in Cyanogen OS). You can also change individual components: fonts, wallpapers, icons, status bar, controls, navigation bar, loading animation, and sound sets.
If you tap on the date in the blind, you will find yourself in the calendar, if by the clock - in the alarm settings. If you slide your finger along the right edge of the curtain, access to the switches will open. If on the left - notifications will open. Double clicking on the screen will turn off the screen.

Attention! Wileyfox phones use the FPR option, which works similar to Apple's Activation Lock. If someone logs in with their Google account on the Wileyfox phone, and then resets it to factory settings, then the next time you turn it on, you will need to enter the login and password from the account that was entered before the reset. IN otherwise the device cannot be used. That is, to change your Google account, you must first delete it on your smartphone and only then reset the settings to factory settings.

Battery and operating time
Battery capacity - 2500 mAh. Removable battery, model SWB0115.
The manufacturer promises up to 10 hours of talk time, up to 180 hours of standby time and up to 30 hours of music listening.
When watching online videos on YouTube, the smartphone lasted 6-6.5 hours (brightness and volume in the middle, listening through headphones, mobile Internet and Bluetooth are disabled).
In the settings, you can select the type of energy consumption: "balanced", "energy saving", "high performance".
The time for a full charge from the charger (1 A) in the off state is about 2.5 hours. The duration of a charge from a computer (USB port at 500 mA) is twice as long.
Pressing the power button once in the off state will show the charge level (percentage). There is an LED that indicates the charge level.

Wileyfox Swift Test Results
AnTuTu Benchmark- 24 840
Quadrand Standard Edition - 13 550
3DMark (Ice Storm Extreme, 1080p) - 2 625
epic citadel- 58.2fps 1200x720 HQ
Geekbench 3- 516 (single core), 1517 (multi core)
Smartphone activation time - 55-60 seconds.

The main characteristics of the smartphone Wileyfox Swift
Number of supported SIM cards - two (micro SIM)
Processor - 64-bit quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (1.2 GHz)
Video processor - Adreno 306
RAM - 2 GB
Built-in memory (ROM) - 16 GB
microSD support - up to 32 GB
cellular - 2G, 3G, 4G
Standards:
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900,
- WCDMA 900/2100,
- LTE: 800/1800/2600
Speed mobile internet in 3G - up to 21 Mbps
Mobile internet speed in 4G - up to 100 Mbps
wifi- 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz)
bluetooth- Bluetooth 4.0
satellite navigation - GPS/GLONASS
Screen type, number of colors - IPS, 16 million
Screen size - 5 inches
Resolution (pixel density) - 720×1280 (294 ppi)
Multitouch: 10 touches
Cameras:
- main - 13 Mpix (4160x3120), autofocus, dual flash
- frontal - 5 megapixels (2560x1920), fixed focus
Video recording - 1080p (1920x1080), slow-mo (720p)
Inputs/outputs - microUSB, audio (3.5mm)
OTG support - No
Battery - 2500 mAh (L-ion, removable)
Working hours - 6–6.5 hours (viewing online video via Wi-Fi)
Dimensions - 71x141.1x9.4mm
Weight - 130 g
OS version - Android 5.1 (Cyanogen OS 12.1)
Available colors: black Sand Stone, white Soft Touch
The price of the device - $109

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Advantages: Very fast, most games run at comfortable 24fps +, Quallcom processor gives fast GPS, 2 micro-sim, card slot separate from SIM cards, hot-swappable battery, event light, Cyanogen 12.1 firmware (based on android 5.1 .1, with the possibility manual update up to 6.0, there are a lot of firmware for it on w3bsit3-dns.com, a nice design for this price category, good screen, excellent sensor sensitivity (up to 10 touches simultaneously), 2 gigabytes random access memory(after downloading the smartphone, 700-900 MB is free, this is enough), PRICE, sound quality in the headphones (I installed the DSP + add-on, it made the device louder and better. The front camera was very pleased. Disadvantages: Personally, my copy creaks with strong compression and pressure on back cover. It is a pity that the buttons are on-screen (in some applications, these buttons may be buggy, and you will have to get out of the application through some kind of notification). I don’t know about others, but I reboot the phone stably once every two days, otherwise it just starts to slow down (the speed of opening applications, animations), but this is not critical for me. The battery is rather weak, but this is for the sake of the thinness of the phone (my battery loses from 100% to 80% in 30 minutes, then the power consumption returns to normal, but at 4G it still lasts not very long (in short, you will need to have a portable battery with you, Also, this model has a loudspeaker in many songs (this is not a marriage, this is such an admission to the fee for the low price of the device), the main camera (full UG stabilization, and some kind of soapy photo is obtained). I switched to this device from the iPhone 5, and in general, before Wilifox, I was a convinced "Apple". But in 2 days I got used to the device and the android itself, and then I began to see the pluses. Customization for myself, applications for opening almost any format (. torrent, and so on), yes, a lot of things (all the analogues of the programs that I had on iOS, I found for android), installing ANY applications from the Internet without hacking (root), the ability to finish files from the phone to any site ... It all won me over, after that the iPhone seems to be something like racial toy. And so, I drew parallels and concluded for myself about eternal rivals, iOS and Android. iOS is more stable (nothing crashes with an error, animation does not slow down (on iPhone 5 and younger), it thinks faster. Android is more capable, but at the same time it can easily blunt / frankly blunt. But I, perhaps, will choose android, the range of tasks that can be done on it is wider, and the setting of everything and everything pleases. As for the device, it is strictly "taken". I put 4 for the creaky cover and the other disadvantages indicated above. I have changed more than 50 devices in my life, so I tried to treat everything as objectively as possible .

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Wileyfox Swift 2. New Swift - new superior design

The strict case with smooth flowing lines is made of brushed aluminum and has a characteristic metallic grainy texture.

Case thickness

Cool to the touch, stylish and very durable, the Wileyfox metal is just 8.6mm thick for a pleasant tactile experience.

Thin laser edging around the perimeter of the body, laser engraving on the rim of the main camera and a fingerprint scanner, a curved 2.5D display and a branded fox logo give the smartphone an aesthetic completeness.

Thanks to its compact size and light weight, Wileyfox Swift 2 fits naturally in the hand and is comfortable to use.

Midnight Blue & Champagne Gold & Tiffany Green

Metallic gray blue or the original shades of Champagne Gold and Tiffany Green - any color scheme of Wileyfox Swift 2 will complete your look and allow you to always be in the spotlight.

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Fingerprint sensor for more security

The fingerprint scanner is a password you will never forget. Only one touch will separate you from access to personal data and files. It allows you to instantly unlock your smartphone using your fingerprint, and is also able to replace the tedious procedure for entering passwords for supported applications.

With the latest Cyanogen 13.1 firmware and Android M OS, you can control access to apps. Just set up fingerprint access and no one but you will be able to open the application or make payments through the NFC module.

NFC technology for one-touch content transfer and accessory pairing

NFC (Near Field Communication) is an easy way to set up a high frequency wireless communication between devices over short distances. With the help of NFC technology, you can connect devices with each other with just one touch.

• TRANSFER INFORMATION FROM ONE SMARTPHONE TO ANOTHER

• PLAY MUSIC THROUGH WIRELESS SPEAKERS

• CONNECT ACCESSORIES

Just hold Wileyfox Swift 2 close to any NFC-enabled device and get started.

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Octa core 1.4 GHz processor from Qualcomm

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 MSM8937 octa-core chipset with 64-bit architecture opens up new possibilities for using a smartphone. The processor consists of 8 powerful Cortex A53 MPcore cores and has clock frequency 1.4 GHz.

Random access memory

Octa Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

Adreno 505 graphics accelerator

You get a next-generation flagship device capable of efficiently running resource-intensive applications and 3D games.

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Navigation systems GLONASS, GPS and A-GPS.

Availability of satellite navigation systems s GLONASS and GPS allows you to always be in the coordinate system and have access to geo-data from any hemisphere of the Earth.

For enhanced performance of navigation systems, we installed the Assisted GPS module. A-GPS in a matter of seconds will be able to determine your location even at a low signal level - in underground tunnels, surrounded by high-rise buildings and forested areas.

impressive memory

RAM

Provide high data throughput and allow you to effectively use the power of the eight-core processor - run resource-intensive applications and games and easily switch between open programs.

Built-in Flash Memory

An impressive amount of built-in Flash-memory, which you can expand up to 64 GB if necessary, thanks to the slot for microSDXC.

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Dual SIM support and 4G LTE speed

Support for the world's most popular 4G LTE bands (band 3, 7, 20) will allow you to freely use a high-speed connection in any country and download data at speeds up to 150 Mb / s.

Universal SIM card slot

Support for two SIM-cards * allows you to expand the possibilities of communication and use one smartphone for different purposes. Both slots support LTE connection, which means you don't have to change your SIM card to access high-speed Internet - just select the desired option in the menu.

* Wileyfox Swift 2 is equipped with a universal slot for SIM-cards and memory cards. It's simple: if you need to increase the amount of memory, put a combination of micro-SIM and microSDXC into your smartphone, if you need to use a second SIM card, put in micro SIM slot+ nano-SIM.

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Camera 13 MP, f/2.2, 5 physical lenses

Discover the world of impressive pictures and videos with Wileyfox. The main camera matrix with a resolution of 13 MP has an aperture of f / 2.2 and is characterized by high light sensitivity. Combined with dual flash and wide night mode configurations, the Wileyfox Swift 2 allows you to create real masterpieces of night photography. High-quality optics, consisting of 5 physical lenses, help capture every detail and prevent distortion. The resolution of the front camera is 8 MP.

Main camera

Front-camera

Shoot the most detailed and high-quality videos in Full HD 1920 ✕ 1080 resolution at 30 frames per second and mesmerizing sunsets in Timelapse mode.

Window in to the world

5" 2.5D HD display

The 5" HD display shows high-quality images with natural colors and a wide range of colors.

2.5D effect is achieved thanks to new technology curved display, in which you are literally immersed in the image.

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IPS ONCELL Full lamination

When creating the display, we used IPS and ONCELL Full Lamination technologies. Wide viewing angles up to 178° allow you to use your smartphone from any angle without distorting the picture, for example, playing games or viewing multimedia files in a large group.

ONCELL Full lamination technology allows you to remove the air gap between the layers of the display and avoid light refraction. The display becomes thinner, and the image impresses with contrast and rich colors.

Protection GORILLA GLASS 3

We paid special attention to the safety and reliability of Wileyfox Swift 2. The display is protected from minor damage and scratches by durable third-generation Gorilla Glass, and the oleophobic coating prevents fingerprints from appearing on the screen.

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Quick Charge 3.0 technology fast charging *

Thanks to the Quick Charge function, a full charge of Wileyfox Swift 2 will take no more than 100 minutes, and up to 25% of the smartphone can be charged in just 10 minutes.

And rightly so - with this configuration, the smartphone works very quickly, non-removable standard programs, and the user has more memory for photos, music and videos on the internal drive with a capacity of 16 GB.

Despite the apparent simplicity, there are enough bells and whistles in the system: the user is free to hide select applications in the menu, add phone numbers to the black list, set themes, associate the screen lock with smart watch(we went to have coffee with Android Wear- the smartphone will ask you to enter the unlock code, returned - unlocked without a password), with your face in front camera or by voice. Buttons (back, home, menu) can be swapped, and individual applications you can prohibit viewing personal data or climbing into autorun.

In a word, beginners will be happy that there are no frills in the system (there are simply no programs in sight here that can ruin something in the smartphone), and enthusiasts - a free platform for further refinement of the smartphone for themselves.

cameras

On paper, the potential of Wileyfox Swift cameras is amazing - the rear 13-megapixel Samsung S5K3M2 sensor with f / 2.0 aperture a priori does not look like consumer goods, and 5 megapixels for the front camera look very solid.

But with close acquaintance there are so many nuances of shooting that we would not dare to recommend Wileyfox Swift as a smartphone for photo / video.

Most of all, the smartphone pleases with the quality of pictures during the day. Macro shooting in Swift, however, works like a blunder, but a smartphone can give out a picture with good sharpness, even if not the first time - do not forget that we are talking about a model with a price tag of only ~ 7 thousand rubles, and just look for comparison, as photographed by HTC One Mini 2, the model is twice as expensive.

Wileyfox Storm runs on Cyanogen OS 12.1 firmware based on Android 5.1.1. An update to Android 6.0 is expected in the future.

This smartphone cannot but be interesting, because with excellent specifications, asking for some $ 180 for it. Implementation only via the Internet: the official Russian site ru.wileyfox.com and affiliate store jd.ru.

Find a similar smartphone in Russia for this money, with a one-year warranty service(V service centers Fly), is unlikely to succeed.

There is one interesting feature - only a USB cable is included, without a charger. There are also no headphones. This approach is explained by the fact that you should not overpay for something that you may not need. Everything to make Wileyfox Storm as cheap as possible. And this approach is very good. Doesn't someone have a charger at home now?

As the first reviews show, the smartphone has a high-quality assembly and material. The IPS screen, made using OGS technology, is protected by Gorilla Glass 3. The glass is covered with an oleophobic layer, which guarantees a minimum of noticeable fingerprints on the screen. We are also promised an update. operating system before current versions, which Fly does not do for its model range smartphones.

Wileyfox Storm is also a selfie smartphone. The fact is that the front 8-megapixel camera has an LED flash. This is, for example, in the phone samsung galaxy J7.

The main camera impresses with its characteristics: Sony Exmore RS IMX220, 20 MP, F/1.8, BSI, HDR, autofocus. But, in fact, the photos do not pull on the declared capabilities. It turns out the level of a good camera with a matrix of 13 megapixels. The point is obviously software processing, which is very "lame". Maybe it will be fixed in future updates?

Work with two SIM cards is supported, but with one "but". The fact is that the second slot for a SIM card is combined, here you can install either a nano-SIM SIM card or a microSD memory up to 128 GB (only one to choose from). A micro-SIM card is installed in the first slot. But everything is not so bad, because Wileyfox Storm has 32 GB of its own memory, so you can do without expanding it.

Good performance is ensured by a decent 3 GB of RAM and an octa-core Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 processor (4 cores 1.5 GHz, 4 cores 1 GHz). Features are not flagship, but for $180 it's very cool.

What is rarely found in the characteristics of the phone is the specified SAR level (plain language phone radiation, impact on the body). You can find metrics for Samsung phones, less so for others. And the Chinese don't do that at all. Here, everyone honestly pointed out to us: the SAR level is 0.455 / 0.554 W / kg. This is a good indicator. Safely.

The lithium-polymer battery has a capacity of 2500 mAh. This is not much for a phablet. The screen with a diagonal of 5.5 inches, and even with Full HD resolution, will mercilessly “eat up” the charge in the active screen mode. And especially in games and when surfing the sites. As for the declared indicators, the phone will work on a full charge of the battery:

Up to 10 hours talk time
Up to 5.5 hours of video or Internet playback over Wi-Fi
Up to 4.5 hours of Internet on a mobile network
Up to 30 hours of audio playback
About 7.5 days standby.

The installation of sensors in Wileyfox Storm was not stingy. There are the necessary sensors for position, proximity and lighting, as well as a Hall sensor and a Compass.

Specifications

Announcement in Russia: October 2015

Dimensions: 155.6 x 76.9 x 9.1 mm
Weight: 150 g
Housing: plastic
Colors: black, white
Battery: lithium polymer, 2500 mAh, non-removable

SIM cards: 2 (micro-SIM + Nano-SIM), or 1 SIM and memory card (micro-SIM + MicroSD)

SAR: 0.455/0.554 W/kg

Screen: 5.5", IPS, OGS, Full HD (1920x1080 pixels), Gorilla Glass 3, 10-touch sensor, oleophobic coating
Sensors: lighting, proximity, gyroscope, compass, Hall sensor

Camera: Sony Exmore RS IMX220, 20.7 MP, autofocus, f/1.8, BSI, HDR, flash
Front camera: 8 MP, there is a flash

Processor: 64-bit Snapdragon 615 MSM8939, 4 cores 1.5GHz, 4 cores 1GHz
RAM: 3 GB
Memory: 32 GB
Memory card: can be installed instead of a second SIM card

OS: Cyanogen OS 12.1 (Android 5.1.1)

Other: 4G, 3G, Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, FM radio.

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