Phablets, otherwise known as smartphones flaunting near-tablet-sized displays, are all the rage these days. The release of the Cherry Mobile Blaze 2.0 only seems to have upped the ante.
Going by the data sheet alone, the phablet's potential balance of performance and price sounds especially enticing. After all, you're looking at an Android Jelly Bean device packing a high-res 5.7-inch IPS display, a proven quad-core chip, and 12- and 3-megapixel backside-illuminated cameras.
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You get all of those features at a low price of P9,499
So, does this massive smartphone deliver where it matters? Is it too big? Is it even worth the upgrade? We'll try our darnedest to answer these questions and more in our review of the Cherry Mobile Blaze 2.0.
Hardware
One thing that strikes you about the second-generation Blaze is its massive hardware, owing to its substantial front real estate. At 5.7 inches diagonally, it's one of the largest smartphones we've handled. It is simply too big for our hands, making it hard for us to use one-handed for extended periods of time.
Of course, being big and HD-savvy has its merits, as we'll discuss later.
The dual-finish casing—one part glossy, one part matte—is one of the first things you’ll notice, too. While others may welcome the use of different finishes, we'd argue that the poorly executed two-faced design ultimately does a disservice to this Cherry Mobile.
Adding to the inconsistency is a Samsung-inspired physical home button located at the bottom-center of the Cherry Mobile Blaze 2.0's front side, just below the display. It makes little sense, seeing that the phablet already has a set of onscreen navigation keys for back, home, and multitask.
While we agree that two home keys are better than one, this particular device would have been better off sporting a cleaner and shorter bezel than a longer one with a redundant hardware button.
Display and specs
As we've touched on earlier, this phablet is considerably bigger than most, wielding a 5.7-inch display that's bolstered by a 720 x 1,280 resolution and in-plane switching tech for vibrant colors and better viewing angles.
The picture quality is lovely for a device this affordable, and as such, we wholeheartedly recommend it for viewing content and watching movies.
The internals of the Cherry Mobile Blaze 2.0 is headlined by a MediaTek-made MT6589 chipset, paired with a familiar set of silicon: a quad-core processor operating at 1.2GHz, PowerVR SGX544 graphics, and 1GB of RAM.
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