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Design
Wiko Ridge Fab 4G owned body shape is square, the back side of the plastic shell made of imitation leather to minimize fingerprints and avoid slippery when grasped. Besides, the body contour is crafted aluminum alloys – Magnesium has created for the product style. The main part of this border and dorsal edge leatherette has contributed to the more luxurious for Wiko Ridge 4G Fab. However, the machine has good size property by up to 5.5 inch screen with angular design should make people feel entangled and difficult to work with one hand while holding.
As for the power key, observant manufacturers have put this down to the right side of the machine to users more easily accessible. However, volume control keys are also put into the same direction as the power key and the distance 2 key quite close together that sometimes very vulnerable to manipulation pressing the wrong keys.
Configuration
Wiko Ridge Fab 4G is equipped with IPS panel screen size of 5.5 inch, 720p HD resolution and 267 ppi pixel density. By using IPS technology to screen display this handset is very good, the screen’s viewing angles are quite wide, bright and deep colors. Moreover, the screen of this device is also equipped with Gorilla Glass 3 toughened glass help cope with better scratch resistance.
As for power, this handset possesses quad core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 64-bit platforms, operating at 1.2GHz with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory and supports MicroSD memory card up to 64GB. With this configuration, but not in “great” as the super products, but the machine is capable of handling most of today’s applications and games. Besides, with 2,820 mAh battery capacity, the machine can ensure enough “energy” to use for a workday so that users can be assured of the issue.
In addition, Wiko Ridge Fab 4G has 2 slot SIM, supporting both 4G bands and users can enable / disable each type of SIM easily right inside the camera settings.
Display
Wiko Ridge Fab 4G running Android OS 4.4.4, but has been a manufacturer changed the user interface. The interface on this device is no longer divided sharply between the main screen (Home Screen) and browser application (App Drawer) typically found on more Android devices, instead Wiko gave all the applications and game the same home screen – similar to the common interface on MIUI.
Contrary to the main user interface elements, area Notification bar of the phone displays icons trigger quite large, the design is almost no change compared to Android 4.4.4 original . The basic applications such as messaging, contacts, calls, calendar, calculator … also retain the original interface, except the changes to the user interface, Wiko Ridge Fab 4G did not have any characteristic features.
Performance
Since this is a mid-range device should configure the machine’s processor nor great, but the individuals who wrote after the experience can clearly see Wiko Ridge Fab 4G works pretty smoothly despite using demand for work or entertainment.
To test the ability of computer processors, we’ve installed and tried a few game play requires high configuration, the results provide quite surprised when this handset can operate smoothly with the heavy game Modern Combat 5.
Besides, the surface temperature of the machine’s back when handling heavy applications or games for a long time did not get too hot, or it can be said that only a little warming. Therefore, users can use gaming machine for a long time and still not having the discomfort of temperature section.
Battery life
We tested the battery life on this phone with some heavy games, including racing game Asphalt 8 dominate with about 1 hour 25 minutes and followed by Modern Combat for 1 hour 05 minutes. After finishing Asphalt 8 experience, we found battery life was already down nearly 30%, particularly Modern Combat 5 “consume” about 28% of the battery in 1 hour 05 minutes game.
A number of other applications used in the process include Facebook, surfing the web, reading mail, watching a few YouTube videos … and the screen brightness is set at the average. After nearly 24 hours of use, including time off and do not use machines and equipment 21% battery remaining.
Thus, through the use of time can be seen with 2,820 mAh capacity battery, the phone can still be more than enough to meet the needs of work and leisure in the user’s day.
Quality camera
Wiko Ridge Fab 4G equipped rear camera with 13 MP resolution and front camera 5MP resolution. Camera interface of the phone is also quite simple and nearly identical to the original Android, but manufacturers also embellished some customizable features inside, such as Face Beauty mode, shooting continuous, timer, add color filter, adjust the white balance, sensitivity (ISO), contrast, saturation and red-eye reduction.
Through experimenting with the camera after the first thing might notice is close focusing distance of this device is quite poor, according to estimates, the closest distance can focus was the subject is at least one span. If you put your device to the subject than the camera can not focus almost floating, this can make it difficult for some cases to macro (macro) flowers or small entities.
As for image quality, the camera which match fairly average level, color and sharpness fairly stable.
Conclude:
Overall, the design style is quite nice but the hardware configuration is only at mid-range but assume most work tasks and entertainment, besides the stable battery life for a machine phablet helped Wiko Ridge Fab 4G becomes a good choice for users in this segment.
