Cubot C20 Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Cubot C20 - combination of modern and outdated

The Chinese company Kubot is gradually losing ground. If a few years ago the corporation had prerequisites for the transition to the A-brands segment, now the manufacturer is drowning in the creation of partial clones of successful phones (using a similar name and design), independent projects of the developer are also not delightful. So, the hero of today's review, although he has a number of successful finds for an inexpensive Android smartphone, is still not able to get to the title of a potential hit.

The appearance of the novelty is very controversial. While the back panel, although made of rather cheap plastic, pleases with the design of four cameras and the presence of a fingerprint scanner, the 8-megapixel selfie camera is disappointing with its "eyebrow" design, and the screen frames are far from minimal. But the 6.18-inch OGS-display has a resolution of 2246 x 1080 pixels, so the detail of the displayed image is excellent. At the same time, the savings are not manifested in the parameters of brightness and contrast. The image is distorted at tilt angles, but you can't find fault with such things in budget phablets.

But the technical characteristics could be better. The Mediatek Helio P22 processor, even with 4GB of RAM and the PowerVR GE8320 video chip, does not demonstrate record performance or energy efficiency. Running resource-intensive games without lags is impossible even with a minimum of graphics settings, users will have to be content with casual analogs. From a 4200mAh battery it is possible to get about nine hours of active screen time. Music, video and applications can be placed on 64GB of ROM , expandable with MicroSD memory cards .

It is foolish to expect an affordable gadget and advanced photographic capabilities. The main camera quartet actually has only one more or less serious 12-megapixel sensor. The rest of the auxiliary modules are installed rather for beauty. The device in question copes with daytime shooting, but any deterioration in lighting negatively affects the color rendition and the number of details. The reason for the joy of the buyer will be contactless NFC payments and current Android 10. As a result, we have before us a fairly standard Android smartphone for its price tag, which today has too many opponents.