OUKITEL G5 Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Oukitel G5 - a time machine that no one asked for

Sometimes even well-known manufacturers surprise with their strange decisions. Thus, the Chinese company Oukitel, which has been producing many competitive smartphones in the lower and middle price segments for many years, decided to "please" its fans with the presentation of the hero of today's review. Unfortunately, both externally and internally, the phone resembles its counterparts from five or even more years ago.

The appearance of the new product leaves rather negative emotions. The developer tried to decorate the back panel with multi-colored rubberized inserts, a double photo module, but it looks peculiar. Among the advantages, we will highlight the side fingerprint scanner, but the whole impression is spoiled by the display with huge frames with an outdated design of a 5-megapixel selfie camera for 10 years. The 6-inch IPS screen itself is simply bad. The resolution of 1152x576 pixels does not even allow you to watch videos in HD resolution. The brightness still reaches 400 nits, which is not enough to work with the device in direct sunlight, there is no oleophobic coating, no increased refresh rate, no natural color rendition.

The selection of technical characteristics is also not encouraging. The UNISOC Tiger T310 processor is inferior to the representatives of the 600 series, together with 4 GB of RAM and the PowerVR GT7100 video core, it does not score even 200 thousand points in the AnTuTu test. The Android 14 interface sometimes disappoints with lags, the gaming capabilities are very limited, even relatively simple projects in terms of graphics (for example, PUBG Mobile) will have more or less smooth gameplay only with minimal graphics settings. Autonomy for a large device with moisture protection according to IP68 standards is not outstanding. The 6300 mAh battery usually lasts for a couple of days, the charging power is standard for inexpensive devices (10W). The permanent memory can be 64 or 256 GB depending on the version. It is recommended to buy the second option, although there is a slot for MicroSD cards.

The main 13-megapixel photo sensor and the auxiliary 0.3-megapixel portrait sensor are clearly not the best tools for artistic photography. Even capturing text is not always successful. Sometimes autofocus is suitable, sometimes part of the document is absorbed by noise. One speaker does not produce loud and rich sound, and you can forget about bass altogether. There are also no NFC contactless payments. As a result, we have a gadget in front of us, almost every aspect of which causes disappointment.