Evercoss Winner Y Ultra - a great phone to start

Several years ago, Cross Mobile, now is better known as Evercoss, was a local brand that produced a feature phone containing various feature with affordable cost. Nowadays, after changing their brand from Cross Mobile to Evercoss, they start to change join smartphone and tablet competition. Evercoss Winner Y Ultra is one of budget smartphones that comes with a quite great hardware. Evercoss tries to keep their existence with their strategy that focuses on targeting budget customers. The Winner Y Ultra comes in two color variants, black white, and gray. This smartphone is a high-performance one for an entry-level.

Evercoss Winner Y Ultra

Strengths: ü  Inexpensive Cost ü  2GB of RAM ü  16GB of Internal Storage	Weaknesses: x Battery Capacity x Screen x OS version
Price: IDR 999,000.00

Screen and Design

The Winner Y Ultra blends together aluminium, glass, and plastic for its body. Adopting a candybar model, the Winner Y Ultra look a bit fancy for an entry-level smartphone. Glass makes up the front of the body, where touchscreen panel, front camera, speaker, and soft keys reside. The back cover that protects its removable battery is made of plastic.

Evercoss seems to make a bad choice in placing the buttons. Volume and power button can be found on the right side of the device. That means that you will need to use both of your hands to make a screenshot which can be done by pressing volume down and power button at the same time. There are three soft keys found at the bottom of the device’s bezel. They function as menu, home, and back buttons.

Evercoss Winner Y Ultra gets a 5-inch HQ IPS LCD display which is well known for its ability in providing brilliant combination of colors. Yet, it uses a hi-tech LCD, its resolution is only 854 x 480 pixels. It seems too small for a 5-inch smartphone. The colors are quite sharp with controllable brightness level, thanks to IPS Technology. Sadly, no Gorilla Glass or even Dragon Trail Glass implemented to protect the touchscreen panel, so If you buy this phone, I suggest that you also buy screen protector for protecting the screen.

Software and Processor

The Winner Y Ultra adopts Android Lollipop which is kept original with no modification. It means that the user will get the pure user-interface of Android Lollipop. There are several bloatwares – pre-installed applications - found in the device. Some of them are removable.

“Old, not Obsolete”. That expression is appropriate to be used to express this smartphone. Why? Its processor is an old 1.2 GHz Spreadtrum SC7371. It is a very standard processor for smartphones nowadays. Luckily, this processor is supported with 2GB RAM, making this phone powerful to run heavy apps and open many apps at the same time. For your gaming pleasure, A Mali-400MP4 is ready to run any games you like to play. In conclusion, The Winner Y Ultra is capable to run apps fast and smooth.

Camera

For your photography pleasure, Evercoss Winner Y Ultra is equipped with an 8-megapixel lens and LED flash. Well, that’s a standard lens for a smartphone nowadays. Yet, the camera can take quite good quality photos with minimum noises when there is enough light. Compared with the camera lens of Asus Go, the picture quality of the Winner Y Ultra is likely the same.

Taken by the main camera (personal collection)

As you can see, the picture taken by this smartphone is good enough. The autofocus of this smartphone is not the fastest, but it can detect the object perfectly. You can see the focus really well. The blur of the unfocused object is not too much, making it look natural. The weakness is the color which is not really sharp. But hey, at least the camera can capture your instagramable – great to be posted on Instagram – picture.

Front camera is not the power of this smartphone. So, if you love taking selfies, this smartphone cannot help you for that. Its front camera has only 2-megapixel sensor. No autofocus, no filters, no features for selfie purpose. Perhaps, Evercoss only provides the front camera for video chatting purpose.

Storage and Battery

The internal storage that you will get is quite big. Evercoss Winner Y Ultra has a huge 16GB internal storage. Plus, the storage can be expanded with an sdcard up to 32GB. Well, you can whoa! Though, it has 16GB internal storage, the storage which is available to users is only 13GB. Well, to me, that storage is still huge for an entry-level smartphone.

The Winner Y Ultra is a high-performance Android smartphone with a bit more than standard battery durability. It can last less than 10 hours in normal use. It is because the device only adopts a 2,100 mAh battery. That battery is not really standard for an entry-level smartphone. Compared with Asus Go, Evercoss can standby longer than Asus Go. Thanks to its battery which is 50 mAh higher than Asus Go’s and its screen resolution which is less than Asus Go’s. Since this smartphone is not equipped with any QuickCharge feature, to make the battery get full capacity, you will need to charge the battery for about 2 hours.

Conclusion

Evercoss Winner Y Ultra comes with great hardware at affordable price. The little-bit-higher-than-standard camera of the device can take a good quality picture that can satisfy your photography and instagramming pleasure. The internal storage is quite huge for a smartphone under IDR 1,000,000. For a smartphone immigrant, The Winner Y Ultra is a good start to owned. It can give you the taste of a high-performance smartphone at affordable price.

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