Under the AGM brand, very unusual smartphones are regularly produced. Almost all of them get at their disposal a waterproof and shockproof case. Sometimes you can crack nuts with such an apparatus! And in addition to this, the device can easily get additional features. For example, the March 2022 AGM H5 has a very loud speaker and even a night vision camera!
The smartphone turned out to be very interesting. If you quickly glance at its specifications, it begins to seem that this model simply has no flaws. But let's take a closer look at the device. This will allow us to understand whether it is worth making a purchase.
Appearance and sound
Any buyer will definitely call this handsome brutal. If you look at the back panel, it stands out here huge speaker. And here are the cameras. One of them, not least, is infrared. Also, the manufacturer supplemented his creation with orange design elements. They allow the AGM H5 to stand out from the competition. They also make it easier to find a smartphone under water.
With such a smartphone, you will not be watching a movie or series with headphones. Why are they needed if a huge speaker, whose power reaches 3.5 W, and the diameter is 33 mm? Its presence pleases even more while listening to music. If the desire to connect a wireless speaker arises, then only for the sake of achieving stereo sound. And certainly such a speaker will not allow you to miss a call! How else, if at maximum volume it produces 109 dB?
If you turn the device face up, then nothing interesting catches your eye. Only a sufficiently wide frame of the screen allows us to understand what is in front of us secure smartphone - it seems that he is already dressed in a reliable case. The device went through all sorts of tests. As a result, it turned out that it remains intact even after landing on a hard surface from a height of two meters. Therefore, the device should be of interest to those people who regularly walk with a smartphone whose screen is covered with cracks. Here such a situation seems impossible. AGM H5 should also be arranged by those who regularly go on hikes, since the device is not afraid even of hitting stones.
Equally important is the certificate IP68, the mention of which is present both on the box and in all paper documents. The certificate of it means that the device is able to stay under water for quite a long time. Especially if the depth does not exceed 2 m.
Display
Many of our readers purchase a smartphone, including in order to use it to watch movies and TV shows. This means that you need a large display with high resolution and good sound.In this regard, AGM H5 does not cause serious complaints.
The screen size of this device is 6.51 inches. Confused only by its resolution. For such money, I would like more than 720x1600 pixels. The display is made using IPS technology. It cannot be called particularly energy efficient. This usually indicates that there may be problems on the street. But in the case of the AGM H5, nothing of the kind is observed, since backlight brightness up to 450 nits. At the top of the screen is a waterdrop notch that houses the front camera lens.
Offline work
If you place the device on the scales, they will show 360 g. This is almost one and a half times more than the average smartphone. What is it connected with? Not only with a huge speaker located on the rear panel? Of course not. It's just a rare case when such a device gets battery with a capacity of 7000 mAh. Practice shows that a fully charged battery is enough for a couple of days of battery life, especially if you do not get involved in games. This is also confirmed by tests, as a result of which the device starts to require the connection of an AC adapter in the music playback mode only after 150 hours. And in the video playback mode, the device holds a charge for at least a day and a half.
Another feature of the AGM H5 is the scope of delivery. It can contain not only a standard power supply, but also a kind of dock station. It greatly simplifies the process. The fact is that only in it you can charge the device without removing the rubber plug. After all, you don’t want the plug to loosen one day, after which the level of moisture protection would greatly decrease, do you?
Operating system
The smartphone runs on pure Android 12. The lack of a proprietary shell allows the device not to suffer from slowdowns, even despite the relatively small amount of RAM. The transition from one application to another takes literally tenths of a second.
It should be noted that the competitors currently on sale most often get only Android 11 at their disposal. The next version received a greater number of quick settings, simplified the control of the power button, added a color correction function, and also pleased with the Time-out mode. There are other innovations in it, the conversation about which would take us too much time.
Connection
The device includes two slots for SIM cards. The AGM H5 smartphone connects to 4G networks without any problems, through which photos and videos are sent to social networks at a very high speed. Is here and NFC chip, which is usually used for contactless payment. However, the material is being written against the backdrop of the terrible events in Ukraine, in connection with which such a function is for the most part inaccessible. What can not be said about the connection of wireless headphones - it is carried out through the fifth version of the "blue tooth". However, you can also use a regular headset by connecting it with 3.5mm audio jack.
To connect to the router, the Wi-Fi 802.11ac standard is used here. This means that you can count on a high data transfer rate. It is a pity that these words cannot be said in relation to the USB Type-C port - in fact, this is a regular USB 2.0 connector with the corresponding speed characteristics, albeit in a new format.This is especially felt when connecting a flash drive, when you decide to copy some video from it to the built-in memory.
cameras
Above, we have already said that the LCD has a teardrop-shaped cutout, in which there was a place for the front camera. It is difficult to make any claims against it, because a decent 20-megapixel matrix is hidden under its lens. It is difficult to find fault with the viewing angle.
It is clear that the greatest interest is rear camera. Its main module has a fairly large CMOS sensor with a resolution of 48 megapixels. Below it is a bright LED flash. But if you need to shoot something in complete darkness, you can do without it. The fact is that the device received a 20-megapixel infrared camera. She sees the world even if there are no light sources around at all. In this regard, the smartphone resembles a video surveillance camera - such devices also cannot do without such modules.
The device did not do without the usual additional camera. In this case, it serves for macro photography. With it, you can create beautiful photos of flowers, insects and other small objects. But you don’t need to count on an ideal result, since the resolution of the matrix does not exceed 2 megapixels.
Internal components
Under the body of the device hides a powerful octa-core processor. Half of its cores are clocked at 2.3 GHz. With such a chipset, you can not be afraid to run games, not to mention heavy applications. Not very high screen resolution in this case will even play a positive role - the processor does not have to work too hard to process graphics.
If speak about memory, then there are two options.Basically, people will buy the AGM H5 version, which comes with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage. We would recommend overpaying to get your hands on a rugged smartphone with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. However, let's not scare you, because the device received a slot for a microSD card. The problem is that in order to install it, you will have to give up the second SIM card.
Summarizing
pros | Minuses |
Impact-resistant housing | Big weight |
Good water protection | Not very high screen resolution |
Decent "front" |
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Headphone connection possible |
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Pure Android 12 |
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loud speaker |
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7000 mAh battery |
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Night camera |
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Has a charging dock |
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It remains to add that the start of sales of AGM H5 is scheduled for March 28. The easiest way to buy a new product is on AliExpress, where the official store of this manufacturer operates.