Jiayu G4 Advanced: Unboxing, Test and Analysis with Video

We move in a world, this one of smartphones, in which almost any novelty is overshadowed by the latest models of the big international brands. You teach how Samsung, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, HTC o Sony compete with each other to get their particular citius, altius, fortius; but with a meaning quite different from that which was intended to be given when establishing it as the motto of the Olympic Games. Under the shadow of the greats, many other brands are doing things really well and today we intend to tell you about one of them and one of their latest models, the Jiayu G4 Advanced. Can you come with us?

Like brands like Oppo, Huawei, Xiaomi or ZTE - that will sound like something else to you - and some more of the kind of Zopo or THL; Jiayu It shares the Chinese origin, so in the first place it should not surprise us to find ourselves in front of a smartphone that has some very common characteristics in the Asian giant, but that in these parts are a bit strange to us. As an example, the fact that practically all of its models - if not all - are dual SIM.

Leaving aside this small detail, the adventurous buyer will have to face another tirade, such as the fact that these types of brands do not officially sell in our continent, with which we will have two options before us: import through portals such as AliExpress, PandaWill and similar or trust importers that present themselves as the official website of the brand in Spain but that only have commercial agreements - at most -. It should be noted that the second option is more expensive, but also faster and without having to face the dreaded Chinese customs. It is also true that, at least in the case of Jiayu, the official page on homeland has behind true virtuosos of Android who have developed a very interesting application that will help us carry out tasks such as rooting, installing the Custom Recovery and a long list of actions.

Even so, we are risky people with an enormously tight budget, so we opted for the option of pure import and the risks of facing the Singapore postal service. Less than 20 days later After placing the order, the Post Office knocked on the door and left us the package whose content we show you in the following video.

The Unboxing of the Jiayu G4 Advanced

As you may have seen, although it is not a model with the exterior qualities that a Sony Xperia Z1, in relation price / quality / performance We are facing a smartphone that must be taken into account. However, the Jiayu G4 Advanced has 4,7 inch IPS screen and resolution 1.280 by 720 pixels, which throws us a 312 pixels per inch density. In the same section, the screen has Gorilla Glass 2, so resistance is taken for granted.

Inside, the processor MediaTek MTK6589T quad core ARM Cortex-A7 pumps at a clock speed of 1,5 gigahertz, accompanied by the graphics processor - GPU - PowerVR SGX 544MP, two gigs of RAM or with a internal storage that goes up to 32 gigs - of which about 28 are available to the user -, expandable up to 64 through the use of cards MicroSD.

To all of the above, we must add a 13 megapixel rear camera signed by Sonya 3.000 milliamp battery/hour and 4.2.1 Android Jelly Bean for a total investment of $ 309 - about $228 To the change -. Now, with the presentations already made, let's see how the little angel works.

We put the Jiayu G4 Advanced to the test

After watching the video, it seems clear that the Jiayu G4 Advanced it runs quite smoothly and makes good use of the hardware that the device has. At this point, it should be remembered that the terminal we have tested is fresh out of the box and the only modification we have made has been the installation of the application ANTuTu Benchmarks.

In this sense, we must remember that the smartphone comes factory rooted and with the application SuperUser installed as standard, something to be appreciated if the buyer does not have the necessary knowledge to face the operation of rooting the device although, in this case, it is something really simple.

On the other hand and as will be attested in the next photograph, the Jiayu G4 Advanced He has reached the 11.969 points in the benchmarks of AnTuTu - the version that cannot be falsified, everything is said -. A result that, even though it is far from the leaders of the performance test classification, is not bad either, and even more so if we take into account the above. Since we find units of the Jiayu G3 that, equipped with a custom ROM, exceed 16.000 points, so it would not be surprising if the Jiayu G4 Advanced reached similar heights.

Conclusions

To close the article we would like to start talking about the camera. Without going into assessing the possibility that 13 megapixels whether they are interpolated or not, it must be recognized that its quality is more than acceptable. Let's not fool ourselves: that no one intends to achieve results similar to those of the Sony Xperia Z1, Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom o Nokia Lumia 1020; they all play in another league. We are simply talking about a good quality / price smartphone and as such, your camera is up to the required height.

As for the final aftertaste after having been 'messing around' with it for a long time, the Jiayu G4 Advanced has left us good feelings. It is true that the plastic of the back case It may have been what we liked the least and it seems that the Chinese firm has taken good note of it in its next models such as the Jiayu S1, in which it looks like they are going to correct it.

At this point and to finish, we have to repeat once more that we must take into account the terminal we have in hand and what are its aspirations. We would not be fair if we measured this smartphone with the same standard as the LG G2 o Samsung Galaxy Note 3, since they do not play in the same category or are designed to achieve the same objectives. This is precisely why we are of the firm opinion that the Jiayu G4 Advanced is, broadly speaking, a great phone for what it is; not to compete to be the tallest, strongest or fastest on the market, but a great smartphone in which to combine very interesting features at a fairly affordable price. No more no less.