Video & Photo Gallery: Leagoo M5 Edge Smartphone First Impressions & Quick Review

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Meet Leagoo M5 Edge Smartphone. Night Shooting Expert with Edge-less Beauty. LEAGOO M5 Edge is created with Bezel-less design, for the excellent visual performance, its 2.5D glass is a bit thicker than regular screen glass, with up to 80% screen-body-ratio screen and 1.5mm ultra thin bezel that it can bring edge-less display performance to your eyes. LEAGOO M5 Edge’s featured On-cell display technology, it reduces distance between screen touch panel and your finger that can show you more thorough and clearer view effect. Besides, the On-cell screen has much faster reaction to your operating when you play with it. The curves on the edge of LEAGOO M5 Edge are so precisely finished to bring absolute smoothness, while nothing abrupt will be left. Loaded with MT6737 Cortex-A53, Quad-core at 1.3GHz fast processor ensuring high performance and reduced battery consumption. Excellent balance between performance and power-efficiency. Leagoo M5 Edge supports 2 SIM cards and 1 TF card at the same time, also it can be used on various network standards. Both SIM slots are compatible with 4G, respectively. When both slots are in use, only one can receive LTE service while the other receive GSM.

Here you can read about the unboxing of Leagoo M5 Edge Smartphone.

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Next, watch the first impressions and the first experience on Leagoo FreeMe OS
Firmware tested: Highly customized Leagoo Freeme OS based on Android Marshmallow 6.0
Build number:  LEAGOO_M5_EDGE_4G_OS2.0_20170505
Kernel version:  LEAGOO M5 EDGE 4G_OS2.0
Root: Firmware is not rooted.

 

 

 

Available features: Dual SIM (Micro SIM + Micro SIM),  Radio FM, WiFi, WiFi Hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0,  A-GPS, GPS, Microphone, Front & Back Camera, Camera Flash, USB Host, OTA Sync, PowerSaver app, Leagoo App Store, ThemeClub app, Change theme app, Scheduled Power On & Off, Printing, Voice Search, Sound Recorder, Calculator, MiraVision, Turbo download, FlashLight, Airplane Mode, App Widgets, Audio Output, USB Accessory, Multitouch, Smart Settings (NavigationBar, Smart Enable, Smart light, Smart wake, Three pointer take screen shot & Non touch operation), Google Play Store & gapps, Adaptive brightness & Audio Enhancement (BesAudEnh, BesLoudness & BesSurround).

Sensors available on device: 8 sensors on board: Battery, GPS, WiFi, Accelerometer, Proximity, Gesture, Light & Fingerprint. 

Cameras. Main camera: 13MP with LED flash light. Selfie camera: 8 MP. Enjoy Capturing! The camera captures great high resolution images, featuring extraordinary clarity and vivid natural colors. Enjoy the fun of shooting and selfies. 9 Captures modes: Normal, Panorama, HDR, Night, Beauty, Portrait, Pose, Child & Watermark.LEAGOO M5 Edge houses an 8.0MP front camera with 77.9° wide angle which can put more details in a single photo. Even many people take selfies together, all of them can be included in one picture.

Display. Diagonal: 5". Type: LCD IPS HD. Resolution: HD 720 x 1280. Density: Medium, 294 Pixels per inch. Others: 3D curved glass screen, Capacitive, Multi-touch, Scratch resistant, Viewing angle - 178°, On-cell display technology. Featuring a 5 inch screen using IPS display technology, Leagoo M5 Edge has a much wider 178-degree viewing angle. Along with the 294 PPI display, which is appropriate for human eyes discerning granular detail, Leagoo M5 Edge allows you to see a vivid world through the IPS display.

Battery. Capacity: 2.000mAh. Type: Removable Li-ion. Model: BT-518. The battery is removable and easily replaceable.

Internal storage.   Capacity: 16 GB. Internal Storage without OS: 10.61 GB. Available: 9.13 GB (86%). SD slot up to 128 GB. Tested with  Mixza Tohaoll 128GB SDXC Micro SD Memory Card.

Freeme OS. Freeme OS is based on Android Marsmallow 6.0 to create an intelligent operating system, into the "human intelligence technology" concept, more than 3,000 features optimized the upgrade for the user experience to bring "quality" a comprehensive leap. Involving beauty, social, audio and video entertainment, smart address book, WeChat dual account social privacy, information reading, intelligent operation and other life and work scenes required, rich content services, but also allow users to enjoy the wonderful clouds. Freeme OS believes that only system-level security is the fundamental solution for mobile security, based on this not only safe operation, but also to protect users. More details here.

Cost-effective. 8.3 from 10 - pretty good.

In Antutu Benchmark 6.2.7 Leagoo M5 Edge smartphone achieves a decent score, over 29.700 points. 

In Antutu Video Tester 3.0 Leagoo M5 Edge smartphone scores 529 points, a fair score in this test ranking. It played smoothly almost all video file types; this firmware version fully supports 11 video & audio format files, it partially supports 7 video & audio format files and doesn’t manage to play 12 files.

Wifi Internet speed tested gets also pretty good values: over 22 Mbps in download and the upload speed was also over 13 Mbps. The router used in this test is Xiaomi Mi WiFi Router, mounted in another room. 

Conclusion
The Freeme OS on the Leagoo M5 Edge is very smooth, being a very well customized operating system. Transitions, animations, apps switching and general OS fluidity is just great, I really like it a lot. During our tests, we experienced zero force closes, hangups or stability issues. Google Play and gapps are working without issue. Google Play Services updated no problem. 3rd party apps downloaded and updated without issues.

Leagoo M5 Edge Smartphone has an amazing affordable price and very good value for the money.

Photo gallery full album here. Official webpage here.

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