![]() ![]() The operative term here is “curious” because it hasn’t been fully deployed yet, nor is it available to most people in the Philippine capital. You can long-press the button to cycle through recently opened apps.Īnother curious feature is onboard support for the 700MHz LTE spectrum band, which is the frequency that best penetrates buildings and covers rural areas. To wit, you get a redundant menu button instead of a more functional app switcher. Speaking of the display, the Cherry Mobile Flare 5 follows in the trend of modern Google handsets that feature virtual navigation buttons, though it stops short of delivering the software experience Google had intended. It’s calibrated to produce warmer colors, so expect reds and oranges to look rich. The 5-inch screen serves up satisfyingly deep blacks and bright, intense colors. It’s calibrated to produce warmer colors, so expect reds and oranges to look particularly rich. If you can get past the omission, though, you’ll find the panel to be a more suitable choice for playing mobile games and watching movies and TV programs, as it serves up satisfyingly deep blacks and bright, intense colors. The 5-inch, 720p AMOLED display isn’t smothered by curved-edge Gorilla glass unlike many other Flare variants on offer today. It’s useful and simple to configure, and we wish more smartphone makers would pick up on it. You can assign other functions to the slider, such as taking a screenshot or opening your favorite app, by going to the settings menu. By default, sliding it down starts the camera app, while holding it down for a second or two turns the flashlight on. Turning the phone to its right-hand side offers a rare sight: a small physical slider that moves down but doesn’t lock into place. You should, too, especially if you aren’t planning on holding onto the Cherry Mobile Flare 5 for long. Between a naked, dinged-up phone or one that’s covered from end to end but in pristine condition, we’d happily pick the latter. Of course, you can always purchase a case to keep it protected at all times, but doing so will also cover one of its best assets. Our best guess is that those marks were the result of resting the phone on a hard surface. Our unit already has at least two visible scars on its back without us dropping it or carrying it for long periods of time in our pocket. To see it on our black review unit, though, you’d have to get close enough or hold the phone in your hand.Īnd getting up close with the Flare 5 exposes an inherent problem in its aesthetic: It’s both a fingerprint and scratch magnet. The Cherry Mobile Flare 5 has a shiny rear cover with concentric circles.Īnd when the right light hits it at a certain angle, the resulting visual effect can look stunning and mesmerizing all at once. The combination makes for a stylish backside that stands out from other devices Cherry Mobile has produced in recent years. Well, that, and the concentric circles that radiate from underneath a sheet of glass or plastic that curves toward the frame, from the middle portion of the back where the Cherry Mobile branding is present. Understandably, the first thing you’ll notice on the Flare 5’s outer appearance is how shiny its rear cover is. But for a couple of thousand pesos more, you can get a faster and more feature-rich handset. It’s still a good phone, better than most in its price range. So does that mean the Cherry Mobile Flare 5 is no longer the budget choice it used to be? There’s the switch to an AMOLED panel and the slight uptick in RAM (from 2GB to 3GB), megapixels (16 megapixels on the rear 8 megapixels on the front), and battery capacity (now 2,500mAh). It’s no longer as affordable as it once was, and the improvements under the hood aren’t exciting. Story updated with this Cherry Mobile Flare 5 preview video ![]()
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