We just dropped by at the Torque Ego Series launch with one of their 3 new smartphones this 2017. They almost got an LTE phone in late 2014 but finally, they will gonna have one via the Torque Ego Note 4G
Front: 5 MP front cam with LED flash, capacitive buttons, 5.5 inch IPS HD display
Back: 8 MP rear camera with flash, Torque logo with removable back cover, speaker
Internals: Android 7.0 Nougat, 1.3 GHz Speadtrum SP9832 quad-core processor, dual SIM, 3,000 mAh battery
Nothing at the left as you can see the volume rocker and power/unlock button
The top has 3.5 mm. audio jack while at the bottom, it's the pin hole mic and micro USB port. Unfortunately, this one does not have USB OTG support.
Torque chose to have almost stock Android 7.0 Nougat with some customized app icons including the camera. The sensors included in this phablet include light, orientation and acceleration
In the camera UI, they have eight modes to chose from. There is only 3 options on the pro mode (shutter speed and color temperature not included) . Good thing that both cameras have acccompanying flash. Both cameras also have f/2.8 aperture. I chose not to include camera samples with flash as it will not give such justice in the venue with good ligthing environment
Torque Ego Note 4G rear camera sample
Torque Ego Note 4G front camera sample
For me, the strengths of Ego Note 4G will be the display size, good build quality and good camera processing speed. The weakness for me lack of USB OTG support. One concern though is their use of the said SoC as it is quite near to the Spreadtrum SC9830 that I tested from another local LTE smartphone. Torque Ego Note 4G is now available in Torque stores, partner dealers and thru one2shop.com starting at 8 pm of August 8 2017 for Php 4,599