Hisense is not exactly a household name, by any
stretch of the imagination. At least not to the Western consumer. To be fair,
in certain markets and in specially in the TV realm, the Chinese
government-owned brand is actually a rather formidable force.
That being the case, we can't and really won't try
to recommend the HLTE300T. However, it is still quite the attention-grabber.
Passing by it at the IFA venue, we just couldn't resist snapping a few shots
and getting some hands-on time with it.
The Hisense HLTE300T, which we really hope is not
its marketing name, definitely has one distinctive feature going for it - the
5.99 inch, 18:9 IPS, LCD display. With its rounded edges, the LG inspiration is
rather obvious. That, however, shouldn't be misconstrued as criticism in
itself. Quite the opposite, the industry has already made it clear the
ultra-wide aspect ratios ate going to be a thing in the foreseeable future. And
devices like the LG Q6, offer hints that there is space for such experiments
outside the flagship realm as well.
By all accounts, that is precisely where the
HLTE300T resides. Although, Hisense didn't offer any information of pricing or
availability, the Snapdragon 430 chipset, HD resolution and rather thick black
bezels around the display spell that out loud and clear. To be perfectly
honest, that really doesn't sound like a lot of compute power. Still, it is not
that far off from what the LG Q6 has to work with.
Also, while not blurry or pixelated at first glance,
the 5.99 inch panel is definitely big enough to fall a bit short in a
pixel-peeping investigation. On a more positive note, 4GB of RAM, with 32GB of
expandable storage and a 3,530 mAh battery do sound pretty serviceable. The
HLTE300T also has LTE support, a fairly snappy fingerprint reader on the back
and a 12MP, PDAF snapper on the back, accompanied by a 16MP selfie one, both
with LED flashes.
To be frank, potential performance hurdles might be
the only obvious drawback here. During our limited time with the unit, the UI
seemed to work smoothly. Reasonably snappy app launches and behavior as well.
Anyway, the heavy skin, which Hisense has dunned "VISION", running on
top of Android Nougat 7.1.2 can't be doing performance many favors. Still, we
were happy to find Google Play services and a full accompanying app package
pre-loaded on the HLTE300T.
Cr : GSMArena
