Monsters from Asia: the aluminum Qiku Q Terra phablet with its 2K display, 4GB RAM, and dual 13MP camera
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Just yesterday, Qiku presented three new devices on a stage in Beijing, one for every pocket — a low-end, a mid-ranger, and a flagship. Naturally, we're most taken aback with the flagship, dubbed Q Terra.
Now, the Q Terra is a top-of-the-crop device through and through, sporting a massive, 6-inch, 2.5D Sharp display with a Quad HD (1440 x 2560) resolution, good for 490 pixels per inch. Qiku claims that it's managed to fit this otherwise beastly panel within a very compact, aluminum-magnesium alloy body, managing an excellent screen-to-body ratio of 83% (6.2 x 3.14 x 0.35 in / 157.6 x 79.8 x 8.6 mm). Our own calculations, however, indicate that the Q Terra is closer to 79%, though we don't take rounded corners into account, as Qiku is sure to have done.
Moving on, we're looking at Qualcomm's top-of-the-line, 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor with four by four Cortex-A57/A53 cores and an Adreno 430 GPU, coupled with generous 4 gigs of RAM. While the Snapdragon 810 is reason enough nowadays to cause some anxiousness, Qiku claims that it's paid a lot of attention to thermal dissipation during design QA, so the chip will hopefully behave itself. Onto imaging, Qiku has a little surprise for would-be buyers: a dual 13MP camera setup, courtesy of Sony.
The idea behind the camera config is for the first sensor — a 1/3.06" Exmor RS IMX278 unit — is to capture most of the light and color of the composition, while the secondary IMX214 sensor is of the MONO type (black & white). The idea here is that the two should, according to Qiku, allow for some wicked low-light photography, though we wouldn't get excited before testing this out and putting that claim to the test. In any case, you're getting a super-wide, f/1.8, 6-piece lens, and a ton of camera shooting modes including 4K video, bokeh, a full-blown manual mode with shutter controls, and others. As for the selfie snapper up front, we've got a respectable, 8-megapixel shooter with 1.4μm pixels.
We're also happy to see that the Q Terra will be backed up by a strong battery — a 3,600 mAh unit is on board, complete with quick charging. Qiku has also included a touch-type fingerprint scanner on the top, and a supposedly very safe (Qihoo 360 is a security company, after all) 360 OS based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. Finally, it's worth mentioning that the Q Terra packs a number of dedicated audio chips, among which an ESS ES9018K2M DAC, which should ensure high fidelity of sound.
What do you think of the Qiku Q Terra?
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