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Thanks for the review, it made me buy the zeta for my daughter who I think will love it, nice colored cases and decent specs, we'll find out soon if it fits.
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Well the Zeta came in yesterday and I must say the review was exactly right.
After unpacking and first impressions I hooked it up to my pc to have a go at rooting.
Vroot didn't recognize the model so no luck (yes I do use the latest version which is now called iroot),
kingo however did the job without any problem, supersu+ installed fine and after a reboot rootchecker conmfirmed that true root and busybox were ok.
The phone runs very smooth with the 6592 and mali 450, I most of all like the fact that data has a very nice 5.8 GB, leaving about the same amount for the internal sd-card. This is a very well balanced setup for kitkat and makes the phone quite useful without having to resort to repartitioning or link2sd.
I can't really say anything about the battery stamina yet, but it seems to do nicely, gsam indicates a 21% use in the last 17 hours which at this moments estimates to standby of well over 2 days. I need to finetune deepsleep saver yet, but no doubt it will hold beyond the 2 days without much effort.
The screen is as mentioned in the review, nice sparkling colors and good visibility, much better than some other more expensive phones.
The back camera is very decent, I've only made a short-distince test shot to see if the sharpness was ok and it did a very good job, the flash at this distance (about 20 cms) did not blow out the highlights which on many phones happens.
GPS took less than a minute indoors to cold-start into a fix with 5 sats at 23 snr, which is amazingly good given my location and the fact that this was witout having a clear sky view.
All in all I would say that this phone at $78 is a true gem to buy and breaks open the octa-core world at well under $100, a steal for anyone who doesn't want to spend more but at the same time looking for a decent performing phone.
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