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Moving on to performance, I already said that it was exemplary for such a pocket-friendly smartphone. The Mlais M4 Note gets a 64 bit MediaTek MTK6732 quad core processor backed by an ARM Mali760 MP2 GPU, 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal memory, with a microSD card slot that supports cards up to 64 GB extra if you need it. The Mlais M4 Note is made with Lollipop in mind, and it behaves accordingly. Although MediaTek CPUs are not the bees knees, they’ve evolved a lot and the performance the MTK6732 manages to get is pretty darn good, in real life.
I’ve mentioned that the Antutu benchmark scores for the Mlais M4 Note were not that shiny. But the low scores is truly not reflected in the phone’s behavior in real life usage. It doesn’t stutter and it doesn’t get slow with extensive use. For example: I started up the phone, connected all my Google accounts, the proceeded to install about 20 apps one after the other and by the time that was finished, I was about ready to try them all out, and I did. And the Mlais M4 Note took it like a champ. It did overheat during installation, but after that was done, it went back to its normal, cool state.
Now to gestures! Gestures are good with the Mlais M4 Note and most of them work like a charm. Except the most important one. The unlocking gesture. You can unlock the phone by either pressing the power button on the side, the home button on the front or swiping up from the home button. That swipe up did not work well. On the first two or three tries, it worked, after which it stopped working. It showed me that the gesture was registered, but the unlocking didn’t happen. That’s something to keep in mind. I would use a knock code if I were you, because it does feature that. Or just use the button to unlock.
On the other hand, when using the camera gesture during the time the Mlais M4 Note was locked, was smooth. I just drew the C and the camera popped up immediately. It’s good to know that this gesture works every time, but it’s weird that the swipe up gesture doesn’t. There might be a software issue there, for all I know.
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The Mlais M4 Note has its ups and downs, but luckily, most of them are ups, rather than downs. Stock Android and a very good performance make this phone a must-have, and the price actually allows for that to happen. Aside from the bad speaker and the average camera performance, the Mlais M4 Note can be a beast in real life usage.
