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64-bit processors are becoming more and more mainstream with Android smartphones and it's going to be interesting to see over the next 12 to 18 months how the Chinese OMS use this next generation of processors in their phones today we're going to be looking in a new 64-bit device called the echo Aurora a 0 4 it uses an octa-core cortex a53 processor coupled with a mali t760 GPU it has a 5.5 inch display and only costs one hundred and ninety dollars the way you spell the name with this Chinese OEM is EC oh oh and I suppose you could pronounce it ekoo or maybe ech ooh but I'm just going to go with echo it's just easier taking a look at the design and build the phone is quite light at just 160 grams and surprisingly easy to hold considering it has a 5.5 inch display I've always felt most comfortable using a phone with a 5 inch display and the Aurora efore is certainly larger than the average 5 inch device at 156 point 7 millimeters tall is around one to one and a half centimeters longer than a typical 5 inch device however at 70 7.5 millimeters wide it's only a few millimeters wider this means that for me at least it fits comfortably in my hand and I don't feel that I am performing any more finger gymnastics than I would with a smaller phone my test unit is a white model and so the colouring is chrome and white but there is also a black model available around the phone is a chrome colored band which is made of plastic the back cover uses a textured plastic which aids the grip slightly according to the specs the bezels are just 2.5 millimeters wide which means that the phone has a screen to body ratio of 78% to complement the narrow bezels the echo Aurore uses 2.5 d glass sometimes this term can be used without much justification however it is true the glass does curved at the edges and it's rounded at the corners however have a sneaking suspicion that it has achieved more with a kind of factory fitted glass screen protector rather than buy some expensive glass technology the reason I say that is because of the little gap around the earpiece which is reminiscent of the way a screen protector is overlaid on a display however I could be wrong underneath the 2.5 D glass there is a full HD 5.5 inch display the front-facing camera a set of sensors and the capacitive keys the home button is a physical button and contains the built-in fingerprint reader down the right-hand side of the power button and the volume rocker both are easily accessible when the phone is held in your left hand on the top you'll find the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and the microUSB port on the bottom edge of the speaker grills and the microphone flipping the phone over you will see the prominent eco logo and the dual LED flash and the camera lens the 5.5 inch display on the Aurora efore it's good considering the price point it is an IPS display with a full HD resolution 1920 by 1080 that means it has a dpi of 400 overall the color reproduction and definition are good has other viewing angles I found the display to be quite bright in a good sense leaving the brightness on auto works well but whenever I did force the display to maximum brightness it was just too bright for indoor use of course this is a good thing as it meant the display is easy to read when outdoors the phone comes with a 3000 milliamp hour battery which about what I would expect for a phone of this size and price my testing revealed some interesting numbers before I started testing the phone I left it to one side when I worked on some other videos when the battery went flat I were charged again and so on when I finally got around to testing the unit I just started using it as it was the final battery numbers for that first period of real usage was 3 days and 18 hours with 3 hours of on-screen time once my testing was fully underway I was hitting around one day in five hours with about two and a half hours of screen time I also ran my customary set of tests on one charge would be able to play intensive 3d games for about three hours game bench shows that tower madness will run for about 5 hours for those into multimedia be able to get about four and a half hours of YouTube streaming from this device on one charge the phone has to speaker wheels on his bottom edge however there is only one speaker covering the right grille muffles as sound as you'd expect however the left grille appears just to be for appearances overall the sound is reasonable considering the price point of this phone here's a sample so you can for yourself unfortunate the GPS performers isn't very reliable the device is able to lock outdoors however indoors a lot can't be achieved but the main problem seems to be the lot isn't stable or very accurate according to GPS test of precision is over 20 feet some six meters this leaves a big enough margin of error that navigation software like Google Maps or Nokia here don't always know which rotor on the Aurora is there o4 comes with two gigabytes of RAM which is good for a phone in this price range in terms of internal storage the device comes with 16 gigabytes of flash and has a micro SD card slot which can accept cards up to 32 gigabytes unfortunately the internal storage is divided into two partitions called internal storage and phone storage the first is for your apps and the second is for your personal data the good news is the first partition is almost 6 gigabytes which should be sufficient to install quite a few apps the other bit of good news is the apps can be moved from the internal storage to the phone storage from within the settings menu the phone has a 16 megapixel rear-facing camera and an 8 megapixel front-facing camera the pictures are crisp and the color reproduction is good and overall the camera is what you would expect for a phone in this price range the included app looks to be the standard AOSP camera app and offers a few interesting features including HDR and panorama overall the app is fairly comprehensive but it doesn't have any advanced modes or filters of course you can always install third-party camera apps including Google's camera app if you'd like to see more sample shots then please check out the written review the aurora is zero for run stock Android 4.4.4 you get access to Google Play in all of Google services like YouTube Gmail and maps interestingly the device is rooted by default and comes with chain fires supersu pre-installed the fingerprint scanner is incorporated into the home button and the software allows you to set this screen to unlock only with your fingerprint overall the scanner and the unlock mechanism work well the number of mysteries is quite low and I was able to keep the feature activated for quite a while personally I deactivated it not because the scanner isn't capable enough but because swiping my finger to unlock the screen became a bit monotonous as for upgrades Eco has promised to release an over-the-air update to upgrade the phone to Android lollipop there is no official release date however it is expected soon and so there you have it the echo Aurora is 0 for 5.5 inches full HD display 2 gigs of RAM and an octa-core 64-bit processor it cost us $190 and he's available today my name is Gary synth Andrew authority I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up also don't forget to use the comments below to tell me what you think about this particular device don't forget to subscribe to Android authorities YouTube channel we will see other videos bye my brother's an Android Authority including JC Oh Josh lon Chemical ninja Ashton Taylor Martin and as for me I'll see you in my next video