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It's more pleasing to look at than your typical TN panel. Overall, the screen on the Flare 2.0 looks a bit more like your typical IPS panel with a crappy top-side viewing angle, much narrower color gamut and lower contrast. Personally, the calibration is very welcome as the colors are more representative of the actual thing and having the right color balance is much easier on the eyes for extended viewing. It can attempt to display 8-bit colors through dithering, but it isn't the same as having a real 8-bit panel that displays 16 million true colors. There's only so much you can do with a 6-bit panel, which basically means 262,144 true colors. To be fair though, TN panels aren't supposed to be impressive. Blacks just look very dark gray next to an AMOLED or IPS with a OGS. As a result, colors have less saturation, less pop. But given that TN panels are 6-bit panels, the white whites are produced at the expense of color gamut and contrast. On the Flare 2.0, whites look white, not blueish-gray. Most TN panels on cheap smartphones are not calibrated and often have a very cold color temperature. The most evident thing with the Flare 2.0's TN panel is that it's well calibrated. The Flare 2.0 manages to address some of these issues, and then some. The 1500 mAh on the original Flare just wasn't enough for most of the time, as efficient as the MSM8225 is. But the most popular nitpick of the original Flare's users is the battery life. It simply could not replace a dedicated music player. Worst is the fact that the Flare's audio output via the 3.5 mm port was absolutely abysmal, with extremely weak power output, no dynamic range and distortion at maximum volume. Given that, many consumers began looking for the word "IPS" on the spec sheet phones from in the same price bracket, which was practically impossible at the time given that impact of an IPS panel on the BOM (bill of materials).
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Another is that the original Flare was advertised as having an IPS panel, which is a blatant lie and it was unfortunate that even local professional tech bloggers could not distinguish an IPS from other variants of LCD panels. But apparently expectations have been set too high, too early and many users expected the Flare to perform even better, disillusioned by the fact that there are other, much faster dual core phones around. It was definitely faster than anything else in the price bracket at the time. First, it had a Qualcomm MSM8225 from their Snapdragon S4 Play line-up, which wasn't exactly the most potent processor. The original Flare wasn't without faults though, especially considering its price tag. As such, there are high expectations for the Flare 2.0 which maintains the Flare's SRP of 3,999 Php. Stocks only normalized in late December and early January.
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I remember during the month of the launch that virtually all stores were constantly out of stock of the Flare, much to the dismay of consumers. It was touted as the "dual core ng bayan" for being the cheapest dual core smartphone available locally.
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The Cherry Mobile Flare 2.0 is the highly anticipated update to the super popular Flare released back in November 2012.