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Vodafone Smart 4 Turbo Raptor
The Smart 4 Turbo is a densely-made 4.5-inch handset whose looks belie that cheap price tag. The front side is all black bezel and shiny display, though that screen does get a touch reflective in direct light. Stay in the shade. The rear is a contoured grey plastic backplate that conceals the 1,880mAh removable battery and microSIM slot. That same plate (pictured) points out the 4 Turbo’s headline feature – 4G/LTE – and the black and grey combination means it’ll match every outfit you could possibly own.
Sadly, the rest of the specs don’t match up to the data modem. The 1.21GHz processor doesn’t do all that well in benchmarks, coming in below Qualcomm’s S4 Pro chip, though it beats out the Exynos 4412 processor. So there’s that. There was 906MB of RAM available on the phone during testing – on paper it’s 1GB but that’s SOP for dealing with RAM. And the phone only costs R1,500, it’s not going to be dipped in gold either.