ANDROID ONE DEVICES REVIEW

1)Karbonn V Sparkle 2) Micromax Canvas A1 3)Spice Dream Uno

Google launched its android one series smartphone namely Spice Dream Uno, Karbonn V Sparkle & Micromax Canvas A1 (all  of which are dual sim) in India which is priced respectively @ Spice Dream Uno 6,299/- sold via Flipkart, Karbonn V Sparkle @ 6,399 sold via Snapdeal,Micromax Canvas A1 @ 6,499 sold via Amazon. It is available is Black and white shades of which Karbonn V sparkle having grey instead of black, blue and red colour option as well.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is descent. It has Scratch resistant glass on front and a plastic back and feels quite nice in hands. It is slim at 9.2mm and weighs 107gms. It has 4.5 inch FWVGA IPS LCD display of resolution 480 x 854 with 218ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is very good. It runs on very close stock android User Interface. The display supports 5 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 4GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 32GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) But lacks USB OTG.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 5MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization etc. The camera clarity is quite good overall. Daytime the images are pretty good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and still image quality at night is just below average with lots of noise could have been much better. It does HD 720p@30fps video recording with stereo sound having bit-rate of 10 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is quite good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is below average with lots of noise could have been much better. It also has a 2.4MP front camera for selfe's which does 480p video recording and clarity is quite good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box with planned update to Android lollipop 5.0. It has a MediaTek (MTK6582) processor running a quad core at 1.2 GHZ (Cortex-A7 architecture) with 1 GB RAM and Mali 400MP2 (Dual Core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.

QUADRANT : 4960.

ANTUTU : 13256.

NENAMARK 2 : 56.5fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a non removable Li-Ion 1700 mah battery. The battery life is quite good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 6:10H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6:20H.

TALKTIME : upto 15H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 390H(2G) / upto 370H(3G).

PROS

*Good build quality.

*Pretty good display and viewing angle.

*Excellent Performance.

*Pretty good loudspeaker.

*Quite battery life.

*Very good pricing.

CONS

*Display clarity overall could have been bit better still quite good though.

*No USB OTG support. 

*Camera clarity doesent live upto the mark of a 5MP could have been much better though front camera is quite good.
*Battery could have had slightly higher capicity

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.3/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.