Karbonn is now ready
for the taking the low-budget flagship with their really Smart. Smartphones and
now I can say this by rolling the hands over the Karbonn A6 Smartphone which
really took the mid on it. The Android ICS and 1 GHz packed device has many and
greater performance for its cost. So let’s have the detail view over it.
- Operating System - Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
- Price - Rs. 5189 (Saholi.com)
Key-Points
- Dual SIM (GSM + GSM).
- 1 GHz Processor.
- 512MB RAM.
- Android v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS.
- 4-inch WVGA IPS Capacitive Touchscreen.
- 5 MP Primary Camera.
- VGA Secondary Camera.
- Priced at Rs. 5189.
- GPRS, EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth
- Accelerometer
Advantages
- Dual SIM (GSM + GSM).
- 1 GHz Processor.
- 512MB RAM.
- Android v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS.
- 4-inch WVGA IPS Capacitive Touchscreen.
Disadvantages
- Absence of 3G on the device.
- Lack of most wanted Smartphone sensors like Proximity or Light sensors.
Review
Build And Design
The build quality at time also seemed very fine
with a new attractive look where you got the chrome below the 4-inched display
and offers the three Capacitive Android Button over the chrome. The handset has
the good holding capability with the matte finish over the sides as well as over
the back, while the lower portion has the chrome strip which runs over all sides
while lying at the bottom. Left of the handset is plane while right is the
Volume Rockers and MicroUSB and 3.5mm Audio jack lies on top.
The back panel has the matte finished and a 5MP
rear camera placed with LED flash and Speaker grille located at bottom with
Karbonn Logo.
Display
A6 has the premium display of 4 Inches and got
the WVGA Resolution of 480 x 800 Pixels. With IPS Display the screen have the
bright colors and greater viewing angles. Good brightness and great performance
even under bright Sunlight, but you need to set the brightness tuned at maximum
and all this makes the display of the device worth for the price.
You got the extra facilities including the
Multi-touchscreen up to 2 fingers and is great for the touch security locks.
Watching videos indoor look nice, since it is not the high-end one so you may
caught in visual problems while watching videos in bright sunlight.
Camera
The 5 Megapixel rear snapper the device makes
the great photos shots indoors as well as outdoors. You are allowed a LED Flash
with rear camera and helps at low light conditions at a great extent. Since the
video took from rear camera is mediocre at VGA Resolution and at 8-9fps, the
brightness and contrast of the video was great with the 3GP output.
Still shots has the great quality with a bit
blurred images of low light indoors, otherwise the contrast, the Hue and
Saturation is great with 5MP snapper. The most amazing thing you got at 5.4k is
the front VGA camera with reasonable quality and allows nice video calls.
Hardware And Performance
The device got its potential from the fast 1GHz
processor and a 512MB of RAM, with the 104MB of internal ROM memory you got
space for having multiple apps and for having your enriched data collection you
need to have MicroSD card. These are enough for a 5.4k device and at this
moment you got enough.
The device gets its power from the 1450 mAh Li-Ion
battery allowing the functioning time of 6 hours while here you get the Talk
time of 12 hours.
The performance of the device is not very high
as Canvas HD or galaxy Grand but you get the great performance while browsing
on web or having multiple apps at a time. The game performance was also fine,
that allows you to get fine frame rates on HD games while you can have almost
every causal game running with decent speed.
Connectivity
The dual SIM device works on the 2G networking
with the support of GPRS and EDGE modes for a decent internet speed. As you are
debarred from 3G in this device, thus you cannot have the high speed uplinks or
downlinks. While the browsing speed at 2G is up to 128kbps which is quite fine
for a 2G device. The extra features of Wi-Fi and Tethering of Wi-Fi Hotspot
replaces the sorrow of non-availability of 3G. While the USB connectivity of
microUSB, v2 supports for data transfers as well as charging the device and
Bluetooth in A6 is allowed with supported profiles of A2DP.
Multimedia
The multimedia section includes the common
interface of Audio and Video supports. By default the device is able to detect
the Video codecs of AVI, 3GP, MP4 and MIDI, WAV, AMR, MP3 codec of Audio. These
supports can be further extended by installing different player from Play Store.
A6 can support 480p videos but got in trouble
while playing the 720p videos, the reason is low-internal memory and low amount
of RAM, and if are disgraced from the fact then don’t be supports because the
way for having the 1080p videos playback is also available by swapping the SD
card for increasing the RAM, but you need to get a little tricky mind.
OS and UI
Karbonn A6 runs on Android v4 ICS out of box.
The Android ICS interface looks stock, while the OS performance is quite nice
and you don’t get any lags and device offers great sensitivity. The extra
stuffs form Karbonn is thus also available in it along with extra facilities of
Voice Search, Customizable Widgets, Notification Pannel, AudioRecorder, MMS
Enabled and Important Apps like Google Play and Apps, WhatsApp, Gtalk, Gmail,
Outlook Emails including the Karbonn apps for company support.
Conclusion
Seeing the total device condition we came her
for the outcome and we got the positive likely outcomes with some negative points
including the absence of 3G. The device performs well in case of apps support
or video playback or any other. You cannot get more with the device priced at
5.1k, since the absence of 3G sucks but Wi-Fi support solved the problem for at
least half of the customers.
If are going to have the Android powered device
under 5.2k then it can be your choice for your next Smartphone or the first one.
4 comments:
can v update any hardware parts (specially: speaker to good quality one) coz i felt sound quality is poor...
No it's not Possible to Change your phone speaker with another phone speaker. if their is problem in speaker u can change it with speaker meant to be made for same phone.
Sound quality is very poot evn nt hvg amplifier option on music player & net speed is very slow like china mobile but all above mbl is very good
Thanks for review, it was excellent and very informative.
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