VC’s Techie CockTail

In the last few months, I’ve seen many small brands coming up with phone in the range of 5000 Rs wanting to be a blackberry with the much wannabe qwerty keypad and blackberry style icons , trackball. But as of two days I haven’t even tried anyone, but I got to play with my Uncle’s brand new MicroMax Q5…

• The first thing i felt in my hand, was its weight but for the overall dimensions of 115*62*12.5mm at 95 grams, with its solid black plastic and a trackball it looked like a blackberry
• The next thing was that the screen seemed small (320*240 Pixels, 5.58cm) when compared to the keypad area of the phone, making it somewhat bottom heavy
• The user interface doesn’t try to mimic the blackberry to the full with some nice animations of its own. Even though some features looked simple and direct, there are plethora of options buried deep inside which will need a somewhat steeper learning curve
• The phone hadn’t gprs activated in it so I didnt try out the much hyped ‘Facebook’ access , the opera mini browser and the nimbuzz chat client
• The sound was loud and clear, might be the effect of Yamaha amplifiers
• The qwerty keypad seemed ok, since i am not a user of qwerty keypads i can’t pass a judgement on it
• The phone had GPRS / EDGE and also bluetooth and usb connectivity
• The 2MP camera has nothing special to shout about, it should do ok in well lit conditions
• The phone has a micro SD card slot (under the battery) and a decent media player to handle audio and videos
• And the main features of these smaller brand phones is the dual sim support so it supports two gsm sim cards.

At 4050 Rs, the Q5 looks like a blackberry with some nice features……

written by Vignesh \\ tags: micromax q5