Just Amazing By Arunabha Roy on 23 Oct, 2012
From the very first day of using cell phones, I have only used Nokia products...Now after 7 years of using Nokia I switched my mobile brand for the first time...And I bought Micromax A25 Smarty...It costs me around Rs. 3800 in the local mobile shop..... .It's always a hiccup for me to switch between brands...Specially from Nokia to Micromax...But with a budget below Rs. 4000 'Smarty' is too good to reject, even for me...At this price it offers some features which no one can even think about...Android 2.3.6, 1 ghz processor, capacitive touch, dual SIM support, Wi-Fi, etc...After using it nearly about 10 days, I am just amazed with its performance...nnDisplay: Micromax A25 Smarty comes with a 2.8" 240x320 pixels 262k color display. Which produce fairly decent resolution as the screen size is small. You can view webpages nicely.nnTouch: Micromax A25 Smarty certainly surprises me with the touch experience. The capacitive touch screen is so smooth and responsive that it outperformed many high end phones. The QWERTY keypad also performs well even with smaller display. You can type easily even in the portrait orientation.nnOS: There is no new to talk about Android...we all know that its the best mobile OS of today. Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread runs smoothly in 'Smarty'. Micromax has made some customization in the OS which all goes in favour. For e.g. 'Toolkits' in the dropdown menu, 'Reboot' option, segmentation of settings.nnProcessor: The credit for Smarty's seamless and smooth performance goes to the 1ghz processor. After 10 days of continuous using, it has never hanged. I have played some heavy games like- Temple Run, Angry Birds Space, Fruit Ninja...and they all run smoothly.nnBattery: Micromax Smarty A25 comes with 1280mAh battery, which gives fairly good battery backup. You can expect whole day battery backup with regular usage. During the last 10 days I have used it continuously for all sorts of activities- net surfing, gaming, listing music, watching youtube...and I have charged it 6 times in those 10 days...just amazing!!!nnAudio & Video: The audio-video quality of A25 Smarty is fair enough. You will get Equalizers and Bass Booster in the music player. Loudspeaker quality is very good. The youtube videos are OK to watch, obviously you can not get very high picture quality, but the video quality is fair enough.nnConnectivity: Micromax A25 Smarty provides basic connectivity features, like- Bluetooth, GPRS and Edge Class 12, Wi-Fi. But there is no 3G and GPS. But the best thing is that there exists 'Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot' and USB tethering.nnCamera: Micromax A25 Smarty comes with a basic camera with 1.3MP support, which provides some average quality pictures and videos. If you're a camera guy who loves to take pictures, then it's simply not your cup of tea.nnMemory: Micromax A25 Smarty comes with 135mb of free internal memory, which can be used for downloading and installing apps from the Google Play Store. But you can always install apps on your memory card (supported upto 32gb). There is 256mb of RAM...though it's to some extent small, yet the powerful 1ghz processor managed it. As a result, there is no lag or hang problem and the phone runs smoothly.nnOthers: Micromax A25 Smarty supports 5 point touch (Fruit Ninja). The gravity sensor works perfectly (My Paper Plane). Adobe Reader, Opera Mobile and MX Player works perfectly. MX Player can play full length movies, even with subtitles. A25 Smarty comes with some good Themes, Live Wallpapers ('Galaxy', 'Nexus', etc) and Facebook pre-installed. But it does not have proximity sensor.nnOverall I strongly recommend others to purchase it...It provides 100% value for money...If your budget is below Rs.4000, then it's the best available cell phone in the market...But if you want a 3g phone or better camera quality, then it's not yours!!!
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