Smartron t.phone

Where a bunch of bigger names in the industry have failed to innovate and have found it better to stick with the full-metal, somewhat iPhone 6s-like design language, the Smartron t.phone dons a plastic body like a boss. Available in four intriguing dual-tone colour variants, the t.phone is especially light with its plastic body, and yet, has been designed to have you mistake it for a metal-body smartphone, credits to which goes to the matte yet subtly shimmery finish on the chassis.

We’ve told you a couple of times already that the handset sports a 5.5-inch screen, and it comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and an oleophobic coating on top. It’s a full HD super AMOLED display and looks pretty sharp when viewed from a normal distance. However, if you’re really stubborn and will try to discern pixels, it would simply require looking a little closely at the display. Since most people do not do that, we’ll give the t.phone this one.

The t.phones sports a 13MP phase primary camera with phase detection autofocus, and assisted by a dual-LED flash, and a 4UP front camera. Contradicting what these numbers might have you believe, the camera performance on the t.phone is below average. However, before getting into that, let us tell you about the default camera app UI on the t.phone.

It’s always a pleasant surprise to unlock a smartphone and be greeted by stock interface, and that is precisely what the Smartron t.phone offers. It runs Android Marshmallow, with no custom skin on top.

Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip, the Smartron t.phone gets 4GB of RAM, and an integrated Adreno 430 GPU. The built-in storage is rated at 64GB, and the phone allows you to use 54 gigs out of it. You also get unlimited storage on the t.cloud, and an option to expand up to 128GB if 54GB doesn’t sound enough. We’ve been using the t.phone for a while now, and it handles everyday use easily. However, you will experience a tiny lag when launching new apps, or switching windows. It does not feel very swift for a device sporting 4 gigs of RAM.

The t.phone scores above average in this department. Backed by a 3,000mAh battery, it manages to cruise through the day with mixed usage.