Under the hood:
I bought my A500 from Flipkart a month ago at a optimized price of Rs.5799. After a lots of research for a low-cost budget Android smartphone (within 6K) I found this to be most appropriate & best in features phone among all. The phone was originally priced at Rs.6500 at the megastore but I got it at a bargain as it was some limited offer for few days in which I got a SanDisk 8GB MicroSD card & a white back cover (additional to standard black one).
As per the on-box specifications, the screen size is 4-inches with three touch sensitive buttons. The phone has Android 4.0.4 (ICS) which is upgradeable to Jelly Bean (4.1). Under the shell it has 1GHz Dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor & ARM Cortex A7 GPU. It possesses 512MB RAM with 4GB internal storage. It has all the basic sensors like Proximity sensor, Gravity sensor & Light sensor which supports the auto brightness mode which lacks in most of the phone in this range. The camera is 5 megapixels auto-focus with a LED flash & a VGA front camera. The battery is 1500mAh which pulls it for a day or two (without data usage).
Now about my experience:
The back has a rubber finish cover which good to hold & is resistant to fingerprints & dust. The battery does go quite well. But it is recommended to use the 5V charger for charging this device otherwise it causes some unresponsiveness & weird things happening with the phone while charging. The sound quality is quite good, you can't expect more at this price. The best feature of this phone is its touch & display. You won't get a better display (of same resolution) in any other Micromax or Karbonn devices. The touch is very responsive & smooth. The most disappointing feature in this phone is its camera & RAM. The camera is not more than 2 megapixels as per the picture quality it gives & the flash is completely useless because its no help in no light & it doesn't even works well as a flashlight. The RAM as per box as it is mentioned is not 512MB originally. Its only 384MB which causes lots of hanging & lagging in the phone. But overall its a good experience using the phone. The hanging & lagging wont matter to any geek 'cause its a common bad habit with every low cost Android device. I ran few games like Subway Surfers, Temple Run 2, Jetpack Joyride which were good enough for the hardware but some games like Agent Dash & Dead Trigger lagged a lot & required lots of cleaning of background memory. All total it was quite good. Other than this it supports all other applications like Photoshop Touch which doesn't worked in Samsung Galaxy Star Duos.
At last I must say XOLO has tried to keep up its level with its competitors like Micromax & Karbonn & is quite successful in doing that. Recently XOLO launched its A500S which also available win multi colours. The phone is also feature packed phone with bit of a higher graphics & display quality & RAM. The rectangular design is quite appealing.
Verdict:
If you're looking for a phone under Rs.6K this a phone which is worth try if you're not brand concerned.
I bought my A500 from Flipkart a month ago at a optimized price of Rs.5799. After a lots of research for a low-cost budget Android smartphone (within 6K) I found this to be most appropriate & best in features phone among all. The phone was originally priced at Rs.6500 at the megastore but I got it at a bargain as it was some limited offer for few days in which I got a SanDisk 8GB MicroSD card & a white back cover (additional to standard black one).
As per the on-box specifications, the screen size is 4-inches with three touch sensitive buttons. The phone has Android 4.0.4 (ICS) which is upgradeable to Jelly Bean (4.1). Under the shell it has 1GHz Dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor & ARM Cortex A7 GPU. It possesses 512MB RAM with 4GB internal storage. It has all the basic sensors like Proximity sensor, Gravity sensor & Light sensor which supports the auto brightness mode which lacks in most of the phone in this range. The camera is 5 megapixels auto-focus with a LED flash & a VGA front camera. The battery is 1500mAh which pulls it for a day or two (without data usage).
Now about my experience:
The back has a rubber finish cover which good to hold & is resistant to fingerprints & dust. The battery does go quite well. But it is recommended to use the 5V charger for charging this device otherwise it causes some unresponsiveness & weird things happening with the phone while charging. The sound quality is quite good, you can't expect more at this price. The best feature of this phone is its touch & display. You won't get a better display (of same resolution) in any other Micromax or Karbonn devices. The touch is very responsive & smooth. The most disappointing feature in this phone is its camera & RAM. The camera is not more than 2 megapixels as per the picture quality it gives & the flash is completely useless because its no help in no light & it doesn't even works well as a flashlight. The RAM as per box as it is mentioned is not 512MB originally. Its only 384MB which causes lots of hanging & lagging in the phone. But overall its a good experience using the phone. The hanging & lagging wont matter to any geek 'cause its a common bad habit with every low cost Android device. I ran few games like Subway Surfers, Temple Run 2, Jetpack Joyride which were good enough for the hardware but some games like Agent Dash & Dead Trigger lagged a lot & required lots of cleaning of background memory. All total it was quite good. Other than this it supports all other applications like Photoshop Touch which doesn't worked in Samsung Galaxy Star Duos.
At last I must say XOLO has tried to keep up its level with its competitors like Micromax & Karbonn & is quite successful in doing that. Recently XOLO launched its A500S which also available win multi colours. The phone is also feature packed phone with bit of a higher graphics & display quality & RAM. The rectangular design is quite appealing.
Verdict:
If you're looking for a phone under Rs.6K this a phone which is worth try if you're not brand concerned.
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