The touch performance of all three phones is at par.Īll three phones are dual-SIM standby, which of course means while you are making a call on one number, the other will appear unreachable. The Spice is also faster at loading heavy web pages.
Though all three phones ship with 512MB RAM, the Spice Mi-500 required fewer reloads of the page when going back to a tab while having multiple tabs open. While none of the phones suffer from any lag during typical operations, the Spice does a great job of handling everything thrown at it. The benchmarks as well as day-to-day usage observations were in line with this fact. The Spice Mi-500 packs a dual-core 1GHz processor that gives it a clear advantage over the other two phones that are powered by single-core processors. Picking any one of the three based on style of buttons is down to personal preference.Īt 168 grams the Micromax A100 is no featherweight, but comfortably lighter than its two competitors. The Spice goes all capacitive touch with same button options, whereas the Micromax A100 goes the all-virtual route, with Back, Home and Recent Apps button appearing at the bottom of the screen at all times (except when you play full-screen video). The iBall Andi is the only device that comes with a physical home button, flanked on either side by capacitive touch Menu and Back buttons.
All three devices come with a Micro-USB port - the Micromax has it at the bottom, while the other two at the top, next to the audio jack. The Spice handset has the volume rocker on the right, another odd choice, compared to the Micromax and the iBall Andi, which have it on the left. We didn't find the top placement of the power button on the Spice particularly handy, given the length of the device. The Micromax A 100, like the iBall Andi, has the power button on the right, which makes it rather convenient to use for a large handset. While none of the three devices scream "cheap plastic" (the Spice comes the closest), the overall finish of the Micromax ensures it stands out from the rest. The curves of the A100 fit well in hand, thanks, no doubt, to the slightly smaller profile compared to the other two devices. The Micromax A100 is a clear winner in this department. We look at three such devices that attempt to woo the budget-conscious - the iBall Andi 5c, Micromax Superfone Canvas A100 and Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500. Recently, we've seen a bunch of new devices trying to make a mark by appealing to those looking for large screen devices, minus the stylus. At first considered Frankensteins of the mobile computing world, phablets became cool with Samsung Galaxy Note's success. Also some of the obsolete modifiers have been removed.A world where mobile phones are getting bigger and tablets are getting smaller has seen the rise of a new category of devices. Has been updated! Tho I still am in the process of getting back to playing Stellaris so stuff may be missing.
Would be some delays to getting it updated. I'm kind of in a process of getting back to civ life. Updated the codes to work after the planets rework