One can not live without using electronic devices these days. With changing technology, these devices become outdated sooner than u expect. For a middle class person like me, it s always difficult to decide how much one shud spend on these devices. One member of this electronic device family is mobile phone.:) Last month, I made my mind to change my mobile phone. Started searching for a low cost feature rich android mobile. Compared many devices and zeroed in on Karbonn A5. bought it at price of 4580 from an e-commerece site. Here r the+ves n -ves of this phone
+VEs
1) Looks n feel: Has got 320X480 px 3.5" multi touch capacitive touch screen. Large enough for viewing / reading / typing. Touch sensitive is very good. Comes with two back planes white n black. Does not look like a cheap plastic phone
2)System performance:It s a dual sim / dual stand by phone.Comes with 800 Mhz processor operating on android 2.3.6 with 512MB RAM and 200MB internal memory. The processor speed is very good. Works fine during multi tasking also. During normal operation with pre installed applications and minimum application/services running, arnd 330MB of RAM remains free for use. 135MB of storage remains available for usage.Can be expanded upto 32GB with micro SD card.
3) Netwroking and sensors: Is having networking features like GPRS, EDGE, 3G, W-Fi, GPS, Blue tooth.All the features work fine. Has got G-Sensor as well as proximity sensor are working perfactly.
4) Music / Video / Camera: Music player / Video player / 2 MP back camera / FM radio / 3.5 mm jack. everything s available. Audio / video quality is good. Can play 3GP, MP3, MP4, AVI etc. Speaker output is very good. Picture quality n sharpness is ok.
5) Battery: Battery back up is of 1420 mAh. For a normal user it lasts for 2 days. Charger rating is 500mAh.
-VEs
Could not find equlizer settings in music player! No ICS. No light sensor. Have to adjust the display brightness manually. Earphone quality is not good. Once drained, it takes almost 2 n half hrs to charge the battery completely
Have used mobile phones of many other brands like samsung, nokia, lg, sony, micromaxx, lava, lemon, alcatel, spice etc. After using this phone for 1 month, I think karbonn can do better in terms of market share / sales in india by focusing little bit more on. marketing / dealer n service network / innovation Karbonn A5 is truly a value for money android mobile if ur budget is arnd 5k. go for it.:)