I bought this phone online from letsbuy.com for Rs.7850. It was a good price compared to other sites, as I got a discount coupon, saving 10%.
Coming to the phone, this is a good attempt from Spice, releasing a Dual Sim Android phone, that too with GingerBread.
Now a days many people use 2 numbers for professional/personal use. The only option is to have a low end dual sim phone. Or else if you want to use a good smartphone, then carry a basic phone for 2nd number as there are not many dual sim options in Smartphones.
So, this is a good move from Spice to release a smart phone with ual sim capability, that too with the most famous OS, Android.
Coming to the phone experience, MI 350 is an average phone, nothing great to talk about it. Build quality is very ordinary, even the chrome finish thrown in some places also of plastic and it appears clearly too.
For a phone worth Rs.8500, build quality can be better.
The touch sensitivity reminds me of the resistive touch screen of my old Nokia 5233. When I used my friend’s HTC Wildfire, I got to know the difference. MI 350 is no where near to that. But it won’t bother you much in usage as it’s not hindering any operations.
Regarding the performance, I could see occasional lags and the phone had hanged few times forcing me to remove and replace battery to restart the phone. Probably need to do rooting to improve performance. But when I installed Angry Birds, it’s playing very smoothly.
Battery performance is poor, even though it is 1500 MAH. I had to charge it 3 times in a single day. It have the facility to charge from USB cable when connected to a Laptop/PC.
The placement of Memory Card slot and Sim slot is the most horrible I have ever seen. First you have to remove the battery, then card slot and 2 sim slots all 3 are one above the other. So, if you want to remove the memory slot, then remove battery, remove both the sims and then remove the memory card. Poorly designed I can say. Memory card should have external slot which can be removed from outside the ohone. And even the sim clots should be side-by-side instead of one above the other on top of memory card slot.
Even though I have these small issues, overall I am happy with my phone as I got an Android 2.3 phone with Dual Sim, which was my prime criteria.