Image smartphone is a completely separate category of communication, and they typically must meet certain requirements in addition to the basic. In particular, they must be really stylish, interesting in terms of design to attract the attention of those for whom their image is paramount to the successful operation or simply for self-confidence.
The Indian company Mchomo have recently appeared on smartphone, one glance at which you can guess about his belonging to the image segment is a monoblock Q462, also known as Canvas 5 lite. Executed in grey and dark brown colors of his corps, he literally oozes style and sophistication, and help him in this textured leather back panel and glass front panel, made in 2.5 D.
Today, thanks to the Internet-shops “the Bayonne.<url>” and Micromaxstore.ru smartphone Micromax Q462 came to us for testing, painted in dark brown. Just note that this material is practically not a single word about his faults, because, given its class, manufacturer’s recommended price as well as appearance we almost didn’t find. Without minor flaws, of course, has not done, but the overall impression they are in no way affected.
Packaging
Micromax Q462 comes in a box made of cardboard, painted in bright white color. The information content of the package is average, as it does not provide any information about the appearance of the smartphone – it is decorated with only the logo of the manufacturer.
Side edges carry information about the main advantages of the smartphone, and the bottom on the box Micromax brought a list of the main characteristics that are considered when buying in the first place. However, there is no Russification – all strictly in the English language that studying is not all.
Equipment
As if emphasizing the image component of a smartphone, the internal filling of the box with Micromax Canvas lite Q462 5 stands out for the originality of its design: under each component provided a niche, and paper materials and on-screen film and is placed in a separate tight packaging. However, in complete is why it was not warranty card brand, but the instructions put two – short and full.
In addition to the two instructions, the contents of which will be useful only to those for whom the mobile – first, in the box with a smartphone can find wired headset with earphones-plugs black, brand screen protector, removable battery (in the photo he is in mobile), data cable and charger of 700 mA.
Hardware specifications
Micromax Q462, judging by the recommended price in the amount of 9000 rubles at the company store Micromaxstore.ru refers to the middle class smartphones. Its electronics can be fully corresponds, and certain parts of it even better than other smartphones with similar price tag. In particular, it concerns a touch screen and memory, both operational and embedded.
The complete list of features of the device we found only on the portal Bayonne.<url>. All the other surveyed resources, including brand store, the official website and the user manual from the kit, complete information could not provide. In addition, Micromaxstore.ru refers to the presence of complete batteries at 2200 mAh and the Android OS 6.0, although the actual capacity is 10% lower and the firmware is updated to version 5.1.
– screen: 5 inch, IPS, 1280×720 pixels;
– processor: MediaTek MTK6735P, 4 core, 1 GHz;
– video card: built in, Mali 400;
– memory: 2 GB RAM, 16 GB ROM, microSD up to 32GB;
– OS: Google Android 5.1 Lollipop, regular shell Material UI;
– interfaces: 3.5 mm, microUSB 2.0, two SIM card slots;
– work in networks: GSM, 3G, LTE (4G);
– wireless modules: GPS, FM, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 n;
– battery: removable, 2000 mAh, 9 hours talk, 150 hours standby;
camera: front 5 MP, the main 8 Megapixel, HD video recording;
– dimensions: 144х74х9 millimeters;
– weight: 151 grams.
Pay attention to the battery life: 2000 mAh in the presence of IPS screen, 9 hours of talk time which is quite long, because the manufacturer didn’t say anything about technology conserve. Looking ahead, we note that the actual talk time was less than stated, although only by a little.
Appearance
Design is, without exaggeration, the best I have in Canvas 5 lite. The authors of his appearance – definitely a genius, because we do not know how in grey, but the brown version, the smartphone looks amazing. Thought out every detail of the exterior, including the design of the ends of the housing and wired interfaces.
And Yes, in the end can not be called a color scheme of candy bar that is brown: under different angles and different light sources it slightly changes its color like a chameleon, becoming brown mixed with gray, black and even dark red. Your “IPhone” so not exactly know how. Another distinctive feature of the smartphone: a visual and feel-it does not pull 9 millimeters in thickness and seems to be a maximum of 7 mm, and all thanks to a bit of a rounded back and curved glass on the front panel.
Rear panel, and the entire case, made of plastic, moderately thin, although durable – accidentally break or push through it almost impossible. It is very easy to remove but very firmly rests on the seats. The most important feature is the texture under the skin, as some of the top models of the Samsung brand. With her smartphone does not slip from the hands.
Side frames are designed for metal, although is actually also plastic, despite the fact that there were panels of black plastic, as in devices with a metal frame. The same black plastic frames the entrance under the headphones at the top and an interface connector on the bottom, where, by the way, there is no microphone: to preserve the integrity of the design was moved to the front panel and placed under the screen.
Front, from bottom to top are the microphone, three touch-sensitive Android buttons, touch screen and front facing camera along with earpiece and sensors are standard, but without the flash. The front of the case is closed glass 2.5 D format, which visually increase the size of the screen due to a visual reduction of thickness of the side frames. Placed rear speaker, the main camera with a fairly large lens and single led flash.
Ergonomics
As mentioned above, the smartphone Micromax Q462 visually looks thinner than it really is, and its weight is not felt. However, in hand he is like a glove thanks to the slightly rough side part and textured back panel reduces the chance of slipping out of the apparatus. The phone is slightly elongated, i.e. its width is slightly reduced, which allowed to reach with your thumb of one hand to all buttons, but to the upper corners of the screen to get already problematic.
The back cover of the smartphone is not susceptible to fingerprints, which is not true of the glass of the screen – it is very easily soiled and bears traces of virtually every touching him. The speaker is thus to close the hand in almost any position of the smartphone. Under the back cover provides a compartment for battery and three slots – two SIM and one microSD. To change the card without removing the battery impossible.
Screen
Based on professional matrix IPS display smartphone Micromax Q462 does not fade even with a nearly 180-degree viewing angles. With contrast and color reproduction is also OK, but brightness is not enough for him: in such a day, even on an extremely high level of illumination it is a stylish expensive mirror, so in Sunny weather to enjoy them is very difficult.
Touch layer supports two simultaneous touches and the soft-buttons placed outside the display on the lower line. If you do not consider fading in the sun, the display makes a good impression, including its appearance, thanks to a barely noticeable side framework.
Sound
To say that the smartphone is loud is an understatement. It can be heard well at a distance, and he even tries to reproduce low frequencies. However, it’s not really work, but the sound quality does not suffer, and well. At the same discrete amplifiers and DAC in this model is not declared. The earpiece is also moderately loud: it is more than enough indoors, but outdoors is still necessary to set the maximum volume.
But the smartphone was very lucky with the location of the microphone on the front panel and, therefore, closer to the face, it is easy to close by hand from the wind, and he was thus cheek does not overlap, so that at the height of ergonomics. The high sensitivity level, but without the excesses – too much noise conversation practically do not interfere. The bundled headset is good enough for conversations – a good hearing, the ear pads are soft and comfortable, and the microphone is quite good. To listen through her music, too, although true audiophiles might not like the sound quality: medium frequency much cut, and the bottom is not felt at all.
Software
Like all modern smartphones, Micromax, a brand Q462 comes with a very limited set of additional software: in addition to regular Android software on it there are only five apps among which the utility from Bayonne.<url>”, “Yandex” and most Micromax. To remove them do not need root-rights. The result is a maximum free internal memory is almost empty, the memory is operational and high-speed operation is not overloaded in the operating system.
The camera
In smartphone Micromax Q462 set quite a standard for his level camera, with the only difference that the camera is subjectively slower than the front, although it should be Vice versa. However, they both do the pictures of good quality, except at night street lighting on the footage quite a lot of “artifacts”.
Built-in flash is not very bright and hardly useful in the process of photographing, except in macro mode. The focus here is automatic and manual, the latter works faster and more accurately. Supported HD video recording, but in this mode, you cannot mute the microphone – firmware flaws.
Work offline
The presence of Micromax Q462 removable battery at the time of writing the news was not a competitive advantage because to purchase an additional food item the correct model was not possible due to his absence in the range of not only branded stores, but even the Chinese trading platforms.
No external battery is not necessary because of 2000 mAh this smartphone was not enough. Without regular calibration, battery enough for 7 hours of conversations in networks of the second generation in claimed 9, but the waiting time coincides with the specified in the list of characteristics – a little more than 152 hours.
Discharge the battery we’ve managed over 8 hours with average usage and average brightness of the screen. In Navigator, which, by the way, Micromax Q462 was very good, the energy was exhausted in two hours, but the brightness was extremely high. Satellites smartphone during cold starts found a little less than two minutes is very, very fast. Charging time from complete memory – three and a half hours.
Performance
A processor from Chinese MediaTek is doing its job: the company is the largest manufacturer of mobile devices, and it is through his smartphone Micromax Q462 managed to get high scores in benchmarks Quadrant Standard and AnTuTu. In the first he earned 9275, and the second already 23458 points with good performance of processing three-dimensional graphics.
Nevertheless, some slowdown was noted, but with 2D graphics and exclusively FOR navigation: Regular Maps app from Google would not quickly draw the terrain, and download it maps in navigators of “Yandex” and “Navitel” were jerks, despite the fact that the built-in memory is very fast.
Conclusion
Micromax Q462 cost 9000 rubles at the company store Micromaxstore.ru just perfect for those looking for a smartphone with a unique and memorable appearance. Its design cannot be called catchy, on the contrary, at first glance, it is quite normal, but at the second glance, begins examining each tiny accent appearance.
The level of style in Micromax Q462 rolls on any gradation, and equal to him in this regard simply does not. So, if you value the way you look, then Canvas 5 lite is guaranteed to decorate it.
Pros Micromax Q462:
– original design;
– high performance;
– no extra.
Cons Micromax Q462:
– insufficient battery capacity.
