Micromax A85 Superfone Review

Design
It is very admirable that a domestic smartphone from Micromax, the Micromax A85 is blessed with a large and wide TFT touch-screen display and Android operating platform. Its display measures 3.2 inches and suits its overall candy bar shape and form factor. The phone is designed is single Black color and its screen is capable of rendering s decent resolution of about 480 X 320 pixels. It runs on Android v 2.2 Froyo, has sensitive sensor controls like proximity sensor and accelerometer sensor.

Music
It has become quite common to give a stereo FM radio with RDS feature in the smartphones and Micromax A85 is no exception. It delivers a good quality music output via its multi-format music player also that supports audio formats as MP3, AAC, WAV.

Camera
Micromax A85 should be among the first domestic smartphone to have dual camera. It is quite pleasurable that it has facilitated video chats. From Android Market, Skype can be downloaded for free to carry out video calls and chats. Coming on to the cameras of this phone, it should be really appreciated that the primary camera of the phone has features as geo-tagging and digital zoom. Even the auto-focus camera is of 5 pixellete count and takes pictures at resolution of 2592 X 1944 pixels. This is located at the rear side of the phone and the pictures clicked from it can be edited by a image/video editor. It also is capable of shooting videos and those videos may be played on video player integrated in the phone. The secondary camera is of VGA type and is located at the front.

Memory
It is important that a smartphone manages all the information and data in an organized manner and Micromax A85 smartphone does that very well. It has good support of 512 MB RAM and 8 GB internal memory storage. For more memory expansion, a 32GB capacity compatible micro SD card is also present. The phonebook, message inbox, music and media gallery saves the data properly.

Battery LifeTime
There is presently no information about the battery specifications of Micromax A85. However, it is vigorous Android smartphone with powerful processing unit, we expect that a complementing battery must have been given under its hood. A battery not less than 1500 mAH rating would do good and then only the kind of gaming, video recording and chatting, one wish to do would happen on this device. It should also facilitate rigorous calling.

Audio
Micromax A85 supports good audio quality and an array of polyphonic (64) and MP3 ringtones. It also supports vibration alerts and has a 3.5 mm audio jack to let users get an output on any speakers meeting this requirement.

Connectivity
Users are facilitated with features as WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth on Micromax A85. Local data sharing is no issue on this device and will never be.
Messaging
Interestingly, Micromax A85 facilitates and supports Push Email and Instant Messaging. It also gives easy access to social networking sites. One can send and receive SMS in threaded view on this device. MMS or picture messages are also supported.

Browsing
Web browsing on Micromax A85 is facilitated as it enjoys GPRS/EDGE network connections support. One can instantly access Internet on this device with help of WAP/HTML/xHTML web browsers.
Network
Micromax A85 has 3 G network support. On 900/2100 MHz dual band frequency, the phone has gets 3 G speeds. 850/900/1800/1900 MHz quad band frequency runs this phone on 2G GSM network.

Games
Micromax A85 is an Android smartphone and gives access to a range of entertaining and mind boggling games and apps to engage its users.

Navigation
Micromax A85 facilitates GPS-assisted navigation and it is easy to find directions and destination with help of this device.

Performance
Micromax A85 seems to be having the potential to deliver a good performance, thanks to its powerful processor and huge memory support. It has dual core processor of 1 GHz and that is pretty astonishing.

Micromax A85 Superfone Pros
Micromax A85 is a handsome Black colored Android smartphone but is also the rebranded version of K-Touch W700 from China. It has pooled in nice features and specs which includes a fantastic operating system, the Android Froyo, good music player, FM radio, dual camera and ample memory. It is 3 G and Wi Fi enabled device which has a HTML web browser and GPS support as well. Micromax A85 gives the users a taste of the most happening new feature which is video calling. It supports JAVA, has embedded document editor, image/video editor and SNS integration. One can do quick communication and messaging with this phone as it facilitates Push mails, SMS, MMS and Instant Messaging. Micromax A85 also features Google based services as Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar and Google Talk.

Micromax A85 Superfone Cons
Strangely, Micromax phones are not so cheap or affordable. Micromax A85 is not an original product either. Though it boasts all the contemporary features, it is also important to note that it still belongs to a domestic brand. At the price at which they are offered many popular brand smartphones could be fetched too. For the brand conscious buyers, Micromax handsets may not be a choice and thus such expensive phones may not find buyers at all.

Overall
Micromax A85 is an Android based smartphone (Android v 2.2 Froyo) that has a set of impressive features that makes it an able communication, connectivity and multimedia device. It has the support of 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processors and 512 MB RAM for delivering the kind of performance that it promises. The fact that this smartphone is the rebranded version of K-Touch W700 is not hidden. This handset made its debut in China sometime ago and now as Micromax A85 it has come to India. The official information about its launch date, price and some of the specs is still under wraps. However, it is expected to cost somewhere around Rs. 20,000. We admire the look and design of this phone which are quite good. It boasts of high-end features as capacitive touch screen, dual cameras, vast memory support, Wi Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.