Lava Iris 406Q. I bet only a few would’ve heard about this phone. It’s a shame though. It’s a phone that everyone should know of. If you are thinking why? Don’t worry, i am here to tell you why. First let me tell you about it specs, it has got a 4 inch display, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of ROM, Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 chipset which has a combination of Quadcore Cortex A7 processor and Adreno 302 GPU. 5 MP rear facing camera with LED flash, VGA front camera. These are some of the specs that people mostly care about when they buy a phone.
IPL is a billion dollar franchise, no kidding. Don’t believe me? Google IPL and read about about it on Wikipedia. And still we don’t have a proper IPL or any other cricket game available on Google play or Apple’s app store or any other app store. Sadly our smartphones despite of being powerful enough, still don’t have a cricket game that can match the depth of Brian Lara cricket games, if you remember those. Go to Play store and search for cricket in games section and all you’d find is disappointment.
Htc desire 310 left a lot of things to desire. It’s like Htc has taken the name literally. There’s not a lot to write about this phone. As it has no special features, actually apart from its price it has nothing that i can call special. I thought it’s special because this phone might have been the first from Htc to have 1GB RAM with a really affordable price. But i am proven wrong. Thanks snapdeal partially for that. They stated specs wrong in their description of the phone. As a result of that i am stuck with a phone with 512MB RAM.
Htc desire 310 is a very average phone, everything about it shouts average, from its processor to its camera. But in the benchmark tests it performed a little above than average or you can also say a little better than what you would expect from a phone under this price range. Some of the benchmark tests like T-rex test of geekbench test didn’t even start. The reason it stated for not being able to run the test was not the weak CPU or GPU but its lack of RAM. As this phone has only 512MB RAM which acts as a bottleneck for demanding games and benchmark tests.
Htc Desire 310 Unboxed
When i first saw this phone and its price online, i was pretty excited. I was thinking, finally HTC has made an affordable budget phone worth checking out. Unlike its previous budget offerings HTC Wildfire. This phone has most of the things right, a 1.3 Ghz quadcore processor (Cortex A7), a dual core GPU (Mali 400MP2), Mediatek MTK 6582 chipset. 5 Megapixel camera although without flash but with full HD recording, 2,000 mAh battery. All of that and HTC build quality for only rupees 11,000 Rupees, approx $182. So then, what’s the problem? Well the problem is not exactly HTC’s here but still it’s a problem.
You might’ve already heard that Moto X is coming to India via Flipkart. Now, there’s no doubt that Moto G was a huge success in India. The reason of that was its price point, around 12,000 Rs that phone shows great value for money and that’s what Indian consumers look for, always. Coming back to Moto X, it could be a little tricky for Flipkart to repeat the same feat it achieved with Moto G, because of Moto X’ price. The reason is, Moto X is still available in USA for around $400 that roughly translates to 24,000 Rs. That means it’s going to be available for around 25,000 Rs in India. Which is not a good price looking at the specs of the phone. Around 25,000 Rs there are more powerful phones like Xperia Zl, Xperia ZR, Nexus 4 and even a Snapdragon 800 phone like Gionee E7 available in the market.
In my review video, i said that i won’t test my hammer on this phone but what can i do, i just love Micromax too much to not try my hammer test on their flagship phone. Not just hammer, i have done lot of things to the phone, i am not going to spoil the surprise for you, just watch the video below to find out yourself what this phone has went through. Although one thing i wanna say that the phone did pretty good in all of the tests. Unfortunately its back didn’t survive as you can see in the photo above. It also looks like that the phone has punched itself and shattered the back glass because of that Micromax logo.