Micromax
announced the Unite 2 just a few days after the launch of Motorola’s most
affordable handset, the Moto E. The Unite 2 has been launched to give the Moto
E a tough competition and if we compare the two, the winner is quite obvious.
But how well does the Unite 2 perform in the real world? Check out the review…
SPECIFICATIONS
- Display: 4.7 inches IPS LCD panel with 800x480 resolution (199ppi)
- Battery: 2000mAh
- Storage: 4GB, expandable via microSD card
- Camera: 5MP rear with autofocus and flash, 2MP front
- SoC: Mediatek MT6582
- CPU: 1.3GHz quad-core
- GPU: Mali-400MP2
- RAM: 1GB
- Operating system: Android 4.4.2
- Connectivity: 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Dual-SIM
BUILD
AND DESIGN
The
Unite 2 has a surprisingly smart looking design with a rubberized plastic back
and a full glass finish on the front. Under the protective glass, we have a
4.7-inch display with an 800x480 pixel resolution below which the three Android
navigation touch keys sit. Above the display, we have the usual bunch of
sensors, a notification LED, the earpiece and the front-facing 2MP camera. The
volume and power/lock keys are on the right edge while the microUSB port and
headphone jack is on the top.
The
display is an IPS panel, but the protective glass over the display gathers a
lot of fingerprints and smudges which leaves you cleaning the display after
every hour or so. Viewing angles are pretty average, with slight wash in
colors when viewed from the sides. A 720p resolution would have been perfect,
or maybe we are just being over-ambitious.
We
carried out our standard benchmark tests which include installing and running
the tests like 3DMark, Antutu X, Smartbench 2012 and Quadrant Standard. Here is
a comparison of the benchmark results of the Micromax Unite 2.
|
|
Moto
E
|
Nokia
X
|
Xolo
Q1100
|
Micromax Unite 2
|
|
Quadrant
Standard
|
5108
|
2962
|
9583
|
8738
|
|
Antutu
|
12158
|
7007
|
19680
|
17769
|
|
Smartbench
2012 (Productivity)
|
3458
|
1948
|
6077
|
4353
|
|
3D
Mark Ice Storm
|
3960
|
Crashed
|
5631
|
3261
|
In
the battery test, we found that the MediaTek processor, as usual, requires a
lot of power. We ran a full HD video for one hour after charging the battery to
100%. There was a loss of 22% which translates to about 4.5 hours of battery
backup when playing the video continuously. This means that the battery backup
isn’t all that good.
CAMERA
The
5MP camera isn’t the best that we have tested, but it doesn’t perform all that
bad. The auto-focus is fairly fast and accurate. In well-lit conditions the
pictures come out well and colours are vivid. As we move indoors the color
saturation dips although pictures still have a good amount of detail. The
addition of a flash is also a plus point as it helps in low light conditions.
When shooting in low-light without flash, pictures produced are soft and lack a
lot details.
