Micromax Unite 2 A106

 

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.