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Infocus bingo 21

Look and Feel

Bingo 21 will catch your eye from any angle. In the front it has a 4.5 inch FWVGA (480*854) resolution display, which makes the phone comfortable for pocket. with a pixel density of just 216ppi, pixellation is very evident in games and videos.We have a 5-megapixel front camera which is clear for taking selfies. It has a LED flash with a notification LED.

                                The power buttons and volume buttons are placed on left side of the phone and they feel soft.These buttons are accidentally triggered  by us very often.Headphones socket and Micro-USB connectors are placed at the bottom of the phone.The back cover is removable and it contains 2300mAh battery inside. The vertical lines on the cover has a good grip. The phonne has 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and the speaker is placed towards the bottom.

Specifications and software

 It has quad-core Shark L (SC9830) SoC from chinese semi conductor company Spreadtrum.

It is the most well known SoC  manfacturer. Bingo 21 includes four ARM Cortex-A7 CPU cores running at 1.5 GHz. It has ARM's Mali-400 MP for handling the graphics. Other specifications include 8GB which is expandable storage upto 64GB. It has Dual sim which supports frequency bands including Band 40 for 4G. 

                                    It has Wi-Fi, bluetooth 4.0, FM radio and GPS. It has  Android 5.1 with Inlife UI 2.0 .InFocus added some cool tweaks of it's own such as EZ Launcher which gives simplified look. You have an option to switch between single and dual layered modes. Integration of cloud servies in Gallery app is present. 

                                       It has a Safebox app to help us to protect our private data.

It has an app called Bobble which lets us to make bobble-heads from people in pictures. It has power dective which lets to monitor your phone temperature and monitor apps. It has mobile assistant which cleans the unwanted files.

                 

                             InFocus added some cool tweaks of it's own such as EZ Launcher which gives simplified look.You have an option to switch between single and dual layered modes. Integration of cloud servies in Gallery app is present. It has a Safebox app to help us to protect our private data.

It has an app called Bobble which lets us to make bobble-heads from people in pictures. It has power dective which lets to monitor your phone temperature and monitor apps. It has mobile assistant which cleans the unwanted files.

Performance

The performance is very decent. Bingo 21 is not best at multi-tasking and makes the phone slow if many apps run on the background and attempt to switch back and forth between them. This sluggishness is also noticeable even in casual games such as Alto's Adventure, which shows signs of stutter.

                         Besides 2GB RAM only 460MB is ledt on average. It has no much onboard storage to play. You only have 4.6GB of actual space. There are no issues regarding call quality and the phone can be eaily latches into 4G  networks whenever possible.

                       Infocus also added bluelight filter and options to tweak the screen's colour temperature. The multimedia playback of the phone is not bad and it can handle 1080p files. The loud speaker have done a great job in performing. The headset is nice for audio.

                  It uses google camera app which is simple and easy to operate. Landscapes shot in daylight lack detail and colours are not accurate. Macros fare a bit better in colour but they lack in sharpness.  The focussing system is decent quick in daytime but it struggles in low light conditions. The pictures taken in artificial light are also not great.It records video upto 720p and the quality is below average. The front cam flash is more as it stays for the duration of the shot and it is not of much help.

Battery life

Bingo 21 has a good battery life. It can be managed upto 12 hours and 2 minutes. with the real world usage, it could go for an entire day and more on a single charge.

Pros

• Good battery life
• Decent build quality
• Supports 4G

Cons

• Low resolution display
• Weak overall performance
• Camera quality is sub-par
• A tad buky

 Overall Specifications with brief summary

• It  has GSM of frequency 900/1800 MHz HSPA+: 850/900/1900/2100 Mhz
• The type of battery is LI-Ion.
• Display colour is TFT.
• It has 16000000 colours.
• It has no secondary display.
• Secondary camera is of 8.1 MP. with 3264*2488 pixels as resoltution.
• It has zoom and flash options.
• The resolution of secondary camera is 2592*1944 pixels with flash facility.
• It has Bluetooth, USB, Wi-Fi and GPS support.
• It has GPRS and EDGE connectivity with 3G and Android Webkit as internet browsing.
• It has audio playback and video playback with MP3, Polyphonic and WAV ringtones.
• The memory inbuilt is 8GB with microSD/TransFlash slot.
• It contains SMS, MMS and Email features also.
• The operating system it holds is Android 5.1  which is Lollipop OS.

COST: Rs 6399

User rating: 4.4/5.