Micromax Q5C Launch!

[kk999 25]

hi,

Micromax Q5C launch.... :clap:

Form Factor----------Bar Style

Band-----------------CDMA, 800 MHz

Dimensions-------------112mm*58mm*13.5mm

Display----------------262K Color QVGA Screen (320*240 Pixels, 5.5cm)Full QWERTY keypad

Camera-------------------Yes, 2.0 MP with LED Flash

Music---------------------Multi Format Music Player (MP3 / AMR / MIDI / WAV)

Facebook-------------------Yes, integrated

Opera Mini------------------Yes, integrated

Multi-Messenger---------------Yes

Twitter-------------------------Yes

Stereo FM Radio------------------Yes

Video Player-----------------------Yes, Supports MP4, 3gp, 3g2

Video Recorder---------------------Yes

Brew-------------------V-3.1.5

Games-------------------Yes

Bluetooth(A2DP)----------Yes

Java-----------------Yes

WAP/MMS---------------Yes

Phonebook Memory--------------1000

SMS Memory------------------1000

Expandable Memory-------------MicroSD (upto 4GB)

Battery Type--------------Li-ion (1300mAh)

Talk Time-----------------Up to 5 hours*

Standby Time-------------Up to 10 days*

http://www.micromaxinfo.com/products/q5c.html

:clap:

Micromax Q5C price

Micromax Q5C Price in India : The new Micromax Q5C mobile phone is available in India at price of around Rs.4,500 . It is expected to be available as Reliance Micromax Q5C , MTS Micromax Q5C , Tata Indicom Micromax Q5C with the preceding CDMA service operators .

-- http://www.newtechnology.co.in/micromax-q5c-price/

Q5c_UM.pdf

Edited July 13, 2010 by kk999

[me_saket 73]

Still not worth if compared to micromax gc400 with 3MP and dual sim and 3d light mesenger. :Equivocado:

[supernova 47]

after having so many qwerty sets in gsm now its turn we will get qwerty sets in cdma ... g-fone , spice and now micromax , 3 options there now

[commonman 228]

As per Manual attached, its a OMH based handset. so why three different service provider linked handsets?

[::Hitesh:: 1,763]

service providers are attached for selling thru their own channels and for branding purpose !

[Nags 0]

How is the antenna strength for Micromax mobiles especially in low signal area?

[KanagaDeepan 1,084]

One thing for sure, there will be less signal strength issues in Chinese handsets (and rebranded ones), as they DON'T respect SAR rating guidelines.. The antennas are too powerful to catch even weakest signals and also to BURN your ears on heavy usage..

Edited July 14, 2010 by KanagaDeepan

[raccoon 53]

Wouldn't be too sure of that. May not be true for all such phones at least. We have a RAY phone here which seems to almost at par with the bigger names in that respect. It warms up only very slightly on longer calls. But then even some "branded" phones warm up that much. Can't speak about the radiation levels though... the manual is totally silent on that. It is a matter of concern...

[Nags 0]

The below link gives some insight on SAR rating of MM mobiles. It also includes other mobiles as well. Not sure how authentic this info is.

http://www.sarshield.com/english/radiationchart.htm

[krishin.rajani 3]

Does it has a track ball?

[FEVIN-RAJ 61]

The Phone doesnt have a big screen shown in their website

Check the 2 pictures. the first one is the picture taken from their User manual

and second one from their official website. find the difference marked

[krishin.rajani 3]

the design doesn't seem to be that appealing...

Q5 looks anytime better than Q5C.

[bullinveztor 0]

Hi:

Has anyone used this handset MM q5c. Which is the Best handset in qwetry keypad one can buy for CDMA in indian Brands.

[copperco2 24]

This will again be a very short term shelf life handset and be replaced in the coming 4 months by a variation.

Micromax is prone to do such things time and again..

[FEVIN-RAJ 61]

I have called Micromax Head office. Nobody is picking up the phone. No distributor phone number available in website.

Horible !!

[Mukeshlst 5]

Yaar pura market chhan mara ,kahi bi ye set available nahi h.

Any member got it,if yes plz review ASAP.

[baskhit 1]

I have called up to the distributor office in Chennai, It seems even they are not having correct information about the availability.

[copperco2 24]

you will remember Akshay Kumar twinkling and doing a ha haha ha h

but wont remember the handset..

[rajanmehta 4,056]

All the people wanting to know about Micromax Q5C, Here is my experience,

Bought it for Rs. 4500/-. Looked nice visually with good finish. Went home and started using it and then the dream of a economical QWERT phone on CDMA went bad. My observations,

-The keys are very cramped together and small. Invariably one will press on another adjoining key. Very tiring and not meant for people with healthy fingers. Even my wife's thin fingers could not operate it properly.

-The moment i inserted the headset for FM Radio, the phone hangs. No key works, nothing. Only option remove battery and restart. Afterwords again tried for auto scan. Nothing happens. Then tried for manual frequency. No voice. I was not deep inside where the FM Signals are weak because at the same place, other phone's FM was working crystal clear. Then went outside on the road. Voilla. FM sound started with a lot of disturbance. Tried all channels. Only one channel with lot of distrubance. Nothing else in any other channel.

-The phone is having memory of only some 2.6 MB which again is the root cause of so many issues,

It is having 2 Megapixel Camera but if you shoot a photo with the highest resolution, it will shoot but the photo won't open in the phone saying size too large. You are saving the photo on memory card and not on the phone. Still no high res photo could be viewed on the phone.

Same thing with the video. At 30 FPS it gives error and does not record.

The camera is having LED Flash as touted in the specifications. Any average person will understand that Camera Flash should flash when you click a photo. But here things are different. The so called LED Flash is actually a LED Light which you can start from the phone settings. It remains on till you disable it. It is just like a torch function on many chinese phones. The light is very low. And even in little darkness, it had no effect. Just a marketing gimmick.

-There is a facility for attaching Picture ID in your contact list which is actually just on paper. Whatever size image file you try to attach, it will say file size to large. I have tried even 10kb file. Didn't work.

Internet and Browsing.

Opera Mini is preinstalled but when you launch it, phone takes approx. 3 to 4 minutes saying connecting. Then the page loads. If you type another web page address or even click a link on the loaded page, it again takes 3 to 4 minuted saying Connecting. After that the page loading time is OK for a CDMA 1x connection. Forget about serious browsing even normal browsing is not possible with this phone. Lets understand this with my actual experience.

-Launched Opera MINI. Load time including connecting-3 Minutes.

-Typed GMAIL.COM and opened. Load time including connecting-4 Minutes.

-Typed USED ID and Password and LOGIN- Load time including connecting-5 Minutes.

-Clicked on the first e mail-Load time including connecting-4 Minutes.

So for checking just one e mail, time taken is 16 minutes. Useless actually.

Tried installing other JAVA browsers like BOLT and UCWEB. Both installed. UCWEB was faster then OPERA as far as page loading goes. But the problem when you click on any link and phone displaying the message Connecting was uniform across all browsers. This i suppose is with the CDMA technology when the connection is immediately terminated and then reconnected when you use internet again. There is some issue with the modem of the phone taking so long to connect again.

The phone is not having any Phonesuite. However USB and Modem Drivers are there for connecting to PC and browsing. Installed USB Drivers and connected the phone to PC. Surprisingly, the speed for PC browsing is appropriate for a 1X Connection and had no issues.

Audio Player and Sound Quality.

-The audio player standard like many chinese phones. Sound quality for phone speakers is quite loud and you can hear the audio very comfortably in a room size of approx. 150 square feet. Sound is real loud actually.

-The bundled headset is also having good loud sound. Sound in the headset is loud with more sharpness but absence of bass totally.

Video Player

-Did not play any files saying file size too large.

Call Quality and Reception

-The call sound quality and reception was excellent across locations with very clear voice even with 3 Bars of Signal out of 5 Bars.

Memory Card access with UDISK function.

-You can access the memory card with data cable with UDISK function. But the speed of copying anything by this mode was extremely slow. It took nearly 11 minutes to copy one 6 mb size mp3 file. And even then when the file was played only 25% of it played and terminated.

So for copying anything to Memory Card, you will have to always remove it and attach it to a separate memory card reader and attach to pc. Imagine every time you click a photo or want to transfer some music, you cannot do it through data cable because it will take hours but only have to use separate memory card reader.

So there are many other gripe which i don't even remember or care to remember. Ultimately after 24 hours, went to the shop from where it was purchased and requested the guy to change the handset with other brand. Now the sad part. The fellow said he will do it but deduct Rs 1500/- as he will have to sell it as second hand only even though it was used for only 24 hours. Got really annoyed. Negotiated and finally the guy agreed for deducting Rs. 900/-. Had no other option so agreed and bought LG510 Cookie Zip instead.

For all who want to buy this handset, it is useful only if you want to make and receive Calls and nothing else. So please do not fall for this trap of cheap QWERT CDMA handset. Before i bought this handset, enquired for a BB posted by Mr Dhiraj Kaile but could not go for it for the following reasons,

-There was a need for Nokia RUIM enabled Handset for doing the programming on BB handset and i did not had access to one. Enquired at many places, but could not get one.

-While i was communicating with him, my current handset died and needed one urgently.

-So i had to buy something urgently and told Mr Dhiraj the same and went ahead and bought this one urgently.

He felt that i had no intentions of buying Blackberry and got annoyed with me. Said sorry to him. Now i think he will only have sympathy for me. Truly regret not going for BB.

Advice to all fellow RIMWEB members,

-Stay away from this phone. Buy it only if you want to make and receive calls and nothing else.

-Much better to buy BB as posted by many Gurus than this one by spending more than going your total money waste.

Mods please put this in appropriate thread like reviews if this is not the right place.

Edited August 11, 2010 by rajanmehta

[Mukeshlst 5]

Very2 thanks for your review.

[Nags 0]

All the people wanting to know about Micromax Q5C, Here is my experience,

Bought it for Rs. 4500/-. Looked nice visually with good finish. Went home and started using it and then the dream of a economical QWERT phone on CDMA went bad. My observations,

-The keys are very cramped together and small. Invariably one will press on another adjoining key. Very tiring and not meant for people with healthy fingers. Even my wife's thin fingers could not operate it properly.

-The moment i inserted the headset for FM Radio, the phone hangs. No key works, nothing. Only option remove battery and restart. Afterwords again tried for auto scan. Nothing happens. Then tried for manual frequency. No voice. I was not deep inside where the FM Signals are weak because at the same place, other phone's FM was working crystal clear. Then went outside on the road. Voilla. FM sound started with a lot of disturbance. Tried all channels. Only one channel with lot of distrubance. Nothing else in any other channel.

-The phone is having memory of only some 2.6 MB which again is the root cause of so many issues,

It is having 2 Megapixel Camera but if you shoot a photo with the highest resolution, it will shoot but the photo won't open in the phone saying size too large. You are saving the photo on memory card and not on the phone. Still no high res photo could be viewed on the phone.

Same thing with the video. At 30 FPS it gives error and does not record.

The camera is having LED Flash as touted in the specifications. Any average person will understand that Camera Flash should flash when you click a photo. But here things are different. The so called LED Flash is actually a LED Light which you can start from the phone settings. It remains on till you disable it. It is just like a torch function on many chinese phones. The light is very low. And even in little darkness, it had no effect. Just a marketing gimmick.

-There is a facility for attaching Picture ID in your contact list which is actually just on paper. Whatever size image file you try to attach, it will say file size to large. I have tried even 10kb file. Didn't work.

Internet and Browsing.

Opera Mini is preinstalled but when you launch it, phone takes approx. 3 to 4 minutes saying connecting. Then the page loads. If you type another web page address or even click a link on the loaded page, it again takes 3 to 4 minuted saying Connecting. After that the page loading time is OK for a CDMA 1x connection. Forget about serious browsing even normal browsing is not possible with this phone. Lets understand this with my actual experience.

-Launched Opera MINI. Load time including connecting-3 Minutes.

-Typed GMAIL.COM and opened. Load time including connecting-4 Minutes.

-Typed USED ID and Password and LOGIN- Load time including connecting-5 Minutes.

-Clicked on the first e mail-Load time including connecting-4 Minutes.

So for checking just one e mail, time taken is 16 minutes. Useless actually.

Tried installing other JAVA browsers like BOLT and UCWEB. Both installed. UCWEB was faster then OPERA as far as page loading goes. But the problem when you click on any link and phone displaying the message Connecting was uniform across all browsers. This i suppose is with the CDMA technology when the connection is immediately terminated and then reconnected when you use internet again. There is some issue with the modem of the phone taking so long to connect again.

The phone is not having any Phonesuite. However USB and Modem Drivers are there for connecting to PC and browsing. Installed USB Drivers and connected the phone to PC. Surprisingly, the speed for PC browsing is appropriate for a 1X Connection and had no issues.

Audio Player and Sound Quality.

-The audio player standard like many chinese phones. Sound quality for phone speakers is quite loud and you can hear the audio very comfortably in a room size of approx. 150 square feet. Sound is real loud actually.

-The bundled headset is also having good loud sound. Sound in the headset is loud with more sharpness but absence of bass totally.

Video Player

-Did not play any files saying file size too large.

Call Quality and Reception

-The call sound quality and reception was excellent across locations with very clear voice even with 3 Bars of Signal out of 5 Bars.

Memory Card access with UDISK function.

-You can access the memory card with data cable with UDISK function. But the speed of copying anything by this mode was extremely slow. It took nearly 11 minutes to copy one 6 mb size mp3 file. And even then when the file was played only 25% of it played and terminated.

So for copying anything to Memory Card, you will have to always remove it and attach it to a separate memory card reader and attach to pc. Imagine every time you click a photo or want to transfer some music, you cannot do it through data cable because it will take hours but only have to use separate memory card reader.

So there are many other gripe which i don't even remember or care to remember. Ultimately after 24 hours, went to the shop from where it was purchased and requested the guy to change the handset with other brand. Now the sad part. The fellow said he will do it but deduct Rs 1500/- as he will have to sell it as second hand only even though it was used for only 24 hours. Got really annoyed. Negotiated and finally the guy agreed for deducting Rs. 900/-. Had no other option so agreed and bought LG510 Cookie Zip instead.

For all who want to buy this handset, it is useful only if you want to make and receive Calls and nothing else. So please do not fall for this trap of cheap QWERT CDMA handset. Before i bought this handset, enquired for a BB posted by Mr Dhiraj Kaile but could not go for it for the following reasons,

-There was a need for Nokia RUIM enabled Handset for doing the programming on BB handset and i did not had access to one. Enquired at many places, but could not get one.

-While i was communicating with him, my current handset died and needed one urgently.

-So i had to buy something urgently and told Mr Dhiraj the same and went ahead and bought this one urgently.

He felt that i had no intentions of buying Blackberry and got annoyed with me. Said sorry to him. Now i think he will only have sympathy for me. Truly regret not going for BB.

Advice to all fellow RIMWEB members,

-Stay away from this phone. Buy it only if you want to make and receive calls and nothing else.

-Much better to buy BB as posted by many Gurus than this one by spending more than going your total money waste.

Mods please put this in appropriate thread like reviews if this is not the right place.

I really don't understand who does the testing in the manufacturing company & gives clearence for sale of such handsets.

All chinese branded handsets are really of poor quality & realibility..

Anyhow thanks for the review friend...this will help others who have made their mind to take this handset..

[abhi.r 95]

This is micromax and not nokia or samsung. I think big companies like nokia/samsung and others throw out few handsets to their employees to use it and report feedback about it every day, so that they can improve the phone every day untill it is fit for launch in the market.

But companies selling chinise rebranded phones just want to launch the product first in the market. Dosent matter whether this phone have any design or technical fault... they just want to launch and come up with another new model in few months time. so they are little less reliable.

[diliplp 0]

almost made my mind to buy this as I liked GSM micromax Q5, you saved me Mr Mehta, thank you.

[FEVIN-RAJ 61]

The Phone doesnt have a big screen shown in their website

Check the 2 pictures. the first one is the picture taken from their User manual

and second one from their official website. find the difference marked

I have called Micromax Head office. Nobody is picking up the phone. No distributor phone number available in website.

Horible !!

How can we expect more from such a company

Guys... forget this handset.. add 3K to your budget and buy from reputed sellers in rimweb. Enjoy the quality and Have peace of mind.

Edited August 12, 2010 by FEVIN-RAJ

[csmart 472]

the target audiance, villagers and low tech users. one should understand that something or other has to be compromised. its chinese stuff packed in indian clothes..