Lava A10: A Budget Touch Phone with IPS Display

[Honest 836]

LAVA A10: A Budget Touch Phone with IPS Display

This 3-inch display bearing phone costs Rs. 5,500

Indian mobile phone maker LAVA has released the A10, a touchscreen phone for Rs. 5,500 that has advertises a few baits to get people hooked. First and foremost is its 3-inch IPS (In-Plane Switching) screen; the type of screen that is used in the Apple iPhone 4 or even the iPad. What it bets on providing is a superior image and a 178 degree wide viewing angle. What they haven't mentioned is the screen resolution, as this is a major contributor to the iPhone 4's display quality. But considering it is an inexpensive phone, we wouldn't imagine it to be above a QVGA or 320 x 240 pixels. Also, there's no clarity over whether this is a capacitive or resistive type - but the words "Multi-touch" in the description makes us believe (and hope) that it is the former.

Second is the Gunmetal finish body which looks nice and, hmm...reminds us of the Samsung Wave S8500. It's got a 3.2 mega-pixel camera with Flash, a Yamaha PA system (that should promise us loud decibels of sound from the speaker-phone, if not the "great quality" as mentioned) and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Another feature which caught our eye by surprise is the "Map my India" maps built-in, but there's no GPS chip mentioned anywhere so turn-by-turn navigation's out of the question. There are a couple of games pre-installed and a G-sensor for motion based gaming. Lastly, a microSD card slot supports up to 16GB of memory.

Courtesy : Techtree

[Genius 817]

Lava is paying much attention to looks these days, inside is a same Chinese circuit ....

[Honest 836]

^^^

Bahar Se Sher (LION) dikh raha hai boss, magar ander se BILLI (CAT) niklegi.

[chaitali 0]

drawback - no wifi support,

check this link for iBall Touch with wifi in the same price range - http://shopping.indiatimes.com/Mobile-Accessories/iBall-TOUCH-Vibe-Wi-Fi-Dual-Sim/ctl/20375871/pid/4395027

[Karthik R 246]

Pros

• Decent camera
  
• In-Plane Switching display
  
• Ships with 2GB memory card
  
• MapMyIndia app with voice guided GPS navigation system
  

Cons

• Mediocre performance in signal related tests, video recording and loudspeaker
  
• Sluggish touch UI
  
• Shoddy stylus
  
• Although affordable, does not fully justify the price tag
  

- Think Digit

[ani_meher 42]

Techtree and Digit differ in this point:

# MapMyIndia app with voice guided GPS navigation system

Is it there or not?