Smartron already launched is first smartphone the t.phone in India. Smartron t.phone comes with a 5.5 inch screen and powered by snapdragon 810 processor. This handset is powerful and packed with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM. Read this review to know more.
Smartron t.phone Unboxing
Inside the box : handset, quick start guide, warranty card, SIM tray ejector Pin, premium quality earphone, USB TYPE C data cable and travel charger max (5V/2A – 9V/2A). SAR : 0.582W/Kg @ 1g head and 1.430W/kg @1g body.
Design, Display and OS
The Smartron t.phone no doubt looks cool, it’s eye catchy and one would fall in love on the first look. It’s slim, light weight and using a metal body with metallic matte finishing. The handset makes use of two color combination and is now available in different color options.
The t.phone weight with battery is 150 grams and dimensions are 78.03 x 158 x 6.94 (mm). The handset is very comfortable to hold and operate. There are 4 microphones and there is LED notification too.
This is a dual SIM handset with 4G LTE and VoLTE support. It’s a hybrid slot though, you can either use Micro SIM and nano SIM or Micro SIM and micro SD card.
There are good number of sensors – accelerometer, magnetic, gyro, light proximity, temperature and pressure.
Touch screen is 5.5 inches AMOLED screen supporting 1920 x 1080p resolution. Screen comes with gorilla glass protection. Color reproduction, touch response and viewing angles are superb.
Smartron t.phone is running Marshmallow Android version 6.0.1 out of the box.
Memory and Storage
There is built in 64 GB internal storage you will get around 53GB free space and there is 4GB RAM, about 2.6GB free on an average. Users can also use micro SD card for additional storage.
Performance
This handset is powered by 64 bit qualcomm snapdragon 810 1.96GHz octa core processor (Version 2.1) coupled with Adreno 430 GPU. The performance was smooth, lag free, maximum temperature I encountered was 36 degrees.
Benchmark
- Quadrant – 35730
- Antutu – 60115 / 55597 | 3D score – 26583 / 24852
- Nenamark 2 – 59.6fps
- Internal storage Speed – Read (209MB/s), Write (134MB/s)
- Multi Touch – 10 Point
Gaming
I played Asphalt 8 and Modern Combat 5 without any issues, game was smooth and lag free.
Camera
t.phone comes with a 13MP camera on the rear and a 4MP camera on the front. The primary camera can shoot 4K videos. Camera quality is just about average, it needs a lot of improvement. Do check the sample images and videos at the end of this review.
Others
Sound is loud and clear and much better thanks to DTS premium sound with DTS PlayFi. I did not find any issues with 4G, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth. There is no finger print sensor on this handset, unfortunately.
Another unique thing about the Smartron t.phone is the t.cloud access with unlimited cloud storage, t.store IOT market place and t.care your remote care app.
Battery
There is a 3000 mAh non-removable battery. It does a good job you can expect 4 to 7 hours of non-stop moderate to heavy usage. On a full charge the handset will last for a day with moderate usage.
Smartron t.phone Battery Performance (time / battery % drop / estimated battery temperature).
- Running Benchmark app – 9 minutes / 3% / 35 degrees
- Asphalt 8 + MC5 game play – 18 minutes / 8% / 36 degrees
- 4K video playback with full brightness (WiFi /4G on) – 27 minutes / 6% / 34 degrees.
Fast charging supported – it took me 1 hour 25 minutes to charge the handset using wall charger from 7% to 100%.
Verdict
Smartron t.phone looks beautiful and the overall performance is also impressive. There are two issue – the camera quality, needs a lot of improvement and the other issue is the price. Being a new company they should have cooled down on the price.
Rating 3.8 out of 5.
Smartron t.phone is available on Amazon in exciting colour options for Rs. 24,999.
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Smartron t.phone video review
Smartron t.phone rear camera sample
Front camera sample
