Micromax Canvas A1 AQ4501 (White)

All the people seeing this please don't trust samsung they are useless pieces of boxes naming them as mobiles. Samsung is a korean company not a indian one come on everyone micromax is a indian company support our indian company thats all i can say about samsung they never give updates for their mobiles unless the latest one that have been released I have been using Micromax bolt before which I dont like that much after seeing the specs of this mobile I just loved it. OK now to the point I am writing this review after 45 of usage I compared this mobile with 1. Moto e 2. Redmi 1s 3. Spice uno 4. Karbonn sparkle v 5. Etc.. Etc.. I removed redmi from my list because of over heating problems (it was stated that it can be used as a 1. Iron box 2. To cook food 3. To boil water etc..) And it was not KitKat. Now to moto e Main comparison was 1. Removable battery in Micromax and inbuilt battery in moto e 2. Heard that moto customer service is very bad I did like Micromax customer service so I opted Micromax 3. Then comes the flash, front cam, blah blah blah 4.I had sure updates for 2 years but for moto they told they will give 1 sure update Some con's 1. Display is not that crisp when compared to moto e 2. It's lighter when compared to moto e and moto e is having better build quality therefore. About Spice and karbonn All have the same features but when it comes to brand it's only Micromax (I think Micromax is the second leading mobile company in India) and I heard that both the company didn't have a satisfactory customer service. So opted for a1 Now about the phone It is really a cool phone which never even hanged once from the date which I brought. U can play almost all games might hang a little when using very high end game. I played asphalt 8 airborne it worked superbly on high graphics. Just as told it has 2.1 gb left in 4 GB for storing apps. Now that it's os is directly from Google u should download the following the very first moment "it a file explorer" I suggest u to download es file explorer it is the best explorer till now. And I had one issue which was already told on another comment it is that "when I send apps to another mobile via Bluetooth it sends and when any other mobile sends me I can't receive it is for some kind of security reasons only" to send any app I heard that u have to change the format and send it-it's like 1. Open es file explorer in another mobile not a1 2. Back up some app 3. Now when u try to send that app via blue tooth to a1 it will show some error 4. to avoid it go and hold on the app and choose rename option 5. Note if it's "xmen.apk" change it to "xmen.jpeg" or some other format and send now it must send 6. After u reach it in your phone again rename it to "xmen.apk" and install and enjoy. There is also a notification led in the front Mostly it will blink only on green actually it can also blink in red go and download an app from playstore like "light manger" which can control u led. Do not involve in high end gaming often as the battery may dye out to "0" soon The camera is good even though it's only 5mp the pics are really great even the front cam is good I also suggest everyone to download a video player which will be very helpful As this glass is Corning gorilla glass I highly recommend everyone to bye a SCRATCH GUARD and a cover may be a flip cover I don't like a flip cover but even though it will decrease the risk in getting your screen from scratches as it cover the front while those plastic and silicon ones just cover the back. Hopefully I think this review might have helped you. Always support our Indian companies. I suggest everyone to go for it if it is within their budget. Cheers everyone....

I will start my review by saying that micromax (karbonn and spice) along with google have really the whole smartphone era to the next level with this smartphone. Like all other products this one also has some cons. I have tried to list them down below. But again I would like to mention that at this budget this is one of the best smartphones one can get in the current market. This fact even gets more strength when you consider that it will get latest android updates for the next 2 years. Pros: 1. 4.5 inch Screen large enough for proper viewing. 2. At this price the camera they are providing is way beyond what I had assumed. It even records the video in 1080p. 3. Decent battery backup. It holds up quite well for a full day of normal use. 4. I have tried may high end games on this device and none of them lagged. I really doubted this handset to pull off such a great performance. Some of the games I tested on this device are COD strike force and asphalt 8. 5. I felt that overall app performance was very smooth on this device. It may be due to the stock android running on the device. Cons: 1. Device gets little warm (using the term 'hot' would be inappropriate I think) on the top beside the camera when some intensive tasks are performed like high end gaming. 2. I felt that the device weighs a little too much. It may be that I have been recently using some light weight handsets of similar form factor that made me say this. Again this point is completely subjective and may vary from person to person. 3. The plastic material used to build the outer shell has a little cheap feel to it. One of my family member had an experience of poor customer service provided by micromax. If you are thinking of purchasing this product then I would recommend considering this factor as well. I took the risk as the product they are providing is of astounding quality and performs amazingly well at a very budget friendly rate. From the very beginning I was mentally prepared for the poor service that I would be getting from micromax once I start facing some issues (I hope it never happens:P).

I got the phone and put a SIM on Friday and all worked great. On Saturday, I put the second SIM and the phone did not detect it. Worse, it stopped detecting the first SIM also. I called the Micromax customer service who advised to take it to the service center in Pune. He advised this could be a "dead on arrival" (DOA) case. This is a dreadful step for most customers. As I approached the service center, I was guessing how they would try to dodge me. The guy who hands over the token number for the queue checked the invoice and heard my problem and I mentioned to him that this is a DOA case. He said there is an audit going on, everybody is busy and I should come the next day. This was the first line of "defense". I insisted that I have to talk to someone inside because otherwise if I delay, then I will not be eligible for a replacement. He reluctantly let me in to a special counter. The customer representative here said that their systems are down and he cannot help me. On my asking when it is expected to be back up, he said he doesn't know, it could be a week! This was the second line of defense. I insisted to speak to his supervisor. His supervisor was on the phone and I waited for 15 mins. The supervisor said he does not have the "hologram" that he needs to handle DOA cases. The company (Micromax) hasn't sent him any. Imagine Micromax advertising on prime time television and its service center is not supported. The supervisor advised me take to another center in Pune. I thanked him and said I am returning this product to Amazon. As I was about to leave, he seemed to have a change of mind and said he will take a look at what's wrong. I then went in the inner office where his colleague tried to check out the phone. His microsim worked in both the slots of the phone. The problem seemed to be with my SIMs which were regular SIMs cut into microsim size by the neighbourhood shop. He advised me to get a microsim from the vendor and not use a cut sim. Eventually that worked and my phone recognizes both SIMs. It was my fault that I was using the cut SIM, but I couldn't have guessed it because the first cut SIM did work for a day. But if my phone was indeed a DOA case, then I would have been stuck. First moral of the story: Get a microsim and not cut your regular sim into microsim slot. Second moral of the story: Be prepared to be denied customer service. You could be left holding the bag (actually the phone). If only companies like Micromax solve their customers problems instead of treating them as problems, they could give a tough competition to bigger players like Samsung.

I have been using this phone for the last 5 months. In the last 5 months there have been no problems with the phone, but bear in mind that I use the phone sparingly. I have always been a light user. I play a few games here and there, and use the phone mostly for calling, although I have tried the internet and it works very well (drains the battery though). The phone uses dual micro sim slot. It requires an SD card if you want to store pictures, audio, etc since it doesn't allow the user to store anything in the internal memory other than apps (which is stored automatically). Canvas A1 is an android one phone which means that you get android updates on your OS (currently on Android Marshmallow) immediately after google has released them. This is a great feature to have since I have already updated my phone to marshmallow and the best feature in my opinion is it allows you to use your SD card as "phone memory" or "internal memory" to store any additional apps (along with other data like images, videos, etc) you want. I would recommend that if you are purchasing the phone now, update it immediately to marshmallow before using the phone; since to use the SD card as internal memory you will need to format it which will delete everything in the SD card. Use a class 10 SD card for best performance. Be careful while inserting the SD card, and follow the instructions perfectly as given in the instruction manual. Not much force is needed to insert the card. The battery works OK. I think it is perfect for me since I am a light user (goes several days before requiring re-charge) , but for heavy users it might be insufficient but for the price it should be ok. It takes around 2 1/2 hours to fully charge the phone from 0% to 100% when it is switched off. There is absolutely no lag that I can observe and the screen is very responsive. The only negative is the camera which is not really that great, but then I never cared for cameras in my phone. Flash seems more useful as a torch than as assistant for camera. As far as sound is concerned, It is good enough for me and there seems to be no issues.

If you thinking of buying this phone go for it as it is value for money. Just keep in mind my long time observation for this device. Its a great Device great looks and feels sturdy in hand it will give you premium feeling. Now coming to Hardware it's a MediaTek device with 1.3 GhZ Quard core processor and 1GB RAM which is enough to run Lollipop(I'm using it now) without any hassle. As you all know this phone has a poor Mah battery I am not saying that battery is poor as the battery is pretty strong. If you using 3G or 2G you'll get hardly 4-6hrs battery backup for constant using. But if you using wifi hot-spot to surfing new you'll probably get 10-11hrs battery life. Keep in mind that this device gets hot on the sim and memory card side(upper portion) not really hot but while charging if you use it for gaming it'll give you burn(just joking). You can play heavy games in it I have played NFS Most Wanted,Asphalt 8 airbourne, Underworld Wrath etc. If you on KitKat you'll get 2.3GB space for only app installation keep in mind you won't get any phone memory to use as media storage,after upgrading to lollipop you'll get only 1.7 GB space for app installation. Now come to the software side it's a stock Android phone with no I mean no bloatware(if we don't count amazon and mi store app as they are useless now). That means you will not get any file manager or gallery app. You'll have to download them from play store. *And it is all known that this phone can't get apps via Bluetooth so people uses some name changing trick I use another hack which is easy than that.. Just download "Bluetooth File Manager" by Medieval it turn Bluetooth on and open it while receiving any app the app will be received without any problem. And last of all its a stock Android so its very lightweight os than other companies phones. Few apps for 1st time Android users MX Player(video playe) Poweramp(music player) Es File Explorer or Bluetooth file transfer(both good file manager) Clash of Clan(addictive game) How my review will help you guys.

For those who have not bought this smartphone and are confused, dont worry its a masterpiece to buy. First of all i am writing this review by using this Micromax canvas A1 (android one) for past 1 Month. I have order this phone on 18sep2014 and received on 22sep2014. the mobile pack comes with free 8gb memory card and free scratch guard as specified by amazon. I will give full in depth review. Pros 1) Camera front 2mp and back 5mp (camera quailty is much better then any other micromax phone with same megapixels i have actaully compared it. During day light it capture gr8 pics and in low light its ok ,not bad at all since it has flash support and front camera is best for 2mp at this price.)(note: if u r a camera loving person then u will find it always bad.)but for me its gr8 normal use. 2)1.3ghz quad core with 1GB Ram and 4GB internal memory (Many of them say 4 gb is less space but i have used it and installed many games and apps still i have 700mb space left.) u can move ur games and apps to sd card, not completely but 85% of space can be saved. 3)Mali 400mp GPU (yes u can play high end games) I have installed asphalt8:airborne,Dead Trigger2,temple run oz,D-day frontline commando,RiptideGP2 all running awesome with no lag. i have also installed Modern Combat 5 but find some lag in high, in low quality its running gr8. even u can play GTA sandres......So for gaming u will find no problem at all. and one more thing all games are installed together no problem with memory space. 4)Full HD videoplayback support (u can watch 720p as wellas 1080p videos. and if u install MX player app then u can run any format video in 1080p with no lag.) 5)Strong WiFi, Bluetooth as well as tethering,hotspot. (i have router at home n use it for approx 12-14hrs a day and wifi runs continuously without any loss of connection.) 6)2G and 3G support (while i m in college use vodafone 3g and it runs perfect and fast.) 7)battery life is good (i can use whole day with wifi or 3g) battery life depends on the use of mobile apps,wifi, internet, display light,calling,gaming etc the more u use the more it will drain.... for normal use its perfect. for medium or high use u will need to charge twice a day. 8)calling is gr8 no problem at all. 9)light weight and stylish look, easy to handle. 10)Brilliant Display quality with 4.5inch. 11)No lag at all. touch interface is very smooth and fast. multiple apps can run same time with no lag. 12)LED notification. 13)Google update for next 2 years and google standard product. Cons: (Every phone has its pros n cons this one too has) 1)Low Loudspeaker(since it has only one loudspeaker at back. when u keep phone away in some other room or in same room but far away and someone calls, u will hardly hear ringtone.)but this problem can be solved by keeping ur phone backside on the top....volume will increase slightly. Its not that u wont be able hear anything but low volume. Using Earphone Volume output is Gr8 ,no problem for that. 2)battery life as 1700mah(for high end user). Final Thought:: "Best smartphone in market at this price,really worth buying it and using it for any user.Its mini Nexus."

First of all I think Amazon has some kind of grudge on me, two purchases in two mounts and both of them defective. Great going Amazon keep it up. This phone turned out to be a damp squib. I placed the order on 5/10, I was show a delivery date of 7/10 before order and once I placed the order I received a date of 10/10, I don't know what do people call this. Fortunately I received the package on 8/10 evening. I didn't use it the same day as I didn't have micro sim, I got my sims cut next day and one of the sim was not detectable and after a struggle of an hour or so the phone started detecting both the sims. I installed few apps and they ran smooth, but while calling I noticed that my Facebook contacts were not there in my phone contact even though I had sync the Facebook account with phone. All other accounts sync with phone except Facebook that was frustrating. I called Micromax call center, it didn't connect for a long time after about 20 attempts I got lucky and someone answered, I explained him the problem and guess what? He didn't know what sync meant, he asked me to update software, when I asked which one he had no clue. Then he gave me a number saying that it was his technical team and they would help me. I called the no, for no surprise the number was non existent. I called call center again they held my call for 20 minutes (it's not toll free, I was charged 50 bugs) with a massage all along "Your call is important to us, someone will attend you shortly". After 20 minutes I didn't have enough patience to continue the call so I hang up. Then I called Amazon, they asked me to visit Micromax service center which is 10 km away from my place, somehow I reached there at 4:30 PM and they said they stopped issuing token as it is closing time (closing time 7 PM) and their server was down (in fact it was not). After some argument they issued me a token, I waited for some half an our for my turn and during this time I heard around 10 people saying that they would never buy MM again in their life. I reached the counter and explained the problem, no surprise, again they didn't under stand the problem. They argued with me that it was showing cancel sync in the menu so the account is sync. I explained them that it was not, shown them the google account sync menu and reluctantly they agreed. But they didn't know what to do so they factory reset the phone and asked me to check. I started downloading Facebook it was taking long time, I thought that net was slow as it was 2G so I told them that I would check it at home with wifi. For my surprise no app was installing on phone, I felt like like I was shifted from frying pan to fire. Advice to all those who are considering to buy this phone "Buy it at your own peril".

Earlier Title: Comes with Notifications LED Updated on 24 March 2015. I had read many reviews about this phone and had not seen any other reviewer mentioning about Notifications LED. I am writing this review to make others aware about the presence of Notifications LED in this series of Android One phones. As a software engineer I had been following Android One from the time I came to know about it from the keynote address of Sundar Pitchai at the Google I/O conference. I am already using an HTC Desire 310 Dual Sim phone purchased in April 2014 for Rs 11,500 which uses equivalent MediaTek Chipset. I compared the specifications of this phone which was costing slightly more than half the price of the phone I am already using and I found that Canvas A1 either had the same specifications as Desire 310 or better, except for the battery specifications. So I was ready to purchase this phone for my wife and ordered this on the very first day the phone went on sale. Since my wife is a new smartphone user I setup every thing for her and was monitoring the phone usage. It was at this time I noticed that there was a green flashing LED on the dark display screen showing that there was some notifications. My earlier 3-year old "HTC Desire HD" phone had a very prominent intense LED and had never known that such an LED could be present in a phone but not be physically visible otherwise. This is an extra feature on the Canvas A1 and it is not present on the Desire 310. One need not switch on the display to see if there are any notifications that may need attention. If the notifications LED is not flashing then no attention is needed. I have answered some of the questions raised in the "Questions & Answers" section and these are some of the significant answers that I provided. # Supported Sensors list obtained from AnTuTu Benchmark: 1) G-Sensor 2) Acceleration Sensor 3) Light Sensor 4) E-Compass 5) Proximity Sensor 6) Gyro Sensor 7) Linear Acceleration Sensor 8) Rotation Vector Sensor # GPU Mali-400 MP # Battery Specification 1700mAh, Limited Charge Voltage 4.35V, 3.8VLi-Polymer Battery 6.46Wh # OTG is not supported. Messages showed by OTG Troubleshooter: 1. USB Host Support 2. ? OTG Detected 3. No USB Device Detected in Linux 4. No USB Device Detected in Android. Question: Where is the notification LED? Answer: The Notification LED is under the display in the top middle and is not visible when it is not blinking. Question: How can I customize notification LED on this mobile? Answer: You can download an LED Settings application like Light Manager to customize your LED. Question: Is LED Notification feature exclusive to Micromax A1 or they have just installed Light Manager application and it will work on any android phone? Answer: For the feature to work the hardware has to be there. Canvas A1 has the necessary hardware and you can use the Light Manager Application to configure it to work the way you want. Soumya said on 26 Sep 2014 Dear Pandiaraj- I have read ur review as u have said about led notifications which u didnt get in earlier HTC as u own.But this led notification was in earlier version of mmx a110q and in that mobile as charge gets complete led notifications shows also but its an exception in A1 tht it doesn't show led notifications after its gets charged 100%. F J Pandiaraj said on 27 Sep 2014 Soumya, I have just now installed "Light Manager - LED Settings" from Play Store. If you use the default settings given there the LED will glow Red while the battery is charging and glow Green when fully charged. There are many more options that can be used to configure how the Notifications LED can be used. Download and try it. Question: How to activate the airtel offer? Answer: From you Airtel Internet connection go to [...] to activate the offer. You will get an SMS confirming the activation. Question: Does it support Hindi Language. Answer: You can view Hindi Text on the screen and type in Hindi if you enable Hindi Keyboard even in Kitkat. Question: What is micro sim? Answer: The normal Mini-sim has the dimension of 25x15x0.76mm. The Micro-sim has the dimension of 15x12x0.76mm. Sim cutters can be used to trim extra plastic from Mini-SIM to the Micro-SIM size. I have bought HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 2545 All-in-One Color Printer to Scan and Print from Android One. You can see my review of this Printer at http://www.amazon.in/review/RWHSPWLUAA96Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00FZLML2E. I was able to scan from the Printer to the Android One Phone and print a photo from the Phone. 08 October Additions Earlier I had purchased a Micromax Canvas A1 with Android One (Magnetic Black) phone for my wife. After trying out the phone for a while I found that I was missing many features of Kitkat, as my similarly configured HTC Desire 310 Dual (Matte Blue) phone was only running Jelly Bean. When I bought the Desire 310, I was expecting that this phone would be upgraded to Kitkat. Till date HTC has not confirmed if this phone would be upgraded to Kitkat and later to Android L. So I decided to buy a Micromax Canvas A1 with Android One (Serene White) phone for myself even though the Desire 310 was only 6 months old, and I normally don’t replace products while I can still use them. In this write up I am documenting exactly what it took to setup the new phone using a Prepaid Airtel Connection. Expectating the new phone I had already purchased a new Airtel Connection and a Sandisk Ultra microSDHC UHS-I 32GB Class 10 Memory Card with Adapter keeping the next 2+ years of anticipated storage requirement. I kept aside the Strontium 8GB MicroSDHC Memory Card (Class 4) that came free with the phone and inserted the 32GB Memory Card and the Airtel Sim in the new phone before switching it on. The Welcome Screen asked for the Language Selection. Even before I could start to press it, an Airtel Live advertisement popped up in the screen and vanished after some time. I chose the Language as English and then it asked for Wi-Fi network. An Airtel message showed my 3G balance as 491.06 MB, and it switched on the Airtel Mobile Data Connection. I skipped the Select Wi-Fi option so that I can see exactly what a non-Wi-Fi user would see. It then informed me that I may incur extra carrier charges and I chose to skip Wi-Fi. Then it asked me to sign in with my Google Account. Now it asked me for Backup & Restore, Location, Communication and Entertainment options. It picked up my name from the Google Account. Then it displayed information about Google Now. I opted out of Google Now. Thereafter it showed a Welcome, Organise your space screens and placed me in the home screen. Now I disabled the mobile data to briefly check my data balance which was 489.50MB before enabled it again. Next I opened Chrome and went to [...] to claim the free Airtel offer. There it showed “HOT OFFERS” Android One Offer!! (For Prepaid customers only) Software Update: 100 MB per month for 6 months, App Download/Update 200 MB per months and gave an “Activate Now” button, which I selected. After which it displayed “Activation Successful” message. I also received a confirmation SMS “You get 100MB/mnth for 6months for Android Software update.Check balance,dial *125*452# & 200MB/mnth for 6 months for App download.Check balance, dial *125*453#. Meanwhile “Google Talkback” update was waiting for approval. Since I had by now received the free offer I was now ready to update Google Play Store Apps. Now I selected “UPDATE ALL” for Play Store Updates. In between I got a “Micromax Registration” popup with the message “Congratulations on purchasing Micromax handset Press Continue to register your phone with us for warranty services, updates and more.”. I pressed “Continue” and apps were still being updated from Play Store. I waited for all Apps to be updated. At this time 10 applications were updated. Now I switched off Mobile data and my 3G balance was 461.03MB. Dialling *125*452# did not show any results. Dialing *125*453# Showed Dear customer, Your Data usage is 200.000 MB and end date is Nov 06, 2014. So the update had used 28.47MB of my existing 3G and did not use the offer which it should have. Having seen that the updates were not using the Free Airtel Offer I went back to Wi-Fi and completed downloading the remaining applications that I wanted to use and configured the rest. I am not very sure about this Airtel offer. Even in my wife’s Airtel connection *125*452# did not show any results. It is now more than 20 days since the offer started and I would expect Airtel to show some correct data. I am not interested in wasting my time trying to call up Airtel Customer Services and clarify about the 100MB/month of update offer. It appears to me that Airtel is making a false claim here. As I have an Unlimited Broadband Wi-Fi connection I do not think I will be using these extra data that Airtel offers. 13 October 2014 Additions As my wife liked the white phone I prepared to make the change. Before using the black phone my wife was using a 3+ years old HTC Desire HD to learn things like WhatsApp. When we moved her sim to the black phone we managed to move WhatsApp with all the conversations as WhatsApp recognized the change and gave an option to restore the conversations. In case of the change to the white phone, I did a factory reset and moved the sim from the black phone. Since the same Google account was used on both the phones all the applications was successfully installed on the new phone without manual intervention. All data, specially WhatsApp did not move successfully and all the conversations got cleared. As photos and videos were saved in Google cloud they could be accessed. From a local mobile shop we were even able to locate a white flip cover which I have reviewed at http://www.amazon.in/review/R316II0IM88H9U/?ASIN=B00O66STFC. [...] 24th March 2015 Additions. One of the reasons that I bought this phone was that I wanted to have a phone with latest Android Software on it. Over the last six months I had been waiting for the updates which never came. In the mean time Android 5.0, 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 were released and none of these were made available to Android One devices. After long wait Google has released Android 5.1 to Micromax Canvas A1 devices and my device received it over the weekend. The size of the updated file was about 410 MB and it brought in very much improvements to the phone. Since it includes both the changes from Android 5.0 and Android 5.1 the changes give the phone a new look. Some of the important changes. * Access quick setting from the lock screen * New Torch option is available from this quick settings screen * Notification messages can be displayed on the lock screen * New Priority mode helps you to manage notifications better * Connect to WiFi and BlueTooth directly from the quick settings * New Smart Lock capability * Much better Battery usage statistics