Review of Micromax Canvas Juice A1 Plus: public sector tastefully

Before entering the Russian market Micromax has achieved considerable success in his homeland, India. So, it can be expected devices without the “childhood diseases”. Exactly, at first glance, and there was a new Micromax Canvas Juice A1 Plus with an interesting design and long-lived battery. But of course, like any budget, the most important question — how it was successful in terms of price and quality.

Technical specifications of Micromax Canvas Juice A1 Plus (Q4260)

• Screen: TFT IPS, 1280×720, 5″, 294 ppi
• CPU: Quad-core Mediatek MT6737, 1.3 GHz
• Graphics accelerator: ARM Mali-T720
• Operating system: Android 6.0 Marshmallow
• RAM: 2 GB
• Built-in memory: 16 GB
• Memory card support: microSD, up to 32 GB (single slot)
• Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz || UMTS 900/2100 MHz || LTE 3,5,40
• SIM: 2 micro-SIM, Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS)
• Wireless interfaces: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio
• Navigation: GPS, BDS
• Camera: primary — 8 MP (flash, autofocus), front — 5 MP
• Sensors: proximity, light, accelerometer, dactyloscopy
• Battery: 4000 mAh. Li-Pol, non-removable
• Dimensions: 144,3×72,4×9,7mm
• Weight: 171 grams

Packaging equipment

The smartphone is sold in a flat square cardboard box that the manufacturer put all the accessories: power supply, micro USB cable, a headset, display protector, microfiber cloth for wiping the screen, and a set of documentation.

Appearance

Rear panel Canvas Juice A1 Plus is made of metal, and the front panel is completely enclosed by glass. The only color of the case — “champagne” (aka pink gold), but the plastic frame around the perimeter turned out to be black. The combination was an unusual one, but in real life looks good in contrast with the hackneyed white-pink tones. Overall, the design of the new Micromax stands out among the many faceless state employees, making the smartphone does not look cheap.

On the front panel distance from the ends to the display is symmetrical, above it there are light sensors and proximity, camera and speaker. Under the display there is nothing, the arrow keys in the smartphone virtual.

On the rear panel is in the upper part of the main camera lens, which is slightly recessed. Under the lens — led flash and a fingerprint scanner, also recessed into the case. On a plastic box placed mesh under which is hidden the main speaker.

The left side of the smartphone is empty, and on the right are the volume rocker and the power button.

The top end is busy with a 3.5 mm audio Jack and micro-USB port, the microphone is brought to the lower end.

Despite the apparent solidity of the hull, the cover and the device is removable. Under it are two slots for SIM-cards format micro and a separate slot under the microSD memory card. The battery is made removable.

Ergonomics

Canvas Juice A1 Plus was a little bit plump, but compared to modern flagships that can be cut, it is just fine. The device fits in the palm of your hand thanks to the frame made of soft plastic not tries to slip from the hands, and compact size allow easily handle him with one hand. The build quality is also no complaints, no squeaks or backlash was observed.

Screen

Five-inch IPS-display new products from Micromax has a resolution of 1280×720 pixels (HD), which gives a pixel density of 294 ppi. The screen quality is good, the brightness is high enough to comfortably use a smartphone outdoors on a Sunny day, good color and clarity. The device supports adaptive brightness — the backlight level of the display automatically adjusts to ambient light. But the oleophobic coating on the protective glass, unfortunately, no.

If you are not satisfied with the default settings of the images on the screen, you can adjust contrast, color and other settings in the firmware from MiraVision, or use one of the presets.

Interface

Micromax running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Radically change the appearance of the system or to install your own shell, the manufacturer did not, restricted to a slight modification of icons.

On the smartphone pre-installed a number of third-party programs, including 2GIS and applications from “Yandex” and “Bayon”. If these applications are not needed, you can remove them with standard tools. Otherwise — on Board the “pure” Android, which will appeal to those who don’t like the launchers from third-party developers.

The machine at work

Hardware base Canvas Juice A1 Plus is built on the platform MediaTek, which includes a 64-bit processor MT6737 with four cores ARM Cortex-A53, able to accelerate to 1.3 GHz, graphics accelerator ARM Mali-T720 GPU and 2 GB of RAM. This filling at a low enough price makes the device very strong public sector. The internal memory of the smartphone is 16 GB, it is available to the user about 9 GB.

The smartphone is responsive, the interface slowdown when launching programs and switching between them. The screenshots below show the results of testing gadget in the benchmark AnTuTu and 3DMark Ice Storm.

Gaming performance was tested in Asphalt 8: Airborn, Godfire: Rise of Prometheus, World of Tanks: Blitz and Lara Croft: Relic Run. Of all the listed games A1 Canvas Juice Plus is not only managed Asphalt 8 — too heavy he was for a smartphone at maximum graphics settings, and set, for example, the average level of the game is not allowed. As for the other games, they can slow down in some situations (for some reason often on the menu), but the gameplay is not affected. In the end, the gadget proved to be quite suitable for most games — mostly not too demanding.

The main speaker of the smartphone is very loud: call or notification you will never miss, but when listening to music it is better to use headphones — the sound quality will be higher.

Camera

Application for shooting in Canvas Juice A1 Plus has the familiar appearance and additional options like improvement of persons or automatic release when detecting gesture “Victoria”.

The main camera of 8 MP was surprisingly high quality. On the gadget you can get very good pictures outside during the day and even in rooms with good lighting, if you hold it in your hands.

If when shooting against the bright sky there are flashes, helps HDR.

This result is obtained without the use of HDR.

Turn on the flash when shooting close objects allows to highlight the shaded areas and make the picture more detailed. This frame turned out without the flash

Text on photos is easy to read, illustration are distinguishable.

The mode “Panorama” not pleased with the resolution of the photos is only 1.6 MP, because of what the pictures come out metadataservice.

A video on a smartphone is possible only in HD, but thanks to the electronic stabilization of the rollers are quite smooth and clear.

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The maximum resolution and quality images with megapixel “frontale” it is ideal for selfies in daylight.

Wireless interfaces

The gadget can work simultaneously with two SIM-cards in alternating mode (DSDS), for each of the cards are chosen the default action. Of course, the Canvas Juice A1 Plus supports data transmission in LTE networks.

Also, the device is equipped with a radio module Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n operating in the 2.4 GHz frequency band, Bluetooth 4.0 and FM receiver, which requires connecting a wired headset.

From navigation systems only have a GPS and BDS, but complaints about the work of module no cold start takes less than 20 seconds, signal loss was not seen.

Work offline

Capacity Li-Pol battery is quite impressive 4000 mAh, and it is quite carry the gadget in the category of “long-playing”. Even with active daily use (3-4 hours screen), the smartphone can easily go without charging for two days and with economical use of resources and all three days.

The good results of the device showed when testing games at medium display brightness, the device lasted seven hours, and when playing HD-video at full brightness in Flight mode — more than 14 hours.

The results

Despite the low price, Micromax Canvas Juice A1 Plus doesn’t disappoint on any performance or appearance. It’s a smartphone for those who are not willing to pay a lot for the gadget, but do not want to buy faceless brick. For those who don’t mind occasionally playing on the smartphone, and the device was not been exhausted by the end of the day. If you add all these “wishlist” of nice things like a fingerprint scanner and separate slots for SIM-cards and memory cards, you get almost the perfect budget — price Canvas Juice A1 Plus is about 8990 rubles.

Pros:

• separate slots for memory card and SIM;
• the fingerprint scanner;
• good autonomy.

Cons:

• not all demanding games;
• HD display.

The author of the text: Vladimir Terekhov

Picture device: Daria Nesterovskaya

Source: 4pda.ru