Micromax Q5 Mobile Review

By debashis, Gaea News Network
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Micromax, the brand which is introducing many innovative and feature-loaded handsets recently, has just launched the Q5. Read on our extensive review of Micromax Q5 to get a glimpse of their latest offering.

Micromax Q5 is a dual-SIM GSM Handset with full QWERTY keypad. It is equipped with a 2.2 Inch screen with 262 K color display and 320 x 240 pixels display resolution.

Feature Highlights

  1. QWERTY Keypad with Track Ball
  2. Face Book Ready
  3. Instant Messenger
  4. Music Player
  5. Pre Loaded Opera Mini Browser
  6. 2MP Camera
  7. Dual SIM Support

The Sales Package of the Micromax Q5 contains :

  1. Transceiver i.e., the handset
  2. Standard Battery
  3. Standard Charger
  4. Handsfree Kit
  5. User Guide and
  6. Service Guide

Now lets take a look at its features in detail.

Design and construction

It is a bar-shaped phone with dimensions of 115×62x12.5mm and weighing 95 grams. The most striking feature of the Q5 is Trackball Navigation with Full QWERTY keypad. It supports Dual SIM of GSM-Dual-Band (900/1800 MHz).

Messaging

It supports SMS as well as MMS. Texting-lovers will surely love this phone as it sports full QWERTY keypad. This makes typing a breeze on the Micromax Q5.

The absence of Email and Push Email is disappointing, though.
Camera

The camera is a very basic one with 2 megapixels and digital zoom capable of snapping 1600×1200 resolution images. Video capture ability is also provided.

Multimedia

The music player present in the Micromax Q5 is a multi format player capable of playing MP3, AMR, MIDI and WAV files. You can also tune into your favorite FM Radio stations due to the presence of Stereo FM Radio. The presence of a video player also enhances its multimedia capabilities.

Few games are also present to keep you entertained.

Connectivity

USB Port is present for easy transfer of files to/from a PC.

For wireless exchange of data, you can use its Bluetooth. It also supports A2DP .

Internet

For internet on-the-go, you can use GPRS, EDGE and WAP 2.0 of the Micromax Q5.

Opera Mini is integrated. So your browsing experience will be a lot better now. You can also connect to your friends on Facebook and yes, it is also pre-installed.

Memory

The phonebook memory and SMS memory is pretty decent, capable of storing 1000 contacts and SMS respectively.

The internal memory of the phone stands at a meagre 15 MB. But it supports MicroSD (upto 8GB), which we think will be enough for your needs.

Battery Type

The battery present in the Micromax Q5 is a Li-ion 1000mAh one, capable of providing talk time and standby time of up to 5 hours and 180 hours respectively.

Discussion

Thilina Madushan
August 1, 2010: 4:10 am

pls send me the complete view & features of Q5 micromax model with rate of the mobile.


pooja wadhwani
July 30, 2010: 7:40 am

hi.. can anyone provide review for micromax q55 mobile phone.. does it support internet connectivity with pc ????


Nayan Chandwani
July 29, 2010: 3:47 pm

The key-feature , email messaging is missing. Will have to manage through the browser. By the way , which version of opera mini does it use?


JAYANTA
July 29, 2010: 1:42 pm

i like to buy micromax q5 or q7 can u tell me the current price and which will be the best???


salim
July 27, 2010: 11:10 am

mai Q5 handset char mahine pahle kharida hai tab se aj tak mera facebook kam nai kar raha hai !


mANISH gANDHE
July 26, 2010: 12:58 pm

hI, I want to purchace Q5 Please send me the details of it.


D.jay
July 22, 2010: 12:58 pm

Hey guys never ever buy this company mobile coz it heats up after speaking for 8 min no matter any model do not get attracted to the looks and worst impact on ur ears say no and ban micromax


chinthaka
July 22, 2010: 4:51 am

send me price of the Q5 phone


Deepanshu
July 19, 2010: 8:29 am

I have a micromax Q5fb cellphone. In that handset, there is an inbuilt gtalk with others like msn,etc. The settings show it as site - talk.google.com and port-5222.
But I m not able to connect to google talk through it. The error msg shows - ” unable to retrieve the token”.

Pl help me getting started with gtalk on my cellphone
Cheers


sumit
July 18, 2010: 3:00 am

friends…. plzzzzzzz dnt buy this phone more becuse ek hi sim kaam karta hai 2nd was nt reachable at the time of first busy so what is the use of duel sim… camara qualty poor very poor…. so…. plz dnt buy…

July 16, 2010: 3:41 am

Please send me the full features of q3 ,q4 ,q5,q6.of micromax mobiles.


madhukarsuthar
July 15, 2010: 11:01 pm

hii friends
q5 is good looking set but when we open youtube the vidoes cant be played and only we can chatt browes tha net thats it ,and m using this set past three months i dnt get any probzzz , all r fake storys . q5fb is nt , they r telling if they using they may knw tha conditions of that


vinay mishra
July 14, 2010: 3:32 am

Micromax Q5 Camera hanged while pressing key to start operation & after few minutes automatically menu screen display.what to do?


nikhil
July 12, 2010: 7:14 am

can i connect my micromax q5fb cell phone to pc for internet access. it is showing modem. but not connecting with internet. please send full phonesuite for this .micromax phonesuite is not working properly.


moe
July 8, 2010: 4:36 am

They have just created a huge hype about good features for less price.
Please do not fall for it, usual Indian mentality is to go for big things for less price. Rather I would suggest, go for reliability, and nobody can beat Nokia. Nokia is here to stay forever.
“Anybody planning to buy a X220? Please do not commit one of the biggest mistake of your life…it is worst phone ever made


arjun
July 6, 2010: 3:23 am

I have been using q5 since from 4 months but its always giving me troubles with the profiles which means sometimes even I unplug head phones also it will be in head set profile which is not good so users dont buy this phone!!!!!!!!!!!its dam and useless


sohail
July 5, 2010: 8:44 am

micromax q5 is very bad phone

this trackball was very bad


Monty
July 2, 2010: 4:17 am

Saalo maine 3800 main liya hai Q5 or ye mast chal raha hai

July 2, 2010: 4:07 am

pls send me the complete view & features of Q7 micromax model with rate of the mobile.

Thanks & Regards
chahat

July 1, 2010: 4:55 pm

Micromax is really a great job. As it started , it was not expected from micromax.But Micromax has proved that it can make available all the features to users on very affordable prices.


raj
June 30, 2010: 4:02 am

its rocking mobile q5
i like it very much ☺♥☺♥☺♥☻☻☻


jay
June 29, 2010: 1:32 am

latest price of Q5


kranthi
June 29, 2010: 12:12 am

HI friends..

I buy this mobile 10 days back only….
This is the NO.1 worst mobile….
NO sorry NO.1 worst company..
Dont’t go for this brand…
Services or not good..

June 26, 2010: 1:47 am

Hey friends,
My friends are using micromax q5 and q7 both are good and very nice phone. i am going to buy Q5. negative reviews may be based on second hand phone so purchase new phone.
this is really nice phone.
u can connect with pc also and can do surfing.

Prashant Gajjar


Abhilash
June 22, 2010: 7:13 am

Hi,
Could you plz let me know whether micromax Q5 ana Q7 are worth taking and also pplz let me kno howz the functionality of these phones.

Thanks
ABHILASH.V.RAO


rock
June 20, 2010: 6:41 am

this is a bull shit phone java applications cannot be installed its better to buy china made phone which are cheaper than microooo max


Vivek Deshpande
June 19, 2010: 9:50 pm

Please send the pricing and the details

Regards,
Vivek


Amazing
June 18, 2010: 6:50 am

I just bought Micrx q5fb…for just Rs.3800 ! wow the phone is cool ! yu hv all the features tht you need ! internet works well ( use mini opera instead of default wap browser). yu can download j2me software for the phone n install it.I have install software like, pdf reader, mini microsoft word,mini microsoft excel,dictionary, games,so on……. even the phone looks cool… better than nokia Eseries ! all tis for just 3800 !


suhas
June 17, 2010: 2:09 am

I bought this phone last week and it is great.. I use it for unlimited browsing, facebook, Gtalk etc…

For 4K this would be the best package available….


Suraj
June 15, 2010: 9:10 am

There are 3 micromax phones (Q5, X111 and Q1) at my home wid Q5 being mine,

Each one of them is a gem… I am damm happy wid these products…..

Handsets at par wid Nokia at Unbeatable proces…

Undoubtedly Go for it….

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