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Review: Spice Stellar Horizon Mi500

New Delhi, Nov 16: Spice Stellar Horizon was one of the first phablets to be announced by an Indian brand. However, by the time Spice launched it in the India market, most other Indian brands


Performance


The phone has a Mediatek designed dual core 1 Ghz chipset and 512 MB RAM. While the phone chugs along nicely in all day to day task without any hiccups, you throw at it a heavy graphics intensive game and frame rates starts coming down. During out review, the phone never stopped working. We tried Agent Dash, and Beach Buggy Blitz which are fairly graphics heavy games and they worked fine with little to no frame rate drop.

The 512 MB RAM on the phone however at times feels inadequate with 80 per cent memory getting full in no time which you need to clear to regain performance. With few of the competition now offering 1 GB RAM, the game definitely seems to be moving forward.

The audio quality of the phone is decent too. The speaker is loud for a smartphone and the headphone supplied is also not of poor quality. The video also plays smoothly with the default Android app.

Camera


The 5 megapixel with a single LED flash sounds good enough. However, in actual use the cameras does not even seems like a 2 megapixel unit. The low light condition is simply bad. While in good light, the images look good enough to share online but are not even worth seeing on a full screen.

The front camera in Stellar Horizon on the other hand is better when you take into consideration that it is just a 0.3 megapixel camera. We tried it even in low light conditions and it worked better than expected.

Battery

One of the best parts of the phone is its battery. The 2400 mAH battery in Spice Stellar Horizon easily powers the phone for full two days working with almost eight hours of WiFi on and medium usage of calling, music and videos. Even if you push it a bit harder, it will still manage one and half day.



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