New Phone Micromax A110 )

December 23, 2012

I'm the proud owner of a Micromax A110! :) This is my second Android phone, after the HTC Salsa that I bought late last year.  When I bought the Salsa, I was pretty excited, but it didn't take long to realize that the Salsa's biggest problem was extremely limited internal storage.  When HTC finally allowed users of the Salsa to unlock the bootloader, I immediately did so and promptly rooted the device.  While rooting the phone solved some of the storage related problems making it more usable, it simply did not possess adequate processing power for video calling. There was also no way to upgrade the operating system from Gingerbread. With my impending move to Sweden in mind,  I was looking to buy a new phone which could support video and voice calling and would not cost an arm and a leg!  It was then that a then colleague of mine showed me the Micromax A110.  

Statistics and specifications don't convey the whole picture, but this was a phone with a big, five-inch LCD display, a one-gigahertz dual core processor, an eight-megapixel primary camera and most importantly, a secondary front-facing 0.3 megapixel camera for video chat! After testing it out for a while, I could see that it was indeed a wonderful phone.  Within minutes of my purchasing the phone, I was able to see that it came with an unlocked bootloader.  I searched the net for instructions for rooting the A110, and within the next half-hour, I had successfully rooted it.  It took me another couple of hours to install all my favorite apps.  I've been using it ever since and I simply love it!  It's undoubtedly the best phone in its price segment (INR 10,000).   

The Micromax A110 Superphone Canvas 2.  A truly wonderful phone! Photo taken with the HTC Salsa. My old phone, the HTC Salsa, photographed with my new phone,  the Micromax A110. Screengrab of my new A110.