Karbonn Titanium S5

The Indian based company, Karbonn has once again proved that, the most budget Smartphone is manufactures by this company only. They are again out with their new Karbonn Titanium S5. This flagship handset is priced at 11,990 and is currently available at any online store. It has Jelly Bean version of Android with 1.2 GHz Quad core processor loaded in it along with range of features. It showcase 5-inch IPS qHD display and the speed of Multitasking will not be an issue with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB ROM. Karbonn Titanium S5 smartphone is dual SIM enabled. Let’s get you the full review.

Hardware

The Smartphone comes loaded with a 5 inch qHD display which offers 540 × 960 pixel resolution. I’ll not say its slim but yeah not a fatty piece like Nokia, it measures only about 8.95 mm in thickness and pretty easy to carry around. It has Quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC clocked at 1.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM with 4 GB of ROM. And yes don’t forget about the 2000 mAh battery.

The earpiece given along is quite clear and loud, to experience a great music and 4 GB of internal memory could be an issue but can be compensated with the micro SD card slot provided and can be expanded upto 32 GB.

Look And Feel

Putting it in your jeans pocket will not at all be difficult with its well-built dimensions. It’s quite simple and sober in its look. But it seems like that there is not enough designs available in the market as the phones coming now a days have almost the same look. Karbonn Titanium S5 also seems to have a design similar to Samsung Galaxy S lV except for the button sections.

Tab, Home and Return are the three capacitive touch buttons, which can be found at the lower portion of the screen and front camera and some sensors at the upper section. Taking it traditionally volume Rockers button is available at the left side of the set and Lock/Standby buttons to its right. Hold it tight as, the back side of it is made of smooth plastic having rear camera with LED flash and the speaker grilles. Camera pops out of the device, if you see it form sideways which can be the result of its low thickness. Since, this time you would not be getting the grip, so typing and holding the device will be little unscrupulous this time.

Display

5-inch display of S5 has the pixel density of 250.33 ppi, resolution of 540 × 960 pixels and 16 M colors. The combination will result in great display even on a sunny day and Light sensors will do their job perfectly by adjusting the brightness with respect to the environment.

The fantastic brightness control and perfect colour saturation enables a true HD streaming with a 3D option too. Reflection is always avoided with the genius IPS display.

The touch sensitivity would not make you feel as if you are using a feather touch phone but is quite well and suited to your slightest touch.

Multimedia

It has a great piece of processor enabling it to great multimedia decoding. Comparing it to Canvas HD which has got MediaTek’s Quad Core lags behind the S5 Qualcomm’s trust. It supports over rich media content brilliantly. Full HD video playback is supported with 30 fps. Initially on your purchase you would be provided with some basic codecs like MP4, AVI, 3GP etc. but can be increased by installing advanced players from play store. You need to have 3D support player installed for extra features of 3D and other video playback options.

Camera

Karbonn Titanium S5 comes with the powerful 8 MP primary camera along with the powerful LED flash for capturing pictures of impressive quality. With 2 MP front faced camera, video calling is so nice. The color temperature and detailing will be perfect in the outdoor clicks, while the LED will help you in getting the better performance at indoor.

As the Karbonn Titanium S5 supports full HD video shoots, capturing videos form the rear camera is so much fun. Recording will contain some noise disturbance, but this is all you could get at such price.

Gaming

The games which I played on the Karbonn Titanium S5 are Temple Run 2, NFS shift, GTA 3 and obviously Angry birds (all parts), and got medium to high frame rates respectively. It is the best budget gaming device for now and among the finest smartphones that could give amazing experience of HD and 3D games.

Performance And Battery Life

The 2000 mAh battery holds 6 hour of video playback and allows the great talk time of 12 hrs. The gamers will love it, as they now will get 4 hour of game play without any disturbance. But a point of caution is there. Developers claimed that, if the Karbonn Titanium S5 is only used for games than it could reduce battery life and display quality. With 3G enabled, you can surf for 8 hours (quite worth for the price), if the battery is fully charged.

Connectivity

Both you Sim are not going to enjoy the speed of 3G, as only Sim 1 is allowed to support 3G. But still you get the maximum speed of 256 kbps on SIM 2 with better WAP, GPRS and EDGE support. You can be assured that the network of both your GSM’s SIM will not fluctuate with the wide verities of frequencies available in S5 includes GSM-900, UMTS-2100.

What we like

• 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Quad Core processor
• 5-inch qHD display
• 1 GB RAM and 4 GB of ROM
• 8 MP camera with strong LED flash

What we don’t like

• No support of 3G in SIM 2.
• Smooth back panel, which gives your phone a chance to fall form your holding.

Verdict

This phone is loaded with features, which should be priced at around 20,000, but thanks to Karbonn for providing the Karbonn Titanium S5 at such a low rate. We are tagging it among the best Android smartphone available below 15,000.