This is my first review of any phone .. and i have only covered main highlights only
the phone under review here is Spice m9000 popkorn .. yes its latest mobile phone from Spice
and it have some of the great features , the main one is the projector built-in , it utilizes the latest
DLP projector technology ... below is the list of few of its features
features:
# Dual SIM handset (GSM+GSM) having a 6cm QVGA display Screen having 320×240 pixel resolution
# The handset supports different frequency band networks 850/900/1800/2100 MHz
# Dimensions : 119.2 × 50.3 × 17.35 mm
# Weight : 123gm
# Projector Phone
# Analog TV
# THe Phone has internal Memory of 87 MB which can be expanded to 16 GB using T-flash Memory Card Support.
# 1000 SMS and 1500 Phonebook memory
# 3.2 mega-pixel Camera
# Audio Player
# Video Player which supports 3gp, mp4, avi, flv format
# It has Video Recorder to record videos with its Multi-Shot and Night Vision modes
# FM Radio with recorder
# GPRS, EDGE and JAVA enabled handset
# Bluetooth connectivity
# Micro USB ports
# Preloaded Opera mini browser, Nimbuzz and Skype chat apps
# Preloaded social networking apps such as Ibibo, Twitter and Facebook apps
# Inbuilt MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google, Flickr and Picasa internet applications
# Preloaded job search Naukri.com App
# 1200 mAh Li-ion rechargable battery having a talktime Up to 3.5 hours and standby Time Up to 300 hours
# Mobile Tracker
# Document viewer
Review :
[i'll compare it with my current N97 mini]
The phone is little heavy compared to Nokia N97mini [which i have now], and built quality is very good [No cheap plastic] and had good share of metal body ,
thickness wise its almost same as N97 mini and in length is a quarter inch bigger. the keys are good to type and screen is 2.4inch .. although it would have
been good if its bigger, and there is only one interface for everything from charger to USB to earphone. and there are 2 dedicated buttons at the side , one for projection
and other for volume.
The Unboxing:
the mobile shipped with popkorn like cardboard box which is attractive and different shape so far in the market, and inside box there are 5 layered shelf which holds
different accessories, first one holds the mobile , the second one holds tripod for the mobile [trust me its works for my camera also .. it saved me 500/- ]
, third shelf holds one external speaker and connector , forth shelf holds the USB and other cables , and finally fifth shelf holds the laser pointer and charger.
Power On:
the mobile easy to power on .. just insert the battery and press one dedicated key the phone comes to life .. the menu is simple and effective accessing the short keys is
easy and quick .. and entire mobile phone OS response is very good and quick.
Working:
i have checked with most of its functions and before i got this phone i was worried that most of its features won't work as in china mobile , but i was wrong and each and every
functionality they mentioned did works and works without any lag, i opened PDF's , word document, PPT ,Excel documents and there is no problem working with them.
i have opened the multiple video's like 3gp, avi and rmvb, flv and mp4 and works fines [flv needs to be in right format <25fps].
i have tried to install few java applications and it will install well.
FM and TV will works flawlessly and the mobile comes with internal antenna .. just pop it out .. a clear reception we can get.
there are other features like remote control of PC with blue tooth, Timed FM recording, and some other misc features like auto switch ON/OFF mobile with timer
Camera i found to be good with 3.2 MP and have good decent options like multiple scene select, exposure control, multi shots , timer ..and few others and pics are clear , the main plus
point in camera is its video recording .. its brilliantly clear compared to N97 and had night video capture option too.
Projector:
Now the main attraction , initially i thought projector could be dull .. but to my surprice it turn out to be very good brightness, and color reproduction is brilliant, the maximum viewable
size i got it from this is around 7feet by 6 feet [yes feet not inch] and as bigger the projection the brightness is less , as light needs to spread in wider area, but u can get brilliant
picture and color if u project it less than 60inch in dark room, darker the room better the picture.
i have also checked for any cut in the picture during projection [as some china mobile tend to cut some 20% actual image on projection] and in this phone its 100% projection with no attenuation.
i assume projector might be of 10-15 lumen s and can get you 15000-20000 hours life
Battery:
Although the SPice claimed to have 3 hours of battery life on projection .. i got little less of 2 hour and 40 min on projection [i tried lot of option and operations before that]
Cons/Negative points:
screen size should have been bigger than 2.4 inch, 3G should have been there , No gravity sensor
Verdict :
Just buy it .. no second thought .. its purely a entertainer handset, even if u want to buy just the projector [pico proj] it will cost u 10000/- and more [check for Axa,3M pico projector with same lumen s and life]
and with just 6400-6700 price range .. u'll never get these features.
and by the working and quality of this phone i can surely say its not china phone ..quality wise its much better than those.
check the video of the projection .. note that actually its much brighter .. the N97 mini camera didn't capture full light in night mode [i used N97 mini camera to make this video]
the phone under review here is Spice m9000 popkorn .. yes its latest mobile phone from Spice
and it have some of the great features , the main one is the projector built-in , it utilizes the latest
DLP projector technology ... below is the list of few of its features
features:
# Dual SIM handset (GSM+GSM) having a 6cm QVGA display Screen having 320×240 pixel resolution
# The handset supports different frequency band networks 850/900/1800/2100 MHz
# Dimensions : 119.2 × 50.3 × 17.35 mm
# Weight : 123gm
# Projector Phone
# Analog TV
# THe Phone has internal Memory of 87 MB which can be expanded to 16 GB using T-flash Memory Card Support.
# 1000 SMS and 1500 Phonebook memory
# 3.2 mega-pixel Camera
# Audio Player
# Video Player which supports 3gp, mp4, avi, flv format
# It has Video Recorder to record videos with its Multi-Shot and Night Vision modes
# FM Radio with recorder
# GPRS, EDGE and JAVA enabled handset
# Bluetooth connectivity
# Micro USB ports
# Preloaded Opera mini browser, Nimbuzz and Skype chat apps
# Preloaded social networking apps such as Ibibo, Twitter and Facebook apps
# Inbuilt MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google, Flickr and Picasa internet applications
# Preloaded job search Naukri.com App
# 1200 mAh Li-ion rechargable battery having a talktime Up to 3.5 hours and standby Time Up to 300 hours
# Mobile Tracker
# Document viewer
Review :
[i'll compare it with my current N97 mini]
The phone is little heavy compared to Nokia N97mini [which i have now], and built quality is very good [No cheap plastic] and had good share of metal body ,
thickness wise its almost same as N97 mini and in length is a quarter inch bigger. the keys are good to type and screen is 2.4inch .. although it would have
been good if its bigger, and there is only one interface for everything from charger to USB to earphone. and there are 2 dedicated buttons at the side , one for projection
and other for volume.
The Unboxing:
the mobile shipped with popkorn like cardboard box which is attractive and different shape so far in the market, and inside box there are 5 layered shelf which holds
different accessories, first one holds the mobile , the second one holds tripod for the mobile [trust me its works for my camera also .. it saved me 500/- ]
, third shelf holds one external speaker and connector , forth shelf holds the USB and other cables , and finally fifth shelf holds the laser pointer and charger.
Power On:
the mobile easy to power on .. just insert the battery and press one dedicated key the phone comes to life .. the menu is simple and effective accessing the short keys is
easy and quick .. and entire mobile phone OS response is very good and quick.
Working:
i have checked with most of its functions and before i got this phone i was worried that most of its features won't work as in china mobile , but i was wrong and each and every
functionality they mentioned did works and works without any lag, i opened PDF's , word document, PPT ,Excel documents and there is no problem working with them.
i have opened the multiple video's like 3gp, avi and rmvb, flv and mp4 and works fines [flv needs to be in right format <25fps].
i have tried to install few java applications and it will install well.
FM and TV will works flawlessly and the mobile comes with internal antenna .. just pop it out .. a clear reception we can get.
there are other features like remote control of PC with blue tooth, Timed FM recording, and some other misc features like auto switch ON/OFF mobile with timer
Camera i found to be good with 3.2 MP and have good decent options like multiple scene select, exposure control, multi shots , timer ..and few others and pics are clear , the main plus
point in camera is its video recording .. its brilliantly clear compared to N97 and had night video capture option too.
Projector:
Now the main attraction , initially i thought projector could be dull .. but to my surprice it turn out to be very good brightness, and color reproduction is brilliant, the maximum viewable
size i got it from this is around 7feet by 6 feet [yes feet not inch] and as bigger the projection the brightness is less , as light needs to spread in wider area, but u can get brilliant
picture and color if u project it less than 60inch in dark room, darker the room better the picture.
i have also checked for any cut in the picture during projection [as some china mobile tend to cut some 20% actual image on projection] and in this phone its 100% projection with no attenuation.
i assume projector might be of 10-15 lumen s and can get you 15000-20000 hours life
Battery:
Although the SPice claimed to have 3 hours of battery life on projection .. i got little less of 2 hour and 40 min on projection [i tried lot of option and operations before that]
Cons/Negative points:
screen size should have been bigger than 2.4 inch, 3G should have been there , No gravity sensor
Verdict :
Just buy it .. no second thought .. its purely a entertainer handset, even if u want to buy just the projector [pico proj] it will cost u 10000/- and more [check for Axa,3M pico projector with same lumen s and life]
and with just 6400-6700 price range .. u'll never get these features.
and by the working and quality of this phone i can surely say its not china phone ..quality wise its much better than those.
check the video of the projection .. note that actually its much brighter .. the N97 mini camera didn't capture full light in night mode [i used N97 mini camera to make this video]
13 comments:
hello dude, in the above video one confusion why the projection is not horizonatl? the video, images everything vertical!! we have to tilt our head left n watch or you have not pressed full screen button. just clear that whether it has full screen mode or not
sorry dude...
i didn't press full screen button .. once in full screen it will come properly .. and the video i uploaded as i took from my N97mini.. and i should have been tilted the video using some editor,..but i was busy so..uploaded as it is
I hope the video play's in fullscreen mode?
also, can you let us know if you had to convert the video in a specific format to be able to play on this phone? or was it just copy-paste-play... simple as that ?
superb phone with fantastic features. tell me can we watch Free TV channels (DD-national)in this phone without using any GPRS/Internet connection? and i enquire this phone in one mobile shop, he told me that it has some software problems and phone will hangs or restarts when using projector option. please clarify my doubts as i am planning to buy the phone this week.
Thanks for your review on this phone........
@bhavik
video plays full screen mode .. u need to press a button
most of the formats works without conversions like avi and 3gp .. in general if FPS is less than 25 frames then it works without connverstion
@srinivas
yes u can watch DD/DD2/DD9 free channels without network [its nothing to do with gprs...just like FM radio]
i didn;t face any restart or software problems .. as of now i have watched more than 75 hours on projector ..
battery will come for more than 2 hours .. so no worry..
i'll use this phone for an year :D
Hi dude, nice work with popcorn. I wanna buy it soon. Only i have left in my mind is the video playback in full mode or not(if so then what button be used), is there a 3.5 mm jack in the phone and the back cover is well tight ? Rest are described finely by you. Thank you. Keep blogging.
Continuing...sorry for the rotating question. I want to know What type of java games can be installed in it. Imean 3d game, big size game etc. Is there any size limit for installation(like 300 kb for samsung c322) and how much memory left for installing a new app.
@Krishanu
u need to press "*" button for the full screen.
there is no 3.5mm jack .. all usb ..and they have given converter cable to connect to ext speeker from phone.
back cover fits perfectly.
u can install any jar files .. [games/apps] of any size as long as u install it on mem card.
ironically my phone is now with my frnds [who also works for nokia r&d].. so i'll give further review once i get it back this weekend
Thank you. But you overlooked a question. As i asked is there any provision for running 3d games! There are several games like-sega rally, 3d moto racing fever, asphalt 3d, nfs etc, are these games running perfectly on the phone ? Plz.reply me after you going through the test on phone.
good review buddy !! I was hesitating about the projector quality but you cleared it. thanx for the true info.
Hai dude,is it still available.If yes,tell me whether it is available in Trivandrum,Kerala.
just one doubt can we charge the phn as well as connect any speaker/sub woofer/earphone to it.
BTW good review
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