[Hands On] Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 Review

Recently Micromax has launched a top-end smartphone under its Canvas Sub-brand, the Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 and its been priced Rs. 12,990, its not the company’s flasgship smartphone but it do comes with some nice features and specs which can compete in market. Lets see is this phone worth of its price.

Inbox Contents of Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

When you open Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 box, you will find :-

• Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 smartphone
• Micro USB cable
• In-ear headset
• Charger
• 2500mAh battery
• Information booklets, Warranty card and User manual
• Scratch guard

Build And Design of Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 comes with a 5 inch IPS display screen which has HD screen resolution of 1280×720 pixels and has a pixel density of 294 PPI. It has good viewing angle of 178 degree which are very nice. Screen has oleophobic coating over it which protect screen from fingerprints. Micromax doesn’t revealed weather screen is scratch resistance or not but as scratch guard comes in box so we think its not.

It has nice and bright display screen, it worked very well under sunlight, it do has auto brightness which adjust screen brightness as per the environment. Screen has thin bezel around it. Above display screen you will find 5MP front camera with OmniVision OV5648 sensor, 22mm wide-angle lens with 75-degree viewing, just next to camera you have LED notification light which glows in green and red, ear piece and sensors.

Just below display screen you will find three Android capacitive touch buttons which has backlit. Phone has curved design with thickness of 8.9mm and weight around 146 grams.

On left side of the phone you will find volume rockers and on right side you have power buttons.

At bottom of the phone you have micro USB port for charging or data sync along with primary microphone.

At top of the smartphone you will find a 3.5 mm audio jack.

It has a removable plastic back panel which has faux stitched-leather finish, it similar to of Samsung Galaxy Note 3, it feel premium. We got Mesmerising Blue for review, but it also comes in Pristine White color. As phone is not so wide you can easily hold in in one and thanks to faux stitched-leather finish it provides good grip and doesn’t slip of your hands.

At back you will find 13MP rear camera along with LED flash, just above camera you will find secondary camera for noise cancellation.

Below camera you have Micromax branding and at bottom you have speaker grill.

Once you remove back panel you have 2-Micro SIM card slot, a microSD card slot along with 2500 mAh battery.

Hardware and Specs Of Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

Under the hood Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 is powered by an octa-core Mediatek MT6592 processor clocked at 1.7GHz along wit a integrated Mali-450 GPU and has 2GB of RAM out of which 842 MB of RAM will be available on first boot. It comes with 8GB of internal storage space, and out of it 5.32GB will be available, it do support memory expansion up to 32GB using a microSD card. Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 comes with lots of pre-installed apps some of them can be removed but some of them can be removed specially which are Micromax proprietary. It do has option to make your SD card as default write disk and you can move apps to SD card as well.

We were able to play games, play HD videos and open and navigate to apps without any issue. For connectivity it has WiFi, Bluetooth, Dual SIM, Micro USB port.

Software And UI of Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat but its not the stock version, Micromax has tweaked it and browed some features from Samsung’s TouchWiz and HTC Sense UI. In this smartphone Micromax has introduced Quciklook, it’s the same which we had seen in HTC BlinkFeed which shows latest news from several topics, weather information and you can also add your Facebook and Twitter to get their feed too. There is no option to remove QuickLook.

Micromax has also added gesture control to this phone, you can perform or launch apps by simple finger gestures like such as pinch in, pinch out, two finger flick up, two finger flick down, two finger flick left and two finger flick right.

Micromax has added a camera widget on home screen through which you can quickly capture an images, record a video or take a selfie. There is another mode, the frontback mode which lets you capture images using both camera’s, the rear camera will use top half position and front-facing camera use bottom half.

Another useful feature which Micromax has introduced is Smart Alerts which shows notifications on lock screen in different color strips like red for emails, Green for hangout message’s and so on. There is a trending apps widgets too which shows latest hoy apps.

Another feature which Micromax has browed from Samsung is Pause on Look away, it’s the same feature which we had seen in Samsung’s smartphone as Smart Pause. This feature pauses a video when you are looking away from the screen and playback when you again look on screen. Micromax is using Swift Key as its default keyword which is nice.

Camera Of Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

Coming to camera of this phone, Canvas Nitro A310 comes with a 13MP which uses Sony IMX135 CMOS sensor with f/2.2 aperture, has Largan 5P 28mm lens and it also has Blue Glass filter for better color balance.

Images taken in daylight are decent but color combinations are not good and misses lots of details. Colors are missing when images taken indoors, its flash is good and through good amount of light when its on. It’s a decent camera but it could be better. What we like is camera focus and capture images very fast.

It has a front facing camera of 5MP, thanks to OmniVision sensor which makes it a good selfie camera. Check out some images taken by use, click on images to see them in full view.

Video Test :-

Performance Of Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

Thanks to Octa-Core SoC clocking at 1.7GHz and 2GB of RAM we didn’t faced any major lag while playing games, we played full HD videos and it played without any issue at all. Call quality of this phone is good, we didn’t faced any call drop and voice clarity was also good at both ends. Yes we did faced some heat-up issue while playing heavy games for long time.

AnTuTu Benchmark :-

Quadrant Benchmark :- 13619

NeNa Mark 2 :- 60.6fps

Multi Touch Points :- 5

Battery Of Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 houses a 2500 mAh battery which, in our average usage it lasted a day in which we played videos, surfed internet and played some games. We had noticed that 3G has drained its battery much as compared to any other apps. We must say Micromax has improved battery management in its Kitkat series.

Final Verdict On Micromax Canvas Nitro A310 :-

If we leave camera part than Micromax Canvas Nitro has performed very well in all sections. Camera is OK for photos but for videos it could be better. Its not the flagship smartphone from the company but its build quality if nice and good. It run on Android 4.4.2 KitKat, Microsoft hasn’t said anything about update but if we think it should be in their bag.

What We Liked :-

• Build Quality
• Display screen
• Good performance

What We didn’t liked :-

• Camera could be better
• Lots of bloatware’s

Full Hands On Review :-