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Celkon A97 Review

Score: 44.4 / 100

Celkon A97 is a mid level Android phone, which features a great performance processing unit speeding at 1 GHz, a 5 mega-pixels back side camera and a 4" multi touch display. Let's take a better view of what this phone can give us.

Celkon equipped the Celkon A97 with a good performance processor speeding at 1 GHz with 512 MB of RAM memory. This cellphone comes with a passable 4 GB internal storage memory, which is adequate for the average user knowing that this cellphone also has an external memory card slot .

This phone's thickness (0.43 inches) is a little bit far from nowadays standards, but it still feels in the user's hand. Celkon appears to have forgotten about weight optimization in this 4.59 ounces cellphone.

This cellphone is equipped with only a 5 MP back facing camera. This camera also features geo tagging.

Celkon designed the Celkon A97 with a very good 4" screen, and a resolution of 800 x 480 , which makes it hard to distinguish the pixels composing the screen. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This cellphone comes with a 1500 mAh medium sized Li-Ion battery that can keep it running for some hours, but you may need to charge it after some moderate to heavy usage. Celkon claims this cellphone has a 350 hs stand by time and a 9.2 hs talk time.

This device offers WiFi connection (which it can share with other devices around, acting as a modem or router) and the fastest 3G connectivity, using HSPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone uses two SIM cards so it can to use two different phone numbers in the same device.

This cellphone also includes a few useful characteristics as Bluetooth (2.0) and GPS Geolocation, and a couple sensors likeProximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.




Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Celkon
Operating System (OS):Android 2.3.6
Dimensions:4.88 x 2.52 x 0.43 inchesMetric12.4 x 6.4 x 1.09 cmImperial
Weight:4.59 ouncesMetric130.12 gImperial

Display

Screen Type:TFT
Size:4 inchesMetric10.2 cmImperial
Resolution:480 x 800 pixels
Pixel density:233 pixels per inchMetric91.73 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Processor: Single-Core 1000 MHz
RAM Memory:512 MB
Internal Memory:4 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC (up to 32 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:Yes
Capacity:1500 mAh
Stand-by Time:350 hours
Talk Time:9.2 hours

Camera

Back camera:5 megapixels
Camera features:Geo Tagging

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:SIM
Dual SIM:Yes
UMTS Bands:850, 900, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:HSPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 2.0
GPS:Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass and Proximity Sensor