LAVA Iris 550Q Review

LAVA Iris 550Q is a decent Android device, which features a very powerful 1.2 gigahertz Quad-Core CPU, an enormous 5.5" multi touch screen, and two cameras, an 8 MP back side camera and a 2 mega-pixels front facing camera.

Lava sells the LAVA Iris 550Q with a very fast 1200 MHz Quad-Core processing unit and only 1 GB of RAM which is a little bit poor comparing with the LAVA Iris 550Q's powerful CPU. Helping with graphic calculations, this phone also counts with a 384 megahertz PowerVR SGX544 graphics processing unit. This cellphone comes with a 4 GB internal storage, a medium quantity that should be enough for the vast majority of users knowing that this phone also has a slot for an SD memory card .

This phone is slim, with a thickness of just 0.39". This phone is quite a compact phone, considering it has a 5.5 inches screen and it's only 6.14" long and 3.06 inches wide. The LAVA Iris 550Q is much lighter than what you expect from a device this size. Lava is offering this device in two different color options: black and white.

The LAVA Iris 550Q is equipped with two cameras, an 8 MP back facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front facing camera. It can also shoot videos in Full HD 1920x1080 at 30 frames per second. To complete the camera, it also has many amazing features like auto-focus, flash, face detection shooting, fast burst mode, geo tagging and HDR mode.

The LAVA Iris 550Q is equipped with a very good 5.5" screen with a 1280 x 720 (HD) resolution, providing this cellphone with a good level image quality. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This phone counts with wifi connection (which it can share with other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), HSPA+ 4G connectivity, that is not as fast as LTE-A or LTE 4G networks and the fastest 3G internet connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses two SIM cards so it can to use two different phone numbers.

The LAVA Iris 550Q counts with an amazing 2600 mAh Li-Polymer removable battery, enough to provide this phone with an impressive battery duration. Lava informs a stand by time of 500 hours and a talk time of 10 hs for this device.

The LAVA Iris 550Q also includes a few cool characteristics as Bluetooth, GPS Geolocation and Radio, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

The LAVA Iris 550Q is not a good choice considering it is sold for 249 dollars, and some similar cellphones are offerred way cheaper than that.