Spice Mobile Stellar 526 Review
(Mi-526) Score: 52.6 / 100Spice Mobile Stellar 526 is a decent Android cellphone, counting with a high performance processor running at 1600 MHz, a comfortable 5-inches display, and two cameras, an 8 MP back facing camera and a 3.2 megapixels front side camera.
Although this cellphone is just 5.65 inches long and 2.82 inches wide, it is able to fit a a 5 inches display. This device has an amazing design, with a thickness of just 0.33". Spice Mobile sells the Spice Mobile Stellar 526 in gray and white. The Spice Mobile Stellar 526 feels a bit heavy comparing to other phones , weighting 5.71 ounces.
This cellphone includes a interesting 1280 x 720 (HD) 5 inches screen, which makes all images and videos look vivid. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.
Spice Mobile decided to build this device with a MediaTek MT6591 chip, including a high speed processing unit speeding at 1600 MHz and only 1 GB RAM memory which is a little bit disappointing comparing with its powerful processing power. Helping with graphic calculations, it also has a 700 MHz ARM Mali-450 MP4 graphics processing unit. The Spice Mobile Stellar 526 has an 8 GB quite big internal memory and an SD card slot, which allows you to store a couple hundred applications without any trouble.
The Spice Mobile Stellar 526 offers wifi capability (and it can be shared with other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), HSPA+ 4G connection type, that is not as fast as LTE or LTE-A 4G networks and 3G fast internet connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This device supports dual SIM so it is able to use 2 different phone numbers.
This cellphone is equipped with two cameras, an 8 megapixels back camera and a 3.2 MP front-facing camera. The Spice Mobile Stellar 526 can also shoot videos in Full HD 1920x1080 at 30 fps. In addition, this cellphone's camera also features some good characteristics: flash, face detection shooting, auto-focus and smile detection shooting.
This phone also includes a few nice features like Bluetooth (4.0, EDR), GPS Localization and FM Radio, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.
This phone has a big 2500 mAh Li-Polymer replaceable battery providing the Spice Mobile Stellar 526 an incredible battery duration. Spice Mobile afirms this cellphone has a 280 hs stand by time and a 9 hours talk time.
Specifications
| Device Type: | Phone |
| Brand: | Spice Mobile |
| Operating System (OS): | Android 4.4.2 |
| Product code: | Mi-526 |
| Dimensions: | 5.65 x 2.82 x 0.33 inchesMetric14.35 x 7.16 x 0.84 cmImperial |
| Weight: | 5.71 ouncesMetric161.88 gImperial |
| Colors: | Gray and White |
Display | |
| Screen Type: | IPS LCD (16M colors) |
| Size: | 5 inchesMetric12.7 cmImperial |
| Resolution: | 720 x 1280 pixels (HD) |
| Pixel density: | 294 pixels per inchMetric115.75 pixels per cmImperial |
| Touch screen: | Capacitive, Multi-touch |
Hardware | |
| Chipset: | MediaTek MT6591 |
| Processor: | ARM Cortex-A7 (Single-Core 1600 MHz) |
| RAM Memory: | 1 GB |
| Graphics Processor: | ARM Mali-450 MP4 (700 MHz) |
| Internal Memory: | 8 GB |
| SD Card Slot: | microSD, microSDHC (up to 32 GB) |
Battery | |
| Battery type: | Li-Polymer |
| Removable: | Yes |
| Capacity: | 2500 mAh |
| Stand-by Time: | 280 hours |
| Talk Time: | 9 hours |
Camera | |
| Back camera: | 8 megapixels |
| Flash: | Yes |
| Front camera: | 3.2 megapixels |
| Max video resolution: | 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) |
| Camera features: | Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting and Smile Detection Shooting |
Networks | |
| Wi-Fi: | Yes |
| Mobile Hotspot: | Yes |
| SIM Card Type: | SIM |
| Dual SIM: | Yes |
| UMTS Bands: | 2100 |
| GSM Bands: | 900, 1800 |
| Technologies: | HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM |
Other Features | |
| Bluetooth: | Version 4.0, EDR |
| GPS: | Yes |
| Radio: | FM Radio |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor |