In already flooded Indian handset market,
Videocon Zeus V7500 is the latest entrant. It is the most economically priced Android mobile phone especially tailored for the Indian handset market at a price of Rs.12, 900. It is a multi touch phone with 3.2” capacitive TFT screen that offers a screen resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. It bears physical dimensions of 114.9 x 56.8 x 12.6 mm and weighs 114 grams.
This makes it a slim and smart choice for young buyers who consider looks as an important feature while buying a mobile phone. Its close resemblance to Spice Mi-300 in looks can be easily made out.
Videocon Zeus V7500 has multimedia support via its music player that plays in AMR, AAC, AAC+, EAAC+, MIDI, MP3 and WAV audio formats. To augment the effect, there is an in-built 3.5mm audio jack.
Zeus comes with a capable 5MP camera that features LED flash and geotagging also. The video player that is capable of playing H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG files can record in MP4 and H.263 formats at a speed of 24fps. As far as data connectivity features are concerned, the mobile phone supports many Bluetooth profiles as A2DP, GAP, HFP and HSP. It also sports WiFi and USB modem for browsing and accessing the Internet. The Android based gadget is GPS and JAVA enabled. It comes with 8GB microSD card, which can be expanded to an upper limit of 32 GB.
Running on Android 1.6, can be updated to Android 2.1 that will improve touchscreen behavior, picture quality and video quality on the phone. The messaging department is quite nice with various inbuilt applications viz. Gmail, Gtalk, RSS Reader, Notepad, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Android Marketplace, etc.Battery delivers 7 hours of talktime and 17 days of standby time. Overall,
Videocon Zeus V7500 handset offers spectacular specifications, really looks amazing and is a good performer. Yet, it is gonna get tough competition from Android based phones from
HTC, Motorola and
Spice mobiles.