Look and Design
The Bingo 10 is the weakest of the InFocus Bingo 21 (Review) and InFocus Bingo 50 (Review) smartphones in the series. In terms of build quality, the phone is made of plastic and feels rugged, and the textured rear cover improves grip. Our review unit had cyan edges and black rear cover, but the InFocus phone is also available in lime green border and white rear colour.
Due to the absence of any oleophobic coating on the screen, fingerprints and stains easily appear on it. Due to this, it becomes a little difficult to keep the phone clean. The screen has a WVGA resolution of (480×854) pixels and its density is 217 ppi. The display is not very good for multimedia activities. The viewing angle is also not good. On-screen buttons have been provided for navigation. Due to which a lot of space is saved at the bottom of the phone. The phone does not have a notification LED but LED flash is present with the camera.
Both the volume and power buttons are on the right side and work well. The phone has a headphone jack and micro-USB at the bottom. On the rear, there is a 5-megapixel rear camera with flash in the upper corner while the speaker is located at the bottom.
The design of the Bingo 10 is not very good but it is okay for the price. The phone is not very thin and its thickness is 10.4 mm. When you buy the Bingo 10, you will get a charger, a data cable and a leaflet. The quality of accessories that come with the Bingo 10 is good compared to the accessories provided by other Indian phone manufacturers in budget smartphones.
Specifications and software
The rear cover of the phone is removable. The 2000mAh battery is removable. The phone has a micro-SIM tray, a regular SIM tray and a microSD card. The Bingo 10 is a tri-band phone that comes with 3G data support. The smartphone has a quad-core MediaTek MT6580A processor and 1GB of RAM. But you should not expect much from this phone in terms of performance. We got very poor figures from the phone in our benchmark test.
The phone supports Bluetooth 4, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS and FM radio. USB-OTG did not work during our usage. The phone has 8 GB of storage, of which you can use only 4.03 GB. InFocus’ InLife UI 2.0 skin has been provided on top of Android Marshmallow. Due to which some useful tweaks are available in the phone like motion gestures (to quickly reject a call or go to another song). Talking about the app, from the theme store you get ‘Power Detective’ for battery monitoring, ‘Mobile Assistant’ for cleaning the file system, with which you can create virtual bubblehead ’emojis’ of people from pictures. Apart from this, InFocus Bingo 10 supports Marshmallow’s ‘Doze Feature’ and ‘Now on Tap’.
Performance
While the combined features of Marshmallow and InFocus look good, the actual performance of the phone is not up to expectations. The main reason for this is the display and less RAM. On an average, the user gets only 320 MB of RAM which is not enough. Apps take time to launch and switching between apps is a bit of a hassle. The touch display is also not good and sometimes it becomes quite annoying.
Thankfully, the call quality is good and we didn’t face any issues. The speaker is loud enough for conference calls but not great for multimedia playback. The Bingo 10 plays 1080p video files with ease, including high-vibration videos. Audio quality through headphones is good and the Bingo 10 also comes with an equalizer preset.
Bingo 10 has a 5 megapixel rear camera but it does not have autofocus so do not expect much. Even in daylight, the quality of both landscape and macro photos is below average. Shooting modes like burst, HDR and panorama are provided in the camera app but due to lack of autofocus, these modes are also of no use. Video recording is done with electronic stabilization and a maximum of 1080 pixel resolution video can be recorded. But the video quality is also below average. The front camera takes decent selfies.
battery life
Battery life is an important feature of this InFocus smartphone. In our video loop test, the battery of Bingo 10 lasted for 8 hours and 43 minutes. During normal use, we were able to use the phone for more than a day. The phone comes with a standard 5 watt power adapter, so charging takes time.
Our verdict
The company has introduced Bingo 10 as ‘the world’s most affordable smartphone running on Marshmallow’. But InFocus has had to cut down on many things to provide this experience. The design and battery life of Bingo 10 is excellent but apart from this there is nothing very special in the phone.
At this price, the Android experience in this phone that comes with Marshmallow is also not very good because the company has compromised in terms of hardware. Which means that you would be better off paying a little more and buying an Android Lollipop smartphone. Apart from this, not coming with 4G support is also a big drawback because today most smartphones are available on LTE.
Overall, the InFocus Bingo 10 disappoints and we would recommend not buying the phone despite its low price.
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