The company is branding the smartphones of this series as “Phone for Fun”. The specifications of the Bingo 50 smartphone are somewhat similar to those of Bingo 21. Here’s what we saw and found in this smartphone.
Look and Design
The Bingo 50 smartphone looks similar to the low-budget colourful smartphone Bingo 21 from its own series. In fact, the body of the old InFocus M350 smartphone has been used in this phone. The placement and shape of the camera, speakers and buttons, everything looks familiar.
The smartphone looks good but feels a bit bulky because of the thick panels above and below the screen. The front camera and earpiece are great and there is an LED light on the top left corner which is visible only when it is on. There is a big InFocus logo below the screen.
The Bingo 50 Go is available with different rear covers. One rear cover has a leather-like texture while the other has a sandpaper finish.
The camera lens, flash and mic are placed on the upper half of the rear. The three holes at the bottom look like accessory connectors but are the speakers of the Bingo 50. The phone has two micro-SIM slots and a microSD slot. The phone’s battery is visible but not removable.
If the phone did not have a sandpaper finish, this phone could have been very comfortable to hold and use. The edges of the phone remind us of the design of the recently launched Motorola smartphones. But the biggest problem is the long shape of the phone and it makes it difficult to reach every edge of the screen while using the phone with one hand.
Specification
As expected, the phone has a ‘1.3 GHz quad-core’ processor which InFocus calls the standard MediaTek MT6735. This processor is fine for this price. Although it cannot be called a very powerful processor, it is fine for normal day-to-day work. The phone has 3 GB RAM and 16 GB storage which can be expanded up to 64 GB with the help of a microSD card. The phone offers 4G support on Band 3 and 40 covering most Indian networks.
The screen of the phone is 5 inches and the resolution is 720×1280 pixels. Apart from this, connectivity features like Wi-Fi B/G/N, Bluetooth 4.1, A-GPS and USB-OTG are also present in this smartphone. The battery of the phone is 2500 mAh, which can be considered a little less as per the phone.
InFocus says that its camera quality is what sets the phone apart as a brand. The phone has both 8 megapixel rear and front cameras. Along with this, both have the same sensor with F/2Y2 aperture. We were surprised to see that the phone does not have a flash with such a good front camera, but we hope that better quality pictures can be taken from the phone.
However, the most important feature of this phone that we liked the most was that it came with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. We are glad that InFocus is one of the companies that promises to release updates soon after launch. The Android interface is less polished.
If you like to customize your phone, you might like the app drawer and homescreen. The phone also has an EZ Launcher that lets you dim the display to save battery.
We did notice some lag when the phone’s SuperPowerSaving mode was switched off, with Wi-Fi and cellular data disabled while the preferred network was stuck at 2G.
Using the Mobile Assistant app pre-installed on the InFocus Bingo 50, you can check memory usage. Using the Power Detective app, you can know which apps and features are draining your battery quickly. Using App Traffic Control, you can block an individual app from using Wi-Fi and cellular data.
Performance
While using Bingo 50, we found its performance to be decent. It looks like M460 from the inside, but at first glance it may look like M350. I don’t know why InFocus has included this phone in its new Bingo series.
The phone has all the hallmarks of a budget smartphone. The phone does not have any outstanding features or specifications but its performance can be said to be very good at this price. The display of the phone is bright and vibrant.
As expected, the MT6735 processor works more on the CPU side than the GPU. The benchmark figures of the phone were decent. Casual games ran fine on the phone.
In our video loop test, the phone’s battery lasted for 8 hours and 46 minutes. On the other hand, during normal daytime usage, we needed to charge the phone late in the night after a full day’s use.
Camera
The camera performance is good for a low priced phone. The pictures taken by the phone are detailed. However, the colours get washed out and the pictures are overexposed in bright light. We really liked the camera performance of the phone considering its low price. The autofocus doesn’t work most of the time and sometimes it stops working completely but overall the pictures were good.
Talking about the 8-megapixel front camera, the quality of the pictures is very poor in terms of definition and brightness. The front camera can only record videos of 640×480 pixels.
Our verdict
The InFocus Bingo 50 may not look glamorous but it has a lot to offer for a budget phone. The rear camera of the phone takes good pictures even in low light but we found the best feature of the phone to be Android 6.0. But if you are looking for a phone with good software and less features then the Bingo 50 can definitely be your choice. But if your budget can go up to Rs 10,000 then you can buy the more powerful and great Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 which has almost all the essential features of a budget smartphone.
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