After launchingMicromax Bharat 3 and Bharat 4, the Bharat 5 smartphonewas launched in late 2017 in India. The device comes with a price tag of Rs 5,555 and will is available at all offline stores across the nation.We have been the using the device for over a week now and here is what we have to say about it.
Design and Display
The Micromax Bharat 5 comes in Black colour and is quite compact and handy. It sports a 5.2-inch HD display and above the screen, the forehead houses selfie camera, forward firing LED flash and an earpiece.
At the right one will find a power button and the volume rockers. The bottom is equipped with the speaker, microphone and charging port, while the top houses a Headphone jack. Moving to the back, the Micromax Bharat 5 features a Black plastic body with a metallic finish, with the camera and LED flash on the top left corner.
As far as display is concerned, it has a 5.2-inch display, with the Resolution of 1280×720 pixels. Comparing to the Kult Ambition and the Xiaomi Redmi 5A the Micromax Bharat 5 features a rich graphics and brightness at this price range. Further, the screen provides some sharp text along with vivid colour.
Performance
The performance of the device is average, as the smartphone is powered by an relatively old MediaTek MT6735 processor. While Xiaomi is offering Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 in its Redmi 5A of the same price range. The Bharat 5 runs on the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, with Micromax’s own user interface customisations. As the brand promotes has been a partner for Make in India, it comes preloaded with the Modi App and Hike messenger application.
During our review period, the device was easily able to handle most of the daily tasks, especially switching between apps and multitasking was easy, but starts to lag when multiple windows are open. In the gaming department, most of the casual games like Candy Crush and ludo worked fine, but heavy duty games like Gameloft’s Asphalt 8: Airborne experience lots of lags and frame drops, even when the RAM is cleared.
As far as battery is concerned, the device houses a 5000 mAh battery, which is the major highlight of the Bharat 5. It lasts over 2 days after normal use, which includes music streaming, surfing the net, using social media, chatting on WhatsApp and taking calls. However, if you are a heavy user it can easily take you through 36 hours. In our experience, the phone took around 2.5 hours to charge completely from zero to 100 percent with its wall charger.
Camera
The Bharat 5 is equipped with a 13-megapixel rear camera. At this price range, the featured camera did a pretty decent job and records soothing videos in natural light. Indoors however, the device has shown some mixed results with some fuzzy and blurred images. Further, It comes with the seven-level of beauty mode, HDR and panorama mode.
The secondary camera of this handsetdefinitelyadds some plus points in the phone’s portfolio. Though the smartphone houses a 5-megapixel sensor, the quality of the image is amazing with the LED flash. At this price range, the device captures a remarkable picture of the low light conditions and outdoors, but a little fuzziness can be seen indoors.