[Android General] kailashnj:
My experience with Iberry Nuclea

So with one whole day of usage with the Iberry Nuclea phone I am back to provide some updates.

The budget phone is really good. I can say its better than the Samsung Grand (sister's phone) hands down. The FHD screen is really awesome and the colors are really vivid, sorry to compare but the color reproduction on the phone is better than HTC One (my judgement nothing official). Iberry has provided apps like look away to pause player and hand gesture apps which work as proclaimed, though I must add that they are flimsy and don't be 100% sure. I prefer to use the MX Player pro that I have paid for more than the inbuilt video player.

It comes loaded with 4.2.1 and though not the latest version of android, its not behind too. I would have actually preferred the 4.2.2 version more than this. Another observation that I had was it missed the OTA functionality which means Iberry will not be providing us with the OTA updates. Probably they lack the infrastructure to seed Roms in their network.

Phone is company rooted and hence its saves lot of trouble of finding how to root the phone. Infact it came factory installed with SuperSu and Root Explorer which I was really surprised. This does help in removing some unwanted softwares like android keyboard (aosp) as I use swype only, cell broadcast and other few softwares that I did not want on my phone. Though this did cause me lot of problems of keyboard force closing when I did a factory reset.

The biggest grouse that I have on this phone is the internal memory. The phone only has 4 GB memory and this is really a limitation factor. Of the 4 GB memory, 0.99GB is available as system partition (where all apps are installed) and 1.61Gb as phone storage. I have always used the phones with 16Gb and above phone storage and coming from Note 2 I was really surprised as to how fast the phone memory went to 0.99 to only 1% free as all my apps where installed on the system partition. Now that was really sad then I used apps to SD after I installed the 16Gb memory card (class 6 Samsung). Though I was able to free up some space by doing this the system partition is now at 28% only. You cannot move some apps come what you do like Lookout or Swype or any security softwares. I hope there is some fix where in the phone storage of 1.6GB can be totally convert to system storage improving the system storage to 2.5GB. If required I will use class 10 32GB card if the earlier mentioned is possible.

Music I am big fan of listening to music on my phone and hence this phone was a bit disappointment for me as the music player on the phone is not so great. I downloaded the Google Music and also Poweramp but any equilizer setup did not give me the desired output. (Note the headphones that I was using is not the one that i provided in the box but the sennheiser MX 300 precision headphones that I have).

GPS locking on the phone was really fast. It took only 8 seconds before I got correct location on Gmaps. IT was good to see that.

Another major use of my phone is for tracking my workout using runkeeper. Hence I was please with the GPS locking and the speed at which it locked was really great. Though not yet checked its complete accuracy as due to rains did not take my phone during workout today. Will Update later.

Gaming I said this earlier and I am saying this again - this phone is better than the Samsung Grand. I am fan of Subway surfer and with Galaxy Grand you cannot install the game from the playstore as its incompatible. There are many other games which are incompatible with Grand phone. But I was pleasantly surprised that all the games that I play on my Note2 ran smoothly on this phone too. I did not have any problems with these games. Another thing is that since the screen is FHD, I loved the game play more than even Note2.

Movies I am also interested in watching youtube vidoes and movies on phone. I have some Full HD videos that I have downloaded from Youtube - songs of hindi movies in full hd. It was really great to see them in action on the phone. Full HD screen is something I can really rave about.

Battery The phone was new and I was playing around with it a lot and hence the battery stats that I have might not be correct. When I got the phone, the battery was at 64% from factory. I used this charge while setting up the phone initially and for all R&D on the phone. This charge lasted me for about 5hrs. After complete discharge, I charged the phone completely in power off mode. Charging time was around 3 hrs. Post that I started fiddling around with the phone and modifying and deleting the system apps and other stuff. In between the phone got really hot, especially at the camera outer ring (Metal ring of the camera) and due to my mistake keyboard started to force close. Had to format the phone again, factory reset and all after 5 hrs of playing and reset battery showed around 34% life. Played Mutant Roadkill on the phone for around 15 mins and the got the low battery notification of 10% which really surprised me. When I checked the battery stats in settings, I saw that the phone had a straight line down from 34% to 10%. Have just charged the phone completely and in last 1hr 36 mins its at 99%. I will surely update the battery information later. I have just installed Juice plotter to track the battery use.

Voice Clarity I can say that this phone matches many high end phone in this aspect. I was really surprised at the clear voice quality of the phone. In fact I am really happy with dual phone capabilities of the phone. Phone had dual sim, dual standby and also dialling out feature from any of the Sim. This is great.

[MENTION=5382836]aashuu[/MENTION] - hope you like the short review that I have written above. I will surely vote for this phone if someone is looking for a budget phone and I will not shy to say that this phone is better than than the Micromax canvas 4 but only misses out on the 16GB internal harddisk.