Karbonn mobiles K10-Blackberry made in India eh?
February 1, 2010 · Article by Sriraj · Leave a Comment
Following the suits of Micromax in producing cheap QWERTY devices, Karbonn mobiles has introduced K10 which powers Blackberry a la full qwerty keypad.
K10 definitely looks better in terms of looks compared to Micromax Q3 (Also see Zen mobiles Z77 qwerty phone) but does it beat Q3 in specifications? Let’s see:
Karbonn mobiles K10 specifications
Needless to mention that both K10 and Q3 support Dual sim (both GSM).
Karbonn mobiles k10 qwerty phone
K10 is slightly underweight compared to Q3 (2gms difference matter huh?) but the talk time difference is significant enough to consider. While Q3 EzPad manages up to 4 hours of talk time, K10 could only last up to 2.5hrs and that’s very very less, if you one of those talking buff’s. Worst still in K10 is that the battery takes 4 complete hours to charge completely.
Camera is a 1.3mp one, same as the one in Q3
While Q3 has 10MB is internal memory, Karbonn mobiles K10 (Carbon mobile eh?) only has 259kb (never heard this standard before) of memory, although the external memory is expandable up to 8GB (only 2GB for Q3).
Coming to the pronounced feature the qwerty keypad itself, I found that the K10 keypad is a lot better than Q3’s which was very crampy to move our fingers.
K10 supports GPRS (and only GPRS in terms of Internet connectivity) along with a WAP browser.
You can play songs in the format of mp3, midi, amr and wav which you can also set as ringtones. You can shoot videos and play them back in 3GP format
You have FM radio in K10 (Q3 can record FM too) that works with wired headsets.
K10 has Bluetooth, PC Sync, USB, Internet Modem, Java support.
Now the important part, the one which K10 seriously lacks:
You cannot configure your mailbox
You do not have GPS
You do not have Mobile TV
You do not have dedicated keys for Camera, Music player or FM player which is a shame
No Anti theft feature, which is becoming so common even in sub Rs.4000 phones
No Stop watch
