Panasonic Eluga Arc 2 review
Here's the second edition of the Panasonic Eluga arc family. The Eluga arc is a great looking phone at a budget. What's new with the Eluga arc 2? Let's check it out.
Design: The Eluga arc 2 follows a combination of glass and an aluminium alloy for It's construction. It's a good looking phone with nice smooth edges and rounded corners. The back is kind of glossy and a bit slippery in the hand. There's a power button and volume rockers on the right side, a headphone jack up top and a microUSB port on the bottom flanked by a speaker to It's right and microphones to the left. The phone weighs 147 gm with battery and it's 7.6 mm thick. It's a pretty well made phone and feels nice in the hand. We've pretty much left behind the days where budget phones were cheap on construction. There are 2 color variants, gold and rose gold.
Display: This phone has a 5' 720p IPS LCD display with 294 ppi. It's sharp enough for moderate usage like web browsing and some light content viewing, but it's nothing about crazy sharpness and super high saturation. Being an IPS LCD panel, it produces wide viewing angles and produces good colors. It's brightness is a tad bit on the lower side but it's managable anyway.
Performance: Powering the Eluga arc 2 is a quad core Mediatek MT6735 processor clocked at 1.3 GHz and a Mali T720 MP2 GPU with 3 GB of DDR3 RAM. A bit underwhelming hardware in a market overcrowded with high performers. But still, it manages to hold its own league in terms of speed and reliability. There's 32 GB of onboard storage expandable upto 128 GB via microSD card. There's no fingerprint sensor though, which is kind of a disappointment. The phone runs on company's custom UI called fitHome UI on top of Android 6.0 marshmallow. It's kind of bloated but it's smooth and stutter free for the majority of the time. Though it's not the most powerful phone on the world, it'll get your posts onto your Facebook wall without any problems😂. Gaming wasn't exactly a pleasure on it with the mediacre GPU and low powered CPU. Games like asphalt 8, modern combat 5 couldn't run smoothly on max graphics. It'll not be an option I'd you're a big time smartphone game lover, like me.
Camera: There's an 8 mp rear camera and a 5 mp selfie camera on this phone. Not the biggest sensor in terms of resolution but definitely capable of some decent looking photos. Rear camera takes average images in ample lighting but conditions worsen indoors with lesser light. The selfie camera also does a decent job of reducing noise and brightness your face a bit. Not the best optics ever, bit not the worst in the market either!
Battery: This is where I was disappointed. The Eluga arc 2 has just 2450 mAh battery. There's no quick charging of any sorts and the battery life isn't very good. You'll get around 3½ hrs of continuous usage out of this battery unit. Clearly, NOT meant for gamers.
Price: The Panasonic Eluga arc 2 retails for 12,000 INR. The phone looks great and performs pretty well too, but frankly, there are far more worthy phones at this price that are worth a lot more for your money. No offense to this company though!
Design: The Eluga arc 2 follows a combination of glass and an aluminium alloy for It's construction. It's a good looking phone with nice smooth edges and rounded corners. The back is kind of glossy and a bit slippery in the hand. There's a power button and volume rockers on the right side, a headphone jack up top and a microUSB port on the bottom flanked by a speaker to It's right and microphones to the left. The phone weighs 147 gm with battery and it's 7.6 mm thick. It's a pretty well made phone and feels nice in the hand. We've pretty much left behind the days where budget phones were cheap on construction. There are 2 color variants, gold and rose gold.
Display: This phone has a 5' 720p IPS LCD display with 294 ppi. It's sharp enough for moderate usage like web browsing and some light content viewing, but it's nothing about crazy sharpness and super high saturation. Being an IPS LCD panel, it produces wide viewing angles and produces good colors. It's brightness is a tad bit on the lower side but it's managable anyway.
Performance: Powering the Eluga arc 2 is a quad core Mediatek MT6735 processor clocked at 1.3 GHz and a Mali T720 MP2 GPU with 3 GB of DDR3 RAM. A bit underwhelming hardware in a market overcrowded with high performers. But still, it manages to hold its own league in terms of speed and reliability. There's 32 GB of onboard storage expandable upto 128 GB via microSD card. There's no fingerprint sensor though, which is kind of a disappointment. The phone runs on company's custom UI called fitHome UI on top of Android 6.0 marshmallow. It's kind of bloated but it's smooth and stutter free for the majority of the time. Though it's not the most powerful phone on the world, it'll get your posts onto your Facebook wall without any problems😂. Gaming wasn't exactly a pleasure on it with the mediacre GPU and low powered CPU. Games like asphalt 8, modern combat 5 couldn't run smoothly on max graphics. It'll not be an option I'd you're a big time smartphone game lover, like me.
Camera: There's an 8 mp rear camera and a 5 mp selfie camera on this phone. Not the biggest sensor in terms of resolution but definitely capable of some decent looking photos. Rear camera takes average images in ample lighting but conditions worsen indoors with lesser light. The selfie camera also does a decent job of reducing noise and brightness your face a bit. Not the best optics ever, bit not the worst in the market either!
Battery: This is where I was disappointed. The Eluga arc 2 has just 2450 mAh battery. There's no quick charging of any sorts and the battery life isn't very good. You'll get around 3½ hrs of continuous usage out of this battery unit. Clearly, NOT meant for gamers.
Price: The Panasonic Eluga arc 2 retails for 12,000 INR. The phone looks great and performs pretty well too, but frankly, there are far more worthy phones at this price that are worth a lot more for your money. No offense to this company though!