Wynncom Y100 – Affordable social-networking smartphone for the youth Review

The Wynncom Y100 is a feature-rich social-networking & multimedia smartphone that yields good value for money. At a price of Rs. 4,495, we have very little to bargain, except for the lack of Wi-Fi & a bundled memory card. However, it is a costly compromise to miss out on good ergonomics and a QWERTY touch keypad. A faster processor and a more responsive interface, would have made better justice to this value for money smartphone. If you aren’t a touch-screen fanatic or a performance hungry freak, then the Y100 serves as one of the most affordable touch-screen smartphones available in the market today.

[RELATED_ARTICLE]The lack of a hardware QWERTY keypad makes typing and navigation cumbersome; with all due credit to the sluggish resistive touchscreen and an equally horrendous stylus that lacks pin-point precision. We aren’t forgiving the unproductive touchscreen keypad either, which is designed in the outdated “abc” key format. The sluggish interface coupled with a stubbornly slow processor, truly makes it a horrible experience for touchscreen fanatics and novice users alike. A QWERTY style touchscreen keypad would have been the saving grace, overlooking the poorly designed ergonomics. The only big positives are the well organized menu interface, three customizable home screens and feature-rich social-networking applications including: Nimbuzz, Opera Mini, eBuddy & 160by2. In addition, mobile tracker, file protection software & mobile pouch bundled with the handset add value for money.

Read on to know the performance, our take, specifications, ratings and performance test results in the next page…

Performance

[RELATED_ARTICLE]The Y100 delivered a decent performance with unwavering voice clarity and consistent signal reception across zones one & two. However, there was a slight fall in the voice clarity across zone three, where we subjected the handset to environmental noise and signal interference in a crowded street. The speaker volume and device earpiece volume was more than audible. The camera test yielded ordinary results with average image clarity and colour depth. The lack of flash functionality resulted in blurred or out of focus images in poor light conditions. The multimedia test delivered good treble & bass balance sans distortion on volumes up to 75%, which holds true for both the bundled earphones and the loudspeaker. However, the bundled earphones sounded softer than the loudspeaker indicating better bass control & vocal sound reproduction. The quality of the display is ordinary and the legibility under bright sunshine is poor due to the glossy finish. However, we were impressed with the extremely sharp and crisp video playback at good frame rates sans stuttering or pixelation.

Our Take

The Wynncom Y100 is a feature-rich social-networking & multimedia smartphone that yields good value for money. At a price of Rs. 4,495, we have very little to bargain, except for the lack of Wi-Fi and a bundled memory card. However, it is a costly compromise to miss out on good ergonomics and a QWERTY touch keypad. A faster processor and a more responsive interface would have made better justice to this value for money smartphone. If you aren’t a touchscreen fanatic or a performance hungry freak, then the Y100 serves as one of the most affordable touchscreen smartphones available in the market today.

Specifications: SIM (GSM GSM); Display: 3.0-inch resistive touch-screen; Memory: microSD expandable up to 32GB; Battery: 1000mAh;

Ratings
Features: 6
Performance: 6.5
Build Quality: 6.5
Value for money: 7
Overall: 6.5

Contact: Wynn Telecom Ltd.
Phone: 18001029299
E-mail: info@wynntelecom.com
Website: www.wynntelecom.com
Price: Rs. 4,495