Most mobile enthusiasts would be all gung-ho about the umpteen phones bestowed with super-advanced features. Nevertheless, there’s still something about the basic handsets that holds the attention of many. Minus any frills and fancies, they seem to offer communication to the best of their capabilities. And not many manufacturers these days can claim to center their focus on this category of mobile phones presently particularly with the advent of enhanced platforms. Olive for one had us begging to differ as the company brought to India a slew of interesting products. Among the mobile phones, we earlier analyzed the OlivePwrr Dual-SIM phone. This time around we’ve managed to lay our hands on the Olive FrvrOn V-G2300. Here’s an in-depth review.
With claims of being India’s premier hybrid mobile phone that also functions on AAA batteries, we couldn’t wait to detail this one out. Launched early last month, the phone’s feature gazette popped out quite some interesting attributes we must say. This included a 1.5” color display, integrated FM radio, stereo headset, speaker phone and enclosed AAA batteries. The company backs it up by a 1 year warranty while also supplementing it with a headset, a travel charger and user manual. Opening the box revealed the very small black colored phone, the tiny size of which actually took us by surprise. The phone tips the scale at about 250gms making it super light and compact.
Considering it was an entry-level handset, the appearance of the phone was quite good. Adorning a simple plastic chassis, the phone bears a simplistic and bare look. Its slightly concave back panel reveals semicircular patterns and gets a thumbs up for adding to the phone’s distinct appearance. The handset’s compact candy bar fabrication shows off a tiny screen with the Olive logo inked just below it. Moving a little further down the logo takes you to the rubberized keypad complete with four main buttons counting a yellow call answer and a red call end button. Between the four buttons is the eye-catching circular navigation pad with a red scrubbing in the ring. The left, right, up and down keys of the pad can be assigned shortcuts of desired functions.
As we moved in on ticking Menu, we were rather enthused to find a very simple and uncluttered interface. Each function in the interface appeared as if seated in raised boxlike buttons. Featuring a 200 contacts capacity, if you must you can even adjust the call waiting, forwarding and barring options as per your liking through the basic network service function. While the Messaging attribute is enabled for both simple text messages and voice mail, Call Records should give you a daily dope on calls you may have missed, received or dialed. As instantly as we spotted FM Radio we hopped onto it and might we say were very disappointed with the radio reception. Adding to the woes was a manual frequency setting complemented by a low-quality loudspeaker. In fact with the loudspeaker on, it was more like a din than listening to music.
Profile settings can be toggled between Standard, Conference, Outdoor, Mute and My Style. On the application front, the phone bundles in two games, Tetris and Sudoku. While there was nothing different about Sudoku, Tetris had us reminiscing over the past gaming scenario though now with colored bricks. There’s also a wide range of polyphonic ringtones incorporated though we didn’t fancy being pleased with the sound of those overtly loud tones. The colored display though tiny at 1.5” astonished us in a way with its wide list of settings. The LCD contrast of the screen can be tweaked to a maximum of 10 while three wallpaper and theme settings can also be chosen from. The handset supports English, Hindi, French and Indonesian languages. Basic applications such as Alarm, Calculator, Calendar, Memo, Stopwatch and Time Zone are also onboard.
In terms of performance, the call reception of the phone was quite respectable. Also the rubberized keypad quite kept our fingers busy as we were engrossed in comfortable text conversations. The highlight of the phone was the supplemented AAA batteries that can be inserted in a slot just next to the phone battery.With both batteries together, the phone displays two charge statuses in the display’s top right corner. The green one signifies the AAA battery. You can’t use both batteries simultaneously and obviously the AAA batteries have been added for advantage in case of emergency situations where charging the phone may be next to impossible. When the phone is low on battery, all you have to do is insert the AAA batteries and you’re ready to go. On doing so, the battery status of the Li-on battery quickly enters in charge mode. With just the Li-ion battery the phone may need to be charged at the end of the day on heavy usage, though traditionally its three hour talktime should suffice.
In perspective, the phone is a neat bundle of virtually everything needed in a basic handset. Pure communication lovers should be drawn towards it particularly if they don’t fancy spending too much on a mobile phone. The phone comes without any additional baggage and sits well in the entry-level mobile market. The handset gets 8.2 out of 10 on our scorecard. Its price tag at Rs. 1,600 only with a one-year warranty seems to make it even more alluring.
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