Intex Aqua i5HD Hands on and First Look: Certainly Not The Best Mid Range Smartphone, But Passable

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Intex Aqua i5HD- Processor and Software

The Aqua i5HD is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor with Mali 400 GPU, coupled with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal memory, which can be later expanded up to 32GB via a microSD card slot.

In our brief time spent with the device, we found that navigation across the menu and opening and switching apps was silky smooth. With the built-in 1GB of RAM , the phone seemed to be buttery smooth. However, we're not sure about the gaming performance on this phone. Again performance wise, the Intex Aqua i5HD fared well.

Software's the next. The Aqua i5HD is running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean out-of-the-box, and it's paired quite with Intex's tweaked UI. Obviously, the launcher and menu icons are quite different from standard Android UI. The UI is more colorful and vibrant than ever.

The makers have added their own home baked apps, notably, Intex Games Club, Intex Cloud, Auto Call Record, Charge Info and Intex Care. Out of those, Intex Cloud is more practical in nature. According to Intex, those you will get this device will get a 5 GB of Cloud storage without any charge.