MICROMAX A50 NINJA Unboxing with and hands on with AISHA (Siri replacement)
**Micromax A50 Superphone Ninja Unboxing Review: A Detailed Walkthrough**
In the world of affordable smartphones, Micromax has always been a name to watch. Their devices often offer great value for money, and this time they’ve brought us the Micromax A50, also known as the “Superphone Ninja.” This device is billed as an Indianized version or a more budget-friendly alternative to Apple’s City (a voice recognition system). The Aisha, which stands for Artificial Intelligence Speech Handset Assistant, is the highlight of this phone. In this article, we’ll take you through an unboxing experience and initial hands-on testing of the Micromax A50.
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### **The Unboxing Experience**
When you open the box, the first thing that catches your eye is the sleek white color of the A50. The packaging feels sturdy, which is a nice touch considering the phone’s budget-friendly price. Inside, you’ll find:
- **Micromax Charger**: A standard charger with AC pins on one side and USB on the other.
- **Headset**: A basic hands-free kit with left and right speakers, an inline microphone, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
- **USB to Micro USB Cable**: For data transfer and charging.
- **Battery**: A 1200mAh battery that should provide decent power for a dual SIM device.
- **Documentation**: Includes user guides for the A50 and Aisha, as well as a warranty statement.
The packaging is somewhat minimalistic, but it gets the job done. After removing all the unnecessary items, we’re left with the phone itself, which is clean and uncluttered in design.
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### **Device Overview**
The Micromax A50 features a 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen display, making it easy to navigate. The front of the device is simple, with the Micromax branding and a small “A50” label below the earpiece. You’ll find standard buttons: menu, home, and back. On the top, there’s a power button, headphone jack, and volume rockers. The left side is clean, while the bottom has a tab to remove the back cover.
On the back, you’ll see:
- A 2-megapixel camera (no autofocus).
- A secondary microphone for noise cancellation.
- Dual SIM card slots and a microSD card slot.
The battery compartment is easy to access, and the device supports dual SIM cards for 3G and 2G networks. The inclusion of a microSD slot adds extra storage capacity, which is always appreciated.
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### **Initial Setup and Performance**
Powering on the A50 reveals its startup animation, which is quick and smooth for a budget phone. The lock screen is similar to other Micromax devices, with a five-page home layout that feels responsive for its price point. You’ll find quick launch icons for settings like brightness, timeout, auto-rotation, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, data connection, airplane mode, sound profiles, and more.
Under the hood, the A50 runs on **Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread)**, which is impressive for a $100 phone. The buttons are backlit, adding to the device’s sleek appearance.
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### **Testing the Voice Recognition System: Aisha**
One of the standout features of the Micromax A50 is Aisha, its voice recognition system. Here’s how it works:
- **Setup**: After connecting to Wi-Fi, the phone downloads an update for Aisha. You’ll need a Google account to sign in and activate the service.
- **Functionality**: Once set up, Aisha can perform tasks like updating your Facebook status, checking weather, setting reminders, sending text messages, making calls, and more. However, during testing, the voice recognition wasn’t perfect. For example:
- Asking for the time in London resulted in unclear responses: “What’s the time in London you asked? What’s the time...” It seemed to struggle with understanding commands.
- Testing Aisha further by asking about the time in New York also yielded mixed results, with the system providing correct information but in a robotic tone.
While Aisha shows promise, it’s not as polished or responsive as Siri. However, considering its price point, it’s a decent feature to have.
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### **Browser Performance**
The browser on the Micromax A50 surprised us with its speed and performance. Loading up websites was smooth, and kinetic scrolling worked well. The device supports pinch-to-zoom, though it wasn’t as fluid as we’d like. Flash ads also loaded without issues, which is a good sign for browsing.
For video playback, we tested YouTube. The phone displayed videos in the correct aspect ratio but with black lines on the top and bottom due to screen dimensions. Sound during playback was decent, though not exceptionally loud.
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### **Conclusion**
The Micromax A50 Superphone Ninja is an impressive device for its price. It offers a dual SIM setup, Android 2.3.6, and a functional (albeit basic) voice recognition system in the form of Aisha. The phone’s design is clean, and its performance during testing was better than expected.
However, there are areas that need improvement:
- **Camera**: The fixed-focus 2MP camera leaves room for growth.
- **Browser**: Pinch-to-zoom and scrolling could be smoother.
- **Voice Recognition**: Aisha needs refinement to match the capabilities of higher-end systems like Siri.
Overall, the Micromax A50 is a solid choice for anyone looking for an affordable smartphone with decent features. Stay tuned for our full review, where we’ll dive deeper into its performance and compare it with other budget devices.
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### **Call to Action**
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's happening guys this is bag.in and it's Indian city time that's right there's something called Aisha on this uh device which is an indianized version or a cheaper version of uh what Apple calls city um Aisha stands for artificial intelligence speech handset recognition or actually assistant sorry so uh a i s h a but actually what we're going to be doing is going to be unboxing the A50 Micromax superphone ninja is it's called it's ninja uh hopefully it's got some moves up its sleeves and some hidden blades and stuff going on inside the Box not too sure about that uh standard Android device from Micromax but the good thing is that it's a dual SIM phone and guess what the price is and he guesses and he guesses it's only 6,500 on the box but actually you can get it in the market for about 5,000 rupes that's it $100 and you can get get a dual SIM Android phone with Gingerbread and voice recognition system I don't know how well this works actually but I'm going to be testing that out for you guys anyway so without further Ado enter the trusty old knife uh finally I'm get to use this knife cuz we get a completely sealed box from the company so get rid of the plastic and uh there's another seal over here so I'm going to cut through that and that's done so let's pull it out and the first thing inside the box is the A5 ninja pretty decent looking handset white color especially I like that I'm going to put that aside for the time being going further into the box the standard Micromax charger I think it's time that they changed this charger but uh a standard Micromax charger AC pins on one side USB on the other and uh you do get the same hand streak kit that we've been seeing for quite some time so you have uh standard hands-free kit your left and right speakers along with the inline microphone push button to send in end calls and a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack so I'm going to put that aside as well we of course do get a USB to micro USB data charge syn cable whatever you may like to call it and lots of plastic in the packaging here's the battery the battery is a 1200 Mah hour battery so pretty decent size I'm not too sure if dual SIM uh the battery will do justice to the dual SIM but uh we get some documentation in here as well so we get a user guide in black and white this time so a user guide for the A50 and uh a user guide for Aisha which is pretty cool so I'll probably go through this one because this might have some interesting things and uh you get the warranty statement so you can get your stamps and everything once you buy the device from the market so let's quickly get rid of all these things that we don't need and uh put everything back in the box so that we don't lose anything and I'm going to quickly go ahead and take a look at the device so this is uh the A5 ninja now in the front over here you see a 3.1 in touchcreen now this is the capacitive touchcreen display so that's good and we have the speaker phone or the earpiece over here you have this small tiny A50 branding in silver below that you have the Micromax uh branding in silver as well still with the old logo not the new logo from Micromax but either way the microphones over here I'm sure you can see that then you have uh a menu button a home button and a back button and uh that's about it for the front of the device uh the right of the device also seems clean with no buttons or any other protrusions on the top you have the power lock and unlock button uh the 3.5 mm headphone jack for your hands-free kits and other headphones on the left hand side on the top over here you will see uh the micro USB charging data syncing Port along with the volume rockers and on the bottom you'll see the small tab to pull out the back cover on the back you'll see the 2 megap camera I'm not I'm not too sure if it's an autofocus camera but you have a 2 megapixel camera speaker phone and what appears to be a secondary microphone for noise cancellation I'm not too sure about that I'll just find out as soon as I remove the back cover so there seems to be a hole here and it seems to be a secondary microphone but I'm not too sure if it's actually that you have your du dual SIM card slots over here and the micro SD card slot so three slots in the same place micro SD card slot goes at the bottom micro SD goes into the bottom slot then you have uh the used Sim which is going to be your 3G SIM card and on the top is the 2G SIM card and then you have the battery compartment let's see if I have a micro SD card because apparently to run a city we need a Micro SD card and I believe I'm out of those card with me okay I do have one I'm going to pull it out of the V Duos and stuff that in there so that Aisha can run not Siri I'm sorry I said Siri earlier but it's actually Aisha so Indian city can run get everything in there let's quickly go ahead and Power on the device and see how it gives us the basic performance so you get the super phone ninja logo there let's see if they have the startup animation now the screen does have this plastic cover on it so I'm going to try get rid to that there you get the super phone uh animation as well get rid of this plastic so that you can actually take a look at the screen so uh the lock screen shows up almost identical to other uh Micromax lock screens and uh five-page home layout pretty responsive for a 5,000 rup device you do have quick launch on the top along with uh special other buttons so brightness timeout auto rotation Wi-Fi Bluetooth GPS data connection airplane mode General silent meeting Outdoors you have your sound profiles your uh toggles and uh settings for brightness timeout and auto rotation so that's good nice notification panel from Micromax uh let's get into settings over here going to about phone and and uh look at the software version you have Android 2.3.6 running on this device pretty cool you have this nice backlit buttons over here they look really nice very responsive buttons now let's see how I can pull out the voice assistant so what needs to happen is that as soon as you turn on your device connected to Wi-Fi it'll start downloading an update to Aisha so a new update to Aisha is already out and we are quickly downloading that so it appears you need to sign up with a Google account so whatever your Gmail account is just sign in with that on the Google Play Store and uh turn up Aisha and it'll come out with an update as soon as you download and install the update I think Aisha should be up and running so we'll check it out as soon as this is done in the meanwhile let's look at the device a little bit more uh we've got the camera right here so uh this is the camera let's see if it has autofocus which is mostly what was bothering me and it does not seem to have any sort of focus so no this is a fixed Focus 2 me megapixel camera and if you get into settings over here you get some brightness settings scene modes picture size standard stuff and uh nothing special with the app as well that seems to be just the standard camera app from and uh an Android camera app nothing special from Micromax over here um since we already connected to the internet I'm going to quickly jump into the browser take a look at that as well and uh seems to be loading really fast in fact I'm quite surprised because uh there seems to be no lag let's load up our website in the mobile mode right now and see how that's uh showing up on this device so it loads up the mobile mode no issues very smooth kinetic scrolling as you can see probably and it's not done loading up the uh loading up the site right now so uh let's give it that extra time to load up the website completely now it's done and you can see kinetic scrolling very very smooth quite surprising actually going to switch from uh the mobile theme to the direct theme go to the full website now and see how that looks on this device and uh yes we do have an accelerometer I believe or we don't let's see auto rotation needs to be turned on and uh let's check it out now yes we do have auto rotation and an accelerometer seems to be working just fine pinch to zoom out seems to be pretty smooth as well so that's the website loading up let's give it that extra minute and uh pretty impressive browser from Micromax in a 5,000 rupe phone pinch to zoom in is also pretty good you can also read the text Banning is a little slow right now but again it's still loading up the side so I'm not too sure if it's because of that or the browser itself is slow but uh scrolling seems to be pretty all right so it's done now and uh pinch to zoom in is a little buggy and you can see panning is also a little buggy but uh not as smooth as we like like it to be but it's a decent browser it loaded up the full website you you can see flash ads running in the background and uh it's loading up flash ads as well I don't know how but it is uh so that's pretty impressive and uh we'll see if it can play some YouTube videos as well for us so let's jump out in the home screen and quickly jump into YouTube so we've got the microx fun book video that we just recently uploaded let's quickly play that and let's see if we can get it in high quality maximize the volume guys and this is a quick update on the situation of the microx fun book uh now uh you see this black uh you see these black lines on the top and the bottom of the screen so that means the aspect ratio of the screen does not fit uh the standard aspect ratio so you'll always see these black lines when you're watching video uh also one more thing that I noticed is that the volume on the speakers is not so loud in during video playback so that's something that we'll have to see and we we'll have to see if we can enhance that that a little bit hopefully now Aisha has been downloaded and updated and installed and all of that so let's quickly get into Aisha now so time to test it out hello you hello hi there what's the time in London you asked what's the time date is 2 May 2012 time is 13 hours 1 minutes what's the time in London you asked Su no London time you asked London do you write the tooth it's got quite interesting responses but it's clearly not understanding what I'm trying to say so I'll try this again what is the time in London you asked what is the time date is 2 May 2 2012 time is 13 hours 1 minutes I really have to see what this understands so it can update your Facebook status it can inquire about date and time of weather of the desired location but it's not doing that I really want to test that out so uh let's try another city then what is the time in New York you asked what is the time date is 2 May 2012 time is 13 hours 2 minutes so it's something that we really have to set up and test so it can update your Facebook statuses um you can do a couple of things but you always need to be connected to the internet it can send text messages for you make calls and view your status and everything so uh that's pretty good I'm going to be testing this out of course compared to Siri the voice and all that is not so responsive and it sounds like a robot is talking to you but it's pretty good it's something that you get in 5,000 rupes what else can you ask for you get voice response and uh people will be really happy with something like this in their uh device it seems to be pretty all right I'm going to be testing it out completely and seeing if it actually Compares with uh Siri and I'm going to be doing a video where I do a side by-side comparison with Siri as well just for those people who really want that so there you go guys this was a quick unboxing quick hands- on with the Micromax A50 superphone ninja with the sh super blades but actually it's got a voice recognition system called not City it's called I and uh we gave it a little run there and it's not so great right now it's constantly telling me the time in my city but we'll check it out we'll see how it's performing and we'll come back with a full review very very soon if you have any questions or queries regarding this particular product leave a comment in the comment section below catch us on Facebook Twitter go+ the links to those are on the video right now in the description below for quick links uh for more unboxing videos reviews tutorials log on to .in also subscribe to our YouTube channels youtube.com/ youtube.com/ TV we also have a giveaway coming up by the end of this week or the beginning of next week so stay tuned for that and subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to get to know about more about uh the giveaway uh we're going to be giving away some really nice goodies this time so you want to be subscribed to YouTube on Igan and uh you'll get to know about that as well so stay tuned for that guys uh this been Bal thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys in the next videowhat's happening guys this is bag.in and it's Indian city time that's right there's something called Aisha on this uh device which is an indianized version or a cheaper version of uh what Apple calls city um Aisha stands for artificial intelligence speech handset recognition or actually assistant sorry so uh a i s h a but actually what we're going to be doing is going to be unboxing the A50 Micromax superphone ninja is it's called it's ninja uh hopefully it's got some moves up its sleeves and some hidden blades and stuff going on inside the Box not too sure about that uh standard Android device from Micromax but the good thing is that it's a dual SIM phone and guess what the price is and he guesses and he guesses it's only 6,500 on the box but actually you can get it in the market for about 5,000 rupes that's it $100 and you can get get a dual SIM Android phone with Gingerbread and voice recognition system I don't know how well this works actually but I'm going to be testing that out for you guys anyway so without further Ado enter the trusty old knife uh finally I'm get to use this knife cuz we get a completely sealed box from the company so get rid of the plastic and uh there's another seal over here so I'm going to cut through that and that's done so let's pull it out and the first thing inside the box is the A5 ninja pretty decent looking handset white color especially I like that I'm going to put that aside for the time being going further into the box the standard Micromax charger I think it's time that they changed this charger but uh a standard Micromax charger AC pins on one side USB on the other and uh you do get the same hand streak kit that we've been seeing for quite some time so you have uh standard hands-free kit your left and right speakers along with the inline microphone push button to send in end calls and a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack so I'm going to put that aside as well we of course do get a USB to micro USB data charge syn cable whatever you may like to call it and lots of plastic in the packaging here's the battery the battery is a 1200 Mah hour battery so pretty decent size I'm not too sure if dual SIM uh the battery will do justice to the dual SIM but uh we get some documentation in here as well so we get a user guide in black and white this time so a user guide for the A50 and uh a user guide for Aisha which is pretty cool so I'll probably go through this one because this might have some interesting things and uh you get the warranty statement so you can get your stamps and everything once you buy the device from the market so let's quickly get rid of all these things that we don't need and uh put everything back in the box so that we don't lose anything and I'm going to quickly go ahead and take a look at the device so this is uh the A5 ninja now in the front over here you see a 3.1 in touchcreen now this is the capacitive touchcreen display so that's good and we have the speaker phone or the earpiece over here you have this small tiny A50 branding in silver below that you have the Micromax uh branding in silver as well still with the old logo not the new logo from Micromax but either way the microphones over here I'm sure you can see that then you have uh a menu button a home button and a back button and uh that's about it for the front of the device uh the right of the device also seems clean with no buttons or any other protrusions on the top you have the power lock and unlock button uh the 3.5 mm headphone jack for your hands-free kits and other headphones on the left hand side on the top over here you will see uh the micro USB charging data syncing Port along with the volume rockers and on the bottom you'll see the small tab to pull out the back cover on the back you'll see the 2 megap camera I'm not I'm not too sure if it's an autofocus camera but you have a 2 megapixel camera speaker phone and what appears to be a secondary microphone for noise cancellation I'm not too sure about that I'll just find out as soon as I remove the back cover so there seems to be a hole here and it seems to be a secondary microphone but I'm not too sure if it's actually that you have your du dual SIM card slots over here and the micro SD card slot so three slots in the same place micro SD card slot goes at the bottom micro SD goes into the bottom slot then you have uh the used Sim which is going to be your 3G SIM card and on the top is the 2G SIM card and then you have the battery compartment let's see if I have a micro SD card because apparently to run a city we need a Micro SD card and I believe I'm out of those card with me okay I do have one I'm going to pull it out of the V Duos and stuff that in there so that Aisha can run not Siri I'm sorry I said Siri earlier but it's actually Aisha so Indian city can run get everything in there let's quickly go ahead and Power on the device and see how it gives us the basic performance so you get the super phone ninja logo there let's see if they have the startup animation now the screen does have this plastic cover on it so I'm going to try get rid to that there you get the super phone uh animation as well get rid of this plastic so that you can actually take a look at the screen so uh the lock screen shows up almost identical to other uh Micromax lock screens and uh five-page home layout pretty responsive for a 5,000 rup device you do have quick launch on the top along with uh special other buttons so brightness timeout auto rotation Wi-Fi Bluetooth GPS data connection airplane mode General silent meeting Outdoors you have your sound profiles your uh toggles and uh settings for brightness timeout and auto rotation so that's good nice notification panel from Micromax uh let's get into settings over here going to about phone and and uh look at the software version you have Android 2.3.6 running on this device pretty cool you have this nice backlit buttons over here they look really nice very responsive buttons now let's see how I can pull out the voice assistant so what needs to happen is that as soon as you turn on your device connected to Wi-Fi it'll start downloading an update to Aisha so a new update to Aisha is already out and we are quickly downloading that so it appears you need to sign up with a Google account so whatever your Gmail account is just sign in with that on the Google Play Store and uh turn up Aisha and it'll come out with an update as soon as you download and install the update I think Aisha should be up and running so we'll check it out as soon as this is done in the meanwhile let's look at the device a little bit more uh we've got the camera right here so uh this is the camera let's see if it has autofocus which is mostly what was bothering me and it does not seem to have any sort of focus so no this is a fixed Focus 2 me megapixel camera and if you get into settings over here you get some brightness settings scene modes picture size standard stuff and uh nothing special with the app as well that seems to be just the standard camera app from and uh an Android camera app nothing special from Micromax over here um since we already connected to the internet I'm going to quickly jump into the browser take a look at that as well and uh seems to be loading really fast in fact I'm quite surprised because uh there seems to be no lag let's load up our website in the mobile mode right now and see how that's uh showing up on this device so it loads up the mobile mode no issues very smooth kinetic scrolling as you can see probably and it's not done loading up the uh loading up the site right now so uh let's give it that extra time to load up the website completely now it's done and you can see kinetic scrolling very very smooth quite surprising actually going to switch from uh the mobile theme to the direct theme go to the full website now and see how that looks on this device and uh yes we do have an accelerometer I believe or we don't let's see auto rotation needs to be turned on and uh let's check it out now yes we do have auto rotation and an accelerometer seems to be working just fine pinch to zoom out seems to be pretty smooth as well so that's the website loading up let's give it that extra minute and uh pretty impressive browser from Micromax in a 5,000 rupe phone pinch to zoom in is also pretty good you can also read the text Banning is a little slow right now but again it's still loading up the side so I'm not too sure if it's because of that or the browser itself is slow but uh scrolling seems to be pretty all right so it's done now and uh pinch to zoom in is a little buggy and you can see panning is also a little buggy but uh not as smooth as we like like it to be but it's a decent browser it loaded up the full website you you can see flash ads running in the background and uh it's loading up flash ads as well I don't know how but it is uh so that's pretty impressive and uh we'll see if it can play some YouTube videos as well for us so let's jump out in the home screen and quickly jump into YouTube so we've got the microx fun book video that we just recently uploaded let's quickly play that and let's see if we can get it in high quality maximize the volume guys and this is a quick update on the situation of the microx fun book uh now uh you see this black uh you see these black lines on the top and the bottom of the screen so that means the aspect ratio of the screen does not fit uh the standard aspect ratio so you'll always see these black lines when you're watching video uh also one more thing that I noticed is that the volume on the speakers is not so loud in during video playback so that's something that we'll have to see and we we'll have to see if we can enhance that that a little bit hopefully now Aisha has been downloaded and updated and installed and all of that so let's quickly get into Aisha now so time to test it out hello you hello hi there what's the time in London you asked what's the time date is 2 May 2012 time is 13 hours 1 minutes what's the time in London you asked Su no London time you asked London do you write the tooth it's got quite interesting responses but it's clearly not understanding what I'm trying to say so I'll try this again what is the time in London you asked what is the time date is 2 May 2 2012 time is 13 hours 1 minutes I really have to see what this understands so it can update your Facebook status it can inquire about date and time of weather of the desired location but it's not doing that I really want to test that out so uh let's try another city then what is the time in New York you asked what is the time date is 2 May 2012 time is 13 hours 2 minutes so it's something that we really have to set up and test so it can update your Facebook statuses um you can do a couple of things but you always need to be connected to the internet it can send text messages for you make calls and view your status and everything so uh that's pretty good I'm going to be testing this out of course compared to Siri the voice and all that is not so responsive and it sounds like a robot is talking to you but it's pretty good it's something that you get in 5,000 rupes what else can you ask for you get voice response and uh people will be really happy with something like this in their uh device it seems to be pretty all right I'm going to be testing it out completely and seeing if it actually Compares with uh Siri and I'm going to be doing a video where I do a side by-side comparison with Siri as well just for those people who really want that so there you go guys this was a quick unboxing quick hands- on with the Micromax A50 superphone ninja with the sh super blades but actually it's got a voice recognition system called not City it's called I and uh we gave it a little run there and it's not so great right now it's constantly telling me the time in my city but we'll check it out we'll see how it's performing and we'll come back with a full review very very soon if you have any questions or queries regarding this particular product leave a comment in the comment section below catch us on Facebook Twitter go+ the links to those are on the video right now in the description below for quick links uh for more unboxing videos reviews tutorials log on to .in also subscribe to our YouTube channels youtube.com/ youtube.com/ TV we also have a giveaway coming up by the end of this week or the beginning of next week so stay tuned for that and subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to get to know about more about uh the giveaway uh we're going to be giving away some really nice goodies this time so you want to be subscribed to YouTube on Igan and uh you'll get to know about that as well so stay tuned for that guys uh this been Bal thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys in the next video\n"