Maxwest Astro X5


Maxwest launched their latest flagship Maxwest Astro X5 in India with attractive specifications and price. The phone is running on Android v4.4 (KitKat) OS with powerful 1 GHz Dual core processor. It has dedicated graphics processing unit(Mali-400) for video and graphics enhancement. It has 512 MB RAM for processor data acceleration.

Maxwest Astro X5 built with Dual SIM (GSM + WCDMA), Dual Standby card option for voice calling. Users have 3G mobile network support in this phone. In this 3G android phone, the maximum download speed is 42.2 Mbps and upload speed is 5.76 Mbps. GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz network band used for 2G, HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz network band used for 3G and for 4G, network no available.

The phone has 5 inches display with 480 x 854 Pixels resolutions and the technology used for display is IPS capacitive touchscreen. There is no display protection available and the rear camera power is 5 MP. Front camera having only VGA and some of the camera features are Autofocus, Geo-tagging, touch focus, panorama, face detection, HDR. VGA front camera helps to take selfies and also helpful for video calling.

Inbuilt storage of this Maxwest model is 4 GB and it can be further expanded up to 32 GB through microSD card. Used version 2.0 micro USB for physical connectivity and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, hotspot etc are available. For navigation, used A-GPS.


The phone has 2,100 mAh Li-Ion battery. It can provide long standby and talktime. The dimension of this phone is 5.66 x 2.87 x 0.37 inches. Total device weight is 154 grams. FM Radio is available in this phone and the list of supporting audio and video file formats are: MP3, AAC, WMA, AMR,3GP, MP4, WMV, FLV. Some inbuilt apps are added to this phone for providing better user service.