The Mercury XL comes with a similar hardware setup as the Gigabyte Maya M1 v2, but the screen is with a higher resolution of 1280x720 which results in a 326ppi. The phone welcomes us with one predefined wallpaper showing rich colors and some of the usual application icons are brought from the drawer to the desktop:

By going to the drawer, we will recognize many apps we have presented before, but also some additional ones:

The preinstalled Backup application will only work if we have a SD card installed inside the phone:

Next we have the Camera application which is very similar to the one from the other MTK phone:

Google Drive is preinstalled for accessing our files from the cloud:

The default file manager lets us navigate through the internal storage space and also the external SD card if we have it installed; we can see from the beginning that the phone does not have a lot of space left so purchasing an additional SD card is kind of mandatory:

The FM Radio application allows us to listen to the local stations, but only when we have the headset connected, which will act as an antenna:

For checking various areas or locking on to our location we have available the Google Maps application: