Umi mobiles, a Chinese smartphone maker that is foraying into India slowly has just launched a the cheapest 720p quad core smartphone in India. The UMI S1 has been launched to tighten the noose around the Micromax Canvas HD A116 as it offers similar features at a lower price point. The UMI S1 will retail for Rs.12,000 and the smartphone can be ordered from the company’s website.
Sony has been going all guns blazing by launching some really good Android powered smartphones on the global frontier as well as India. India has been getting Sony smartphones before a lot of major markets and in sync with that, Sony has just launched their mid ranger, the Xperia SP in India for Rs.27,490 and the smartphone is expected to be available through brick and mortar stores by the third week of April 2013.
Zen Mobiles, another player in the budget smartphone market in India has just launched their budget quad core smartphone offering, the Zen Ultrafone 701 HD in the Indian market. The smartphone has not been launched officially but has gone up for ordering on Snapdeal.com which seems to be thier exclusive partner for the launch of the device. The smartphone has a lot going in its favour and might give Zen a strong footing in the market.
As the named suggests, the smartphone will have a HD screen. It comes with a 5 inch screen of 720p resolution like the Canvas HD. The price of the smartphone has been kept Rs.11,999 and is being offered with a screen guard, a spare back panel and a flip cover. It can be pre booked by paying a paltry sum of Rs.101 and it is expected to start the shipping by the time the third week of March ends which is not too far.
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Micromax just can not stay out of the headlines. Their latest entrant in the smartphone arena, the Micromax A116, the cheapest 720p quad core smartphone has received more than what we can call a warm reception and even though the device seems to making its way to the retail stores, it still is out of stock at a lot of places. But Micromax is not done yet. They are all set to bring a new device to the party.
The images of the country’s first ever budget 3D smartphone have skipped on to the interweb and who else but Micromax will be the company launching it. Micromax Canvas 3D A115 will be the name of the device suggesting that it will be slotted below the A116 and a 3D device at a sub Rs.15,000 price surely gets our heartbeat racing. The smartphone will feature a similar body as the Micromax A115.
Samsung is of the opinion if it’s big, it’s better. And it plans on staying ahead of the competition. In recent times, the size of the smartphones have been increasing and Samsung has just launched their Mega series of mid range phablets. The junior member, the Galaxy Mega 5.8 will be the cheaper one and the Galaxy Mega 6.3 will be the dearer one. And today we are going to tell you about the Galaxy Mega 5.8.
The smartphone as the name suggests has a 5.8 inch screen of qHD resolution which translates into a pixel density of 199ppi which is nothing great but it does so to keep the costs in check. It has a dual core processor of Cortex A15 architecture ticking at 1.4 GHz. It will run on the latest version of Android, 4.2 Jelly Bean and it might the 5.0 Key Lime Pie update as well seeing the fact that Samsung believes in keeping customers happy in the upgrade department.
Karbonn Mobiles launched an 4.5 inch android Ice Cream Sandwich device powered by 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor along with Broadcom’s 3G platform. Broadcom Corporation is a semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business.Broadcom is the top 10 semiconductor Vendors by revenue in 2012. This phone is available through online retailers like Flipkart. The official price of this device is INR 7990/-. The phone has very decent specifications for its price. It has 4.5 inch capacitive touch screen with 854×480 pixels resolution. It is powered by 1800 mAh battery. On the back it has 5 MP camera, and at front it has a VGA camera for video calling. With 1 GHz Cortex A9 processor and 512 MB RAM it will give the decent performance. For storage there is 4 GB internal memory with up to 32 GB expandable SD card support.
Lava has announced their latest addition to their Android smart phone line up – the Iris 455. Lava made this announcement on the blockbuster phone day when a lot of other participants had something of their own. Prior to this Lava had launched Iris 454 for Rs. 8,499 which is a lot similar to this. The only significant difference between the two is of the operating system, that is Iris 454 runs on Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich where the new Iris 455 runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
