Micromax has launched yet another product in the Canvas series after the recently launched Micromax Canvas 3D A115 (see video review). This new Canvas phone is called the Micromax Canvas Doodle A111 comes with a capacitive Stylus with the phone and has a 5.3 inch display with 854×400 pixels resolution and just 9.9 mm thickness. The MRP on the box is Rs. 15999 but the street price or MOP is around Rs. 12999. The phone is available for sale online at Snapdeal already.
Celkon mobiles has just launched a budget quad core smartphone in the country with pretty high end specs at a very attractive price tag. The smartphone has been launched for Rs.12,499 and the spec sheet is pretty good too. The highlight of the package is not only the quad core processor, but its bright screen which has resolution of 720p like the Canvas HD. It has been named as the Celkon 119Q Signature HD.
Lenovo has been doing pretty well in the computing arena despite the slowdown in the sales of notebooks and personal computers and the company has been strengthening its smartphone game as well. The company has just teased an upcoming smartphone, the Lenovo 780 which will be a budget quad core smartphone, but its battery will literally be on steroids. The smartphone will feature a 4,000 mAH battery as its USP.
Karbonn Mobiles have secretly launched the successor to their S1 Titanium – the Karbonn S2 Titanium for ₹10790. There are a few changes when comparing with the S1 like the camera was 5MP on S1 but is 8MP on the Karbonn S2, the screen on the S1 comes with a 4.5 inch screen with 960×540 pixels resolution and S2 has a bigger screen of 5 inches but with FWVGA resolution (854×480). The battery capacity has also been increased to 2100 mAh on S2 as compared to the 1600 mAh on the S1. Rest of the hardware remains the same, justifying the price.
Wickedleak has been slowly and steadily giving itself a strong footing in India by bringing some more than value for money products to the Indian market, and after the Wammy Desire tablet became a hit amongst the Indians, the company has launched the Wammy Desire II. The tablet has some real good internals and the price tag seems just too less for the specs on offer. It has been priced at Rs.9,999 and now let us talk about the specs of the tablet.
Nokia has announced is new Asha 501 globally from India which is one of the largest feature phones markets for Nokia. The new phones use high quality build, strong materials, come with vibrant colour options, expandable memory, capacitive touch screen and high quality cameras. The Asha series get their name from Hindi word “Asha” which means hope, signifying the hope and aspiration from these affordable devices. The Asha series have up to 18% market share in their price segment. The Asha series phones also use Nokia Xpress browser compression technology to speed up browsing.
Nokia Asha 501 comes loaded with a large 17 hours battery life, hot-swappable micro-SIM, hardened glass, Capacitive touch screen, Dual SIM,4GB card included, direct social options. Features include swipe features between different screens, Nokia Xpress cloud technology to make web browsing faster. It has been launched in 6 colour options including red, yellow, white, green, blue and black.
The Fastlane technology of Asha offers two different home screen which is one for the social network, updates an notes and other one for Apps. Nokia also claims that the performance of the Asha 501 is one of its USPs. Nokia has SLAM sharing technology for sharing pictures and files which uses Bluetooth transfer with other Asha phones in the proximity with the SLAM feature. This is something parallel to BUMP on iPhone or s-beam on Samsung.
Talking about the software platform, the Asha 501 is based on Symbian S40 platform, which we though is out, but Nokia has given it a second life with the 501. Interestingly, Nokia is branding it as Asha platform.
Nokia Asha 501 offers 3.2 MP camera. The initial model of the Asha 501 is a 2G and EDGE enabled, but Nokia will follow up with newer models with 3G options.
Nokia has also tied up with Operators and Facebook to offer Facebook for FREE on certain operator networks like Idea mobile using their Nokia Asha 501. This will give a good boost to the sales of Asha phones and also to operators.
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Nokia Asha 501 will be available in June 2013 and the pricing will be around Rs. 6000 or USD $99 for global markets.
Acer was the first company to bring a budget tablet in the form of Acer Iconica B1 and the company has just announced the cheapest quad core tablet offering from a MNC, the Iconica A1. The budget tablet has 7.9 inch screen which has a resolution of 1024×768 pixels. It will come in two guises, Wi-Fi only and 3G+Wi-Fi. Also there will be two memory options, 8GB and 16GB with the latter being the dearer option.
