Micromax is slowly but certainly making its way up. It started off as a feature phone maker, and now has a sizable offering on the smartphone scene. The new Android One phone from Micromax also is testimony to the brand’s growth.
A new smartphone, namely the Canvas 4 Plus A315, was spotted on reseller listings earlier today. As you can see from the pictures, the Canvas 4 Plus looks a lot like a few Chinese phones from last year.
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The specs sheet carries nothing spectacular, minus the AMOLED screen which is an oddity (a welcome one, perhaps) for a Micromax phone. It’s a 5 inch panel with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, so the Canvas 4 Plus isn’t aiming at the stars. It’s other specifications include a 1.7GHz octa-core CPU (yes, the MT6592), 1GB of RAM, 16GB of ROM and the rather usual set of cameras in a 13 mega-pixel rear and a 5 mega-pixel front.
Specifications
- 5-inch 1280 x 720p AMOLED display
- 1.7GHz octa-core processor
- 1GB RAM
- 16GB on-board storage
- 13 mega-pixel rear camera
- 5 mega-pixel front camera
- 2000mAh battery
Many phones with similar, and often better specifications sell for less than the 16,750 INR (US$273) that the Canvas 4 Plus charges. Yes, the AMOLED display does deserve some credit, but something tells me that Micromax is going to have a hard time selling this phone.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note is due for the Indian market in a couple of weeks or so, so it is possible that Micromax is looking to make hay while the sun shines!
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If you buy a modern Android phone with only 1GB of RAM, you deserve all you get.
Actually unless you’re a really heavy user or want to play high end games 1 GB is not that bad and with Android L I think memory usage might drop even further.
Hell 1 GB is even OK for a computer with Windows 8.1 :).
Sure more is better but 1 GB is quite fine, don’t just look at memory usage, Android just like any other OS is memory greedy meaning that it will probably use all it’s got and only discard data from RAM when it needs to load new data.
This is also not a FullHD phone so that helps with RAM usage. You can also tell it’s meant to be cheap hence the 1GB of RAM and lack of FullHD.
It should be good enough but for these specs a MTK6582 is better suited and would have made the phone cost even less. Of course that mean loosing the 8 core bragging rights.
For $273, you deserve what you get if you buy this phone.
If you buy a phone for $273 with 1gb of RAM and 720p screen you deserve what you get. But several people today and get away with only having 1gb of RAM depending on what they use their phone for. I still have the original Nexus 7 with 1gb of RAM and it still performs flawlessly for what I use it for (watching movies, listening to music, light gaming).
Didn’t realize it was $273 thought it is written in the article. It’s actually worth $160 or let’s say $200 at most.
Yea specs wise it is at best a $200 phone and even that is kinda pushing it.
If you buy a modern Android phone with only 1GB of RAM, you deserve all you get.
Actually unless you’re a really heavy user or want to play high end games 1 GB is not that bad and with Android L I think memory usage might drop even further.
Hell 1 GB is even OK for a computer with Windows 8.1 :).
Sure more is better but 1 GB is quite fine, don’t just look at memory usage, Android just like any other OS is memory greedy meaning that it will probably use all it’s got and only discard data from RAM when it needs to load new data.
This is also not a FullHD phone so that helps with RAM usage. You can also tell it’s meant to be cheap hence the 1GB of RAM and lack of FullHD.
It should be good enough but for these specs a MTK6582 is better suited and would have made the phone cost even less. Of course that mean loosing the 8 core bragging rights.
For $273, you deserve what you get if you buy this phone.
If you buy a phone for $273 with 1gb of RAM and 720p screen you deserve what you get. But several people today and get away with only having 1gb of RAM depending on what they use their phone for. I still have the original Nexus 7 with 1gb of RAM and it still performs flawlessly for what I use it for (watching movies, listening to music, light gaming).
Didn’t realize it was $273 thought it is written in the article. It’s actually worth $160 or let’s say $200 at most.
Yea specs wise it is at best a $200 phone and even that is kinda pushing it.
Meh… Maybe for $200
Meh… Maybe for $200
Looks like a knockoff Vivo but for $273 I can find much better phones than this. Doing a quick search I found the following phones for around the same price or lower than that:
Xiaomi Mi3 – $269
TCL Idol X – $229
THL 5000 – $259
Kingzone K1 – $269
Meizu MX3 – $279
For a little extra you can get a Nubia Z7 mini or Gionee S5.5.
Looks like a knockoff Vivo but for $273 I can find much better phones than this. Doing a quick search I found the following phones for around the same price or lower than that:
Xiaomi Mi3 – $269
TCL Idol X – $229
THL 5000 – $259
Kingzone K1 – $269
Meizu MX3 – $279
For a little extra you can get a Nubia Z7 mini or Gionee S5.5.
LOL 2000mAh…. Amoled or not, for $274 1000000% not worth it. Next!
LOL 2000mAh…. Amoled or not, for $274 1000000% not worth it. Next!