Micromax Bolt D321 is now listed on official website

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Micromax Bolt D321 is now listed on official website

Micromax has quietly listed the new Bolt D321 Dual-SIM phone on its official website. Joining the Bolt series, the new smartphone is yet to get a formal announcement and a price tag.

New Bolt D321 offers a 5-inch FWVGA display and is powered with a modest dual-core 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6572 mobile chipset coupled with mere 512MB RAM. Running the Android 4.4.2 KitKat, the handset brings Voice Commands support along with pre-loaded apps such as Opera Mini, Truecaller, Clean Master, Saavn, Snapdeal, Quickr, and more.

The storage is limited at 4GB but you can add up to 32GB microSD card. Even 1800 mAh battery backup would be enough for this 'big screen entertainment' promising phone.

At the rear is a 5MP camera with fixed focus and LED flash. The 0.3MP front facing camera might not be good enough to click selfies. Supporting 3G network connectivity, one can always enjoy fast downloads over Wi-Fi network. This smartphone is set to arrive in white and blue color options.

Micromax announces Lollipop update for its Canvas phones

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Micromax announces Lollipop update for its Canvas phones

Micromax has announced that it will updating its Canvas range of Android smartphones in India to Android 5.0 Lollipop update in the coming weeks.

The first phone in the Canvas series to get the Lollipop update will be the Canvas Xpress A99, which is a budget smartphone.

Company Spokesperson, Micromax Informatics Ltd. said, “As a brand, we are committed to keep our customers delighted with best in class technologies and experience. Riding on the same thought, we are today rolling out the Android L update with Canvas Xpress, making the overall user experience more efficient and seamless.”

The update will be available as an OTA to the Canvas phones. Meanwhile, still no sign of Lollipop update on the Android One smartphones from Google, or the YU Yureka, which runs on Cyanogen OS.

Samsung loses its position as India’s top smartphone vendor

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Samsung loses its position as India’s top smartphone vendor

Just a few days after market research firm Counterpoint noted that Samsung actually lost its title of the world’s leading smartphone vendor in Q4, 2014, it is being reported that the South Korean company has been dethroned in the Indian smartphone market, too.

According to a report from market research firm Canalys, with 22% of the market share in Q4 last year, local budget brand Micromax has now become the top smartphone vendor in the country, ahead of Samsung at 20%. The Indian company already overtook the South Korean firm as the leading brand in all types of mobile phones last year.

"This incredible performance is partly due to Micromax’s continuing appeal to mobile phone users upgrading to smart phones," the report said. "Its flagship line of products has also very effectively targeted the US$150 to US$200 (INR9,000 to INR12,000) segment, with products such as the Canvas Nitro and Canvas Hue."

The third and the fourth spots were also claimed by Indian companies, namely Karbonn Mobiles and Lava, respectively. Overall, the Indian smartphone market, which is the third largest in the world, experienced a strong annual growth of 90%, with a total of 21.6 million units shipping in the quarter, the report notes.

Micromax Canvas Tab P666 tablet with an aluminum frame announced

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Micromax Canvas Tab P666 tablet with an aluminum frame announced

Micromax unveiled an Intel Atom-powered version of the Canvas Tab tablet. The tablet is build out of aluminum and glass and measures 7.9mm thick, it packs an 8" IPS display with 1,280 x 800px resolution. The new Micromax Canvas Tab carries the model number P666, to separate it from the P650, which uses a Cortex-A7 based chipset.

There's more than the chipset though – the new tablet is thinner (7.9mm vs. 9.6mm) and has a sharper screen (189ppi vs. 160ppi). It launches with a newer version of Android too – 4.4 KitKat – though the internal storage is just 8GB (there's a microSD card slot). RAM is 1GB.

The Canvas Tab P666 has a 5MP/1080p main camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. The battery has 4,400mAh capacity, which doesn’t sound like much – it lasts 6 hours of browsing time, 7 hours of video playback and 15 hours of talk time.

That's right, the tablet features 3G connectivity (HSPA 21Mbps) with voice call support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. It will be available in Magnetic Black and Puritan White.

The Micromax Canvas Tab P666 is available in India for INR 11,000 ($180/&eur;160).

Micromax Yureka Review

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Micromax Yureka Review

REVIEW

You should be already familiar with India's second largest smartphone manufacturer Micromax mobiles, recently anoounced and launched a new sub-brand called YU in partnership with Cyanogen Inc. and the first phone from YU line is the so named Yureka, which was recently launched exclusively on Amazon India.

For those reading this section , mind yourself that you are reading about an under 150$ (9000 INR) rupees phone, Micromax Yureka, running Cyanogen OS 11. It is also one of the cheapest dual-SIM 4G Android smartphones available in India right now and at the same time boasting some impressive specifications. With a low price tag, good specifications, and Cyanogen taken care of the software part,  the whole thing seems too good.The YU line is a lineup of smartphones with which Micromax intends to fire up the competetion with chinese manufacturers like, Xiaomi, ONE PLUS, Lenovo, Asus and more. Let's find out how does the Yureka  fare in all the prospects.

THE PACKAGE

The Yureka comes in a simple cardboard box that is made out of recycled paper as part of the go green initiative. Inside the box comes the phone, battery, charger, USB cable, headset, and usual paper work N manual.

Build Quality and Design

ON The front the Yureka is covered with large 5.5-inch display

giving the phone a larger than usual footprint  meaning that one handed usage is very difficult on day to day affairs unless you have fairly big hand than average.Beneath the display lies the usual three hardware capacitive keys, showing a white circle in the middle which also stays up even the when the backlighting is off, with a back key on the right and the options key on the left. You can switch to on-screen mode buttons as well through the settings, which gives you a multitasking button replacing the rather  old-fashioned and less useful menu button on the left. 

 Going through the sides, left the side of the phone holds the the volume buttons , the microUSB & microphone on the bottom , the power button on the right,while keeping the headphone jack on the top.

The 13 megapixel  primary camera lies near the top left on the back garnished with a single LED flash and the secondary microphone nearby accompanying the loudspeaker near the bottom back of the phone.

The loudspeaker quality on the Yureka is terrible with the quality  so bad  that its barely audible and when kept on a surface the speaker goes almost completely quiet. The designer of the phone didn't even bother  to test the speaker out before shipping it.

After the back cover is removed  what you will find is  one  2,500mAh replaceable battery, two SIM card slots, and the microSD card slot.

The design of the Yureka is quite simple and ordinary, with nothing spectacular . The build quality also didn't manage to impress. The back cover creaks a lot around the sides , as a result the phone just feels cheaply made. You can even compare the brand's owned  Canvas A1 or the Motorola  Moto E and find out that those are much significantly better built devices than the yueka being even much cheaper than the Yureka.

Display

The  5.5-inch display comes with  1280×720 pixels and  IPS LCD. The display quality is quite good considering the price range, the disply is sharp enough despite the relatively low pixel density and the colors coming out dont lack in vibrancy, with good viewing angles and outdoor legibility. The calibration is a bit off, resulting in overly cold color temperature and slightly oversaturated colors but nothing to complaint about below the 150$ price mark.

Hardware and Software

The Specs sheet of the Yureka starts with the 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC and also is one of the few phones to run on the new chipset ,Qualcomm's first octa-core processor, with eight Cortex-A53 cores, four  clocked at 1.7GHz and the rest four at 1.0GHz . The GPU is an Adreno 405. The Yureka also comes with 2GB of RAM, also a rarity for phones in the price range, and 16GB internal memory with microSD card expansion.

As far as the performance goes, the Yureka does good enough playing high end games and for day to day usage. The benchmark scores are also good and roughly between those of Snapdragon 400 and 800 as depicting the real life performance. Launching apps, multitasking and scrolling performance also turns out to be good as expected.

Verdict

  
 

So this is it, The Yureka is a very good phone in terms of the hardware and software part even beating most of the phones upto the 300$ mark , as far as the build quality , camera and audio part goes , the phone performs pretty average. If you are seeking options in the same price range, The xiaomi redmi note 4g , asus zenfone 5, Lenovo A7000 are worth a look still The former being the better of the bunch.

If  you  want to buy one Micromax yureka, you can only get it exclusively from amazon.in except for black marketers at 9000 rs.