Homegrown mobile phone manufacturers seems to be tightening their grip in the mid to low price range market with each passing day. While Micromax is readying the official launch of its flagship the A116 Canvas HD, arch rival Karbonn came from nowhere and has officially launched its flagship Android JellyBean toting, a quad quore processor laden S1 Titanium.
The S1 Titanium only seems to have the Micromax A116 Canvas HD in its sight – made obvious, by its spec sheet and its price. This one packs in a 4.5-inch qHD (960×540) multi-touch, capacitive touch display and as mentioned, runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It comes with a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front camera. Under the hood is a 1.2 Ghz quad core processor – believed to be a Qualcomm unit – instead of the usual Media-Tek ones that are found inside phones of its category.
That said, we await official conformation about this bit. The phone gets a 5 megapixel camera at the rear with full autofocus and LED flash. There is a front VGA camera as well.
The S1 Titanium also packs in 4 GB of internal memory with the option to add micro SD cards of up to 32 GB in size. As the norm is in this category, this one too is dual SIM capable . Connectivity options are pretty comprehensive with support for 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth with A2DP, EDGE, GPRS and GPS. The 1,600mAh battery powering the device is claimed to last for 4 hours of continuous blabbering.
While the Canvas HD has a larger and better resolution display, the Karbonn is almost Rs 4k cheaper at just Rs. 10,990. This might force Micromax to rethink the pricing of the Canvas HD.
