India phonemaker Spice Mobiles has announced a brand new sub 7k contender to its Android powered smartphones range. Known as the Spice Smart Flo Mettle X (or the Mi 504), the handset is a dual SIM device that runs Android 4.4 Jelly Bean. Apart from being powered by a 1.3 Ghz Dual Core processor, the handset also boasts of 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal memory. The phone boasts of a 5 inch FWVGA (854*480 pixels). The device comes preloaded with BBM for Android – making it one of the first Indian made smartphone to feature that. The Spice Smart Flo Mettle 5X also gets four launchers that lets users customize their homescreens according to their preferences.
The device happens to be a Quad Band 2G handset and as evident, there is no support for 3G networks. You do get Wi-Fi, though. On the imaging front, there is an 8 mega-pixel rear camera with Auto Focus. The internal memory can be expanded further using micro SD cards. Powering the hardware inside this phone is a 1800mAh battery that claims a talk time o over 4 hours and up to 150 hours of standby time.
Smart Flo Mettle 5X will be available at Rs. 6,499/- across India through Homeshop18. Two more models in the Mettle series, the Mettle 4X and Mettle 3.5X will be launched later this month.
