A few days after it quietly made the Ninja A91 available through Saholic, Micromax has ever so stealthily released the A72 Canvas Viva through a couple of online shopping outlets and also penned down the handset’s price. The manufacturer surely has no intention to cease doling out its inexpensive offerings, even as this time it proffers a 5-inch smartphone at Rs. 6,999.
However, the handset does come with certain drawbacks of its own. In spite of touting a large screen estate it encloses a resolution of merely 480 x 800 pixels. Also, in this time and age of Jelly Bean reaching out for budget-friendly phones, the device’s preloaded Gingerbread OS could prove to be a disadvantage while dealing with competition.
In order to facilitate capturing pictures and recording videos, a 3MP camera has been lodged onto the flip side and at the same time, a VGA webcam marches up onto the front side. A 1GHz single core processor together with 256MB of RAM steps in to make multitasking possible. Seen affixed on the phone is a microSD card slot which allows expansion of up to 32GB, lest the flash memory of 110MB falls short.
The integrated 2,000mAh battery makes sure that the phone provides up to 7 hours of talk time or approximately 280 hours of standby. Connectivity features of the handset include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n for latching onto wireless networks, Bluetooth v3 for wireless content sharing and mobile hotspot for creating a personal network.
The Micromax Canvas Viva has taken a stand on Infibeam wherein it has been made available drenched in a hue of black. Flipkart seems to have run out of stock, but interested parties who don’t mind waiting can register for the smartphone and be notified when it arrives. In other news, rumor has the manufacture working on a new device purportedly peddling a 3D user interface, Jelly Bean and a dual core MediaTek processor.
To cut the long story short, here are the handset’s core specifications:
– Display: 5-inch capacitive display
– Resolution: 480 x 800 pixels
– Primary camera: 3MP with 4x digital zoom
– Secondary webcam: VGA
– OS: Android Gingerbread
– Processor: 1GHz single core
– Memory: 110MB internal storage, expandable up to 32GB
– RAM: 256MB
– Battery: 2,000mAh Li-ion