Last month, Zen had gone official with its Ultrafone 701 HD in India, and the company has now finally started selling the Android smartphone tagged at a price of Rs. 11,999. Equipped with a 5-inch touchscreen on its front, this new handset bears a number of features that pit it directly against the likes of other important players such as the Karbonn S2 Titanium and the Micromax Canvas HD which too are low-cost offerings.
Snapdeal seems to be the only online retailer offering the Ultrafone 701 HD at the moment. Although Infibeam has it listed in its catalog, it still bears a ‘Coming Soon’ tag alongside it. Adopting the standard approach for the country’s market, the company has granted the device with a dual SIM attribute, with one of the two slots possessing support for 3G and the other, for 2G. Its package contents include a free flip cover as well as an additional back panel.
This handset clutches on to the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean platform, thus proffering the benefits of Photo Sphere, Google Now and more. Claimed to have been aimed at the ‘smart and tech savvy youth’ of the nation, it boasts of a 5-inch IPS capacitive screen capable of reproducing visuals with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. An 8MP shooter, together with a BSI sensor, sits steady on the device’s rear panel, beside an LED flash.
Moreover, taking care of users’ video calling needs is a 3.2MP camera affixed to the phone’s front. Just like its competitors, it carries inside it a quad core chip which has been clocked at 1.2GHz. This setup is accompanied by 1GB worth of RAM as well. As far as the storage capacity of the handset goes, it has been granted a 4GB ROM, while a microSD card slot ensures that the overall hoarding space can be expanded till up to 32GB.
A 2000mAh battery also finds its way into the device, enabling it to dish out 8 hours of talktime on a single complete charge. As mentioned above, the Zen Ultrafone 701 HD can be bought by interested parties in India through Snapdeal at a price of Rs. 11,999.