Micromax launches a cheap smartphone Canvas Spark at Rs 4,999 running Android 5.0 lollipop


Indian smartphone manufacturer Micromax is known for making high performance devices at reasonable prices. Recently, the company has launched a very cheap smartphone Canvas Spark runs on Android 5.0 lollipop out of the box and priced at just Rs. 4,999 available in white/gold or silver//grey colors.

Talking about design, the phone has very slim and premium look smartphone. The phone measures 8.5mm in thickness and feels really good to hold. The edges of the phone has a metallic coating giving it some sheen. Micromax gives a lollipop style capacitive buttons for navigation but without backlit making it difficult to use it in dark.

The new Canvas Spark sports a 4.7 inch QHD (540x960p) IPS LCD display protected by Cornering Gorilla Glass 3. The display has descent viewing angles but not that good in direct sunlight. The warm colors of the display looks very pleasant. Overall screen is good and thankfully not over-saturated.

The phone is powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6582 Quad-Core processor driven by Mali-400 graphics backed by 1GB of ram. It comes with 8GB of onboard storage expandable upto 32GB via SD Card. The phone is packed with 2000mAh of battery with the stand-by time of 355hrs.

In the terms of connectivity, the dual sim phone comes with 3G connectivity, Wi-FI 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, FM Radio, A-GPS and USB v2.0. In the performance, Antutu scored it at 19,499 and GeekBench scored it 5,494.

The device sports 8MP rear camera with an Led flash capable of shooting 720p video and 2MP of selfie camera. The low light shots are not much good in both front and rear. The video captured by device is fine but have under exposure issues. Check out sample of the rear camera

The phone is extremely affordable and have very good design which increase grace of the phone. The phone is competing with Moto E 2nd Gen, Xiaomi Redmi 2 like handsets. Ofcourse these handsets provides  lot better perfomance but the new Spark costs you Rs. 1500 less.

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