5 best Micromax smartphones in India [See pictures and details]

New Delhi, May 23: By offering high-end devices at an affordable price, Gurgaon-based Micromax has grown faster than any of its Indian competitor. Micromax was also the first among a handful of Indian brands to challenge the dominance of European handsets maker Nokia, which used to enjoy over 70 per cent market share in India. After starting at a very small level in the Indian market in 2008, the company is now now ranked among the top three mobile phone vendors in Indian in terms of volume. Global Handset Vendor Market share report from Strategy Analytics declared the company to the 12th largest handset manufacturer of the world. Recently the company announced that it has sold more than one million units under Canvas series of devices. Let us take a look at the top five handsets manufactured by Micromax. 1. Micromax A116 Canvas HDMicromax A116 Canvas HD is the best proposition offered by Micromax in the market. The Canvas HD has a 5-inch IPS screen that offers a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, a 294ppi of pixel density, and a colour depth of 16.7 million. As a result, the text, icons and images look much sharper compared to the Canvas 2. The Canvas HD is powered by the MediaTek MT6589 quad-core SoC. This is made up of four ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs running at 1.2GHz and a PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU. The phone sports an 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash, and a 2 megapixel front camera. The rear camera captures quality snaps in both outdoor and indoor lighting conditions.In terms of photography, the device offers you features like autofocus, night mode and burst mode that help you take better, clearer pictures. Canvas is also capable of recording high definition videos at thirty frames per second.The phone has 1GB of RAM which is pretty good for multitasking. The device is good for launching apps, switching between the apps, playing games with high graphics and scrolling webpages. The phone has 4GB of internal storage, of which around 2.75GB is user-accessible. Its memory is expandable up to 32GB using a microSD card. The phone runs Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean) with Micromax tweaked some elements to enhance the end-user experience. Connectivity options include GPRS, EDGE, 3G and Wi-Fi which can be used to tether the device apart from the USB as well. The phone packs a 2000 mAh battery.2. Micromax A110- Canvas 2The Micromax A110- Canvas 2 is a decent upgrade of the A100. The A110 has a 5-inch 262k colour capacitive touch screen with an IPS panel sporting a resolution of 480x854 pixels. Despite low resolution, the viewing angles are good, and the under-sun visibility on the phone is decent. The Micromax A110 offers good build quality as it does not creak at any of the edges. The silver coloured frame around the edges also gives it a nice look. On the inside, the A110 has a 1GHz Dual-Core processor and runs an Android v0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS. It has an internal memory of up to 4GB, RAM memory of 512 MB and an external memory that is expandable up to 32 GB using a micro SD card. The A110 comes with an 8 MP camera on the rear and 0.3 MP camera on the front. You will observe that pictures taken in low-light conditions and indoors (without the use of the LED flash) will be a bit grainy. The dual-led flash fulfills its purpose. The quality of videos captured through the back camera seems to be average. Micromax has skinned some elements of the user interface, such as the app icons and the notification tray. The notification tray includes toggles for settings such as Wi-Fi, Brightness, Rotation, Bluetooth, GPS, Data and profiles (for alerts and other notifications).Connectivity options include GPRS, EDGE and 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS feature and video recording. Micromax A110 Superfone Canvas 2 comes with a battery of 2000mAh, providing 5 hours of talk time.3. Micromax A72 Canvas VivaMicromax A72 Canvas Viva has a 5-inch (480 x 800 Pixels) display and runs on the dated Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It is powered by 1GHz processor along with 256MB of RAM. Other specifications include a 3-megapixel rear camera, VGA front camera, 2,000mAh battery, 2G (EDGE support) and 110 MB of internal storage, which can be expanded by up to 16GB with microSD card. It is a dual-SIM phablet that supports GSM frequency in both the SIM. The phablet costs Rs. 6,999 on Flipkart. 4. Micromax A65 Smarty 4.3It has a 4.3-inch (480 x 800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display. It is a dual-SIM smartphones that is powered by a 1 GHz processor and runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has a 2MP camera at the back with LED flash and even has a VGA front-facing camera. It lacks 3G support similar to the Micromax A68 Smarty 4.0 that was launched last month. It also comes with Hookup Instant messaging app. Connectivity options include GPRS/EDGE and Wi-Fi, while local file transfer is made possible though Bluetooth and USB. Other features include 190MB internal memory, multi format music player, FM radio, 1350 mAh battery, and 32GB expandable memory.5. Micromax A35 BoltThe A35 Bolt is the first Android smartphone by Micromax in the new Bolt series. It has a 4.0-inch (480 x 800 Pixels) capacitive touch screen display and powered by 1 GHz processor. It runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and comes with a new Flash Transfer app to swipe ‘n' share images, videos, songs, files and applications with just a swipe. It has a 2MP rear camera and 0.3 MP front-facing camera. Connectivity options include 2G (EDGE),Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, micro USB. The device has a 1500 mAh battery with up to 4.5 hours talk time, up to 175h standby.

5 best Micromax smartphones in India [See pictures and details]

New Delhi, May 23: By offering high-end devices at an affordable price, Gurgaon-based Micromax has grown faster than any of its Indian competitor. Micromax was also the first among a handful of Indian brands to

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