# 3 Micromax A116 Canvas HD
Price: 14,499
Micromax Canvas HD has been the most hyped smartphone in India in 2013. The Canvas HD A116 is slightly lighter than the Samsung Galaxy Grand. The smartphone has a curved back and curved edges, making it comfortable to hold. The phone has a better build quality than you'd expect.
The center point of Micromax Canvas HD A116 is its 5" HD IPS display. The device's IPS screen sports a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and a colour depth of 16.7 million. Because of this, the text, icons and images look much sharper compared to the Canvas 2 and the recently launched Samsung Galaxy Grand. You'd also not find any distraction at different viewing angles.
The HD display makes it very pleasurable to watch HD movies and play HD games on the Micromax Canvas HD A116.
The Micromax Canvas HD runs Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) and 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, Screen timeouts and profiles (for alerts and other notifications).
The device sports an 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash on the rear, and a 2 megapixel front camera. The rear shooter captures quality photos in both outdoor and indoor lighting conditions. It gives you various options to cunstomise images including colour effects and scene modes. The 2 megapixel front camera is also decent for video chats.
The good thing about the Mediatek MT6589 quad-core processor is that it makes you multitasking at much ease. You could easily run 7-8 apps, switch between them, play games with high graphics and scroll webpages. The phone supports both 1080p video recording and playback. It 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 A116 Canvas HD runs on Android mobile OS Jelly Bean. The device has a good call quality and comes with 2,000mAh battery, which will last a full day.
