Extremely affordable quad-core Micromax A116 Canvas HD arrives, sold out in hours

19. Mxyzptlk posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:26 1 6

I'm not convinced of it having a long term life. The shopping motto "you get what you pay for" still applies here.

21. SuperNexus posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:33 6 0

you can but new virtue phone. It will cost you 7900 euro.

you get what you pay for" still applies here.

and it has a very long term.

23. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:52 5 0

Hi BOT :)

4. imsickwithsmartphone posted on 14 Feb 2013, 03:41 12 0

say hello to indians.....
HELLO!!

20. No_Nonsense posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:29 4 0

Hello back. JK, this is a good phone.

7. kartik4u98 posted on 14 Feb 2013, 04:02 2 0

Why 'nope' ??

9. naveenstuns posted on 14 Feb 2013, 04:22 6 0

It's on par with the performance of galaxy grand which has Dual-core ARM Cortex A9 1.2 GHz processor.

but grand is 7.5k INR more than this :(

10. naveenstuns posted on 14 Feb 2013, 04:25 0 0

I am not completely sure. I am saying from benchmarks of prototype phone.

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17. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:08 5 0

Galaxy grand screen is inferior.

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38. sonofzeus posted on 16 Feb 2013, 11:42 0 0

http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Micromax-A116-Canvas-HD-performance-review-vs_13496.html

Check out this link about the benchmark comparison

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11. jove39 posted on 14 Feb 2013, 04:36 1 0

you can't even do simple math?

14. GALAXY-STORM posted on 14 Feb 2013, 05:52 0 0

On par with s4 krait?? I believe not . The benchmark scores aren't all that amazing on this phone. Antutu, quadrant and nenamark2 scores are below galaxy grand. You can check it inwww.igyaan.com
But its affordable for someone who isn't bothered by benchmarks and can run even the most graphic intensive games in the store.

16. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:07 6 0

Galaxy grand failed on one Benchmark. It costs Rs 8000 more than this which is a big money :)

24. naveenstuns posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:54 1 0

canvas hd used in that test is prototype

28. TylerGrunter posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:33 1 0

Cause it says "quad core" on it. That's the trick Mediatek uses, more marketing than actual staff.
DMIPS/MHz is how normally risc processors are measured, it means Dhrystone Millions of instructions per second. DMIPs is how powerful a chip is, DMIPs/MHz gives you how powerful an architecture is not taking into account the clock speed.
But it won't get even near a Tegra3 or Exynos 4412, much less a quad core with Krait cores.

22. PhansMuneeb posted on 14 Feb 2013, 06:39 1 0

Micromax is increasing its Marketshare in India at an Impressive Rate.....

29. TylerGrunter posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:37 2 0

darac, Nexus 4 is around TWICE as powerful than than phone, but in GPU and CPU... So nope, it didn't get blown away at all.
There are loads of cheap phones with cheap SoCs, what the Nexus 4 offers is top performance on par with the other flagships for the price of a midranger.

33. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 09:54 0 0

Problem with Nexus4 is no sdcard and non replaceable battery. absence of expansion slot i can live with it but non replaceable battery is a deal breaker for me.

35. No_Nonsense posted on 14 Feb 2013, 10:26 0 0

It's not available for $350 outside of where there are no Play store device seller supports.

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36. znellu posted on 15 Feb 2013, 05:54 1 0

Really?! Comparing a Mediatek SoC with a Snapdragon SoC. Come On!

27. imsickwithsmartphone posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:16 4 0

Joooooooooooooooon V!!!

32. shobhit posted on 14 Feb 2013, 08:27 0 2

watch the review you will get a whole lot of reasons

34. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 10:01 0 0

Majority of them don't buy looking at specs. My wife wants this and i asked her why and she says because it costs half of galaxy nexus that you bought few months back and has bigger screen ... screen size is becoming the main criteria and price of course :)