Tuesday, April 22, 2014

TechNow: Micromax announces the (disappointing) Canvas Doodle 3

Micromax has just announced its latest smartphone dubbed the Canvas Doodle 3 (A102). It is built around a 6" LCD display of 854x480 pixel resolution (FWVGA) for a pixel density of 163ppi.

The phone is powered by the MediaTek 6572 chipset with 1.3GHz dual-core CPU and 512MB of RAM. Internal storage is just 4GB but the company has included a microSD card slot capable of supporting up to 32GB of additional storage. The battery capacity is 2,500mAh with Micromax suggesting a talk time endurance of up to 9 hours. At the back of the Canvas Doodle 3, there's a 5MP auto-focus camera with LED flash. The front features a 0.3MP camera for video chat and selfies. The phone runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and Micromax has pre-loaded it with Bigflix, Kingsoft Office, Opera and games like Rope Cut, Marble and Jelly Jumper. FM Radio is present as well.

If you see, the phone is actually a downgrade over its predecessor, considering it still costs more than this one, sports 2 more processing cores, more RAM and a bigger (and better) camera!

The phone launches on April 25 in India with a Rs 8,500 price tag.

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