Nokia XL the big brother of Nokia X and Nokia X+ is now available to buy on Themobilestore also on Snapdeal for around Rs. 11,000. The only difference between this and rest of the X series phones are the screen size, RAM size and Camera. Although X+ also has the same amount of RAM as XL. It has got 5 inches TFT LCD dispay with WVGA resolution, 768MB RAM. It run on AOSP(Android Open Source Project), which is nothing but Android without Google services or apps.
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The catch is, it’s available at an increased price of around Rs. 26,000. Previously it was only available at Micromax’s official estore. But now it’s available at Amazon, Flipkart, Ebay with increased pricing. You can check out the pricing in the links below. Now, i was all praise for Micromax Canvas Knight but that is when it was priced at 20,000 Rupees. Not freaking 26,000 Rupees. Micromaxestore.com still shows the price of 19,990 Rupees, but it is still out of stock there. Anyway, if you still want to buy it at that increased price here are the links.
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Sony Xperia M2 Review
Sony Xperia M2, the successor of Xperia M is not going to be as successful as Xperia M. Reason is simple. Its price. Sony doubled the price but forgot to double the performance of Xperia M2. For example it has the same GPU as Xperia M. Although they did double the internal storage from 4GB to 8GB and also the processor. Xperia M has dual core Cortex A7 CPU while Xperia M2 has Quadcore Cortex A7 CPU clocked at 1.2 GHz. Not high enough looking at the price point. Sony just became the second best smartphone selling company in India
Looking at the price point. I wouldn’t call the benchmark performance of Xperia M2 good. But here’s the thing. The processor inside this phone can only perform this much. Increasing the price of the phone wouldn’t increase the performance of the phone. It runs on Snapdragon 400 chipset, which has quadcore Cortex A7 CPU and Adreno 305 GPU. A combination that does not worth 20,000 Rupees. This chipset belongs to phones below 15,000 Rupees. Moto G has the same chipset and just look at its price.
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Sony Xperia M2 Unboxed
Sony Xperia M2 is available in Indian market for around 20,000 Rupees(approx $330). The point is, does it worth the price? If you look at the specs, it looks like just another smartphone with Quadcore processor and 1GB RAM. It has the exact same chipset as Moto G and Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 and lot others. In terms of GPU it has same GPU that Xperia M possesses, a phone that is available for around half of this phone’s price. I don’t even know what’s so great about that chipset. It’s very inferior especially its GPU compared to Power VR SGX series and Mali 450. Even Xperia SP has better chipset than this phone and it’s available for much cheaper price than this.
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Lava Iris 406q Review
Lava Iris 406Q is one of those smartphones that anyone could miss easily. Not because it is small in size but because it is made b Lava. Not a well known company in India. Even its price is less than most of the phones available with similar specs. There is no phone literally available below 7,000 Rupees in the market which has 1GB of RAM and Quadcore Cortex A7 processor with Adreno 302GPU, Snapdragon chipset. The specs of this phone looks to good to be true, but they are. It is not perfect though, it has some flaws, like its camera. I am going tell you about all of that and more in this review.
Lava Iris 406Q is a very small phone in terms of dimensions. But it is not all small in terms of performance. Which is a very good thing looking at the price point of this phone. It performed well in benchmarks. For some reason, Antutu device info shows that this phone has Adreno 305 GPU, it doesn’t though. It has Adreno 302 GPU. Maybe Adreno 302 is new for the benchmark to recognize or maybe it is very similar to the Adreno 305 in architecture. That’s why Antutu got confused and couldn’t differentiate between the two. You can see for yourself in the screenshots of benchmarks below.