You might’ve already heard that Moto X is coming to India via Flipkart. Now, there’s no doubt that Moto G was a huge success in India. The reason of that was its price point, around 12,000 Rs that phone shows great value for money and that’s what Indian consumers look for, always. Coming back to Moto X, it could be a little tricky for Flipkart to repeat the same feat it achieved with Moto G, because of Moto X’ price. The reason is, Moto X is still available in USA for around $400 that roughly translates to 24,000 Rs. That means it’s going to be available for around 25,000 Rs in India. Which is not a good price looking at the specs of the phone. Around 25,000 Rs there are more powerful phones like Xperia Zl, Xperia ZR, Nexus 4 and even a Snapdragon 800 phone like Gionee E7 available in the market.
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In my review video, i said that i won’t test my hammer on this phone but what can i do, i just love Micromax too much to not try my hammer test on their flagship phone. Not just hammer, i have done lot of things to the phone, i am not going to spoil the surprise for you, just watch the video below to find out yourself what this phone has went through. Although one thing i wanna say that the phone did pretty good in all of the tests. Unfortunately its back didn’t survive as you can see in the photo above. It also looks like that the phone has punched itself and shattered the back glass because of that Micromax logo.
The main USP of Micromax Canvas Knight is it’s octa core processor and its price point. It’s like Micromax has shoved everything it could into one phone and thought it will become a best seller. Although there’s nothing wrong with that, what’s wrong is the execution of idea. The idea of putting powerful internals in a phone was a very good idea but they forgot one crucial thing. They forgot to optimize the phone around that hardware by optimization i am talking about software portion of the phone here. I don’t think even Android itself is capable of taking full advantage of an octa core processor. But right now it is becoming thinking among the consumers that more is better. Well, sometimes it is, sometimes it’s not. In this case it’s not.
Micromax Canvas Knight performed really well in benchmarks. To tell you exactly how well, let me tell you that it even beat Samsung Galaxy S4 in Antutu, don’t believe me? See for yourself in the screenshots below. Maybe Antutu is optimized for this chipset. The rest of the benchmarks were just average. Although these benchmarks don’t mean much yet because none of them is programmed to utilize each of the 8 cores available inside the Micromax Canvas Knight. I don’t think any of the benchmarks are fully designed yet to use the new Mali 450GPU either. In 3DMark which is mainly a gaming or GPU benchmark. When i ran general “ice storm” test it maintained frame rates around 28 fps constantly
Micromax Canvas Knight is the first octa core phone from Micromax. Honestly i bought this phone just to satisfy that itch of using an octa core phone. After all they are all the rage these days. It runs on Mediatek MTK 6592 processor clocked at 2 Ghz(Maximum) and Mali 450MP GPU, unlike previous Mediateks chipsets that had Power VR SGX GPUs which was a better choice in my opinion. But, anyway who cares about my opinion. The chipset seems quite powerful theoretically but only the real world tests will tell us about its potential.
Micromax Mad is available in Indian market for a price of around 8,500 Rupees. For that price you will get a Broadcomm chipset with Quadcore CPU and Videocore IV HW GPU. You will get two 5 megapixel camera, yes not one but two. The only difference is front one doesn’t have a LED flash. You will get a 4.5 inch IPS display with decent viewing angles. It is a dual sim phone. The question is, what does this phone has that makes it different from other phones? Well, it has an app called “Mad App”, Mad here stands for ‘Mad about ads’. I wouldn’t call you ‘MAD’ but if you have no problem watching 1 or 2 ads every time before you make a call
Benchmark results of Micromax Mad surprised me, if not all, at least some did. For instance in one benchmark it scored higher than Samsung Galaxy S2, which is still nowhere near this price in the market. That benchmark was Antutu by the way. In 3DMark which is mainly a gaming and GPU related benchmark, it was refusing to even run because the device don’t even have 1GB RAM, which is required to run the benchmark properly but it ran anyway and it performed well below average, the average frame rate was below 20. So, can’t call it good. But all in all the overall benchmark performance was neutral.