Micromax Canvas 3 Series Set of 3 Canvas Art

Nikhil Subramaniam February 07, 2013 14:07:22 IST

This is non a rumour, this is not a leak, this is just us looking into the crystal brawl.

There's a new player in the quad-core SoC game and it's from Taiwan. MediaTek's MT6589 will be seen in a plethora of devices this year. Already, it has been featured in the Micromax A116 Canvas HD and the Karbonn S1 Titanium, both of which accept great specs at a low price. However Micromax's smartphone overshadows Karbonn'southward on many fronts, the 720p display being one such instance. Of course, 720p displays are so 2012. What we are seeing more and more of are 1080p screens in phones like Xperia Z and the HTC Butterfly. Eight megapixel cameras accept also to a large extent fallen by the wayside. More and more manufacturers are equipping their phones with 13 megapixel snappers. For the sake of this fortune-telling, we are focusing our powers on Micromax and its popular Sheet series. What would the Canvass 3 wait like? What could its specs be?

Full Hard disk or nothing!

MediaTek sprung a surprise launching the world's first quad-core Cortex-A7 SoC, which will be available in phones launching in Q1 2013. The MT6589 is by no ways a laggard in the quad-core game. Based on benchmarks, it can give you nigh 75-80 percent of the performance of a Tegra three, Snapdragon S4 Pro or an Exynos quad-core processor, only it is available at one-half the price. More chiefly, information technology brings back up to a wide array of features that can exist considered high-cease. So permit's get the ball rolling.

Display
The MT6589 SoC is fabricated past UMC and features a PowerVR Series5XT GPU. The same processor that is powering the A116 Canvas Hd'due south 720p display can support displays upward to 1080p. At the moment, though, 1080p displays are an expensive matter, just later the outset moving ridge of total HD phones, the prices are jump to come down. It wouldn't be likewise much of a stretch to call back Micromax may be prepare with a 1080p display smartphone in Q4, just in time for the Diwali season. Of course, that early on a timeline could mean that the phone might be priced closer to Rs 20,000 or even Rs 25,000, merely fifty-fifty at that cost it would be a steal. While we are on the subject of displays, the MediaTek processor'south GPU is powerful enough to back up 3D, including real-time 2D to 3D conversion and support for 3D displays. Nosotros are just dreaming here, but a 3D 1080p display on a smartphone is the stuff of wet dreams.

Photographic camera
The MT6589 supports sensors up to 13 megapixels with integrated in-organization programming. The camera on the dorsum of the A116 is an 8MP snapper. Bumping that up to 13 will give Micromax equal ground with the new flagships of brands such as Sony, which included a 13MP camera in the Xperia Z, and Samsung, which is expected to include a 13MP photographic camera in the Samsung Galaxy S Four. If xiii megapixels do not satiate your photography needs, the MT6589 also has support for 3D cameras. These accept not been seen on mobile phones since the HTC Evo 3D and LG Optimus 3D and it volition exist the first 3D camera phone to be launched by an Indian manufacturer.

Dual-SIM Dual Agile radio
Not just does the MT6589 have an integrated graphics solution, it also comes with a congenital-in 42Mbps HSPA+ and TD-SCDMA-capable dual-SIM dual-active radio. This means that it will support 3G speeds of up to 42Mbps, which is a huge comeback over the dual-core MT6577, which was capped to just 7.2Mbps download speed past the hardware.

Connectivity bonuses
The MTK6589 also has in-congenital support for Miracast applied science, which is great for seamless content sharing on multiple screens. Information technology likewise has a pre-integrated connectivity combo, which supports 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth iv.0, GPS and FM Radio. The n band is withal nascent and isn't supported on many mid-range handsets released in the terminal year or so.

Tin can nosotros get some Central Lime Pie, delight?

Ability efficiency
It's all well and skillful having a powerful quad-core processor, only any adverse effect on the battery life will not be well received. Thankfully, the 28nm manufacturing procedure is a boon for ability efficiency. In fact, MediaTek claims its MT6589 is likewise the coolest running quad-core setup in the marketplace. The visitor has even released a video as show.

Of course, it'due south no surprise that Micromax has tapped into MediaTek's economical solution to produce high-specced phones at marketplace-beating prices. When Micromax arrived on the scene, their phones were priced at around Rs vii,000 and were able to offer decent specs at a very reasonable price. They scaled up their offerings a trivial to evangelize meliorate specs and naturally the price went upwardly to compensate, hitting the Rs ten,000 marking. With the Canvas HD they have pushed their cost into the Rs 15,000 band; the next inevitable step would exist to launch the Sail 3 with the specs that we have discussed above, at a price of about Rs 20,000 to Rs 22,000. Given Micromax'south past launches this could very well exist the example and with this they'd be slugging information technology out in the large league with a massive price advantage. We can only promise, only the Canvas iii becoming the hottest gadget of 2013 may non stay in the realm of fantasy.

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