Lava, One of the leading home grown company in mobile manufacturing sector which has embarked on an ambitious journey of empowering every human with quality innovative products at an affordable price has continued it’s legacy by launching a new entry level Smartphone in it’s premium IRIS series as,”Lava Iris 501″ in the Indian market.
Lava Iris 501 sports a descent 5.0-inch capacitive touch screen display with 480 x 800 of pixels resolutions. In terms of platform, this device will run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System powered with a Dual-Core MediaTek Processor clocked at 1 GHz. Continuing, it’s starring feature of incorporating most of it’s handset with Dual Sim technology. Enumerating towards Photography Specifications, Lava Iris 501 is dubbed with 5 MEGAPIXEL of primary camera with autofocus and LED flash tand a 0.3 MEGAPIXEL front-facing camera. It’s quite eccentric to see the device plotted with 0.3 MEGAPIXEL of front-facing camera as some of the other competitor’s in the market cruising with more high specs in their device. Enumerating it’s Storage specifications, this device is equipped with 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of Internal memory which can be extended upto 32 GB via micro SD slot which is quite standard feature now a days on all phones.
Highlighting it’s Connectivity Specifications, Lava Iris 501 support 3G (HSDPA 7.2Mbps; HSUPA 5.76Mbps),WiFi 802.11 b/g/n,Bluetooth, GPS. This device also packed up with Sensors like ( Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Gyroscope Ambient Light and Proximity sensor ), it also support 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio with recording. The device seems to be powered with 2300 mAh battery with up to 7.8 hours talk time and up to 620 hours standby.
Some of the special pre-loaded applications it include Saavn music player app, Asphalt HD Game and Hike, it also support a special applications like Hike for free messaging, Fusion Music organizer app and games from Gameloft like Asphalt HD.
Quick View Specifications of Lava Iris 501:
- 5.0-inch (480 x 800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display
- Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS
- 1 GHz dual-core MediaTek Processor
- Dual SIM (GSM + GSM)
- 5MP auto focus camera with LED Flash, 0.3MP front-facing camera
- 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
- 3G (HSDPA 7.2Mbps; HSUPA 5.76Mbps),WiFi 802.11 b/g/n,Bluetooth, GPS
- 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio with recording
- 2300 mAh battery with up to 7.8 hours talk time and up to 620 hours standby
The price of Lava Iris 501 is Rs 9,999 available online and will be in stores by this weekend. It also includes Extra Hard Back Cover, 4GB memory card.
It will be interesting to see how Lava Iris 501 would compete with other budget 5-inch Dual SIM Smartphones such as Micromax A110, iBall Andi 5c, Spice Stellar Horizon, Zync Z5 Cloud and the Intex Aqua 5.0.
Stay tuned for more updates.
