Micromax has introduced two new Selfie centric Smartphones in India dubbed as Canvas Selfie 2 and Canvas Selfie 3. The former is available at Rs. 5999 while the price of latter hasn’t been announced yet by the maker. The canvas Selfie 2 will be available across all online and offline stores from 22nd August 2015 while the Canvas Selfie 3 will be available to buy in the last week of August.
Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 Q340 comes with a 5 inch FWGA IPS display with 854×480 of pixel resolution and it is powered by a 1.3GHz Quad core processor with 1GB of RAM. It boasts 8GB of internal memory and supports expandable memory up to 32 GB using a micro SD card.
The Canvas Selfie 2 has a 5MP rear autofocus camera with LED flash, 4P lens and Omni vision sensor along with a 5 megapixel front facing camera. The phone runs on Android lollipop 5.0 and backed by a 2000mah battery. For an entry level device it comes with 3G, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and GPS as connectivity options.
On the contrary, Micromax Canvas Selfie 3 Q348 sports a 4.8 inch AMOLED display with 1280×720 pixel resolution and Corning Gorilla glass 3 protection. Under the hood is a 1.3 GHz quad core processor (unspecified chipset) aided by 1GB of RAM.
The Selfie 2 is available in black color with leather like finish.
Like its sibling, it too comes with 8 GB on-board storage which is further expandable up to 32GB via Micro SD card. On photography front, it is equipped with better cameras of 8 megapixel front-rear supporting 78 degree wide angle lens, LED flash, Sony MX179 sensor and blue glass 5P Largan lens.
The camera of Canvas Selfie comes loaded with some additional features like Gestures, Panorama, Night Shot, Face Beauty and One Key Shot. It also include beauty mode feature for better pictures and it also comes with bluetooth enabled Selfie Stick.
The device takes the juice from a bigger battery of 2300mah as compared to Selfie 2. In terms of connectivity, it is available with same features of Canvas Selfie 2. The Canvas Selfie 3 will come in range of colors like Sky blue, yellow, blue and green.
Speaking on the launch, Micromax Informatics CEO Vineet Taneja said, “With over 93 million selfies being captured every day, people today take and retake pictures of themselves until it mirrors perfection and what they want the world to see them as. Taking the Selfie craze to the next level, we are proud to announce the two new Smartphones which are ideal for the users delivering fantastic images and equipping them with great beauty editing tools to look their best always.”
