Indian-giants like Micromax and Karbonn began the budget segment of mobile phone market three years back where these companies offered devices with high-end specifications in pocket friendly prices. But, now after a couple of years, the market is changed. The budget segment catalogue offers products from bigwigs like Microsoft, Motorola, Samsung and China’s market leader Xiaomi within Rs 10,000 mark.
So, if you are planning to buy smartphones without crossing the budget, here are our top suggestions:
The successor of the superhit Redmi 1S, the latest launch of the Xioami is already a market leader in this segment. Flipkart has gone sold-out several times after listing the device.
The 4.7″ HD IPS screen, a 64-bit quad-core Snapdragon 410 chip clock and Adreno 305 GPU coupled with 1 GB RAM offers you an overall perfect experience in this price block. The phone offers 8 GB internal storage. However, on camera front, it does not offer you very much! It comes with an 8 megapixel main and a 2 MP front cam. The dual-SIM smartphon supports 4G LTE connectivity.
Price: Rs 6,999
The smartphone is getting good response from the buyers and this why the company presented around 1 lakh devices of the phones on flash sale on Amazon India website last month. With apparently larger screen (5.0-inch with 720 x 1280 pixels) and a better resolution, the smartphone is closest competition for the Xioami’s India opener!
With quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53, Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410, the Yuphoria runs on the latest Android Lollipop OS. It also gives 2GB RAM and 16 GB ROM space. Apart from the main camera of 8 MP, the front camera also gives a better experience with its 5MP pictures. The phone has a 2230 mAh battery that gives up to 160 hours stand-by time and up to 7 hour talk time.
Special: Dual SIM (Micro-SIM, dual stand-by), Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Fast battery charging: 50% in 45 min (Quick Charge 1.0)
Price: 6,999
Imagine a phablet that is loaded with all important specifications in your budget: Here is Xioami’s Redmi Note 4G is best the available option in the market if you want to use a phablet of 5.5-inch display.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G has the same looks just like the 3G model with a 5.5-inch 720p IPS display. The 4G enabled-handset comes with a 13MP primary camera and 5MP secondary camera.
The phablet runs 1.6GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad core processor, and has 2GB RAM.
It also offers its users 8GB of internal storage and can hold microSD cards of upto 32GB. Powered by Xiaomi’s MIUI OS based on Android 4.4 KitKat, the Redmi Note has 3,100mAh battery. Unlike the Redmi Note 3G, the 4G version is a single-sim phone.
Price: Rs 7,999
The sturdy and trendy Lumia 638 comes with a 4.5-inch IPS screen with 480×854 pixels and may impress you with its features and looks. Its display features ClearBlack polarisation filter that gives much better display during sunlight. Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 (quad-core) chipset, the smartphone comes with a 5MP camera, 1GB RAM, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 1830 mAh battery.
Price: Rs 6000
The all new smartphone flaunts a 4.5-inch IPS LCD capacitive multitouch touchscreen with a display resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. With a pixel density of 218 ppi the smartphone is loaded with a quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHZ sitting on a MediaTek MT6580 chipset. Working in tandem with the CPU is a 1GB RAM and a Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU. The device sails on Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat) out of the box.
It is armed with a 8MP autofocus rear camera with LED flash and a 5MP front snapper with LED flash for clicking selfies. On the memory front, it provides 8GB internal memory which can be further expanded up to 32GB via external microSD card slot. The smartphone sips juice from a 2000 mAh Li-Po battery which claims to deliver a decent talktime and standby time on 3G.
Price: Rs 6,777
The 4G device comes with a 5-inch screen and runs on a MediaTek quad-core processor coupled with 2GB RAM and 16 GB internal memory. The screen of the device will be protected by scratch resistant Dragon Trail glass, and boosted with slow motion video support.
Price: Rs 7,299
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