The iPad Mini Apple Event May Focus More On iBooks [Rumor]

As you know, the upcoming media event for Apple’s smaller, thinner, and less expensive tablet, the as-yet-named iPad Air iPad mini, is being widely reported as happening on October 23,2012.

While the invites haven’t gone out yet, we’re seeing a rumor that the event will focus on iBooks, which makes a ton of sense considering that a smaller iPad is in the same market category as a device like the Amazon Kindle Fire, which is kind of like a souped-up eReader, with media consumption its main purpose, at least from Amazon’s perspective.

While this seems like a plausible rumor, I’m not ready to fully embrace it yet.

While iBooks is indeed in competition with Amazon and, to a lesser extent, Google and Barnes & Noble as an eReader device, I can’t help but see the iPad ecosystem in general as much bigger. Yes, a smaller iPad mini will be a fantastic form factor for reading and purchasing electronic books, magazines, and even textbooks. The new iPad is successful in this area as well.

It’s also fairly plausible that both iBooks and iBooks Author will get an update, as The Next Web is reporting, as they’re both overdue for some Apple tinkering. They’ll also most likely be some updates that are specifically due to the iPad mini, or whatever it will be called, simply because it makes sense to do so.

I don’t see how the event will “mostly” be about anything except the new, smaller iPad. Of course, time will tell, but there’s a lot more to be announced about such a cool new product than it’s eReader capabilities. What makes the iPad tablet so fantastic, and so much better–in my opinion–than the other tablets on the market, is the app ecosystem. The incredible wealth of apps available for an iPad of any size make it an ideal device for creation and consumption, gaming and productivity, reading and writing. It’s simply magical, to borrow a Jobsism.

I’d love to see a new iBooks, and of course can’t wait to see a new iPad Air, but this rumor, to me, is a bit on the airy side itself.

Motorola RAZR i review

The Motorola RAZR i is arguably the first mainstream Android handset to launch with an Intel chipset inside. 

There have been some predecessors, the Orange San Diego for example, but with the RAZR i slated to launch in Europe and Latin America, it has its sights set on a much larger market than the Orange-branded handset.

The Motorola RAZR i shares many of its specs and all of its design with theMotorola RAZR M, a Qualcomm-packing alternative that launched in the US, initially under the Droid name with Verizon. 

So why the change in chipset? Doesn't this just make things more complicated for Motorola when it comes to manufacture and support? Ours isn't to reason why, ours is just to review and, well, help you decide whether this Intel-based Android smartphone meets the mark. 

Design

Motorola has pushed design to the fore in the RAZR i. Teased and then launching with the claim of an edge-to-edge display, it's not until you put the RAZR i next to the 2011 RAZR that you really appreciate what Motorola has done. Yes, the RAZR i has the same display as the Motorola RAZR, but the phone is substantially smaller.

Trimming away the fat, the phone doesn't have excessive bezel and isn't topped and tailed by additional empty space. The result is a handset that measures 60.9 x 122.5 x 8.3mm. It can't claim to be the slimmest handset around, but it's impressively compact for a phone with the 4.3-inch display. An obvious rival is the HTC One S, which is slimmer, but longer and wider.

Although the edge-to-edge claim doesn't entirely ring true, there's on only a few millimetres in it. What Motorola hasn't done, however, is make a move to reduce the gap between the touch surface and the display surface, as you'll find on the iPhone 5 or the HTC One X, so although it's impressive to see efficient use of space, that's not the end of the story.

The display sits under Corning Gorilla Glass and the back of the handset is inlaid with Kevlar woven fibre. With an aluminium frame at its core, the Motorola RAZR i not only feels solid, but should withstand some abuse. We haven't put that claim to the test specifically, but we've dropped it a few times and it's been caught in the rain and suffered no damage. Like previous Motorola devices, the RAZR i is protected with Splash Guard, so will withstand the odd splash.

In the hand the phone feels solid too. There's no sign of flex or creaking so Motorola chalks up it's first win on the build front.

If there's one aspect of the design we're not so keen on, it's the bottom edge of the display. The glass is surrounded by an aluminium frame and the edge of this is sharp, so sweeping your thumb or finger up from the bottom catches this edge.

As this is a sealed package, there's no access to the internals of the RAZR i. You can't access the 2000mAh battery, but you do get the option to add extra memory, thanks to a microSD card slot. This hides under a flap alongside the micro SIM slot.

On the top of the phone is a standard 3.5mm jack, the bundled headset is typical and easily bettered with a decent set of third party headphones. The Micro-USB lies on the left-hands side with the rest of the buttons ranging down the right.

There is a power/standby button, volume rocker and dedicated camera button on the right-hand side and that's as far as physical buttons go. 

This being an Ice Cream Sandwich device at launch, there are three touch controls across the bottom of the display. Rather than have a permanent touch area off the display, this is actually part of the display, with the digital touch icons being able to rotate to suit the orientation of the device, and disappear when viewing something full screen.

Display

The big headline for Motorola is the display. We've seen how it is tightly packed into the frame, but what about the actual performance?

The display has a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. As this is a 4.3-inch device, this gives you a pixel density of 256ppi. That's a nice high number, but sets the RAZR i a step down from the highest resolution and density displays available on current smartphones.

This is a Super AMOLED Advanced display. Like previous AMOLED displays we've seen, it's capable of producing some lovely colours, rich and saturated, but perhaps too saturated at times. This display will give you wonderfully deep blacks, but the compromise is whites, which appear a little yellow. It isn't as accomplished as the display in the HTC One X or the iPhone 5, but it performs typically for a mid-range AMOLED display.

It offers auto-brightness, although we feel this could be a little more aggressive, as we've found ourselves manually dimming it at night and having to turn it all the way up in bright conditions. If anything, we'd like it to be a little brighter to cut through reflections in bright conditions.

Intel: A smart move?

With Motorola pushing the display, the big headline for everyone else is the Intel hardware. It lends an initial to the phone's name and it's difficult not to see the RAZR i as the flagship Intel Android phone at the time of launch. Sitting at the core is a 2.0GHz Intel Atom processor, with 1GB of RAM.

The 2.0GHz single-core processor isn't the end of the story though, as this is an Intel chip that supports Hyper-Threading, which means that the core can run multiple tasks efficiently, in a similar way to multi-core processors. This is all very well, as is benchmarking the hardware to gain empirical results, however all that really matters in the real world is performance and the price cost, both financially and practically.

The Motorola RAZR i might be the first mobile device to have a single-core processor clocked at 2.0GHz, but Intel made a point of saying that this would compete with dual core devices already in the market. That claim rings true in our experience and were it not for the branding of Intel Inside on the back of the handset, there would be little to reveal that this phone was different from any other.

In daily operation that much is true. Android runs very smoothly indeed, Ice Cream Sandwich is slick and fast in operation, even with some of Motorola's tinkering to tweak Google's mobile OS. It's not till you dig a little deeper that you see the differences. And it comes down to app compatibility.

The highest profile app that has been highlighted is Chrome. Chrome, Google's own browser, isn't compatible with the RAZR i. That's slightly amusing because one of Motorola's boasts on launching the RAZR M, the Qualcomm sibling device, was that Chrome was the default browser. Here, it won't even install. (UPDATE: Since publishing this review, Chrome has become compatible with the Motorola RAZR i.)

But that's not the only app problem that Intel brings with it. We found that Adobe Flash Player, although available through Google Play, won't install, and neither will Adobe Air. For UK users that means you won't be able to access BBC iPlayer, or the BBC Media Player designed to supplant it. ITV Player is similarly knocked out. 

 

This is perhaps a temporary problem as Flash is on the way out anyway and we're sure that developers will embrace other technologies for streaming video, as things like Netflix runs beautifully.

We're sure there are other apps that are hamstrung by the move to Intel too, but these are the most obvious that came out in our time with the phone. Hopefully this is simply a case of updating the relevant apps to ensure compatibility and as more Intel Android devices launch, the faster this should happen. Hey, one day, there might even be apps designed for Intel, as there are for Nvidia devices.

But there's a little bonus in the RAZR i too. Motorola and Intel focused on one of the core parts of the device and improved the experience of the camera, which is extremely fast to launch. We'll talk about that more in the camera section, but it's worth noting that the move to Intel isn't entirely negative.

Android 4 with a dab of Moto

Motorola used to customise its phones more heavily, but as the trend has moved towards a lighter touch, Motorola has made the smart move of letting a lot of Android's native goodness remain in place. Perhaps this has something to do with new parentage (now being owned by Google), but we spotted this trend before that acquisition started.

The Motorola RAZR i lands with Ice Cream Sandwich with a Jelly Bean update promised, but no firm date given. Moto has customised icons and but generally speaking the UI looks and feels like ICS, retaining the default styling for things like toggle switches and app styles.

 

The mainstay of Motorola's customisation is based around the home pages. Android fans will love the fact that sitting off the left of the main homepage is a settings toggle screen. Swipe the homepage to the right and you'll enter this area, giving you access to controls for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, as well as a link through to the settings menu.

It's similar to the shortcuts that you'll find on something like the Samsung Galaxy S III in the notifications area, but we prefer this approach: it's clear and easy to access, we just wish you could customise the settings available to control.

The other addition is the Circles widget. This tackles the triumvirate of time, weather and battery life in circles. It also handily will house notifications, so the latest SMS or missed call will drop into a circle so you can see it at a glance. It's a small, but delicate, touch and one that works nicely.

The other area that Motorola has tackled is automation. Called SmartActions, the idea is that you can automate particular tasks, with the phone making suggestions. Essentially these actions can be used to change typical settings to suit your environment: you might want to have a sleep mode where the phone is silenced, except for calls from your family. Or you might have  a driving mode that will automatically reply to SMS messages to let your contacts know you can't reply because you're driving.

 

These SmartActions are simple to setup and customise, making it easy to have the phone behave the way you want it to in every given situation.

Elsewhere on the software front - aside from a driving hub, which easily puts major functions at your fingertips - the phone is very much a straight Android experience. There's no provision for services like MotoCast as there was in the past: the entertainment experience is that from stock Android.

You might be disappointed to find that there's no application for streaming media from your home server, so you'll have to look to third-party apps to complete the puzzle, but you can send playback to compatible DLNA devices from the video apps directly.

The music player is reasonable though, with an in-built equaliser to adjust the audio to your preference. You get controls from the notifications area and the lock screen, which are very welcome. Video playback looks great on that display too and we found the RAZR i would happily playback full HD video in various formats without complaint.

With Chrome sadly lacking, you're left with a stock browser, although in fairness the performance is pretty solid. You get all the features you expect from an Android browser, with a little added touch, where Motorola has incorporated the current website's favicon and displays it on the browser icon.

Cameras

There are two cameras on the Motorola RAZR i, with the obligatory front-facing module for calling, and a main 8-megapixel unit on the rear. As we mentioned before, Intel and Moto have worked to make the camera a fast loader and shooter and it works.

The dedicated button on the side of the handset can be used to launch the camera app, which literally happens in a flash (pardon the pun), so you're ready to compose your shot instantly. It works from a locked phone too, restricting access to anything other than the camera app, so it isn't a security shortcut.

If you don't want that launch you can turn it off, but we like it. It's also worth pointing out that having carried the RAZR i around for a while, we haven't ever launched the camera by accident, or taken photos of the inside of our pocket.

The camera app has been modified from the stock Android, making access to a number of features nice and easy. You can add some minor effects and change a few settings, but it isn't as controllable as the camera on, say, the Sony Xperia S, which we still like a lot.

The RAZR i offers touch focusing, as well as relatively speedy continuous autofocus, but lacks the speed of HTC's prefocusing system, which snaps in much faster. Like many others, the RAZR i offers burst shooting. This will rattle off 10 shots in under a second, so you can pick out the one that captures the perfect moment.

It's a neat system, but we've had a couple of occasions where it hasn't worked perfectly cleanly and sometimes leads to a freeze, either before capture or after. Elsewhere you have an HDR mode, which seems to work pretty well.

The camera performance is good, certainly good enough for social sharing, returning nice results in good light. In low light conditions there's plenty of noise in shadows, but this is to be expected.

Video performance is similarly good. Again you get continuous autofocus, but miss out on touch focusing. It can be a little slow and as focus shifts there's an obvious pulse as it settles down, so not as slick as the best video offerings out there.

But our biggest irritation regarding the camera is the shutter noise. You can't turn it off and even when you silence the phone, it insists on still making the horrible noise. We resorted to downloading a silent camera app to avoid it, because there are times – weddings, dinners, in public toilets, whatever - when that shutter noise is inappropriate. 

Final points: Battery life, wireless connections

Motorola pushed battery life as one of the key areas at the launch of the Motorola RAZR i. Intel joined this chorus, singing from the same song sheet. It's perhaps amusing that both the RAZR i and the Qualcomm-based RAZR M both get cited as 20-hours battery in mixed use, again suggesting there's no real difference between the chipsets when it comes to efficiency.

In the real world, however, the Motorola RAZR i exhibits great staying power. With a 2000mAh battery - higher capacity than both the HTC One S and the One X too - it will easily out-last both handsets. We've found that on typical days, the Motorola RAZR i will see us through the work day and into the evening, without the battery being a worry.

If battery life is important to you, and it really should be, then Motorola is ahead of the pack with the RAZR i.

On the wireless front, we've found an oddity with Wi-Fi. The RAZR i struggled to get on with our BT HomeHub, but was happy to connect to a Wi-Fi extender on the same network, suggesting this is a problem specific to the HomeHub hardware. It's something to keep an eye on, but we found that a restart of the BT router would let us connect.

However, we've also found the GSM radio performance to be very good: the RAZR i has given us a better connection in locations that other handsets have struggled with. Often we don't comment on mobile network connections specifically, given the number of operator variables, but in this instance, the performance was certainly noteworthy.

Verdict

There are some things that the Motorola RAZR i gets very right: the design is solid, the battery performance is impressive, and the user interface hasn't veered too far from Android's goodness, but brings a few nice additions.

But then we come back to the question about the Intel hardware. Obviously, app compatibility is a concern, especially for early adopters, and muddies the waters somewhat as you have an Android device that doesn't run all Android apps. For this, we have to knock a mark off what is a great mid-range Android handset. 

But the lingering question of why still haunts us: the tried-and-tested Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset seems to offer both comparable performance, battery life and guaranteed compatibility. In this context, the move to Intel doesn't bring much to phone. 

As long as you accept that currently (and we should stress currently) there are some app limitations for the Motorola RAZR i, then you will find that this is an attractive mid-range phone.

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Review Recap

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PRICE AS REVIEWED

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THE GOOD

Battery performance, compact, solid build, plenty of power, some nice tweaks to UI

THE BAD

Intel hardware not compatible with all apps, screen could be better

QUICK VERDICT

The move to Intel doesn't bring with it a swathe of immediate advantages. But this phone is still worthy of consideration in the mid-range, bringing impressive performance and endurance, with accepted limitations.

SCORE

iPhone 5 camera review

Digital compact camera sales are falling, while smartphone camera technology continues to improve. Take the iPhone 5: it’s already caused a chunk of the public to fall into near-hysteria upon its launch - with five million units sold in the first three days, it’s safe to say that it’s doing more than a little bit well - but can its updated camera match up to expectation?

Take me anywhere

The iPhone 5 is thinner than the iPhone 4S and lighter too. What’s not to like about that? There isn’t a consumer camera on the market that can boast about being as thin as the iPhone 5, so it will fit into the pocket of even the skinniest jeans.

In fact the iPhone 5 isn't even as thick as four SD cards stacked up on top of one another. Now that's thin.

There’s also no on switch - well, not really. The delay in switching on a compact camera and waiting for its pointless sparkly logo screen to flicker past those dead eyes before it’s ready to go is irksome. The iPhone 5 doesn’t even need unlocking: just a swipe against the camera symbol on the locked home screen and it’s ready to go. There is a slight pause while the virtual shutter blades open up, but this is now even faster on the iPhone 5 than it is on earlier generation iPhones running iOS 6.

The hype

Smartphone cameras are often hyped up as being as good as or better than equivalent compact cameras. But that hype isn’t just restricted to Apple or the iPhone 5, so let’s think about Nokia for a moment.

The Finnish company launched the 808 PureView but - let’s not beat around the bush here - it didn’t sell, did it? And this is the smartphone that was supposed to be the one - full-on Matrix style - in the camera department.

At the iPhone 5 announcement conference the camera part was fairly glossed over; there were some new features added but it wasn’t made out to be the key feature of Apple’s latest.

The images

The crucial part, just how good are the iPhone 5’s images?

The 1/3.2-inch sensor is smaller than you’ll find in any given compact camera and that doesn’t bode so well, at least on paper, for image quality. But this Sony-made, back-side illuminated sensor is, in reality, really rather capable.

In the right light the iPhone 5’s images are just as good as those from many compact cameras. That’s easy to tell from how the images look on the device’s screen, but take the shots off the camera - something that’s probably not done as often as it ought to be - and various blemishes are clear to see.

But we’re not talking great globs of image processing artefacts or stacks of image noise. Nope, it’s really very well processed. Just look at this, ahem, corking snap of some wine corks. Inspect closer and detailed edges are a little “fuzzy”, but this is all normal stuff and exactly what most compact cameras would exhibit.

But, as we say, that’s in good light. The camera does otherwise “hide” in wide-aperture, low ISO, low shutter speed territory which, while fine for some conditions, will often render low-light or night pictures blurry through exposure means rather than on account of the sensor.

When eventually forced to up the sensitivity - even in a very dark club the 1/15th second exposure time and ISO 800 choice seemed conservative to the point of damaging - quality quickly drops off and lacks detail.

No manual control

Which brings us to the first hiccup. Where’s the manual control? It doesn’t need to be complicated amounts of it, just the usual aperture, shutter and ISO controls to help enable the camera to better suit different environments.

Imagine some on-screen “virtual lens ring” sliders to control those elements – that’d be great. In fact, it’d be above and beyond what most, if not all, entry level compact cameras offer.

Sure, there’s a lot to be said for point and shoot. We don’t want that to go away, but there’s a definite demand for greater picture-taking control direct from Apple’s own camera software.

Exposure and focus lock

It's been around for a couple of software versions now, but the AE/AF lock is an essential feature. Press and hold the point of focus and it’ll fix the focus position and exposure level wherever the camera is then moved. It’s not quite the full manual control that we’d like, but is something not to be ignored.

This isn’t restricted to the iPhone 5 though. Go download iOS 6 via iTunes and - apart from the unavoidable Apple Maps-gate issue that also comes bundled - you, too, can benefit from this feature without spending an extra penny, whichever iPhone you happen to be using.

Stabilisation? What stabilisation

Image stabilisation is likely to be the "next phase" in smartphone cameras.Nokia’s Lumia 920 technology sounds promising, but we’re yet to see how that truly performs, though a quick 4S vs 920 at the Nokia launch returned some interesting results.

With the iPhone 5 there is no image stabilisation. The mid-wide 33mm (equivalent) lens might not sound as if would need assistance from stabilisation, but thanks to Apple’s engineers resting on the low shutter speeds - as outlined above - image blur is a common issue in all kinds of light. Some of our comparison shots we had to take half a dozen times and the difference between each varied.

Why so wobbly? It’s the shape of the iPhone. It’s so thin, and the camera's lens is positioned so close to the corner that nimble fingers need to splay out to support this thin slice of phone, and that doesn’t happen with as much success as you may imagine.

No zoom

This one’s a given. Smartphones don’t have optical zoom lenses, and if they did then they’d be bloomin’ huge.

The iPhone 5’s 33mm equivalent lens is a medium-wide-angle offering, and its "sapphire crystal" construction - don’t get too excited though, we’re just talking hard, scratch-resistant glass here - does attribute to better final quality than its predecessor.

The ability to digitally zoom using the classic two finger pinch can give the perception of a longer focal length, but that comes at the cost of final image quality, both in preview where jagged edges are unsightly and in the final image, which will be smaller than the iPhone 5’s fullest 8-megapixel resolution.

There are other, better solutions - such as the 808 PureView’s large, high-resolution sensor and complex processing - but, for now, the iPhone 5 isn’t a patch on a zoom-capable compact.

Panorama

We love the idea of panorama - and check out our full iPhone 5 panorama tips here - but it’s got a whole lot of issues to fix up before it’ll be able to cut its teeth against the compact camera curve.

The panorama direction can only travel one way - in a horizontal direction while the iPhone 5 is held vertically. It’s down to the user to keep a guide arrow central to the rotation as, otherwise, you’ll “run out of sensor” and end up with black nothings poking into the edges of the image. Use the iPhone held horizontally and, in our tests, the vertical panoramas we tried to take went haywire.

Then there’s the stitching. It’s fast and, when it works, it looks good. But there are more than a couple of wibbles and wobbles - indeed, that’s our technical term for it right now - that make it obvious it’s a stitched panorama. Sometimes it looks as though the stitching algorithm has just panicked and thrown in a couple of road bumps just for a laugh, though it’s not the first time we’ve seen it - just take a look at Apple Maps and there are plenty of examples.

Introduce movement from subjects and all kinds of crazy things can also happen. It might be nice to turn your loved ones into Picasso pictures, but then again they might not appreciate it. Panoramas are best left to still, panoramic scenes really.

A small but great feature within this mode is a simple "Done" button. That level of user control - ie, the ability to stop the panorama when you have as much or as little as you want - is something dedicated compact cameras haven't quite figured out yet. This we like a lot.

In short: Good idea, good to see it in a phone, bad to see it not carried out as well as it should be.

Share me

A huge, huge advantage of any given camera phone is its connectivity. Here we've got 4G, 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth all built in - although Bluetooth can't be used to share images and there's still no NFC like the SGS3 - and built-in Photo Streams to auto-backup to the Cloud. There are even Shared Photo Streams.

Direct from the camera roll it's also possible to mail, message, tweet and Facebook an image direct from the phone, while other options such as assign to contact, print, copy and use as wallpaper integrate the camera side of things much more.

There's no SD or microSD, however, so saving images depends on having enough internal storage. With 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions that shouldn't be an issue, plus files tend to sit around the 2MB mark each. That's plenty of space to keep on snapping, even if other apps and music means the occasional off-load is necessary.

Just for fun: iPhone 5 vs Nikon D4

Yup, we went there. It’s not that we’d expect the iPhone 5 to be better than a full-frame DSLR by any means, but it didn’t do too bad a job.

There’s not the same shallow depth of field, dynamic range or level of detail but, at this consumer level, we doubt that’s going to be too much of a bother. Take a look for yourself at this 100 per cent crop (the D4 image has been reduced by half to fit against the iPhone 5 shot to scale).

Verdict

It really is the good, the bad and the ugly, isn’t it? The iPhone 5 is the perfect take-anywhere camera and, in good light, it’s hard to tell the difference between its images and those from a compact camera.

But the lack of an optical zoom (impractical, granted), no image stabilisation, no manual control, often bizarre exposure settings and the fact that quality jumps off a virtual cliff at high ISO settings - not that these can be controlled - all make an argument for investing in a dedicated high-end compact.

Some new features such as panorama are fun, but more than a little rusty around the edges for the time being and streets behind the compact camera curve. But that’s easy to improve with software updates, and something that we expect will happen.

In a smartphone-only camera context, there are only a handful of contenders to consider, none of which has the current range of features on offer here. It’s in Nokia’s hands now to see what the Lumia 920 can pull off, as, for our money, the iPhone 5 is only bettered - at the time of writing - by the 808 PureView's clever tech and large sensor.

That makes the iPhone 5 a darn good second and, for most consumers, it’ll have the majority of what’s needed including all the back-up and sharing options right there and then. If a big zoom is essential then the iPhone 5 isn’t going to compare, but given the context of what it is - a phone before a camera - and it’s hard not to be impressed for the most part.

Thank you to Vodafone for lending us the iPhone 5 used in this camera test

Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500 Dual-SIM Phone With 5" Screen And Android 4.0 Surfaces Online For Rs 12,500

Another low-cost manufacturer has hopped onto the big-screen-phone bandwagon. Spice Mobile has added a new member to itsStellar range of smartphones with the Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500,which seems to be a beefed-up variant of the recently releasedStellar Craze Mi-355 . Under its 5" capacitive multi-touch screen lies a 1 GHz dual-core CPU and 512 MB of RAM running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It comes with a rear 5 mp camera with dual-LED flash and front 0.3 mp snapper. Since the official product page isn't available yet, here's the list of its tech specs as mentioned onSaholic.com:

• Dual-SIM (GSM + GSM), Dual-standby, Quad-band 2G (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), 3G (UMTS 2100 MHz).
• Android 4.0 (ICS), Bundled with 6-month subscription to NetQin Antivirus, Supports Google Play.
• 5" TFT LCD multi-touch capacitive display with 480x800 pixels.
• MediaTek chipset with 1 GHz Dual-core CPU, 512 MB RAM.
• 5 megapixel main camera with dual-LED flash, 0.3 mp front camera.
• Camera Features: Auto-focus, 4x digital zoom, Video recording, Smile shot, Auto scene detect, Best shot, EV bracket shot, Night vision.
• 2 GB internal storage, 32 GB microSD card slot.
• Wi-Fi with hotspot function, Bluetooth, USB, Assisted GPS.
• FM radio, 3.5 mm jack.
• Video Formats: MP4.
• Audio Formats: MP3, WAV, MIDI.
• Proximity sensor, Orientation sensor, Ambient light sensor.
• 5.6" (l) x 3.0" (w) x 0.4" (10.5 mm) (d), Weighs 205 grammes.
• 2400 mAh Li-Ion battery, Micro-USB charging port.
• Available Colour: White.
• Package contents: Charger, Headset, Flip cover, User guide.

The phone comes preloaded with social networking and entertainment apps. The handset is now on sale via Saholic.com for Rs 12,500.