Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Will Lesser Market Prices Influence Bigger Sales?

Of all the top notch smartphones that are currently in and around the block, the India-based smartphone manufacturers deserve special mention with their continuous attempts of toppling a market that's otherwise dominated by the likes of Apple, Samsung and Sony.

There have been a number of companies that have been emerging out of the blue in recent times, However, none has been able to make as great an impact as Micromax. With its continuous push-out of smartphones at affordable price tags, the company is now looking ahead at creating a smartphone dominion of it own.

The latest smartphone that has arrived from Micromax is the new Canvas Engage handset that will now take on the likes of other smartphones in the same price range. And it's quite needless to say at this point that at its given price range, it will look to taunt other high end products that are available at a much greater price.

The new Canvas Engage, primarily, will take on the massively popular Motorola Moto E that has seen so much enthusiasm and popularity over the past few weeks. And with the price tag both the devices are offering, it's only natural that the fight to the top will heaten up in the next few months.

So if were to keep aside all the other devices and brands in the market aside, where would the Canvas Engage and Moto E stand when compared against each other? We take a closer look.

Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Operating System
Great news for fans looking to invest on either of the devices mentioned in the piece. While the Moto E was already offering Android KitKat operating system straight out of the box, the Canvas Engage is also offering the same KitKat OS with the device.

Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Display and Dimensions
The Motorola Moto E sports a 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen, while rendering 540 x 960 pixels resolution. Also, the device's overall dimensions measure up to 124.8 x 64.8 x 12.3 mm. The device weighs in at 142 grams.

The Micromax Canvas Engage, on the other hand, sports a slightly lesser 4-inch IPS capacitive touch screen, while rendering 480 x 800 pixels resolution.

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Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Camera
The Micromax Canvas Engage sports a decent 5-megapixel primary camera. The device also offers a front-facing secondary 0.3-megapixel shooter.

The Motorola Moto E, in the camera department, offers a similar 5-megapixel primary camera, sporting a pixel resolution of 2592 х 1944 pixels, with touch focus. The device, however, unlike the Canvas Engage, doesn't come with a front-facing snapper.

Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Processors
As expected, both the devices come fitted with decent, if not great, processors that are enough to get your job done without much problems. While Motorola Moto E is equipped with a dual core 1.2 GHz Cortex A7 processor, the Micromax Canvas Engage comes equipped with a somewhat similar quad-core 1.2 GHz processor.

Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Storage and RAM
The Storage and RAM section is one area where this battle could be won or lost. The Micromax Canvas Engage, in this respect, offers 512MB of RAM while offering the device in a 4GB internal memory variant. Moreover, there's the option to expand the device's memory up to 32GB as an external microSD slot for additional memory is also present.

The Moto E, on the other hand, offer 1GB of RAM with the device itself arriving in a 4GB internal memory variant. Also, similar to the Canvas Engage, the device has the option to expand its memory up to 32GB.

Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Battery
While the Moto E juices up the KitKat-powered device via a decent 1980 mAh battery, the Micromax Canvas Engage comes fitted with a slightly lesser 1500 mAh battery.

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Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Price
These kinds of prices are enough for any of these companies to entice customers into buying their products. While the Moto E is currently available at Rs. 6,999 exclusively via Flipkart, the Canvas Engage is set to be available at even a lesser price tag of Rs. 6,199.

Micromax Canvas Engage Vs Motorola Moto E: Verdict
If you are keeping an open mind while going through the above comparison, and not pledging any kind of allegiance to any brand, it has be said that the Canvas Engage could have a greater presence among the two.

Sure the device sports a lesser screen size, a lesser battery and even a less RAM, but that doesn't take away anything from the fact that the device is already gearing up to be one of the major handsets in the Indian market. Now it's interesting to see what Motorola does in the next few coming months.