Week 17: Top 10 Smartphones Launch And Announcement That Matter!

By Vigneshwar

| Published: Friday, April 29, 2016, 20:11 [IST]

Well, this week started off with the leak of Xiaomi's upcoming mid-ranger dubbed as Max. However, the company has later confirmed it and announced the launch date too. Talking about the launch, Asus has launched Zenfone Go 4.5 (2nd Gen) smartphone under budget range at a price of Rs. 5,299.

Week 17: Top 10 Smartphones Launch And Announcement That Matter!

Also, on the other side, Gionee has launched the beefed up version of Marathon M5 with huge 5020mAh battery under the hood. Anyhow, the pricing of the device is clearly too high at sub 25k. The most interesting story of the week is indeed the launch of Docoss X1 at just Rs. 881. Similar to the Freedom 251, the Jaipur-based company has launched India's cheapest smartphone earlier this week.

However, most of them couldn't book the device on the official website, this might also end up with a scam just like Freedom 251. Apart from launches, the Chinese handset maker including Meizu, Huawei has announced their respective smartphone that will go on sale in upcoming days.

In case, if you have missed any smartphone announcement or launches, we have listed here for you. Do swirl through!

Asus

4.5-inch display
1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor
1GB LPDDR3 RAM
8GB inbuilt storage with expandable option up to 64GB
8MP (or) 5MP rear camera / 2MP (or) VGA front camera
Android 5.1 Lollipop topped with Zen UI 2.0
2,070mAh removable battery

Gionee

6-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display
1.3 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753 processor
3GB RAM
64GB inbuilt memory with expandable options
13MP/5MP camera
Android 5.1 Lollipop topped with Amigo UI 3.1
5020mAh battery with fast charging

Panasonic

5.5-inch IPS display
1.3GHz quad-core processor
2GB RAM
16GB inbuilt memory with expandable option up to 32GB
13MP/5MP camera
Android 5.1 Lollipop topped with FitHome UI
2700mAh battery

Swipe

5.5-inch HD display
1.3 GHz Quad-Core MediaTek MTK6735 processor
3GB RAM
16GB inbuilt memory with expandable option up to 32GB
Android 5.0 Lollipop topped with Freedom OS
13MP/5MP camera
3000mAh battery

Meizu

5.5-inch LTPS display
1.8 GHz Octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 processor
2GB RAM/3GB RAM
16GB/32GB inbuilt with expandable option up to 128GB
Android 5.1 Lollipop topped with Flyme OS 5.1
13MP/5MP camera
4100mAh battery

HTC

5-inch Full HD display
2 GHz MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795) Octa-Core processor
2GB RAM
16GB inbuilt storage with expandable option up to 2TB
Android 6.0 Marshmallow topped with HTC Sense UI
13MP rear camera/ Ultrapixel front camera
2840mAh battery

Huawei

5.2-inch Full HD IPS display
Octa-Core Kirin 650 processor
2GB RAM
16GB inbuilt memory with expandable option up to 128GB
13MP/8MP camera
Android 6.0 Marshmallow topped with Huawei EMUI 4.1
3000mAh battery

Huawei

5.7-inch Quad HD display
Octa-Core Kirin 955 processor with Mali T880-MP4 GPU/Octa-Core Kirin 950 processor with Mali T880 GPU
4GB RAM
32GB/64GB inbuilt storage with expandable option up to 128GB
12MP dual rear cameras/ 8MP front camera
Android 6.0 Marshmallow topped with EMUI
3400mAh battery

Xiaomi

6.4-inch Full HD IPS display
Hexa-Core Snapdragon 650 processor
2GB/3GB RAM
16GB/32GB inbuilt storage with expandable options
Android 6.0 Marshmallow topped with MIUI 7
16MP/5MP camera
4000mAh battery

Docoss

4-inch WVGA display
1.2GHz dual-core Cortex A7 processor
1GB RAM
4GB inbuilt memory with expandable option up to 32GB
2MP/VGA camera
Android 4.4 KitKat
1300mAh battery