Top 5 Budget Smartphones Launched in July 2014

| Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 11:13 [IST]

Latest report from a research firm Gartner, suggested that the number of mobile connections in India is expected to grow by 8% to touch 815 million this year, even as the market is expected to remain at almost the same level as last year - at $19.2 billion.

Just a couple of days ago, the research firm also said that the mobile user base is expected to grow to 815 million this year, from 755 million connections in 2013.

Basically the Indian smartphone market is getting a lot of new smartphones coming in. Moreover, new smartphone brands from China like Xiaomi has also entered into the country just this month and another company which is yet to launch in India is OnePlus.

According to the recent IDC report, "India was the highest growing market in Asia Pacific with a year-on-year smartphone shipment growth of over 186% in 1Q 2014. The vast majority of the country's user base migrated to smartphones from feature phones and as a result Indian smartphone market outshone other emerging markets like China which registered a year-on-year growth of 31% in 1Q 2014."

The constantly evolving smartphohne market is frequently being showered with new devices from both domestic manufacturers and foreign. Anyways, today, GizBot has come up with a top 5 smartphones that were launched this month and are available online to buy.

What is great about the line-up is that the smartphones, which we have chosen come with a very affordable price tag. They are basically budget-friendly devices and are latest among others.

You can check out the pricing and specs of thee devices in the sliders below:

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#2

Price: Rs. 5,999

Karbonn Opium N7 features a 4-inch (800 ×480 pixels) capacitive touchscreen IPS display and is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor coupled with 512MB of RAM. It runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean).

Other specs include: Dual SIM, 5MP rear camera with LED Flash, 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera, 4GB of internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS and a 1600 mAh battery.

#1

Price: Rs. 5,990

Xolo Q500s IPS, on the other hand, features a 4-inch (800 ×480 pixels) capacitive touchscreen IPS display and is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582M processor with 416MHz Mali400 MP2 GPU. It is supported by 512MB RAM and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS.

Other specs include: Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) with Dual Standby, 5MP rear camera with LED Flash, 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera, 4GB of internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS and 1500 mAh battery.

#3

Price: Rs. 8,999

Karbonn Opium N9 on the other hand, comes with an inch bigger display measuring 5-inch which offers a (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display. This one is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor coupled with a 1GB RAM and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) OS.

Other specs include: Dual SIM, 8MP rear camera with LED Flash, 2MP front-facing camera, 4GB internal memory, expandable memory with MicroSD, 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS and a 2000 mAh battery.

#4

Price: Rs. 5,999

The Zenfone 4 features a 4-inches, WVGA 800x480, TFT with Capacitive Multi touch panel. It is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z2520 processor coupled with a 1GB RAM and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with Zen UI, upgradable to Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS.

Other specs include: Dual SIM with dual standby (micro SIMs), 5MP rear camera with LED flash, front-facing camera, 8GB / 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 64GB via micro SD, 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and a 1600 mAh Lithium Battery.

#5

Price: Rs. 6,080

The Canvas Fire A093 comes with a 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) IPS display and comes powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) OS.

Other specs include: Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) with dual standby, 5MP rear camera with LED Flash, 0.3MP front-facing camera, 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD, 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS and 1750 mAh battery.