By Devang Jhaveri From D.J.Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai India's
second largest Smartphone Company Micromax recently launched its new
flagship product: Canvas Knight A350. Termed as a 'local company', the
fact is that Micromax manages to capture 16% of the India's Smartphone
market beating companies like Sony and Nokia. Micromax always has the
perception of producing Smartphones which are affordable but not
necessarily top class. It basically lacks in what we call as a 'brand
value'. But in the recent past, Micromax has striven hard to change this
image by launching phones like Canvas HD, Canvas 4 and now the Canvas
Knight A350. Known for producing budget Smartphones, Micromax is selling
the Canvas Knight A350 for Rs. 19,999. But the question is 'Why would
anyone buy a Micromax for 20K?' Well its astonishing features might
prove alluring to do so. The Knight is the first Micromax phone to come
with an Octa core processor capable of running on a speed of 2 GHz. In reality, no application is really capable of utilizing all the eight
cores simultaneously in the processor. The key factor here is the 2GHz
speed. The processor is backed by 2GB of random access memory and 32 GB
of inbuilt internal memory. The dual sim Smartphone comes with a 16
megapixel primary camera but the 8MP front camera ensures we get a good
selfie. The A350 is powered by an older version of Android, Jelly
bean-4.2.2 but that doesn't make much of a difference. The 5-inch
display screen is the best in its class. Though not of Gorilla quality,
it provides enough toughness and resolution to amuse. The competition:
The Canvas Knight A350 has to compete with the Google Nexus 4 and the
recently launched Moto X in the 20K market. After the stupendous success
of Moto G, its advanced version Moto X is also expected to have the
same influence on the market. But Micromax has always managed to
convince consumers in the past and hopefully will do the same this time.
In a nutshell, the Canvas Knight A350 falls in one of the best phones
that will offer value for money and an 8-core processor coupled with a
good speed. But the issue of relying on Micromax will always be a
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Free calls with Freekall
By Sweta Nair From Christ University , Bangalore What do I pay for this
call? Nothing at all! Gone are the days when we needed the magic of
internet to connect to our friends for apparently free web run apps.
These free apps, run by not so free or cheap internet recharges, might
soon crash and burn when Freekall hits the market after a month. Let us
go back to the beginning. One fine day, a group of four engineers--
Yashas Shekhar, Sandesh E, Vijay Umaluti and Sabari Jagadeesan- left
their jobs. Not just any jobs, lucrative salary and corporate perks to
give shape to new ideas. They thought big and started small. From
developing web based applications for small companies, they gradually
began shaping and giving form to Freekall. And as history has seen it
several times before and future will see many a times ahead, there
emerged a story that the writers like us love to write. These Bangalore
based basketball lovers spent a liberal chunk of a year moulding their
plan into action until December last year. Freekall is an app that will allow the
users to give calls any where any time without being charged. It brings
voice over internet (VoIP) to people who do not have access to internet.
All one has to do is give a missed call to the Freekall number. They
would then receive a call from the company server enabling them to dial
any number and talk for as long as the caller wants. As of now this app
successfully offered 600,000 free calls in a span of 5 days during its
trial run. Image credit: cdn1.yourstory.com The only catch, though, is
that the users will have to listen to the advertisements every two
minutes. This should not be much of a problem for us. We Indians, after
all, love the free stuff, don't we? It won't be wrong to say that we are
the kind who watch and read advertisements the moment we see the word
'FREE' written anywhere around them. The world is filled with people who
buy a Rs 500 pack of detergent, even though they don't need it, just
because they will get a free Tupperware. As of now, the plan is to
provide around million calls a day and are expected to achieve their
target revenue of Rs185 crores through advertisements. In December, last
year, Ranjit Cherickal, former head of Nokia Siemens, Africa, poured in
an investment of ten lakhs into this innovative concept. For sure
millions of users would welcome the advertisements for a limitless call
free of any charges. Also these advertisements would add more topics to
talk upon. It certainly is too early to predict the success or failure
of this app but it will without a doubt turn heads when properly out in
the market. Want to blog for us? Please click here. Image credit:
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