Micromax launches Selfie phones at Rs 5999

The Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 and its similarly named sibling, the Micromax Canvas Selfie 3, are aimed at folks that enjoy taking pictures of yourself.

Micromax has launched the Canvas Selfie 2 and Canvas Selfie 3 smartphones in India.

The Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 is going to release with a 5-inch (480×854 pixels) FWVGA IPS display and will be powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor (unspecified chipset as of now) and will come along with 1GB of RAM.

Speaking about the Micromax Canvas Selfie 3, it sports a 4.8-inch AMOLED HD display. The smartphone also comes preloaded with face beauty mode and has proprietary features such as gesture, panorama, night shot and one-key shot. It is expected to house a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with OV5648 sensor, 4P Largan Lens, and a LED flash and also features a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with OV5670 sensor and 4P lens. The smartphone also features a 2,500mAh battery that the company claims is good enough for 9.5 hours of talktime and up to 393 hours on standby mode.

According to reports that have been coming in from NDTV, Micromax on Monday launched two new smartphones in its “Canvas Selfie” lineup, dubbed Canvas Selfie 2 (Q340) and canvas Selfie 3 (Q348).

When the Canvas Selfie smartphone was released, the company saw tremendous positive response from the consumers who wanted all the goodies in the specs list – processor, battery and display combined with a powerful front camera.

For connectivity, the smartphone offers 2G, 3G, GPRS/EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a micro-USB slot.

The phone will be available in blue, green, purple, sky blue and yellow colours in the last week of August. The Micromax Canvas Selfie 2 will step up to the plate first and will be available in Black for Rs. It has 8GB of internal storage and can be further expandable up to 32GB via micrpSD card slot. “Taking the selfie craze to the next level, we are proud to announce the two new smartphones which are ideal for the users delivering fantastic images and equipping them with great beauty editing tools to look their best always”. Running on the latest Android Lollipop 5.0, it gives users the access to a number of features including voice search, Google Drive, Hangouts for video calls, smart contact prioritization etc. Priced affordably at Rs.