It is raining Chinese smartphones in India. Another Chinese brand Phicomm has forayed into India with the launch of Passion 660 smartphone with 4G LTE connectivity. This phone is priced Rs. 10,999 and would be sold exclusively by Amazon.in from 9th June. The Passion 660 will be available in White and Black color variants
The Passion 660 features a 5-inch IPS full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) having a pixel density of 441ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor and Adreno 405 GPU. It also encompasses Qualcomm Snapdragon Voice+ technology and two microphones for superior speech clarity even in noisy environments.
It comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded upto 64GB via microSD card. The Phicomm Passion 660 supports Dual-SIM. Moreover, the second Nano-SIM slot on this device can also be used as a microSD card slot’.
The Passion 660 runs the company’s Expect OS 5.0 UI based on Android 4.4.4 KitKat. The Passion 660 is equipped with a 13-megapixel rear camera featuring Sony IMX214 sensor and f/2.0 aperture, and also houses a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor and super wide view angle (84 degrees) for perfect selfies. It is packed with 2300mAh battery.
For connectivity, the Phicomm Passion 660 offers support for 4G LTE Indian networks and 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, USB, GPS and Bluetooth 4.0. This phone also incorporates G-sensor, L-sensor?P-Sensor, E-compass, Barometer, Step-counter sensor and Gesture sensor.
The Phicomm Passion 660 also boasts of a professional pedometer along with gesture recognition. The pedometer enables you to track how much you walk in a day and how many calories you have burnt. It has built –in step-counter sensor that does not require GPS & Network. With Gesture recognition, you can access the functions of the phone with hand gestures. Passion 660 can also record your altitudeby the built in barometer.When taking a picture, you can use Geotag and Barometer to record your 3D position.
The Passion 660 is a light and thin device having dimensions of 139×69×7.3 mm. This device weighs just 110 grams.
The Phicomm Passion 660 will face stiff competition from the establishedf brands such as Lenovo, Xiaomi, Huawei etc. and Indian brands like Micromax etc.
