The leading Indian handsets brand, Micromax has entered today high-end space and launched its flagship smartphone, Micromax Dual 5. This phone has premium metal body and is made of aircraft grade aluminium. It has Arc design with chamfering on edges which gives not only beautiful look but easily fits in the palm of the hand comfortably.
The USP of this phone is its 13MP + 13MP rear cameras with dual-tone LED flash, f/1.8 aperture, Sony sensors, Pixel size 1.12um and supports PDAF, 4K video recording. The DUAL cameras perform different functions as one camera has a traditional RGB sensor & takes colour photos while the other has a monochrome sensor, and can only captures scenes in black and white. With the combination, the image quality is enhanced and result in perfect image with sharp details, contrast and depth of field. The rear camera also provide Bokeh effect. This phone is also equipped with13MP front camera with Sony Sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 1.12?m pixel size and soft selfie flash for clicking beautiful selfies.
Besides powerful camera features, the Dual 5 sports a 5.5-inch Full HD AMOLED display with 100% NTSC color gamut, 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It is powered by Octa-Core Snapdragon 652 processor (Quad 1.8GHz ARM Cortex A72 + Quad 1.2GHz A53 CPUs) with Adreno 510 GPU. This phone comes with 4GB RAM, 128GB of internal storage which can be further extended upto 128GB, so you can get total of 256G.
Running on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) OS, this phone supports Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / micro) and is packed with 3200mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0.
On the security front, this phone incorporates fingerprint scanner on the back with response time of 0.35 seconds. Besides unlocking the phone, you can click selfies also with this. Dual 5 also has an independent high-grade security chip which is military grade and unbreakable. It has passed the CC EAL5 + security certification, which is the highest standards of ordinary civilian security level certification. Other smartphones have only EAL 2+ level security as claimed by the company.
This phone also comes with a safe switch, ensuring that no one else can unlock your phone or shut it down without a password. In-fact, any attempt to pull out the SIM card would lock the phone capturing the picture of the suspected intruder as explained by the company. This phone also has panic buttton on the power button.
On the connectivity front, this phone offers options of 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS and USB Type C for charging. This phone has stereoscopic multi-antenna added within the body that enhances the signal strength. It also comes equipped with an integrated IR blaster which allows you to control different home appliances.
The Dual 5 is priced Rs. 24,999 and will start selling from 10th April in retail stores and on Flipkart. This phone comes with one year free replacement warranty which includes issues related to screen damage as well.
