Micromax, one of the leading Indian handsets maker, has announced the launch of its budget smartphone – Micromax Unite 2. This is the world’s first smartphone which support 20 Indian regional languages besides English. The 20 Indian languages supported are : Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Nepali, Bodo, Dogri, Konkani, Kashmiri, Maithili, Manipuri, Sanskrit and Sindhi.
Micromax Unite 2 is priced at Rs. 6,999 and will be available from today in four colors – grey, white, red and green.
The Unite 2 is the first phone from the stable of Micromax which will be running on the latest Android KitKat 4.4.2, which can be easily upgraded through FOTA. This phone offers users a number of features including voice search, Google Drive, Hangouts for video calls and smart contact prioritisation etc.
The Micromax Unite 2 comes with a 4.7-inch Bright Graph IPS display with a resolution of 800×480, and is poweredf by a 1.3GHz quad core processor, coupled with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage which can be expanded upto 32GB via microSD card. This smartphone is equipped with a 5.0MP rear camera and a 2.0MP front camera. The camera also offers a number of features like beauty mode, live photo mode and panorama. The Unite 2 is packed with a 2000 mAh battery and for connectivity, it supports Bluetooth v4.0 and WiFi.
The Unite 2 comes pre-loaded with applications such as MAd, which lets users watch ads, earn points & get money added to their phone balance; Getit, for search of destinations such as hotels, ATMs, Movie theaters; Kingsoft Office, for creating and editing documents on the go; Opera Mini Browser for fast browsing with maximum data savings; Hike, an Indian instant messaging service; M!Games to play high quality games online. This phone also has pre-loaded games like Marble, Burn the Rope, Toystory Smash it. Moreover, with M!live, you can download unlimited latest Bollywood, Regional videos, music, wallpapers, mobile games and applications and with Reverie phonebook and Reverie smartpad features, you can save contacts, type, text in the preferred language.
Commenting on the launch, Mr. Shubhodip Pal, CMO, Micromax said, “India is a diverse country and language at times can act as a barrier for people to seamlessly communicate on their phones. Therefore, we firmly believe that support for local languages on phones will perhaps be the next big driver for day to day phone transactions, internet usage and online content consumption in India given that most of the population does not use English as their primary language.”
