Panasonic India has recently launched the Eluga Ray X and Eluga Ray Max smartphones in India and now they have come out with the Eluga Ray which is aggressively priced at Rs. 7,999 and available exclusively on Flipkart. The USP of all the Eluga phones listed above and including Eluga Ray is that they incorporate Arbo AI Assistant which has been developed by Panasonic.
The Eluga Ray is well designed phone and gives comfortable grip in your hand. The removable back cover is made of metal which makes it look quite attractive yet tough. This phone does not have hybrid SIM Slots but on the contrary, it has two SIMs slot and one independent slot for inserting microSD card on the back panel. Unlike majority of other phones, you can use two SIMs simultaneously and also extend internal storage.
This phone has 5 inch HD display with resolution of 1280×720 pixels and you can enjoy watching movies and other media content on its display. This phone will not disappoint you as far as its sunlight visibility is concerned. It produces crisp text and images when you access the websites and provide comfortable reading.
The other very important feature of this phone is its mammoth 4000mAh battery which can last for almost 16 hours even if you are a heavy users. Panasonic has understood the problem of frequent charging and to prevent you from carrying power bank all the time, they have packed this phone with huge battery.
I have used other devices from Eluga Ray series and, appreciate the quick response time of their front fingerprint sensors. Panasonic has continued with this story and the fingerprint scanner embedded on the front on home button is very easy to set-up and is one of the fastest sensor seen by me in this price segment. I have tested it umpteen times to see its reaction time and it has performed to my fullest satisfaction.
Nowadays camera is a very important feature of any smartphone whether it is budget or high-end phone. To enable you to capture good images and selfies, Panasonic has mounted 13MP auto-focus primary camera with LED flash which comes with various modes such as Professional, Panorama, HDR, Night, Sports etc. The front camera of 5MP with Face Beauty mode allows you to refine your selfies and you will definitely get lot of appreciation on your social media for the selfies clicked with this phone. The front camera come with a LED flash, so no more dark selfies. Some of the images clicked with rear camera:
This phone gets its strength from 1.3GHz MediaTek quadcore processor combined with 3GB RAM and 16GB of RAM which can be further extended upto 64GB. The other beauty of this phone is that it runs stock Android Marshmallow OS which result in smooth operation without any lags. You can easily switch between the apps and can also play games. I have not observed any heating issue even when you use the phone for longer duration for watching media content.
This is 4G VoLTE enabled smartphone and catches signals very well. I have used this phone on Airtlel 4G and Jio networks. Call quality is very good on this phone. This phone also offers connectivity options of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio, USB OTG support.
Its feature of Arbo Artificial Intelligence makes this phone quite unique. This Artificial Intelligence assistant will enable the phone to track and learn your daily life activity patterns minutely and will prompt you to take action on the required time. For instance, if you are login on to a particular app or book a cab every day at fixed time then it will prompt you to do that particular activity at that particular time. This will work as personal assistance to remind you to perform an activity at the usual time.
To sum up, the Eluga Ray is budget phone but comes with excellent battery back up and its Arbo feature, when available, will add more charm to this well designed phone. This phone gives you stock Android experience and its overall performance makes it good value for money device.
