Panasonic India, which was teasing its latest P series of smartphone P31 in India for quite sometime, has officially launched this smartphone in India at the best price of Rs. 11,990. Panasonic P31 comes in Bluish Black & Pure White colors, and will start selling in India from the second week of March.
The newly launched P31 features a 5 inches FWVGA display with 480 x 854 pixels. The display has ultra oleophobic coating& contour edge design for easy handling. This smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz Quad Core smartphone, coupled with 4GB ROM, which is expandable up to 32GB via MicroSD card. There is no word about the RAM capacity in the press release received by us. The P31 is Dual-SIM smartphone and comes with Micro SIM; it runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) OS. This smartphone is equipped with an 8MP Full HD capable Autofocus camera with LED flash back, and also has VGA front camea. The P31 is packed with a 2000 mAh battery, which according to the company, can deliver talk time of 13 hours on 2G, 9hours on 3G networks and standby time of 650hours (2G) and 600hours (3G).
Panasonic has introduced “Play Life” UI features on its P31 smartphone. Play Life has four core innovative features where the smartphone understands Gestures with its “Gesture Play”, draw-to-unlock gesture based feature, lets you multi-task while you play videos, with its innovative “Pop-i Player”, organizes music with “Music café” & switches battery use modes with its “Ultimate Saver” feature.
Panasonic has also introduced the “Heat-Sink” design based feature on P31, for maintaining device temperature through controlled heat dissipation, which is a major concern nowadays, as we see a huge increase in heating-up of devices due the increase in the CPU clock speed & multimedia usage.
Speaking on the launch, Mr. Manish Sharma, Managing Director, Panasonic India said “Our mobile devices are an extension of our personality and the focal point of our lives. With an increase in consumer awareness today, one’s lifestyle can be safely assumed to be a mobile lifestyle.
The Panasonic P31, with its bouquet of smart and efficient ‘Play Life’ features, will help you ease and simplify your life, while offering the best of innovative technologies, enabling you to be on the move.”
The P31 comes with a Freebie offer of Rs.10390, but the company has not mentioned the details of this offer. We are seeking clarifications from Panasonic and shall update our readers accordingly.
Salient Features :
- PROCESSOR : Quad Core 1.3 GHz CPU
- SIM : Dual SIM(Standby), Micro SIM
- OPERATING SYSTEM : Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
- MEMORY : 4GB ROM Expandable up to 32GB
- CAMERA : 8 MP Auto Focus with LED Flash Back Camera,VGA Front Camera
- VIDEO Playback: upto FHD; Video Capture: 1080p FHD@30fps
- SENSORS : G-Sensor, Light Sensor, Proximity sensor, E-compass
- DISPLAY & RESOLUTION : 12.7cm(5″) FWVGA 480 x 854 pixels
- DISPLAY PROTECTION : Ultra Oleophobic coating
- CONNECTIVITY : GSM Quad band 850/900/1800/1900 ; UMTS 850/1900/2100, HSPA+ 21Mbps Downlink ; 5.76 Mbps Uplink, 802.11b/g/n; Wi-Fi Hotspot; Bluetooth 4.0
- BATTERY : 2000mAh
- Talk time: 13h (2G) / 9h (3G) ; Standby time:650h (2G)/600h (3G)
- AUDIO & FM : HD Voice; FM with RDS
- NAVIGATION SUPPORT : Yes, with A-GPS support
- ADDITIONAL ACCESSORIES : Branded Screen Guard
