Capitalising on its huge success of Galaxy Note series in India, South Korean giant Samsung launched today two new big screen smartphones – Galaxy Mega 6.3 and Galaxy Mega 5.8 – at Rs 31,490 and Rs 25,100, respectively.
“Consumers in India as in other parts of the world are preferring the larger screen displays in their Smartphones owing to the time they spend doing more with their devices – staying connected with their work and friends/family , web browsing , extensive multimedia viewing and more,” states Mr. Vineet Taneja , Country Head , Samsung Mobile and Digital Imaging Business .“To meet the varying lifestyles of our consumers, we are very pleased to offer the GALAXY Mega which further enriches the product portfolio of our award-winning GALAXY series.”
Popularly known as phablets because of their large screens, Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 sports a 6.3-inch HD LCD, and is powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core processor. It comes with an 8-megapixel rear camera, and a 2-megapixel front facing camera. The Galaxy Mega has 1.5GB of RAM, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and A-GPS. The phone comes with a 3,200 mAh battery and runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. It will come in 8 and 16GB internal storage capacity variants and will have a microSD card for expanding the memory up to 64GB.
On the other hand, Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 sports a 5.8-inch QHD TFT display, and runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. It is powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, and features the same camera as that of Galaxy Mega 6.3,and also runs on This phablet will have only an 8GB internal storage variant, which can be expanded to 64GB via microSD card. It is packed with a 2,600mAh battery.
Both the above Galaxy Mega devices have following features :
- Group Play: Enables easy content sharing of games, documents and pictures
- Samsung Link: Easily streams photos, videos, notes, or music to your television, tablet or computer
- S Translator: Say or text what you need translated into the GALAXY Mega, and it will provide instant translation, using text or voice translation on applications including email, and ChatON
- split screen capability for a variety of applications including email, messages, ‘MyFiles,’ ‘S Memo,’ ‘S Planner’, amongst others
Both the devices also support AirView feature which allows users to preview content without actually clicking or touching on the device itself. This is the prominent feature of Galaxy S4.
The Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 inches will be available in the market within a week , and is priced Rs. 25,100. The Galaxy Mega 6.3 inches will be introduced in the market in mid June 2013, and is priced at Rs. 31,490.
The GALAXY Mega is being launched with special offers from RCom and Vodafone . RCom customers buying Samsung GALAXY Mega will get 2GB data per month free for 3 months as well as unlimited access to Big Movies Library , unlimited WhatsApp , Twitter , Facebook during this period . Vodafone customers too will get access to 2GB data download per month free for two months (3G + 2G).
