Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Homegrown handset maker Karbonn launched three new smart-phones, based on the latest Android KitKat operating system and hexa and octa-core processors, in partnership with mobile chipmaker MediaTek.
The three phones -- Titanium Hexa, Titanium Octane and Titanium Octane Plus -- are priced at Rs 16,990, Rs 14,490 and Rs 17,990, respectively. The devices-- featuring dual-SIM support-- will start shipping from the last week of April.
The Karbonn Titanium Octane has 5-inch HD IPS display and is powered by 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor and 1GB RAM.
The Karbonn Titanium Octane Plus has a 5-inch full-HD display and is powered by 1.7GHz MediaTek MT6592 octa-core processor and 2GB RAM.
The Karbonn Titanium Hexa has a 5.5-inch full-HD LTPS display and is powered by a 1.5GHz hexa-core MediaTek MT6591 processor and 2GB RAM.
According to research firm IDC, smart-phone sales surpassed 44 million units in 2013, up from 16.2 million in 2012.
This surge has been mainly powered by home grown vendors which have shown a tremendous and consistent growth over the past four quarters of 2013.
Samsung led the Indian smart-phone market (37 per cent), followed by Micromax (16 per cent), Karbonn (10 per cent) and Sony (5 per cent) in the October-December 2013 period.
The overall phone market in India stood at close to 257 million units in 2013, an 18 per cent increase from 218 million units in 2012, with a remarkable migration from feature phones to smart-phones primarily due to the narrowing price gaps between the two product categories.
With Agency Inputs
