After the Cube 3 launch last month, Videocon has launched the Ultra50 smartphone in India. The smartphone is priced at Rs. 8,990, and will be available on offline and online platforms from the first week of November. It has been launched in Space Grey, Humble Gold, and Black colour options.
The big highlights of the Videocon Ultra50 are its 5-megapixel selfie camera LED flash, VoLTE support, fingerprint sensor, and its dual-SIM capabilities. The smartphone has a pre-installed emergency response app called 'SOS-BE Safe' that utilizes power button of the smartphone as the panic button to send an alert to the numbers added in the emergency list at the time of crisis.
It also has the dual WhatsApp feature that allows users to use two different WhatsApp accounts simultaneously. The Videocon Ultra50 also supports gestures to perform various functions. For instance, drawing 'O' will start the flash light, 'M' will start playing music, and 'C' will launch the camera.
To detail all the specifications, the Videocon Ultra50 features a 5-inch (720x1280 pixels) HD IPS display with Asahi Dragontrail Glass protection. The smartphone is powered by a 64-bit 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6735 quad-core processor with Mali-T720 GPU and 3GB of RAM. It offers 32GB of inbuilt storage that is further expandable via microSD card (up to 64GB).
The dual-SIM device runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and packs a removable 3000mAh battery. The company claims that the battery can last up to 8 hours of talk time and 350 hours of standby time. Optics include a 13-megapixel rear camera with PDAF, and dual-LED flash. It also has a 5-megapixel front camera with LED flash as well for low light selfies. The Videocon Ultra50 measures at 148.1x72.8x11.27mm, and connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, and FM radio.
The fingerprint scanner is integrated at the front underneath the Home Button. Apart from the emergency app, EROS Now, Gameloft Games, Opera Mini, SwiftKey, Office suite, ChillX, PayPlutus, SBI Buddy, Daily Hunt, and ChillX are also pre-installed on the smartphone.
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