The modern era is fully digitized and thus, the current generation is very much inclined on innovative gadgets. The marketplace is also flooded with various innovative, fast and multi-functional mobile devices, among which the smartphones are probably the most popular.
A smartphone considered very handy and practical in daily usage than the other advanced mobile devices, as it packs in many things into the most essential gadget, mobile phone. The smartphone is nothing but essentially a mobile phone, but it is much more advanced in terms of computing and networking capabilities as compared against a regular mobile phone. Even some time back, the smartphones used to typically include the features such as PDA, a functional digital camera, an MP3 or MP4 music player and GPS connectivity. However, such features are now found on most of the regular mobile phones of the recent times. The most recent smartphones have thus graduated to much more advanced and innovative features apart from all the regular ones. A good, latest smartphone carries mind blowing features such as hand gesture detection, advanced powerful camera, eye movement detection, full web browsing capabilities, Bluetooth and wifi connectivity, tons of various cool integrated mobile applications and additional accessories.
The Indian market favors those devices that offer high capabilities and are light on the pocket. Many mobile phone companies are thus offering great cost effective smart phones for the general mass market of India. One such company is Micromax, a very popular mobile brand that is highly favored for its range of cost effective mobile phones that offer lots of cool features and high-tech capabilities.
Micromax has recently launched a great budget smartphone, dubbed as the Bolt A24. The company has now listed this new low cost smartphone on the company’s official website as well.
Features:
The new Micromax Bolt A24 is an first and foremost a handy, extremely cost effective and functional smartphone that is meant to suit the budget of most of the middle class Indian mobile phone consumers. The key feature of this phone is that it meant for the great diversified, multilingual country like India. The device caters to the needs of the people of the various regions of the country and supports 20 regional languages that include Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Manipuri, Odia, Konkani, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, etc. This indeed a great feature for a phone that meant for general populace of India, who might not be very comfortable with just English as a language.
Operating System:
The Micromax Bolt A24 powered by Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system. Under the hood, it gets a 1-GHz Dual Core A5 Processor and packs in 256 MB of RAM. This low cost Android smartphone supports dual SIM (both GSM) device. Being a budget phone, the Bolt A24 thus offers good specifications that are required for a practical smartphone.
Display:
The 2.8” Bolt A24 gets a TFT Capacitive Touchscreen with a screen resolution 240x320 pixels, though the display is not big enough for a smart phone this is great considering all the features it packs in with such a small price tag. The display is also pretty nice and sharp and offers good responsive touch functionality to offer quick browsing and texting.
Storage:
The Micromax Bolt A24 has a 100MB in-built memory. However, this has the capability of being expanded to up to 16 GB and obviously comes with microSD slot.
Camera:
To offer a very affordable price tag, the Bolt A24 compromises on the camera front. It packs in a low 0.3 Megapixel primary camera with video recording capability. The good thing is that it also comes with an in-built flash to facilitate capturing good images even in low light conditions. Nevertheless, being a super budget smartphone, it does not provide any front camera to take Selfy images and for video chats.
Keypad:
The Micromax Bolt A24 offers the regular touchpad for all your texting requirements. Not to mention, no QWERTY key pad comes along with this low cost phone to cater to the requirements of the typing geeks.
Connectivity:
The Micromax Bolt A24 comes along with all the standard connectivity options that come on most of the smartphones. It offers the connectivity options including that of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, Micro-USB, and EDGE. However, it is to note that the Bolt A24 does not offer the advantage of 3G connectivity.
Applications:
The new Micromax Bolt A24 budget smartphone offers the advantage of several preloaded third party mobile applications. The smartphone packs in many preloaded apps including the Bubble X Slice, Opera Mini, Hike, M!Live and many more. It thus offers good applications for the users to take full advantage of.
Battery:
The Bolt A24 packs in a Li-Ion Battery in its compact and light body. The company claims that the smartphone can offer up to 4 hours of talktime as well an impressive up to 150 hours of standby time. Thus, even if you use this smartphone to browse and chat, expect it to deliver a whole day of work and play before you need to replenish its battery pack.
Price:
Now, for the most important and attractive part of the new Micromax Bolt A24 smartphone. This is a truly budget phone, and that too a multifunctional, and a multilingual smartphone. It is available for as small a price as Rs. 2999 and one can buy it through many e-commerce portals.
Conclusion:
The new Micromax Bolt A24 smartphone is a genuine budget phone that offers the advantages of a good functional smartphone to the general Indian consumers without burning a hole in their pockets. At the meager price tag of Rs. 2999, even a few years back, people could get the very basic mobile phone albeit with a tiny screen without even color display. However, now things have changed a great deal, and thanks to the companies such as Micromax, that a cool, handy and multi-lingual smartphone like the Bolt A24 is now available at such a great affordable price tag.
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