New Delhi: Lava Icon is a good mid-range smartphone offering by the handset maker at Rs 11,990. The smartphone is exclusively available on Snapdeal starting Thursday. As a freebie, the company is offering the first 500 buyers on Snapdeal a selfie-stick along with the smartphone.
Lava Icon is a dual-SIM (Micro-SIM) device and features a 5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) IPS display that uses Asahi Dragontrail glass protection. It runs the company's Star OS based on Android 4.4 KitKat.
The handset gets its power from a 1.3GHz quad-core (unknown chipset) processor coupled with 2GB of RAM and ARM Mali-400 MP2 GPU. Inbuilt storage includes 16GB, which is further expandable via microSD card (up to 32GB).
The Lava Icon sports a 13-megapixel (Sony Exmor sensor) rear camera with dual-LED flash, while there is a secondary 5-megapixel front-facing camera also onboard. The secondary camera comes with an Omni Vision sensor, f/2.4 aperture, 4-element lens and a BSI-II sensor with blue glass filter that protects the sensitive image sensor against overexposure in the infrared wavelength range. The camera app also features Face Detection, HDR, Panorama Mode, Smile Shot & Multi view.
Connectivity options include 3G, GPRS/ EDGE, GPS/ A-GPS, FM radio, Wi-Fi, Micro-USB, and Bluetooth options. The smartphone packs a 2500mAh battery, which according to company can deliver up to 20 hours of talk time on 2G and 9 hours of talk time on 3G networks. The handset measures 143.41x70.56x7.7mm, and weighs 143 grams.
