Micromax Canvas Gold Review

Micromax Canvas Gold is a mid level Android cellphone, having a 5.5" multi-touch screen, an extremely powerful 2 gigahertz Octa-Core CPU, a 16 megapixels back side camera and a 5 mega-pixels front-facing camera.

Micromax just offers this phone in gold color. The Micromax Canvas Gold is just 0 inches long and 0 inches wide, but it still manages to hold a 5.5" screen. About its materials quality, this phone is majorly created with Aluminium, giving it a high quality finish and an extra resistance.

This device is equipped with a spectacular 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 5.5 inches screen, giving this cellphone a great graphic quality. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

The Micromax Canvas Gold ships with a MediaTek MT6592T chip, holding a high-tech 2 GHz Octa-Core processing unit and a huge 2 GB RAM memory. Graphic rendering usually eats a lot of processing time, so the Micromax Canvas Gold uses an extra 650 MHz ARM Mali-450 graphic processing unit to help handle those graphic tasks. The Micromax Canvas Gold has a 25 GB interesting internal memory and an external memory card slot, enough to install hundreds of applications and games without any problem.

The Micromax Canvas Gold counts with wi-fi connectivity (which can be shared with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G HSPA+ internet connection, that is not so fast as LTE networks and the fastest 3G connectivity, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone supports dual sim cards so it can to work with 2 different phone lines or carriers at the same time.

The Micromax Canvas Gold features two cameras, a 16 MP back camera and a 5 megapixels front side camera. This cellphone also counts with some nice characteristics like flash, HDR mode, auto-focus and geo tagging.

This cellphone uses an amazing 2300 mAh Li-Polymer non-replaceable battery that provides the Micromax Canvas Gold a quite long battery duration. This cellphone has an estimated stand by time of 210 hours and a talk time of 8 hours. An issue to evaluate is that this cellphone's battery isn't removable so you can't buy a new battery when it begins to last shorter, although having 2300 mAh you will probably discard this phone before it becomes an issue.

This cellphone also includes a few nice features such as Bluetooth (4.0), GPS and Radio, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone is not cheap at all considering it is priced 249 dollars, while other similar cellphones can be found for much less money. No matter if you are looking for a gaming cellphone or need a phone majorly for internet broswing and social networks, you will definitely love this device.