The Micromax Canvas HD, famous for being the first budget quad-core smartphone in the Indian market, is a pretty well-built phablet. It has a distinctly glossy plastic body that manages not to look too cheap, with a slightly pearlescent finish, unlike the more matte finish on the Canvas 2 A110.
The Canvas HD is quite slim as well, measuring in at 10.7mm in thickness. Though heavier, larger and thicker, it’s comparable in form factor (and other ways) with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Both also bear 1280x720 pixel displays, though the Canvas HD has an IPS LCD display, and the Nexus a SAMOLED PenTile display.
In contrast with the rest of the specs sheet, and in complete tune with the Indian budget Android phone market, the Micromax A116 Canvas HD sports dual full-sized SIM slots, with space for a memory card, and a 2,000 mAh battery.
We’ve tried to capture every nook and cranny of the Canvas HD in the below images, along with our observations. Scroll for a tour of the device. We’ve got more images on the next page as well. The scores of the many benchmarks we ran on the Canvas HD can be seen here, comparing it to budget devices in the same price segment, as well as flagship quad-core devices.
The capacitive menu, home and back buttons
The plastic back with a shiny white pearl finish
The back panel of the Canvas 2 A110 vs Canvas HD A116- the A110 has a matte finish- while the canvas HD A116 has the shiny pearl finish
The 5-inch 720p IPS screen is bright and vibrant
The 294 ppi 5-inch screen is very comfortable for browsing
Micromax Canvas HD A116 Vs Samsung Galaxy Nexus, side by side comparison. The Nexus has a 4.65-inch screen vs the 5-inch for the Canvas HD
IPS vs SAMOLED screen- the Samsung Galaxy Nexus screen is slightly over saturated, being a PenTile display. The IPS screen on the Canvas HD has better color accuracy and pure whites
The Micromax Canvas HD bears a dual-LED flash with its 8MP autofocus rear camera. It has a 2MP front facing camera, capable of 720p HD video recording. It ships with 4GB of built-in storage (of which 1.77GB is user available).
Running on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, the Canvas HD also ships with a promise of an Android 4.2 upgrade. Micromax has thoughtfully given the smartphone some relatively up-to-date connectivity features as well, with Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n (hotspot), and 3G (HSDPA 21Mbps, HSUPA 11Mbps). No NFC of course.
The pictorial review of the Micromax A116 Canvas HD continues ahead. Do also check out benchmark scores of the Canvas HD, versus similar budget and quad-core flagship devices.
Thickness comparison, the Canvas HD vs Samsung Galaxy Nexus
The right side power/wakeup button
The speaker grill at the bottom on the back side
The microphone at the bottom right side corner
The notification LED (in green) and the front facing 2MP camera on top
Top profile, the micro USB slot and 3.5mm audio-out
Volume rocker to the left
Launcher error while running the benchmarks
The dual-SIM card slots and the memory card slot in between them, the 2000mAh battery below
8MP camera with LED flash and a tiny hole next to the camera (looks like a microphone)
The Canvas HD 116 scores 4111 on Quadrant
Antutu Benchmark Results
GL Benchmark result- 43FPS on the Egypt Classic run
Micromax Canvas HD A116 vs. Quad-core Flagship Smartphones
We know it’s not an apples to apples comparison, but we still decided to see how the Micromax Canvas HD A116 stacked up against the crème de la crème of the smartphone world. So, below, we have budget Micromax Canvas HD A116 compared with the top-of-the-line LG Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC Butterfly, HTC One X+ and the Samsung Galaxy Note II, phones priced around the Rs. 30,000 mark.
Six months ago, we would never even have considered pitching a budget Android smartphone against any premium quad-core device. Now, though the Canvas HD doesn’t beat the top-end smartphones, it still does post some respectable scores, offering roughly 75 percent of the average benchmark performance of the other devices.
Micromax Canvas HD A116 vs. Other Smartphones in Rs. 15,000 Segment
Most of the devices in the Rs. 15,000 price range have a dual-core processor coupled with 1GB or 512MB of RAM. We compared the Micromax A116 Canvas HD to other smartphones around the Rs. 15,000 price point. This includes devices such as the Spice Stellar Pinnacle Mi-530, iBall Andi 4.5q, WickedLeak Wammy Sensation, Lenovo S560 and the HTC One V.
The Micromax A116 Canvas HD did outperform the competition and quite frankly, we were impressed with the results. In the Quadrant benchmark, the Spice Stellar Pinnacle Mi-530 scored second after the A116. The Stellar Pinnacle has a dual-core 1.2GHz processor coupled with 1GB of RAM whereas the A116 has a quad-core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. Quadrant measures the performance of the CPU, I/O and 3D graphics of the smartphone. Higher the score, better the performance of the device.
In Antutu, the A116 blows the competition straight out the window, proving that the power under the hood is spectacular. Antutu tests a device on Memory Performance,CPU Integer Performance, CPU Floating Point Performance, 2D 3D Graphics Performance, SD card read-write speed, and “Database IO performance. The higher the score, the better the performance of the device. The score gives you a mathematical representation of the potential of a smartphone so it can easily be compared to competing smartphones with similar hardware specifications at a similar price point.
The same can be said for the GLBenchmark Egypt Standard Classic (Frames) benchmark. This benchmark shows off the graphical capabilities of a device and is generally used to measure the gaming and graphical capabilities of the device.
If you are one who would like to play games on your mobile device and don’t like the stutter you get when the action gets intense on your smartphone screen, you are in for a treat. In NenaMark2 (FPS) the device ran at 40.8 FPS making it the best in its class. So, if you decide to play Dead Trigger or any other high graphical game on the phone, the game should play smoothly, which coupled with the good response of the touchscreen and the size of the device, make the Micromax A116 Canvas HD quite ideal to play games on.
Summing It Up
For the price you pay, you are getting a great package in the form of the A116. Of course, it's not just the device's performance that make it quite impressive, but a round-up of other solid features. The Micromax A116 Canvas HD has a 5-inch IPS LCD display with a 1280x720 pixel resolution. It is 10.7mm thin and weighs a mere 156 grams. It also houses a 2000mAh battery, an 8MP rear camera and a 2MP front facing camera. The Canvas HD runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and comes with a refreshing 'upgradeable to Android 4.2' claim.
Coming back to the performance, it's safe to say most of the credit for the quite incredible showing of the Micromax A116 Canvas HD goes to the quad-core 1.2GHz MediaTek MT6589 processor powering the device, coupled with the PowerVR Series5XT GPU, and 1GB of RAM. If this is the future of budget smartphones, we can’t wait to see what Qualcomm does to take on MediaTek with its own ‘budget’ quad-core capable SoC.
Sadly though, we did experience some random reboots on the Canvas HD, and while this may just be an issue with the review unit, it's possible some element of 'budget' compromises did creep into this pioneering effort in the quad-core realm. Stay tuned for our detailed review of the device. In related news, the Micromax Canvas HD sold out within minutes of launch, but is now back in stock according to Snapdeal, and will ship in 20 business days.
this are some camera sample pics
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