Since the announcement of Android One program back at Google I/O in June, we have been hearing a lot about the first Android One smartphones to launch in India sometime in September. Lately, Google started sending out press invites to the Indian tech press media for attending an event on September 15th, where the search engine giant will be debuting the first Android One smartphones in the country manufactured by Karbonn, Micromax and Spice.
All the three vendors are already teasing their Android One devices on respected social media channels. Karbonn has revealed that their Android One smartphone will exclusively retail on Snapdeal with Amazon.in will have Micromax's Android One smartphone and e-retailer Flipkart will sell the Spice Android One smartphone.
The smartphones will be officially available tomorrow at 3:30PM, but Flipkart had jumped the gun by posting a listing (now taken down) for the Spice Android One smartphone called the Spice Android One Dream UNO. The listing reveals complete specifications and details of the Dream UNO Android One smartphone.
The smartphone comes in black colour and is priced at Rs. 6,999. On the specifications front, Spice Android One Dream UNO Mi-498 comes with a 4.5-inch FWVGA IPS LCD display with resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, Mali-400 MP GPU, 1GB RAM and Android 4.4.4 KitKat. The smartphone measures 67 x 132 x 9.15 mm, weights 107 grams and has dual-SIM support.
Other specifications include an 5MP rear camera with LED flash and Full HD 1080p video recording, 2MP front facing camera, 4GB internal storage with expandable upto 32GB using microSD card and 1,700 mAh battery. Connectivity series include 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and A-GPS.
Additional features include 10GB of Spice Cloud storage, 35GB of Google Drive storage and pre-loaded apps such as Flipkart, Flipkart Ebook, Reverie Smartpad and Facebook.
Coming to Micromax Android One smartphone now, as mentioned above it will be exclusively available from Amazon.in tomorrow. The smartphone is said to come with a 4.5-inch display, dual-SIM support, FM Radio, microSD card slot and Android 4.4.4 KitKat. You can have a look at the Micromax teaser image below.
Finally, the Karbonn Android One smartphone will be available exclusively from Snapdeal at 3:30PM tomorrow. The smartphone is expected to have similar specifications as Micromax's Android One smartphone and Spice Dream UNO. Both the smartphones will be priced at around Rs. 6,999. You can check out the Karbonn video teaser below.