Philips S308 Mobile Price List in India

Philips is a well-known multi-national company mainly for its variety of electronic appliances and devices for domestic consumers. All its products are known for their technical features that satisfy the requirement of the consumers. Philips has launched a new smartphone in the Indian market at an affordable market price targeting the middle class consumers of the country. This new smartphone is known as Philips S308 and the company has great expectation of its increased sale in the domestic market of the country. This phone contains all the required technical features and because of its affordable market price every consumer shall prefer to give a try with this device.

Features and specifications:

Philips S308 smartphone comes with a 4 inch TFT capacitive touch screen with a hard protective glass cover. The smartphone provides dual Sim facilities of GSM and WCDMA. Its QWERTY keypad provides easy navigation with touchscreen buttons. The smartphone consists of primary camera of 5 megapixels and front VGA camera with decent picture quality resolution of 0.3 megapixels. The display resolution of the smartphone screen is 480 x 800 pixels and the color density is 16M. The device comes with a Li-Ion battery of 1400 mAh capacity that supports decent talktime duration and standby time duration. This smartphone allows the users to put their calls on hold as well as to engage in a conference call quite easily. The device supports 3G and 2 G internet connectivity and supports essential applications for easy online activities. The device contains GPRS of Class 12 and Class B, USB connectivity, GPS support and many more. Additional phone features include alarm, calculator, handwriting recognition, stopwatch, document viewer and many more. Users have the option of listening songs and music from the FM radio of the device. It has one year manufacturer warranty.

Design and Quality:

The device comes with a glossy external surface of black color which protects the device from developing scratches in its outer body. The weight of the device is 125 grams which is quite light to carry inside the pocket. The size of the device is 12.6 x 1 x 6.5 cm and hence occupies very less surface space. The device consists of three touchscreen button below the display screen and contains a slot for the insertion of microSD card.

Os and Tech

The device works on Android v4.2 (Jelly Bean) operating system which is supported with 1 GHz dual core processor. It implies that users can easily engage in multi-tasking activities and can easily shift from one application to another application without any technical glitch. The fast internet connectivity allows users to install and download any application easily. It supports important applications like Facebook, Google, WhatsApp and many more important features for easy online activity. Edge feature allow improvised data transmission without any barrier and the GPRS application allows instant messaging service and many more.

Camera and multi-media

The cameras allow decent photography and capturing of live videos. Users have the option of image zooming and adjusting the angular position of any image objects before capturing photos or videos. The primary and secondary cameras are 5 Megapixels and 0.3 Megapixels respectively. Users have the option of posting their photos as a selfie in any format in the social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp directly from the camera application.

Battery and memory

The device comprised of 512 MB of RAM which is further enriched with 4 GB of internal storage capacity and 32 GB of expandable memory. Thus users are receiving surplus option of saving photos, videos, games and documents in any format. There is no scope for phone crushing as the expandable memory creates opportunities of saving additional information through microSD card. Users can easily track any particular information as there is sufficient space for data storage option. The battery supports talktime duration of 9.5 hours and standby time duration of 700 hours.

Pros and cons

PROS

·         Affordable market price.

·         Decent capacity of RAM

·         Fast processing operating system

Cons

·         Picture quality is not decent.

·         Supporting apps are not equally active.

·         Battery life should have been more.

Verdict

The smartphone with a market price of around Rs.4,000 is expected to offer stiff competition in the domestic market of the country while competing with products like Samsung Z1, Nokia Lumia 630 and many more for a long period of time.