Spice Proton 5


The Indian smartphone manufacturer, Spice has recently launched a new pocket-friendly smartphone called as Spice Proton 5. The device is priced at Rs. 5,999 and is available for purchase exclusively via HomeShop 18.

The main key of the Spice Proton 5 is it sports a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash and is one of the cheapest handsets to offer such camera at that price tag. On the front, it has a 5 MP shooter for video chats and selfie lovers. Coming to its specifications, the smartphone features a 5-inch (720x1280 pixels) HD IPS display offering a pixel density of 294 ppi and DragonTrail Glass protection on top of it.

It comes with an unspecified 1.3 GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal storage and microSD card slot for expansion upto 32 GB. The device supports dual sim dual standby and includes basic connectivity options like 2G/3G, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, GPS/A-GPS and a microUSB port. The only downside is it lacks the 4G-LTE support that is being offered by other smartphone makers like Intex and Micromax in most of their devices these days.


The handset comes backed by a 2000 mAh battery that the company claims can last upto 4 hours of talk time and upto 8 days of standby time. The smartphone runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box and is available in Black color option.