Panasonic has announced a new entry-level
smartphone in the Indian market. Dubbed as Panasonic P100, the phone’s pricing
starts at Rs. 5,299. The phone will go on sale in India from today onwards,
exclusively via online store Flipkart.
The phone features a 5-inch HD display with a screen
resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels with a 2.5D curved glass on top and a layer a
Gorilla Glass for protection from minor scratches. Under the hood, the device
is powered by 1.2GHz MediaTek MT6737 quad-core processor, along with Mali-T720
GPU. It packs 16GB of internal storage with support for microSD card slot,
enabling users to further expand storage capacity up to 128GB.
The device is available in two variants based on the
RAM — 1GB and 2GB. For photography, it features an 8-megapixel camera with LED
flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with selfie flash.
The phone is running Android 7.0 Nougat operating
system out-of-the-box and is powered by a 2,200mAh battery which comes with a
Duraspeed technology that the company claims will “save battery and data by
intelligently optimizing unused background apps.”
Connectivity options on the device include Wi-Fi
802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, micro USB 2.0 and support for USB OTG. There’s also
a fingerprint sensor on the back for added protection. As of the features, the
phone comes with Multi-Modes for image editing, On Body Detection Mode,
Bluetooth Unlock Mode, Trusted Places, Trusted Face, and Trusted Voice Modes.
The 1GB RAM variant of the Panasonic P100 is priced
at Rs. 5,299, the 2GB RAM variant of the phone costs Rs. 5,999. It is available
in four color options — Blue, Black, Gold, and Dark Grey. At this price point,
the Panasonic P100 will be competing against the likes of Xiaomi Redmi 5A and
Amazon’s 10.or D, among others.
