Another Selfie centric phone for Selfie crazy nation launched by Micromax, Canvas Selfie Lens launched for Rs 8299

Home grown smartphone maker Micromax, which is now the 10th largest global brand is well known for its strategic placement of devices features and price wise in the market keeping in mind the type of customers it will appeal to the most. Continuing the same path Micromax today launched Micromax Canvas Selfie Lens smartphone for the people obsessed with selfies.

Micromax Canvas Selfie Lens

The USP of the phone is that it comes with a clip on 0.4x wide angle lens to enable users to click widest (read wildest) of selfies. User can simply clip on the wide angle lens to front or rear camera and increase the coverage area for selfies, videos and other images. Previous devices with the same motive has done quite well for Micromax for instance Micromax Canvas Selfie the predecessor to the latest launch has performed well in the market and encouraged company to explore on that front.

With the selfie rage going strong, the device also comes with a Face beauty mode in the camera which acts as a magic beauty wand and produces flawless and stunning looking selfies. The phone camera has the compelling inbuilt pre and post settings for easy editing. While the pre-settings allow the user to capture pretty selfies on the aspects of skin smoothening, sharpening and eye enlargement before clicking a selfie, the post-settings help remove under eye bags, blemishes, make skin soft, brighter and eyes bigger, brighter. The strength of the pre-settings can be set at 3 levels or customized as required.

On hardware front, device comes with 5 inch HD IPS display protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3, On rear we have 8 MP auto focus camera with Largan lens, Sony sensors and LED flash, on front there is a 5 MP camera which also comes with Largan lens and OV sensors to enhance quality of the images taken from front camera. The device relies on 1.3 GHz quad core processor backed by 1 GB DDR3 RAM. The smartphone comes with 8 GB internal storage which can be expanded upto 32 GB via micro SD card. Canvas Selfie Lens is fuelled by 2800 mAh strong battery claimed provide 9 hours talktime and 374 hours standby time. On software front device runs on latest Android Lollipop out of the box and offers standard features that comes bundled with the OS.

Available in White + Champagne and Moondust Gray colour, the device is priced for Rs.8299/- and can be purchased through online and offline stores.Vodafone users will get 500MB 3G data free for 2 months.