Micromax Canvas Infinity

    Canvas infinity smartphone was introduced by Micromax with full screen display and minimal bezels at ₹.9,999 last week. Even though it has a tough competition with several smartphones in the price range, but the main advantage is it is the only phone with 18:9 infinity display for this price range. This smartphone has 5.77 inch HD+ 2.5 curved glass screen with 18:9 aspect ratio 83% screen to body ratio,  making it one of the compact large screen phones. It has a pixel resolution of 1440 by 720 pixel,  it has a pixel density of just 279 PPI so its not clear when compared to 1080 P screens. The glass material wasn't described by the manufacturer Micromax. The screen is bright, colors are vibrant and the sunlight legibility is good. In additional to adaptive brightness option present in most phones that uses ambient light sensor to adjust brightness level automatically to available light, it also has a new smart display option that optimizes the screen to improve the visibility by reducing glare when using the phone in bright outdoors. It has a 16 megapixel primary camera with LED flash. There are the usual set of proximity and ambient light sensors and the phone also provides with a notification LED that glows in red color. It has a magnetic sensor or magnetometer,  but seems to be gyroscope. There is a 13 megapixel camera on the back with single LED flash. The secondary microphone is placed above the camera and fingerprint sensor is placed below the flash. This smartphone contains 2900 mAh removable battery.


    The phone has a 13 megapixel camera with a LED flash,  f/2.0 aperture, 1.12 um pixel size,  81.5 degree FOV and 5P lens. On the front,  it has a 16 MP camera with f/2.0 aperture,  81.5 degree FOV, 5P lens and LED flash. The camera UI has toggles for flash,  HDR and option to choose effects and modes Including Super Pixel mode that lets you take images with a resolution of 51MP (8320x6240 pixels),  scene frame ( to shoot images inside a custom designed frame), Scene frame (to shoot images inside a custom designed frame), night mode and QR mode code mode to read QR codes. On the right side of the camera UI there are time Lapse, video,  photo,  beauty and panorama options. Images are decent, but some images seem dull when it is cloudy or when the lighting is not good. Macro shots looks good. HDR shots decent with improved contrast and saturation,  but again some images were dull. Low light shots had noise but images were not that bad. Images with flash were good. The 16 megapixel front facing camera is pretty good for selfies and video chats.


     Coming to the software,  it runs on Android 7.1.2 (Nougat) with July 1st 2017 Android security patch. Micromax has promised to offer an update to Android 8.0 (Oreo) for the phone but it has not revealed any time frame. The custom UI is similar to skin found in most phones from Chinese OEMs. Smart action has double tap to wake up of lock, flip to mute,  answer call automatically by lifting the phone to ear, keep the screen locked on a call when the phone is in your pocket, flip to snooze alarm and short press power button to unlock the phone when the phone is standby mode. Out of 3GB RAM you get 2.8 GB of usable memory,  out of which 1.7GB of RAM is free when default apps are running in the background.  Out of 32GB of storage 29.12GB is usable, out of which 22.31 is free since system takes,  6.66GB of storage and the apps take up 159MB. You can expand the storage up to 128GB with microSD.


     The fingerprint sensor is present on the back, which is easily accesible even though the phone has a huge 5.7 inch screen. You can add up to five fingerprints and also set a particular fingerprint to open an application or call or contact easily. It has 4G LTE connectivity with support for several 4G bands, including VOLTE support for Reliance Jio. Both the SIMs support 4G, but you can enable 4G only in one SIM at a time,  while the other goes to 3G. Coming with performance,  the phone is provided by a Quad core snapdragon 425 mobile platform with four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.41.4GHz per core and has 33GB of RAM. The performance is decent,  but there are occasional lags, even though the processor and RAM combo are good enough to run a phone with a HD+ screen. It gets a bit warm on 4G use, but it doesn't get heat when using 4G or wjen gaming. Coming to battery life,  2900 mAh removable battery offers decent battery life, but it is not impressive. It lasts for a day with average use, but it lasts for less than that with heavy use. At a price tag ₹. 9,999,  the Canvas Infinity is a good attempt from Micromax in creating a phone with minimal bezels at an affordable price tag. It has dedicated double SIM slots and an expansion slot, in addition to 32GB of internal storage and also has a removable battery. The Micromax Infinity goes on sale starting September 1st,  exclusively on Amazon.