This month we have seen many phablets entering the market. But only few made big news. Micromax Canvas HD A116 and Samsung Galaxy Grand are the two 5 inch Android smartphones of those category. Both run on Jelly Bean and targets the budget conscious dual sim smartphone buyers. So which one is better between these two? Let us have a quick look into. the specs sheet between the two.
Specification wise comparison between Samsung Galaxy Grand and Micromax Canvas HD A116:
Display:
The display in both the smartphones is same 5 inch. But Micromax Canvas HD A116 comes with IPS display which provides good viewing angles and color reproduction. The screen resolution is 1280*720 pixels.
In the other hand Samsung Galaxy Grand features LCD display screen with screen resolution. Though the screen has decent viewing angle, it has lower screen resolution which results in low pixel density. Going by this Micromax Canvas HD performs better.
Processor and RAM:
Specification wise comparison between Samsung Galaxy Grand and Micromax Canvas HD A116:
Display:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand: 5 inch TFT display screen with WVGA 480*800 pixels
- Micromax Canvas HD: 5 inch IPS screen with 1280*720 resolution
The display in both the smartphones is same 5 inch. But Micromax Canvas HD A116 comes with IPS display which provides good viewing angles and color reproduction. The screen resolution is 1280*720 pixels.
In the other hand Samsung Galaxy Grand features LCD display screen with screen resolution. Though the screen has decent viewing angle, it has lower screen resolution which results in low pixel density. Going by this Micromax Canvas HD performs better.
Processor and RAM:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand: 1.2GHz dual core processor with 1GB RAM
- Micromax Canvas HD: 1.2GHz quad core MediaTek MT 6589 processor with 1GB RAM
The Micromax Canvas HD comes with a 1.2GHz quad core MediaTek MT 6589 processor coupled with 1GB RAM and Galaxy Grand has 1.2GHz dual core Broadcom processor with 1GB RAM. It is a tricky to decide the processor based on number of cores. Because the architecture on which the processor is designed plays a big role in the performance. However, we can expect both the smartphones to handle most of the games and huge applications to work smoothly.
Storage:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand: 8GB internal memory and upto 64GB expandable memory
- Micromax Canvas HD: 4 GB internal memory and upto 32GB expandable memory
Samsung Galaxy Grand comes with much larger built in memory as well as expandable memory option
Dual sim Support:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand: GSM+GSM dual sim
- Micromax Canvas HD:GSM+GSM dual sim
Both the smartphones supports GSM+GSM dual sim.
Camera:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand: 8MP rear camera and 2MP front facing camera
- Micromax Canvas HD: 8MP rear camera and 0.3MP front facing camera
Both Galaxy Grand and Canvas HD features 8MP rear camera with LED flash. However Galaxy Grand has 2MP front facing camera whereas A116 has only VGA front facing camera.
Battery:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand:2100mAh
- Micromax Canvas HD:2100 mAh
Both smartphones features 2100 mAh battery
OS and Software support:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand: Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with TouchWiz user interface
- Micromax Canvas HD:Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with Light skin
Samsung Galaxy Grand comes with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with TouchWiz user interface which is a popular interface we have seen in many other Samsung Smartphones. In the other hand Micromax provides almost raw experience of Android Jelly Bean with little customization.
The major difference between the two is Mobile PC suite support and OTA updates. Galaxy Grand support Samsung mobile desktop PC suite called as Samsung Kies through which user can sync, update, transfer file and many more. Samsung also provides OTA firmware updates.
Micromax provides Driver for Micromax Canvas HD. But it does not provides PC suite for Canvas HD A116. Also Micromax so far not provided OTA updates to any of its devices till date.
Price:
- Samsung Galaxy Grand: ₹21,500
- Micromax Canvas HD: Approx ₹15,000
This segment Micromax phone is more appealing than Galaxy Grand. Though the official price of Canvas HD A116 is not revealed, it expected to be priced below 15k. With such a high end specs, it is more pocket friendly than the Samsung counterpart.
Summary: The above mentioned comparison is based on purely on spec sheet. The real time performance might give different. As we have seen earlier, the 8MP camera on Samsung smartphones always provided much better snaps compared 8MP camera of budget smartphones. The other things which may give different performance are battery back up and CPU performance.