India based vendor Wickedleak has announced another smartphone for the country, the Wickedleak Wammy Titan 4. As the headline reads, the device shares specs and design with the Elephone P5000.
If you aren’t aware of the specifications on the latter, here’s what the Wammy Titan 4 comes with: 5-inch 1920 x 1080p display, an octa-core MediaTek MT6592 SoC and 2GB of RAM. There’s also a 16 mega-pixel camera on the rear, and an 8 mega-pixel front shooter for your selfies and video chat.
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The couple most attractive features of the device are its 5330mAh battery (Elelphone P5000 has a 5350mAh cell) and the fact that it has a fingerprint reader. Thanks to the large battery, the phone also supports reverse-charging, i.e., the ability to charge other phones using the device’s micro USB port and an OTG cable. Like the Elephone P5000, the Titan 4 too comes with NFC which isn’t really the most popular feature on a phone, but something users still like to have on their devices.
The Titan 4 is now on pre-sale in India for 14,990 INR (US$240), which is about the price at which the Elephone P5000 sells also. The device can be pre-booked at the Wickedleak online store with the phone scheduled to ship 1st March onward.
Why this old MT6592 SoC.. will be good heater in Winter. Must be old unsold stock of Elephone P5000, purchased at knockoff rates by Wickedleak, and being palmed off in India.
Indians are always bitching for value for money, or “VFM” as they like to say. Unfortuate for them because the best value for money is and will always be on last years or the years before tech which is why India has become the dumping ground it is today.
Sometimes you guys are oblivious to what’s really going on because you’re blinded by “value”. The Mi3 launch in India was just one big dump in case you haven’t figured it out already.
Angry Mobile Nerd..man i simply hate morons hiding behind a mask of fancy pseudonyms.like angry Mobile Nerd. BTW are u something to do with This failed firm Wickedleak that my very rational post regarding use of old SOC MT6592 being used in This Titan 4, when in 2015 Feb, every one expects a modern Octa like MT 6752 to be put into Indian market at this price point. And why a racial remark on Indians man, r u a Paki ??
I’m not from India or Pakistan for that matter. I was simply giving you a very rational explanation towards why India sees so many “new” mobile phones with old parts being launched. Nothing racial about it as the news story is India-specific so my comment was about Indian consumers.
With technology when it comes to the latest and greatest there is no value, simple. It’s like that all over the world. Where some markets crave the latest and greatest and are willing to pay other markets, like India, want their precious value for money so companies have responded by selling older products there because with technology thats the only way to give consumers value. OnePlus launched a the snapdragon 801-based One in India just last month and I didn’t hear you complaining. Take the galaxy s3, in 2012 was well over 40000 INR, now in 2015 you can still buy it in India for what? — 12000 INR give or take, now that’s “value for money” the exact same phone for 1/3 the original selling price which is why now you see s3 forums flooded with India-based users. Most markets you wouldn’t even be able to find new S3’s for sale.
Agree to your point but you forgot that not everyone needs a latest mobile.. Most(not all) of older users don’t demand latest soc as long as basic what’s app and Skype is done, gaming is not a priority.. Now s4 is available in amazon.in for 18k… Just because the production of s4 is over and s6 is with Qhd screen doesn’t imply that s4 is a bad phone.. In fact it’s kinda good deal now. The latest technology is not always the affordable or the required technology for most of citizens… If latest is affordable and there is availability then definitely people will buy that.. Posted from lenevoA6000.. Another vfm phone.. Since I have been following gizchina for a long time, I totally agree that 6592 chipsets must not be bought
Most users never take full advantage of a modern SOC. Even the most basic chips are more than powerful enough to do what a good majority of people use their phone for (facebook, candy crush type games and photos). If you require that much power you shouldn’t be looking at budget phones in the first place.
Angry Mobile Nerd where are you from ??
Your comment is true about Indians for areas other than mobiles, the vfm factor is there