Indian startup and Sachin Tendulkar-backed Smartron yesterday announced the launch of the Smartron t.phone, the company’s first smartphone.
Smartron already has an Intel-powered tablet, the t.book in its kitty. The company fancies itself as an IoT startup, and thus plans to include features that will allow cross-device talk.
To speak of the phone per se, it comes with a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080p Super AMOLED display and is powered by 2015 flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 810. Besides that, the t.phone has 4GB of RAM, 64GB ROM (expandable), a 13 mega-pixel rear camera, 4 mega-pixel front camera and a 3000mAh battery.
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Mahesh Lingareddy, Founder and Chairman of Smartron said at launch: “Smartron tphone is a great addition to tron generation of Smart Things to Come and critical to the tronx experience. It is one of the most exciting devices in the line of products that the brand plans to launch this year. The brand’s vision is to make consumers’ life simpler and smarter by bringing more autonomous and intelligent devices and services. With Smartron aiming to innovate in the sphere of IoT, we definitely have a lot to look forward to. Fully designed and engineered in India, the company will, over the next 2-3 years, move all of its manufacturing to be local.”
The Smartron t.phone runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, and will be available for purchase in open sale (i.e., no flash sales) for 22,999 INR ($340).
maybe its because of the pre production sample but the back looks a bit cheap with those spaces.
Nah, AFAIK these aren’t preproduction.
In this case, “IOT” stands for “I Own Thickblackbezels”
I see what you did there…
Good luck to them. Not encouraging that they chose to use this SOC.
You forgot to mention the price, if there is one.
Added, thanks! Side effects of working at 1 in the night…
FingerPrint Reader??? Anyone???
No fingerprint reader. They were probably living under a rock for the last year since they used SD810 and forgot to add a FP reader.
Snapdragon 810 is something to ignore on 2016, this SoC should already be in a Graveyard lol
to be fair i would rather take most 650/652 phones over a 810..and if i would take a 810 phone it would be the le 1 pro from alst year for like 180€ all inclusive with 4/64 as well
6P wannabe… get the real thing.
where’s the IOT in it ?!
According to smartron, the IoT will come with future updates.
FingerPrint Reader???
nope, none
Hahaha, then no. ?
No mention of NFC neither which would be pretty important with IoT.
They forgot to add on the phone.
Looks ok.