LAVA International has launched the company’s first smartphone in the Fuel Series – Lava Fuel 50 in India at a price tag of Rs. 7,799. It comes in black colour.
Commenting on the launch of the new series, Hari Om Rai, Chairman & Managing Director, LAVA International said,
As smartphones are increasingly becoming a very integral part of our daily lives and drive a lot of tasks for us, we need devices that are able to support heavy usage without having the need to carry power banks for frequent charging. Lava’s product development and R&D team worked on this insight and with our new Fuel series of smartphones we will address just that. Lava has launched the 1st smartphone in this series, Iris Fuel 50 and shall soon come up with more products at different price points in this series.
On the specifications front, it features 5-inch FWVGA IPS display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels and the screen is protected by Asahi Dragontrail glass. It is powered by 1.3GHz quad-core processor which is paired with 1GB of RAM. It runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat and has 8GB in-built memory which can be expanded up to 32GB by using microSD card.
On the imaging front, it features 8-megapixel auto-focus rear-camera with dual LED flash and 2-megapixel front-facing camera for selfie & video-calling.
It has dual-SIM support with dual standby and connectivity features like 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS.
It packs 3,000mAh battery and it promises 1.5 days of battery life.