Salora International has launched the company’s latest budget smartphone – Salora Arya A1 Plus in India at a price tag of Rs. 5,499. It is available for pre-order exclusively from Amazon and ships on December 13th. It comes in Black color and comes with two free back panels as an introductory offer. It also comes with Aircel 3G data of 500MB per month for 3 months for free. Above all, it is backed by Salora’s own established service network from SILCARE, hiwhc has over 250 service centres across 189 cities in India.
Commenting on the launch of Arya A1 Plus, Mr Gopal Jiwarajka, CMD Salora International said,
We are extremely pleased to bring the Arya A1 Plus to the Indian market. This product further reiterates our endeavor to bring contemporary technology with great design and global quality at affordable prices to the market. We are ensuring that any consumer learning that we are gaining as we move is being incorporated in the next devices. The way the memory has been structured on this device is an example of the same.
Our relationship with Amazon, a global leader allows us immediate reach to millions of users across the country at very low costs and we ensure that any such saving is passed onto the consumer. In line with our promise of a great consumer experience, we will extend our Premium service policy to A1 plus as well which will help all our customers a hassle free experience.
Commenting on the Arya A1’s launch through Amazon, Mr Samir Kumar, Director Category Management, Amazon India, said,
“Smartphones continue to be a growth driver and with focus on affordability, we are excited to bring the next in line of Arya devices, Arya A1 Plus on Amazon.in. We see this as a great opportunity to offer customers across India the convenience of shopping for this product exclusively on our platform”.
On the specifications front, it features 4.5-inch qHD IPS OGS display with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels and it is powered by 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582A processor which is paired with Mali 400MP2 GPU & 1GB of RAM. It runs on Android 4.4 KitKat which can upgradeable to Android 5.0 Lollipop and has 8GB in-built memory out of which 6GB available for user, in-built memory can be expanded further up to 32GB by using microSD card.
On the imaging front, it features 5MP rear-camera with LED flash and 2MP front-facing camera for selfie & video-calling.
It has dual SIM (GSM + GSM) support and has connectivity features like 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 & GPS.
It is 9.7mm thick, weighs 145 grams and packs 2,000mAh battery.