Hands-on Spice Stellar

Spice has announced a new range of Android smartphones dubbed Stellar series, marketed as countries first secure handset. While it can be termed as a mere marketing gimmick, the phones itself are good on paper and also look good and the most stellar part of the offering is their pricing.

The Spice Stellar or Mi-425 is the first one of the block, and comes with a 4 inch touch screen and a 1 Ghz Qualcomm snapdragon processor and a 2000 mAH battery. Apart from that you get Dual SIM, 3G, WiFi and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and a front facing camera. And all this at an attractive price of Rs 9,999.

Rest of two phones will be launched by month end. While the Mi-425 is currently running on Android 2.3, Spice has promised an update to Android 4.0 in next two months.