Panasonic today announced the launch of its latest smartphone – P31, in India. The Panasonic P31 is priced at Rs 11,990.
This latest smartphone of Panasonic comes armed with a 5 inch touchscreen which has however only 480×854 pixels resolution. It has a 1.3 GHz quad core processor, Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) operating system, 4 GB internal storage, and 32 GB micro SD card slot.
The P31 has an 8 megapixel Autofocus rear camera which is said to be capable of capturing full HD images. Besides, the rear camera there is an LED flash light. In the front it has a VGA camera for video calls as well.
This dual SIM smartphone comes with HSPA+ (21 Mbps) connectivity and has WiFi for internet connection as well. Besides, it has Bluetooth 4.0 for file transfers too. The Panasonic P31 comes with a 2000 mAh battery that promises 9 hours of talktime and 699 hours of standby on 3G networks which is quite appreciable. Besides, the Panasonic P31 has FM with RDS, GPS, G-Sensor, Light sensor, Proximity sensor, and E-compass.
With Panasonic P31, the company has introduced “Play Life” user interface. This user interface comes with “four core innovative features where the smartphone understands gestures with its “Gesture Play”; draw-to-unlock gesture based feature lets you multi-task while you play videos with the “Pop-i Player”. The “Music café” feature lets you organise music and “Ultimate Saver†allows good battery life”.
Panasonic also introduced the “Heat-Sink” design based feature that claims to maintain device temperature through controlled heat dissipation.