Spice launches Stellar 360 for Rs 4,799: A touch and type QWERTY phone

Spice has unveiled the Spice Stellar 360, a 3G touch and type QWERTY phone under its Stellar series. With a price tag of Rs 4,799, the Stellar 360 is aimed at first-time buyers, who have just moved from the feature phone space to a smartphone. As such the QWERTY keypad will help the transition, while also providing them with a touch screen.

The dual-SIM smartphone runs Android Jelly Bean is powered by a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor, most likely made by MediaTek.  The GPU is a Mali 400 unit. As expected, the rest of the specs are very entry-level too. It has a 3.5-inhc display with unspecified resolution.

Spice Stellar 360 features a 3.2 MP camera along with a 1.3 MP front camera. Don't expect this combination to perform miracles. The price tag also suggests that it's fixed-focus camera. and comes with pre loaded apps such as Whatsapp, BBM, Opera, Twitter and features' Spice's own utility apps like Spice Cloud.

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The smartphone features 3G and Wi-Fi as a part of its connectivity options and has a proximity sensor and a gyroscope. It also has a decent sounding 1500 mAh battery. On the storage aspect, Spice Stellar 360 has an inbuilt memory of 4 GB and comes with 512 MB RAM. The phone has a microSD card slot which can take in cards up to 32 GB in size. Spice is giving buyers 2 GB free storage space on its cloud storage platform, which can be accessed on multiple devices.