Newest entrant in the Android market is Passion 660 from PHICOMM, the brand from Shanghai Feixun Communication Co., Ltd. a Chinese enterprise that has launched several smartphones in India. The company’s latest smartphone is going to be sold exclusively via Amazon India for a price of Rs. 10,990 making it a mid-budget Android. Featuring a 5 inch IPS LCD display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution (441 ppi), the phone has a 13 megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX 214 sensor & LED flash and a 5 megapixel front snapper. Set to compete against the likes of Asus Zenfone and Xiaomi Redmi Note, the Passion 660 from PHICOMM comes powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor with 4G LTE. Let’s take a look at the other specifications.
The smartphone is just 7.3mm thick and weighs only 110 grams. With these dimensions, the company claims that PHICOMM Passion 660 is one of the thinnest and lightest 4G smartphones available in the market. It comes with one piece metal body, seamless back cover by unibody process and metal frame.
The PHICOMM smartphone sports a professional pedometer along with gesture recognition. The pedometer allows the users to track how much they walk in a day and also counts the calories burnt!
The built –in step-counter sensor does not require GPS & Network and it has 166 times power saving ability as compared to a Software Solution. Gesture recognition enables you to access the functions of the phone with hand gestures, making the smart phone a futuristic gadget. Passion 660 can also record your altitude by the built in barometer. When taking a picture, you can use Geotag and Barometer to record your 3D position (That means your latitude, longitude and altitude of your position).
According to a press statement released by the company, the PHICOMM Passion 660 employs two microphones to enable noise cancellation and suppression using Qualcomm Snapdragon Voice+ technology for superior speech clarity even in noisy environments.
The smartphone features a 5-inch FHD IPS screen at 441ppi. It comes with a 13 MP rear camera, armed with IMX 214 sensor from Sony and a 5MP BSI front shooter with super wide view angle (84 degrees) guarantee. The built in memory (2GBRAM/ 16GB ROM) can be additionally expanded up to 64GB via SD card.
PHICOMM Passion 660 is exclusively available on Amazon.in. The registration for the phone would begin on www.Amazon.in and the sales would begin on 9 June 2015.