Micromax Canvas HD A116 Sold out 9,000 Smartphone on the First Day!

Micromax’s new Dual SIM Smartphone Canvas A116 HD is getting widely popular.

Micromax had released their brand new smartphone Canvas A116 HD, on February 14th. Being a Dual SIM, budget friendly smartphone, the device had been marked as a strong rival to Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos and Karbonn S1 Titanium. The company’s previous device, Canvas 2 had made a shake in the smartphone market. It had been sold out like hot cakes. While releasing A116 Canvas HD, the company expected the same miracle to happen again. Well, according to the reports of the company, around 9,000 devices has been sold out on the very first day of Canvas A116 HD’s release. This shows how popular the phone is.

Micromax Canvas A116 HD

The smart phone is the company’s hybrid of high end specs with low end price. The blend has got a very warm welcome in India from the very beginning. Micromax claims the Rs 13,990 handset is currently being booked at a pace of 25 units per minute.



Let’s recall the main specs of Micromax Canvas A116 HD:

• 1.2 GHZ quad-core MediaTek processor
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Operating System
• Dual Sim Phone
• 5 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
• 1 GB RAM, 4 GB internal memory and expandable up to 32 GB
• 8 MP primary camera
• 0.3 MP secondary camera
• Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS, EDGE, GPS and USB

Micromax Canvas A116 HD

The phone has a price tag of Rs.13,990/-.The company said in its press release, “The data received from our online partner, Snapdeal.com shows that the first lot of the Canvas HD was sold out within 15 minutes of announcing the sale at midnight of February 14. The second lot of 300 units of the phone was again sold out within 15 minutes of the sale at 9 am and the third lot of 1200 phones was sold in 45 minutes with the beginning of the sale at noon on the first day itself. Now we have over 9000 units booked in less than 24 hours and counting.”

Micromax Canvas A116 HD

The initial boost in the selling will sustain, as per the reports of the company. If it does, the smartphone market of India will be witnessing a record breaking selling. Anyways, it’s a moment of pride for every Indian that our mobile phones are fighting shoulder to shoulder with multinational brands like Samsung.
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Last updated on 20-02-2013. Published on 20-02-2013.
Published by Mobiles4Sale in category News


Latest Comments

The Official releasing date of Micromax Canvas HD A116in India is not yet confirmed. The device is available for Pre- Order in ebay. And there are other online shops, were the device is available. You can register for that, if you are okay with online shopping. But if you insist to buy from a shop, you will have to wait for some more days it seems. We will be updating once its releasing date is confirmed. Keep checking.
By Parvathy Krishnan on 18-03-2013
sir, can u please tell me the releasing date of a116 in mumbao.
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By Imran Dx on 15-03-2013

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