Micromax Canvas Cameo A290: Tru octa core review, benchmark, hardware specifications

Following Xolo's Play 8x-1000 here micromax has launched the Canvas Knight Cameo A290 with the same Mediatek Octa core chipset but somewhat lower in other hardware specifications.
This one is priced in etween INR 11,000 and 12,000.
Have a look for the hardware specification and compare this with the Xolo play and other phones around to find your perfect match that will suit your personality and budget.

Key Features of Micromax Canvas knight Cameo A290 :

4.7 inch HD IPS display
Octa-Core 1.4 GHz MTK6592M Chipset
1GB RAM
8 MP AF camera
Android 4.4.2 KitKat
1920 mAh Li-ion battery

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[The all new Micromax Canvas Knight Cameo A290]

Full hardware specifications :

DISPLAY:

CPU: MTK6592M 1.4 GHz Octa-core chipset

RAM: 1GB

STORAGE:

GRAPHICS: Mali 450-MP4 running @ 600 MHz clock speed

CAMERA:

H/W and WIRELESS NETWORKING INTERFACE:

NETWORK FREQUENCY BAND and DATA SPEED:

BATTERY: 2000 mAh Li-ion

The look and appeal of the device:

Slim in look and 4.7 inch display is enough larger to deal with.
The HD resolution is quite OK at the mid range price phones.
Overall the look and design of this phone is quite appealing.

Camera details:

It has an 8 MegaPixels Autofocus rear camera lighten by a flash.
Supports Auto Focus and full HD video Recording(1920x1080)

The front facing camera is a 5MP camera supporting video calling feature and will be a good one for selfies.

Processing, performance and benchmarking:

With this MT6592M 1.4GHz 8 core processor definitely you will be getting good performance.
On the Mediatek website with a full HD dispay smartphone the MT6592 with 700MHz mali GPU had the following performance numbers in terms of AnTuTu benchmark figures:
- 29415 points @ 1.7GHZ
- 32606 points @ 2.0GHZ

Having mentioned the above figures for MT6592 I think the MT6592M must not have much difference in the performance.
Although the performance numbers define your device capabilities but I believe that these numbers only stand for show off and with a small number deviation your device is hardly deviating from performance.

And with the DDR2 1GB RAM your device will be capable of running multiple applications gracefully and fast enough.

Multimedia features:

VIDEO:

AUDIO:

It supports the following Audio formats: MP3, Midi, AAC, Amr, Wav

Sensors:

Battery specifications:

- Total Standby Time up to 180Hr - Total Talk Time up to 7Hr

Final words:

With the premium finish and the Mediatek Octa-core processor with 2GB RAM Xolo has launched the Xolo Play-8x 1000 at a price of INR 13,999/- with the same chipset as the Micromax Canvas Knight Cameo A290 and almost the same features with a litlle bit of deviation like 2GB RAM which is in contrast to Canvas Knight Cameo of 1GB RAM and so on.

I expect the price of Micromax Cnvas Knight Cameo to be deifinitely lower than that of the Xolo Play 8x-1000 Comparing to the price of Xolo Play-8x 1000 you have an option of Xiaomi Mi3 in the market with definitely better quality.
On the other hand comparing to the moto G slashed price INR 11,999/- you still have an option to consider.

Finally you can have a more in-depth look in the market to get the best suited device, after all the choice is completely yours.

All the information furnished in this post about the Xolo Play 8x-1000 are taken from the following official Xolo website.

Reference links:

Canvas Knight Cameo A290
Xolo Play 8x-1000 link

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Author : Modder

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