Panasonic is back with another smartphone after Eluga A3 to lure the users with Eluga A4. This smartphone appears quite promising with some of its remarkable features other than selfie camera. The company has tried to woo the consumers with some other striking features such as non-removable 5000mAh battery, 4G VoLTE connectivity support, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.2.

This year Panasonic made its intention crystal clear that it is going to dominate the Indian market by releasing 15 smartphones priced under 15,000 INR. Keeping to its words, the Japanese company till now has rolled out few of its devices such as the Eluga A3 and the Eluga A3 Pro in August itself. Since then many other smartphones have been launched with amazing features in this price bracket. Now, Panasonic has made its comeback with Eluga A4, which seems efficient when placed with other phones of the same range like Redmi Note 4 and Motorola Moto G5S.

Prices and Availability

The price of Eluga A4 as aforementioned at Rs 12,490 for the single 3GB RAM/32GB ROM variant. The smartphone is now available at Panasonic Authorized Dealer outlets and is an offline-only model. Strikingly, earlier this year, the company has also released another smartphone with a strong battery of 5000mAh named Eluga Ray 700.

Now, the time will only tell the fate of this device and will also show whether a battery centric smartphone can woo users over selfie camera-centric devices.

Specifications

With a view to giving stiff competition to other smartphones of the similar costs, Panasonic has tried to woo the users on another front. Unlike, others it hasn’t just tried to stick with selfie cameras, but has also come up with massive 5,000mAH non-removable battery. Powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor, which is clocked at 1.25GHz is another good attribute of the device.

There is GPS as well as USB OTG for connecting external storage drives. Amazingly, keeping pace with the other handheld devices of the same costs Panasonic Eluga A4 runs Android 7.0 Nougat out-of-the-box. Furthermore, it is also well equipped with Panasonic’s proprietary ARBO personal assistant. This feature was first introduced by Panasonic with Eluga Ray Max and Eluga Ray X.

Camera

In comparison to RedmiY1 selfie smartphone, this phone doesn’t have an appealing front camera, but it is not even bad. The Eluga A4 has a front-facing shooter with a 5MP unit for selfies and video calls. The rear camera is a 13MP rear camera accompanied by an LED Flash. The phone also carries a 5.2-inch HD display with 720×1280 pixels resolution. The storage is also appropriate to meet the requirements of the users with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. The expandable storage is of 128GB with the help of a MicroSD card.