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Spice Launches The Cheapest 12 MP Camera Phone At Just 14k

on March 26, 2010 – 6:38 am49 Comments

Spice Mobiles recently launched an amazing 12 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom. The Spice S-1200 is the cheapest 12 megapixel camera phone currently available in India. Last year, Spice launched the cheapest 5 megapixel camera phone and now they are back with a bang.

“Photography is emerging as a fine art and expression of creativity. Our latest Picture Perfect series phone the 12MP S-1200 caters to this lifestyle need of good photography on the move. At Spice we believe in giving the best to our consumers. S-1200 is the perfect example for this. It offers advanced camera functionalities in a phone, which was unthinkable. With this handset our customers can enjoy the dual advantage of a phone with inbuilt full fledged camera”, said Mr Kunal Ahooja, Director & CEO, Spice Mobiles Ltd.

This handset comes with a 2.4 inches display, 70 MB internal memory, 32GB expandable memory, TV-out, Bluetooth, GPRS/EDGE connectivity, FM radio, audio and video player, Unit Converter, FM recording, photo editor, JAVA Games and much more.

It features a 12.2 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, Xenon Flash, Multiple Face Detection, Smile Shutter, Anti-shake, Auto Focus and 24 Preset Capture Modes. It includes a 1000 mAh battery that provides upto 3 hours of talktime and upto 150 hours of standby time.

This handset comes with a price tag of Rs.14,500. At such a low price, this device is definitely a steal. Please let us know your views about this device in the comments.

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  • Alosious

    12.2 MP Cam, xenon flash and all features for a 2.4 inch handset.
    You must be kidding me. No use capturing a pic. The whole clarity and info of the pic cant be shown in a 2.4 inch screen. Huh!!

  • Karteek

    If a mobile’s camera is to see pics in the mobile the a 3mp camera would suffice.. This cell is more of a camera with mobile feature than a mobile with a great cam..

  • Manu

    Yes they lost the battle with 2.4″ screen. It’s a blunder if you ask me.

  • Alosious

    Mate, You never know when your mobile’s camera might be handy.
    U cant always carry a cam and a mobile always.
    Me owned a Satio and now X10. Android 8MP cam.
    The best there is !!

    So mobile with 5 MP or 8 MP cam is a must in today’s world.

  • Shunyo

    It doesn’t have wi-fi, screen size too small, what were they thinking ?

  • Ram

    There are many questions.
    Is it an unbranded Chinese mobile?
    Which operating system does it run? Symbian, Android, some flavor of Linux?
    A Carl-Zeiss 4-element “Tessar” lens on a Nokia or a Sony is in a class by itself.
    Having a cheap distorting lens and a 12.2 megapixel sensor, does not make for a great picture-taker.
    How fast is the CPU ?

  • TJ

    No,its not A smartphone,not support any Platform such as Nokia symbian,Google android.

  • Rajneesh Pandey

    Ya it coul’d be say that it will the good Camera but not can be say a good mobile.But i will perches it soon and try then after will tel you what type of quality it have so wait for time when i have mony then i will buy it.ok.

  • Ram

    Nokia is India’s market leader. Their mobiles are value-for-money, have familiar user-interfaces, are rugged, long-life and withstand an accidental fall to a concrete floor.

    Unknown brand “me-too” mobiles have to tie up with operators like Spice to survive. Who will cover with warranty support and for how long?

    I would say, “Follow your best judgement and stay with a top brand”.

  • Samson

    Nice but lack of feature like 3g & the screen size is too small for a 12 mp camera

  • http://NA Shailesh

    Interesting mobiCam! Which OS does it have?

  • jiku

    kya isme pic quality acha hai????this isn’t a smartfone. wastage of money.

  • aravind

    Its nice but i think heavy cost

  • http://www.gsmbeats.in Prateek

    Is anyone have picture taken by this phone….??

  • Amal thomas

    big blunder!!

  • http://whois.domaintools.com/dragonballz-porn.com mohit

    its nice but should be full touched screen

  • sameerjamsudkar@gmail.com

    Just Rocking..I want to Buy It.

  • http://fonearena.com nigel

    how dare can spice charge 14 k’s to its customers.. so waht if its a 12 mp (i doubt whether it’s true.. for all u knw its a 5 mp appearing really clear on a 2.4 inch display) spice is just another “dual sim” mobile company using the standard o.s thats probably java , i think the price should be around 7500 to 8 k’s .. and whats with this mechanical zoom ?! i mean .. c’mon .. it will obviously start malfunctioning in a matter of months .. so to all u serious mobile lovers .. keep collecting the money dont waste it on this 1 whatsoever, u might as well buy a satio which has breathtaking features like 3g-3.5g,hsdpa/upa,wifi,agps,symbian v5,full touchscreen,12.1 mp cybershot ofcourse,3.5mm jack and a lot more.. and lastly an advice to spice .. dont waste resources in prducing phones like this so early.. establish yourself in the market first .. then go for experiments like these ..

    thank you

  • http://www.smokingisgood.webs.com sameer

    bhai aacha phone magar screem chota hai aur dikhna mein aacha nahi hai aur touch screen nahi hai khali 12 megapixel

  • pankaj

    it shud be in price range of around ten thousand

  • Anjum

    Its fantastic…..

  • deepak koul

    We can get a NIKON/Canon 12 megapixel cam plus a Noika 5233 in 13000.

  • Himanshu

    Hahahaha Rofl…. Really True!!
    Hahahahahaah

  • simplyrup

    Excellent dude, so true…

    Spice wts wrong with you guys…

  • http://yahoo.com kshitij verma

    it is a gift to the people .like who want to buy a 12 mp camera the can buy this.

  • Mrinal

    I want 2 say one think one word (gr8) mobile.

  • Mrinal

    I want 2 say one think one word (gr8) mobile. but some feature are missing.

  • vinay prakash manendragarh rajnagar.

    its a best gift from spice. to give 12 megapixel in very low price its too good guy’s

  • Ashok kumar

    Plz tell me the Rs. of this mobile and tell me how i buy this…

  • Manohar Roy

    Its an amazing fone

  • archie

    The price mentioned at the spice website is 16.5 k and not 14.5 k …anywayz its a rocking phone…..

  • archie

    and by the way howz spice doing in other handsets???….is the quality promising and reliable like that of nokia and other leading phone manufacturers???…

  • pramod kumar

    price is too much

  • salman

    its strange i will deffinately buy
    it

  • TechExpert

    Its comes with on 70MB. But its not mentioned that 32GB SD card will comes with this or that we have to buy from our self.

    Thats d sad part. If you give 12 MP camera then atleast it should come with GB Mem card

  • Rameez Raja

    Spice 12 MP phone is a nice one but its weight must b reduced and screen b enlarged…….

  • SARFRAZ

    MENTION THE DISPLAY THE DIMENSION CLEARLY.

  • Ram Rao

    In a country used to the Nokia and Samsung standards of reliability, excellence and quality,
    what is the stature of a “white-label” made-in-China contraption branded by a service provider?

    Chinese products breakdown very often, and the only excuse their manufacturers offer is,
    “Hey what can you expect at this price? So your cheap product broke down, and disappointed you? Here, have another one which hasn’t broken yet! ”

    Real quality comes from years of excellence.
    From people that expect build-quality and performance of as high a standard,
    as their honesty, standard of ethics and standard of living,
    all three of which are dismally poor in China.

  • Abhishek

    Its a nice worth phone its just a steal at the price point but it still lacks battery backup.
    Spice really need to do something for that otherwise a 12mp phone is also a waste for them to raise their sales and atleast A-GPS can be included in the package with wi-fi optional.

  • mihai

    Hello,
    are from romania and I would like to know how can I buy a phone was 1200 and that is the price in $ and euro.
    Thank you in advance Yours faithfully,
    m.fazacas

  • ramesu

    Hello,

    I am basically a sambarian from chennai, want to know the use of this phone first then I will decided whether to buy it or not pa, heeheehee.

  • Ali

    well spice has finally proved his excellence in technology and need of a common man with a reasionable price given to mobile. salute to the spice team for giving us such an phone with real price and features ………..

  • arun

    abe itna mast fonehai yeh kuch pata bhi hai saale tujhe

  • PRASHANT

    SIR

    PLZ TELL ME FULL PROCESS OF PURCHASE SPICE 12MB CAMERA PHONE

    WAITING FOR YOUR REPLAY

    PRASHANT

  • Ganesh

    http://www.altek.com.tw/Product/Detail.aspx?id=13

    Ram Rao, thanks a lot for your opinion. First of all this is not a phone from China. Also this is not an original Spice Mobile product. This mobile is from the country of Taiwan which is NOT China, as there is a huge difference between these two countries lately. This product is from a Taiwan camera manufacturer who are perfectionists in the field of digital cameras and are supplying their technology to lots of mobile and digital camera giants. The original phone brand name is Altek and the model number is A806. Look at the below link for the following details:

    http://www.altek.com.tw/

    After you go to this link, choose English as your language at the bottom right corner. After the page gets converted to English, click on the product iink under the menu that says ‘Product And Technology’. Once the product page opens up, click on professional camera phone link. Lo and behold, there is your Spice Phone under the name A806. Spice is actually the ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) Customer for Altek who has manufactured this phone for Spice India to sell the camera phone in India as their flagship product.

    Abhishek, as I said above this is not a Spice design Product as Spice is not an ODM. The budget with which this phone was built, allowed only certain specs to be part of the phone for the Indian Market.

    Mihai, please go the above website, go to the contacts and email the phone sales team to know who is the Altek Customer selling this product in Romania. Check out the new 14 MP camera phone which is better than this 1 megapixel phone.

    Prashant, please go to http://www.spiceindia.com and contact them to know on how to purchase the product.

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  • nipon kalita

    hi,

    spice S-1200 is a one of the best & most beutiful handset in my point of view, really i like this phone.

  • rakesh

    sir please help me i request u.. i used spice hanset past 9 month but nw after 9 month i faced a problem in handset. whenever i switch on camera it hang.. i call to spice customer care they suggest me go our service center at ashok vihar which is near to rajinder nagar. Sir 1st i want to tell u ashok vihar service center has chaged the add but no one has any updation i waist my 1 hour also. i went 6th of sep 2010. when i went there after 1 hour checking the set the guy told me come after 15 days nd get ur set. After completing 15 days when i called up nobady responce me pick my phn when after a long time ago whn they picked up my phone nt giving me purpore respone. they said me call up after 3 days when i called said call up after 5 days later on.. now today on word 9th of oct,2010 i didnt received my phone. its my humble request please take a serious action against them nd Give my set,SIR humbaly REQUEST U

  • SKHANKRIYAL

    SHOULD BE 3G WITH BIG DISPLAY