Karbonn Mobiles has recently announced S1 Titanium with a quad core chipset and Android 4.1 in India. The new Karbonn S1 Titanium will be competing with the recently launched Micromax A116 Canvas HD. As of now only the specifications are known. No retailer site has started offering the device, but we expect it to launch soon since the bookings are currently open at the company’s website. The device is currently available for pre-bookings on the comapny’s official website for Rs. 10,990.

The specifications of the Karbonn S1 Titanium are more or less similar to the A116 Canvas HD. The S1 Titanium sports a 4.5 inch QHD multi-touch capacitive touch display with 960×540 pixel resolution and runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The smartphone is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor with amount of RAM unknown at the moment. There’s 4GB of internal storage expandable upto 32GB via microSD.

The smartphone comes with a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front camera. For connectivity the Karbonn S1 Titanium include 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth with A2DP, EDGE, GPRS and GPS. It comes with a 1,600mAh battery claiming upto 4 hours of talk time. The device also supports dual-SIM functionality (GSM+GSM) .

Last week, Micromax launched the A116 Canvas HD with aquad core cpu and HD display. According to the company, this smartphone will be available for under Rs. 15,000. However, given that Karbonn S1 Titanium is little lower in specs and planning a Rs.13,000 price in India, Micromax may be forced to do some re-thinking on the price front.

Karbonn S1 Titanium key specifications 

• 4.5 -inch qHD (960×540) multi-touch capacitive touch display
• 1.2 GHz quad-core processor
• Expandable memory up to 32GB via microSD
• 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
• VGA front camera
• Dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) with dual standby
• 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth with A2DP, EDGE, GPRS, GPS
• 1,600 mAh battery
• Android 4.1

Specification wise the Karbonn S1 Titanium smartphone looks like to be a cut down version of Micromax A116 Canvas HD. The smaller and lower resolution screen and 5MP camera all point to a slightly cheaper device, so we expects, the Karbonn S1 Titanium price to be  Rs13,000 in India. While this does seem tempting, the Canvas HD offers you a lot more for a slightly higher price.