LAVA Z50 Android Oreo (Go edition) Budget Smartphone at just ₹ 2400

LAVA Z50, companies first Android Oreo (Go edition) Smartphone available in the Indian market at the low budget price of ₹ 2400.  The Lava Z50 will available more than 100,000 retail stores in black and gold color options. Apart from the offline market, it is also going to sell on the online e-commerce portals such as Flipkart, Amazon, and Snapdeal.

The MOP (market operating price)  for Lava Z50 is ₹ 4400 but due to the Lava offer of ₹ 2000 cashback from Airtel as part of ‘Mera Pehla Smartphone’ program, it is available at the price of ₹ 2400.

Coming to the configuration of this budget smartphone, Lava Z50 on the front side has 4.5 inches display with 2.5D curve Corning Gorilla Glass for scratch protection. For processing, it uses the Mediatek Processor (MT6737m) that operate at the frequency of 1.1 GHz and has Quad-core.

For multitasking, it has 1GB of RAM that packed with 8GB out of which 5.5GB is available for usage; because 3GB allocated to the system OS. The internal memory can be expanded up to 64 GB via MicroSD card.

In the camera department, the Lava Z50 comes with rear camera of 5Mp for the rear and front side, however, the LED flash is only available for the rear camera.  The company claimed that the phone is capable of creating Bokeh effects via its inbuilt Bokeh Mode in both the front and rear cameras.

According to the IAMAI study, the Indian regional languages can boost the internet usage drastically, so keeping that thing in mind the Lava has bought top 10 major Indian languages (including Hindi) besides enabling search for images, weather and also translate from search home screen.

The smartphone comes with 2-year warranty. Lava Z50 comes with a special launch offer of free one-time screen replacement, in case of screen breaks within 1 year from the date of purchase.

LAVA Z50 Smartphone Full Specifications and Features

LAVA Z50 Smartphone Full Specifications and Features

Phone model Lava Z50
General 2G GSM 900 / 1800 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G HSDPA 900 / 2100
4G/LTE 2100 MHz (Band 1), 1800 MHz (Band 3,) 850 MHz (Band 5,) 2300 MHz (Band 40, 2500 MHz (Band 41)
Announced 2018, Feb
Status Available. Released 2018, Mar
Body Dimensions 135.0 × 66.6 × 9.7 mm
SIM Dual SIM (Micro-SIM/Micro SIM, dual stand-by)
Weight 140 g
Display Type TFT FWVGA capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 854 pixels, 4.5 inches
Multitouch Yes, up to 2 fingers
Protection Corning Gorilla® Glass
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 64 GB
Internal 8 GB, 1 GB RAM, 5.5 GB ROM Free
Data GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP
USB microUSB v2.0
Camera Primary 5 MP with LED flash
Features Real-time Bokeh, Face beauty, Funny Cam, HDR, Super Night Mode, Video Beauty, Filter, Templates, Panaroma, GIF,
Video 1080p@30fps Playback
Secondary  5 MP with Front LED flash
Features OS Android™ Oreo™ (Go edition)
Chipset Mediatek MTK6737m
CPU Quad-core 1.1 GHz Cortex-A53 64-Bit
GPU Mali-T720MP2
Sensors Accelerometer, Proximity and Light Sennsor
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser HTML5
Radio FM radio
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
Java No
Colors Black, Gold
– MP4/H.264 player
– MP3/WAV/FLAC player
– YouTube Go with ability to transfer videos without data
– Video Beauty, Front Flash ON/OFF, Funny Cam on 3rd Party Video Calling
Battery Removable Li-Pol 2000 mAh battery
Stand-by 431 hours 9 mins
Talk time 8 hours 6 mins (3G)
Misc SAR US
SAR EU