Panasonic P81

With the ever changing trends in the smartphone technology, prices are reducing and screen size is increasing. Panasonic is the latest in the phablet race to offer a in company's flagship model. P81 is an attempt by the Japanese tech giant in the smartphone market where it's hard for an entrant to mark its presence. Let s take a look at what Panasonic has to offer in the category which is dominated by big names like Samsung, HTC and LG.

The P81 poses a sleek at 7.9mm profile and is in phablet trend with 5.5-inch IPS multi touch display with a pixel density of 267ppi and a resolution of 720 X 1280 pixels. The screen is sharp and enhances the experience of HD video streaming, 3D games and web-browsing. The colour reproduction on P81 display is good and not over saturated with good viewing angles.

Likewise other mid-range smartphones entering the Indian market, P81 also comes 8GB of internal storage expandable up-to 32GB. It is powered by MediaTek MT6592 octa-core processor along with the Mali 450 GPU with a clock speed of 1.7GHz coupled with 1GB RAM. The phone runs on Android v4.3 Jelly Bean.

The device has an inbuilt call recorder, a dual window operation mode which utilises phone's 5.5 inch screen effectively, There is also a Pop-i-Player to watch videos while performing other tasks on the phone and an efficient battery saving mode.

The Panasonic P81 offers a 13 Megapixel rear camera with flash and a 2 Megapixel front camera for video calling and selfies. It can capture Full HD videos at a resolution of 1080p. The phablet supports Dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) and 3G Connectivity along with Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS. The USP of P81 is its gesture play technology using which, a user can open any application from the home-screen by just drawing gestures which acts as a time saver.

It is powered with a 2500mAh battery which can provide decent talk-time considering the large screen and eight-cores functionality.