Karbonn are another of those companies you might not have
heard of, they are an Indian firm that have been making phones
for about five years now. They have recently been named as
hardware partners for Google and the Android One project and
also Microsoft with Windows Phone. Off the back of these big
names Karbonn have decided that now is the right time to try
and crack the UK market. The Karbonn Titanium S6 is the
fourth device they have released in the UK


The Karbonn Titanium S6 looks a lot like the Samsung Galaxy
S3, whether this was intentional or a coincidence is another
matter, it’s a mix of shiny plastic, plastic that looks like metal,
some plastic around the display, the display, a few ports of
sockets and the camera on the back.
The front of the phone has three capacitive buttons, starting
from the left they are for Menu, Home and Back. Long
pressing home triggers Google Now and double tapping home
triggers Recents. The buttons are also backlit so you can see
them in the dark. It actually took me a while to figure out the
Recents button, I guess I should have read the manual first. The
rest of the front is taken up with a large bezel surrounding
the buttons, the 5” display, a front facing camera and the
sensors at the top. Karbonn supplied the S6 with a screen
protector pre installed, which seems to attract fingerprints like it
is in some sort of fingerprint collection competition. I would
remove it but I haven’t got a case for it and would probably
scratch the screen. As it doesn’t really look like a scratch
resistant glass panel.
The edges are a little backwards, with the power button living
in the top left hand edge and the volume rocker on the right
hand side. I say backwards, at first I kept turning the volume
up when trying to turn it off, I soon got used to the
configuration. The top edge has a central Micro USB port and
the headphone socket beside it. The bottom edge has a
microphone pinhole.

The back of the phone is made of plastic, the backplate is
super glossy and attracts an absurd amount of fingerprints. The
speaker is in the bottom right hand edge and the 8MP camera
central near the top.
Design wise the S6 is pretty basic, with only really the
backplate showing any flair. Overall the feeling is one of despair
at the constant cleaning of fingerprints off the front and back
of the device.

Hardware
Spec wise the Titanium S6 is a bit basic, take a look for
yourself.
Processor: MediaTek MT6582 1.3 GHz quad-core processor.
GPU: Mali-400 MP.
Display: 5″ qHD 960×540.
Internal Memory: 8GB (3.9GB for “Internal storage” and
2.06GB for “Phone Storage”).
RAM: 1GB.
Rear Camera: 8MP with Auto Focus.
Front Camera: 2MP.
Battery: 1700 mAh.
Dual SIM (one Micro SIM one standard SIM).
MicroSD slot.
Android 4.4
Price : N17,000

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