Lava Blaze Dragon announced with the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC, 120Hz display, and 5,000 mAh battery
The Lava Blaze Dragon is a budget smartphone, which is "designed for today's youth" and is powered by the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC. It has 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage onboard, and it runs Android 15 out of the box with "zero bloatware." Lava has promised one OS upgrade and two years of security updates for the Blaze Dragon.
The budget 5G smartphone features a 6.74" 120Hz HD+ LCD with a peak brightness of over 450 nits, and it's fueled by a 5,000 mAh battery that draws power through a USB-C port at up to 18W.
For photography, you get an 8MP selfie camera on the front and a 50MP primary camera on the rear, accompanied by what could be a depth unit. The Lava Blaze Dragon also features a 3.5mm headphone jack and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner for password-less unlocking of the smartphone.
Lava Blaze Dragon's color options
The Lava Blaze Dragon comes in Golden Mist and Midnight Mist colors and carries a price tag of INR9,999 ($115/€100). It will go on sale in India starting August 1 through Amazon.in.
Lava had announced it would also launch the Blaze AMOLED 2 this month. We could hear more about it next week.
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