Micromax Canvas Juice 2, the successor to the popular Canvas Juice smartphone, has been launched at Rs. 8,999. The smartphone will be available in Silver via online and offline stores from Thursday.

The new Canvas Juice 2 retains the 3000mAh battery from its predecessor, which is also the highlight of the device. The battery is rated to deliver up to 9 hours of talk time and up to 435 hours or 18 days of standby time.

The dual-SIM based Canvas Juice 2 features a 5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) IPS display which is again an upgrade from the FWVGA resolution seen on the Canvas Juice. Another highlight of the smartphone is it runs Android 5.0 Lollipop.

The smartphone is powered by a quad-core processor (unspecified chipset) clocked at 1.3GHz coupled with 2GB of RAM and 8GB of inbuilt storage. To put that in perspective, the Canvas Juice was backed by a dual-core 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6572 processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of inbuilt storage. The Micromax Canvas Juice 2 features expandable storage via microSD card (up to 32GB). The smartphone also features Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection.

The Canvas Juice 2 sports an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera accompanied by an LED flash and also includes a 2-megapixel front-facing fixed focus camera. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/A-GPS, GPRS/EDGE, 3G, and Micro-USB.

The Micromax Canvas Juice went on sale last year in March and was priced at Rs. 8,490.