The Canvas HD is powered by the MediaTek MT6589 quad-core SoC. This is made up of four ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs running at 1.2GHz and a PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU. The SoC is fabricated using the 28nm process, so it should sip power rather than gulp it down.
The chip-set also houses the base band radios, so there’s no need for a second chip. Music playback is handled by the stock Jelly Bean player. The quality of audio is strictly average at first, but sounds good with a little equalizer tweaking. The rear speaker is quite loud, so you won’t miss any of the alerts even in a noisy place.