Mobile techno

Motorola announced New Motorola FLIP OUT a stylish square and compact smartphone specially designed for girls at price Rs. 15990 in India. Motorola FLIP OUT runs on Android 2.1 and features an innovative square pivot design that opens to reveal a five-row QWERTY keypad with a separate row for numeric keys. Motorola FLIP OUT features like 3 Mega Pixel camera with digital zoom and KODAK PERFECT TOUCH technology. One-touch uploads to Facebook, MySpace, Picasa and Photobucket make sharing your images quick and easy. Motorola FLIP OUT features full Google services including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and access to thousands of apps on the Android Market.

• Happenings and Messages widgets – filter by social networking account, by contact(s) or by contact group to only see the information you want

• Screen customization – move and resize preloaded widgets on up to seven home screens

• Battery Manager – manage battery consumption by operating in one of three performance modes

• Data Manager – monitor data usage from the home screen to better manage pay-as-you-go and limited data plans

• Personal and Corporate e-mail – pushed directly to the device

• Re-tweet capabilities

Motorola FLIP OUT Colors: Licorice, Fairway Green, Raspberry Crush, Brilliant Blue, Poppy Red, Saffron or White

Motorola FLIP OUT Offer: Mortorola also offers free Gift Voucher worth Rs. 1000 of Lakme Salon with this device.

MIRC Electronics Ltd. (ONIDA), India’s highly trusted and reputed Consumer Durables Company launched India’s first revolutionary mobile phone that allows consumers to listen to their choice of songs directly from their mobile aloud on the music system. Just ensure that you have access to any radio frequency!

Known for innovation and breakthrough technologies, MIRC Electronics has designed this model to help consumers enliven an otherwise boring environment by playing the songs of their choice from their mobile simply by pairing it to any radio channel frequency. This mobile is designed especially for those who travel often and like to listen to songs aloud.

Speaking on the occasion, K. Sriram, VP (Sales, Marketing and Services), and MIRC Electronics Ltd. (ONIDA) said, “The mobile phone category is highly versatile with new developments and technology being launched almost every day in the market. ONIDA has always provided products in view of the consumer’s choice and requirements and the mobile phones thus are no different. Today we are offering some of the finest features in our mobile phones at an economical price range. Moreso, practical applications in the mobile phone industry is the key to innovation for Indian consumers. ”

Available only for Rs. 2,500/- across India, the ONIDA G594 mobile comprises of an FM Radio, dual GSM, and 2.4” TFT Display and a Blue Tooth with A2DP. Additionally, the phone is equipped with a dual memory card slot expandable up to 8GB, a VGA camera, an audio-video recorder and a 1050mAh battery with 8 hours of talk time.

Further, the mobile also includes features such as a call recorder, FM recorder, a unique anti theft mobile tracker and GPRS facility with private protection. This mobile is easily save upto 1000 phone book contacts and also record 400 SMS. It comprises a MP4 video player and an audio player.

Best IT World (India) Pvt. Ltd. that markets computer peripherals under the popular brand, iBall is launching a range of mobile phone handsets for the Indian market.

For the first time in India the brand will launch range of mobile phones under seven segmented categories each having unique characteristics.

Under this first phase iBall will be presenting seven distinct segments within the range of iBall mobile phones. Said Sandeep Parasrampuria, Director, Best IT World (India) Pvt Ltd, “All iBall products are unique in blending technology with design, aesthetics and innovation. Our range of mobile phones combines these three attributes even better, in a highly cost-efficient manner.

There are over 700 million mobile phone subscribers in India presently. Monthly demand is over 20 million handsets per month. Annually the demand is set to cross 250 million handsets in India. But these potential customers have different requirements . Realising this gap and keeping up with our reputation to understand the psychology of the Indian consumer, iBall has come up with handsets, which are custom made to cater to the requirement of the different class of people at different age group & across sectors.

Explained Parasrampuria, "Based on in-depth research, we have introduced feature like SOS button for senior citizen, we have also designed waterproof handsets considering the Indian weather and life style of working Indians. iBall will be the first brand in Indian mobile phone market to come out with a very clear cut segmented strategy for mobile phones. Through this segmented strategy the brand will be looking at different segment demographics, consumer preferences, specialized requirements."

IBall has specifically catered to the segment that was untouched by other mobile phone companies by launching iBall Senior mobile phones to target the senior citizens. iBall Senior Mobile Phones has been designed taking into consideration the elders with features like large fonts, amber color, enhanced sound and comes with the remarkable feature of SOS button.

Within 7 seconds of pressing SOS button, the handset sends a siren to alert the surrounding people know that the person is in trouble and should be immediately attended to. It also sends SMS to pre-defined 5 numbers and starts dialing those numbers automatically one after another till one call is attended.

iBall also launched the slimmest qwerty phone in India under its category Sleec and model Thin.

This is just 8 mm in thickness and the nearest competitor is at-least 25% thicker in this and on an average most qwerty phones are 65% or more thicker than this. The Thin phone comes with dual battery, dual camera and dual sim. A very elegant optional cover which houses the second battery to use is bundled free with the Thin phone. With the dual battery a person gets to talk almost 10 hours.

All the phones in the seven categories have some unique features. iBall is also launching the first waterproof mobile phones in India. At the press conference, Mr.Parasrampuria immersed the phone inside a bowl full of water for over 10 minutes. Two hours later, the phone was working just fine. The biggest USP of this waterproof mobile phone is it floats on water. So even if one drops the phone in sea or a lake, it can easily be retrieved.

- Shaan

- Waterproof

- Sleec

- Flip

- Posh

- Touch

- Senior

iBall will be simultaneously launching in over 400 cities with 500+ distributors across the country. The company already has 23 branch offices across the country. iBall has over 100 self owned service centres, another first for a consumer product company in India.

Maxfone Mobiles launched 5 new mobiles in India. Maxfone Mobiles The focus of the company is very strong on providing good quality and affordable after sales service to our valued customers and channel partners. Maxfone Mobiles is an innovative division promoted by DLIQ Certifications India (P) Ltd.

Maxfone Mobiles is focusing on providing high quality mobile handsets at affordable prices with excellent after sales services. Maxfone Mobiles aims to target North India in 2010 and spread its wings over the country by 2011.

Maxfone MQ01 is a Dual Sim and Dual Stand By mobile phone. Maxfone MQ01 is a qwerty phone for message lovers. Maxfone MQ01 other features like Wireless FM Radio, FM Recording, digital Camera, LED Torch, Blacklist, Shaking the wallpapers, FM and MP3 make it a complete multimedia phone. Maxfone MQ01 Price is around Rs. 2499.

Maxfone M301 is a Long Battery Backup Phone which comes with extra long battery life up to 30 days standby. Maxfone M301 phone is good looking phone with crystal glass keypad and Steel Back Cover. Maxfone M301 support T-Flash and plays Loud Music. Maxfone M301 other features like Dual Sim, Music player, Bluetooth, Camera, FM, MP3/MP4, Blacklist and Password Protected makes your phone secure. Maxfone M301 price is around Rs. 2199.

Maxfone M201 is Long Battery Phone with 30 days battery backup. Maxfone M201 has 1.8 "TFT Screen. Maxfone M201 mobile handset features like Camera, MP3, SMS, MMS, Expandable Memory upto 2 GB and Blacklist. Maxfone M201 phone has Loud music with 3.5 MM Audio Jack. Maxfone M201 price is around Rs. 1999.

Maxfone M101 is a Slim mobile Phone with One Touch Wireless FM Radio, Call Timer, Call Waiting, Call Divert and Loud Ringtone. Maxfone M101 supports upto 2 GB Flash Card and 1.8 " Screen Size. Maxfone M101 handset comes in grey color and available at price Rs. 1599.

Maxfone M102 comes with 1.8 " Screen Size and other features like Sound Recorder, Torch, FM Radio, MP3, Blacklist. Maxfone M102 also have long battery phone with smart look. Maxfone M102 Price at Rs. 1569.

Beetel Teletech, a Bharti Enterprises group company and one of Indias leading distributors of telecom and allied products, today announced the launch of the Beetel range of mobile phones. The current range comprises of eight feature packed mobile phones with many industry firsts highlighting Beetels strong consumer focus and understanding.

The entire range of Beetel phones boasts of Dual SIMs, FM, Camera and Great Battery Life thus ensuring the range is contemporary. The individual models have many firsts highlighting Beetels focus on innovative technology. Some of them include - the first gaming QWERTY phone, triple SIM offering GSM+GSM+CDMA, the first phone to house a complete movie and a 3G phone with an exceedingly well designed and easy user interface.

Additionally, Beetel will offer a bouquet of VAS features to appeal the youth ranging from popular social networking applications (Facebook and Nimbuzz) to partnering with Mobile commerce partner (NgPay), Mobile portal (Yahoo) Browser (Opera Mini) added with offers of free call and free SMS powered by Ibibo. This exclusive tie up will give Beetel customers an opportunity to make free calls and Short Messaging Services (SMS) through GPRS technology enabled by the phone. The phones are priced between Rs. 1750 and Rs 7000.

Announcing the launch, Mr. Vinod Sawhny - Executive Director & CEO, Beetel Teletech Limited, said, "Beetel brand has been an intrinsic part of the telecom sector with its unmatched quality and value for money offerings. Today as the Beetel brand marks its entry into the mobile handset category we believe that the brand has the potential to replicate the success in this new category. Through our range of product offerings we intend to address the value formoney seeking Indian consumer who is keen on having innovative technology coupled with design features at attractive prices."

In the first phase of the launch, Beetel mobile phones will be available through a nationwide distribution network of over 4000 outlets across Delhi, Haryana, UP & Uttaranchal, Rajasthan, Punjab and the seven North Eastern States. The company plans to establish its presence across India by the end of the current fiscal. In addition, Beetel phones will be supported by an extensive servicenetwork of over 400 service centres backed by SMS facility for locating the service centres across the country.

Source: Beetel Teletech Limited

HTC launched Android based smartphone HTC Wildfire S in India. It is powered by Android and HTC Sense which give users to surf website, experience smooth multi window browsing, text re-size automatically onscreen with zoon in and out and more.

"The HTC Wildfire S is a stylish looking smartphone, offering fantastic value-for-money and great features, and we are delighted to launch it in India," commented Faisal Siddiqui, Country Manager, HTC India. "The HTC Wildfire has been among our best selling devices in India. Hence, we are extremely excited and positive that the HTC Wildfire S will garner a tremendous response from Indian mobile phone users."

HTC Wildfire S will be available in funky dark grey and silver white colors.

HTC Wildfire S has been launched at a price Rs. 14700.

HTC Wildfire S Features includes Android 2.3 Gingerbread, HTC Sense UI, 600 MHz, Google features like Picasa, YouTube and Google Talk. It has 3.2” touchscreen, 320×480 resolution, Gorilla Glass, Wi-Fi, 3G, Wi-Fi hotspot, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, EDR, A2DP and 3.5mm audio jack. It also has other features like Stereo FM Radio along with RDS, 5 MP camera with autofocus, Geo Tagging and LED flash, 32GB expandable memory, XviD, H.264 video format support and WAV for audio.