MUMBAI: HTC Corporation and Bharti Airtel have joined hands to launch India’s First Android powered mobile phone, The HTC Magic.
The Android platform constitutes a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of 47 technology and mobile companies, Android brings Internet-style innovation and openness to mobile phones and enables developers to create mobile applications to optimise the functionalities of the mobile phone. Android does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications, thus providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services.
The tablet-style device, has a sleek design and compactness for a smartphone. It is also enhanced with Outlook synchronization, Smart Dialler, and an onscreen keyboard with predictive text. Also Airtel customers can avail many utility based applications such as Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobshare, In-mobile search and City Search on the mobile.
The handset has a 3.2… HVGA touch screen display and features a trackball for easy access and a 3.2 mega-pixel camera. It provides full fidelity PC browsing experience, where users can expand and personalise their phone to fit their lifestyle. It is enhanced with Smart Dialler and a versatile on-screen keyboard. Smart Dialler lets users call people in whatever way they like, by either dialling the phone number or by dialling the first few letters of the name of the contact. The versatile keyboard helps to choose the favourite way to type and the predictive text completion helps in typing much faster. It also features a trackball with zoom in/out function. It is also equipped with fit-the-width rendering, and auto screen rotation for an easier navigation experience and internet browsing.
Bharti Airtel chief marketing officer Raghunath Mandava said, Airtel has been at the forefront of innovation and customer delight in the Indian telecom sector. Being the first to bring the Androidâ„? powered HTC Magic to India further underscores our commitment to enrich the communication experience of all Airtel users….He further added The HTC Magic presents a powerful mobile internet and multimedia experience that should drive the uptake of accessing the internet over mobile amongst Airtel users….
HTC Asia vice president Jack Tong said, HTC is proud to partner with Airtel in launching the much-anticipated Android powered HTC Magic in India. The HTC Magic opens up a whole new world of possibilities for people to enrich and customise their mobile phone HTC has always been known for its industry firsts and technology advancements, and is thus a natural partner to Airtel….
Airtel customers are allowed free data download of 100 MB per month for a period of 6 months. The HTC Magic will be available at a market price of Rs. 29,900 at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorised HTC resellers across 17 cities. The cities include Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Cochin, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Patna.
