Unlocked Google Android Phone in India – HTC Magic
HTC has launched the first Google Android phone in India – HTC Magic. HTC has tied up exclusively with Airtel to sell the unlocked HTC Magic Android phone – the exclusive deal spans six months, i.e. you still need to buy the phone from Airtel.
HTC Magic - G2 Android Phone in India
HTC Magic Specification
Processor : Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
OS : Android
Memory : 512 MB along with 288MB RAM
Camera : 3.2 MP
Battery : Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. Talk time: Up to 400 minutes for WCDMA, Up to 450 minutes
for GSM, Standby time: Up to 660 hours for WCDMA, Up to 420 hours for GSM
Dimension: 13 x 55.56 x 13.65 mm ( 4.45 x 2.19 x 0.54 inches), Weighs 116 gms with battery.
The phone costs Rs. 30K (the unlocked version, which was available for developers was available for $649) and is a sleeker version of G1 (without a keyboard).
Features Supported
- All Google applications,
- Smart Dialer, an on-screen keyboard that lets you call people in whatever way you think, by either dialling their phone number or by dialing the first few letters of their name.
- Multiple mailbox support and Microsoft® Exchange Server synchronization for email, calendar and contacts
Are you game for HTC Magic? In general, smartphones in India haven’t seen major success – let’s hope Magic does some trick!
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This seems to be an exciting proposition. Whatever Google does brings some novelty to the customer.
I hope it does not go the iPhone way.
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Sucess at this cost….dont think so. But half the price [15K] and it will sell like bus tickets…
I think the price is too high. Android is all good and geeky with the Google Brand but IPhone is the real brand which will sell at that price point.
Plus with the recent launch of the n97, I think at 30K, it is even more of bad price point to position this handset
I was eagerly waiting for android phone’s launch in india.
but i m bit disappointed with cost that airtel has put in, as it is available in u.s with pretty low cost.. then y we indian hve to pay tht much???
HTC marketing guys are a–ho—. Just compare this stupid phone with Nokia
E-71. E-71 is having more new features (e.g advanced EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps, Videocall camera, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML support, Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) incl. MS Office 2007 support via free update, Printing) and ,
backward compatible features (e.g. infrared etc).
HTC doesn’t deserve this price and should be in the range of 15K INR and I am sure
HTC’s stupid marketing team will soon realize this.
A gud looking phone with gud features but when compared with its price its too costly. it price shld b around 15k-20k (INR)
Is 20k a price barrier for an Indian buyer?
Of course man, 20k is a barrier. This phone should never be costlier than 15k.