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???
No…you Indians do not have to pay much because your cell phone service in India is dirt cheap. The US cost for the G1 is a SUBSIDIZED cost. The United States is one of the three most expensive cell phone markets in the world along with Canada and Spain. ARPU for the US cell phone companies is $50 while in India it is less than 300 Rupees. Do your currency conversion and that is about 7 USD only. There are 450 millions cell phone users in India paying a total of only 21 billion USD for their services while there are 250 million cell phone users in America spending more than 200 billion USD on their services. You do the math and figure out whether your cell phones in India are expensive or not….they are not because of your no contract dirt cheap service. Oh..and by the way…take all that money you are saving from dirt cheap labor and dirt cheap healthcare costs and use that to buy your G1. America spends more money on healthcare than Indians spend on all consumer goods and services.
John, point to consider here is that the standard of living is vastly different in both countries. So while you debate on what “dirt cheap” services we are offered, you should also consider the fact that the conversion from USD to INR doesn’t affect Indians one bit.
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.
I wouldn’t buy anything phone above 2k. My barrier is, that of an average Indian…:-) he he he.