HTC Desire Price @ 28K with TATA DOCOMO Available in India

HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, and TATA DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today announced a partnership to launch the 'HTC Desire' in India. The HTC Desire is the latest Android Smartphone that offers the enhanced HTC Sense experience to users.

HTC Desire delivers intense brilliance, sharp contrast and true colors on the expansive 3.7-inch AMOLED display. The 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes the phone incredibly responsive while the instinctive HTC Sense experience lets the user experience the HTC Desire with the greatest of ease. With one of the most advanced displays available on a phone today, HTC Desire is designed to enhance and maximise content, whether it is pictures and videos, browsing the Web or checking on friends' status updates. Thanks to the latest Android 2.1, as well as the ultrafast processor, HTC Desire offers a wide range of live wallpapers for user choices.

"The HTC Desire underlines HTC's leadership in offering cutting-edge technology and a superior mobility experience. Globally, one of HTC's core strengths has been its innovation-packed converged 3G devices and the HTC Desire is yet another testament to our technological capabilities," said Mr. Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India. "HTC Sense on the new HTC Desire not only delivers one of the most dynamic and personalized user experiences possible, but also one of the easiest ways to interact and integrate social networks into your life."

The HTC Desire comes with an exclusive offer for TATA DOCOMO users in India, wherein TATA DOCOMO Postpay subscribers will get free data download of 500 MB per month for 06 months. To avail this offer Tata DOCOMO customers will have to SMS 'Android' to 54321 from their HTC Desire handset.

"TATA DOCOMO is a young brand that has rolled out GSM services across 18 circles," Mr. GurinderSingh Sandhu, Head Marketing, Tata DOCOMO said "When we launched our services, we had promised our subscribers that we would bring to them the best products and services—products that will stand for innovation and a pioneering spirit, and which would offer them convenience and simplicity. Living up to that promise, we are launching the HTC Desire. This launch marks the strong relationship TATA DOCOMO enjoys with HTC and, going forward, we will continue to work together to launch more innovative mobile offerings for Indian consumers on the TATA DOCOMO platform," he added.

HTC SENSE:
HTC Sense is a user experience focused on putting people at the centre by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. This experience revolves around three fundamental principles that were developed by observing and listening to how people live and communicate.

The new HTC Sense experience continues to focus on improving your interactions with your most important people. This begins with a new HTC application and widget called Friend Stream that seamlessly aggregates all of your social communication including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised flow of updates. This simple aggregation makes it easier than ever to focus on what friends are doing as well as to view the images and links that they share. In addition to Friend Stream, people can be organised into specific social circles, such as groups of friends, colleagues or any other way that makes sense.

The new HTC Sense experience also introduces broad improvements to applications including the browser, email client and others. In addition, the new version of HTC Sense includes a new newsreader application and widget, as well as a new seven-screen 'Leap' thumbnail view for quick and easy access to specific screens.

HTC Desire Price & Availability in India:
The new HTC Desire will be available at a Market Operating Price of Rs. 28,900/- at all authorized HTC resellers across the country. Prices may vary according to the local applicable taxes

Source: HTC India

Tata & RIM Launched Blackberry Tour Smartphone in India

Tata Teleservices, India's fastest-growing pan-India dual-technology telecom service provider, and Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, today launched the BlackBerry Tour, a 3G-enabled smartphone equipped with world phone capability and rich multimedia features, priced at Rs27,990.

The new BlackBerry Tour is a state-of-the-art smartphone providing users with an enhanced communications experience. It allows customers to stay seamlessly connected - across town and around the world - with support for high-speed CDMA networks in India and UMTS / HSPA (2100Mhz) and quad-band EDGE / GPRS / GSM networks abroad.*

The BlackBerry Tour features a stylish black finish with chrome highlights framing its sleek design. In addition to providing an exceptional mobile phone and easy wireless access to email, the BlackBerry Tour is equipped with rich multimedia features including a 3.2 megapixel camera with support for video recording. With its support for BlackBerry App World, users can also access free mobile applications designed for business, productivity, games, news and lifestyle needs.

Announcing the launch of the BlackBerry Tour smartphone, Pradeep Dwivedi, senior vice president — marketing, Tata Teleservices, said, "Tata Teleservices recognises that for many people, smartphones have become a lifeline for their business and personal relationships. With life becoming ‘on-the-go' the BlackBerry Tour, together with our innovative offerings, will appeal to both retail and business customers who want industry-leading email, messaging, social networking, mobile internet, camera, music and entertainment features while being able to stay seamlessly connected in India as well as internationally. This is a true 3G-era phone that offers an exceptional mobile experience to discerning customers."

"The BlackBerry Tour smartphone offers outstanding mobile performance, state-of-the-art communications, rich multimedia capabilities and consummate styling," said Frenny Bawa, vice president, India, Research In Motion. "RIM and Tata have established a strong relationship and we look forward to working together to offer this impressive smartphone to Tata's customers in India," Ms Bawa added.

The BlackBerry Tour smartphone includes premium phone features such as voice activated dialling, enhanced background noise cancellation, a low-distortion speakerphone, and Bluetooth support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets and car kits. It also offers easy access to popular social networking and IM services with applications available for Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger. Moreover it offers the industry's leading push email service, allowing customers to access up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts from a BlackBerry smartphone.

Source: Tata Teleservices

Samsung Galaxy: Samsung I7500 Mobile Launched in India

Tata DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, and Samsung Mobile India announced the launch of the first Android-powered Samsung mobile phone with in-built Google Mobile Services - Samsung Galaxy (I7500) - in India. Samsung Galaxy is a cutting-edge Smartphone, featuring a 3.2" AMOLED full touch-screen and 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, providing users access to Google Mobile services and full Web browsing at excellent speeds.

"TATA DOCOMO is a young brand that recently rolled out GSM services across eight circles (so far)," Mr. Deepak Gulati, President, TATA DOCOMO, said "When we launched our services, we had promised our subscribers that we would bring to them the best products and services—products that will stand for innovation and a pioneering spirit, and which would offer them convenience and simplicity. Living up to that promise, we are launching the Samsung Galaxy with one-touch Google Mobile Services (GMS). This launch marks the beginning of TATA DOCOMO's relationship with Samsung. We will continue working together to launch more innovative mobile offerings for Indian consumers on the Tata DOCOMO platform," he added.

Announcing the launch, Mr. B D Park, Director - Telecom, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. stated: "We are very happy to be launching the Company's first Android-powered mobile phone with Google Mobile Services in partnership with TATA DOCOMO. This powerful device will allow consumers to fully experience all mobile based Google applications on this phone. With its innovative features, Samsung Galaxy will offer a strong value proposition to discerning TATA DOCOMO customers."

Samsung Galaxy (I7500) offers users access to the full suite of Google Mobile Services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Android Market. The integrated GPS receiver enables comprehensive use of Google Maps features, such as My Location, Google Latitude, local search and detailed route description. Thousands of other applications are available in the Android Market. "Applications from the Android Market can be downloaded and installed on to this mobile over the air, without the use of a PC, thereby opening up an entire new world to the user." states Mr. Asim Warsi, GM- Marketing, Samsung India Electronics Ltd.

Under an exclusive tie-up, Samsung and Tata DOCOMO are launching this complete touch-screen, lifestyle phone in all the Circles where Tata DOCOMO has kicked off its GSM services, with an attractive consumer offer of 500 MB free download per month, for a period of six months. "At TATA DOCOMO, our promise has been to provide a refreshingly different experience to our fast-growing customer base," Mr. Sunil Tandon, Regional Head, TATA DOCOMO, said. "The launch of the Samsung Android is part of that endeavor—to provide subscribers with a world-class product that lets them experience the vast range of applications of the Android Market."

Based on Samsung's proven product leadership, Samsung I7500 comes with latest multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2" AMOLED display ensures brilliant representation of multimedia content and an enjoyable full-touch mobile experience.

Along with supporting a 5-megapixel camera and various multimedia codec formats, the I7500 also provides a long battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity (Internal Memory of 8 GB and Expandable External Memory up to 32 GB) to enjoy all the applications and multimedia content. The phone also boasts a slim and compact design—it is a mere 11.9mm thick.

Tata Docomo has launched its services across eight telecom Circles in the country already, and the same has been received with great enthusiasm. Samsung Galaxy will target the tech-savvy and up market consumers who are always on the move and need to have constant access to information, entertainment and interactive mobile experience.

Samsung Galaxy Mobile Price:
Samsung Galaxy comes at a special introductory price of Rs 28,990 in the Indian market.

Press Release From: TATA DOCOMO