Not Another Mobile Phone Blog

Finally after almost a year, first Android based phone has been launched in India. This is not the G1 but HTC Magic, which will be sold by HTC on AirtTel. Cellpassion is there at the launch event being held in Delhi. The phone will only be available to AirTel subscribers. The Magic carries a steep price of Rs 29,900 in which the subscriber will get 100 MB of free data for a period of six months. HTC Magic will be available with all AirTel Stores and authorized HTC Resellers in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Cochin, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Patna. Check out the Press Release here. Some highlights from the Press Release,

Airtel applications available with HTC Magic
                                                                                                               

1	Portfolio Manager
	Portfolio Manager is Mobile Client application to provide general public a secured and user friendly service platform. Its objective is to facilitate investors in Indian share market to manage their portfolio in a handsome way. Special offer for HTC Magic users – 3 Months subscription waiver
2	Hello Tunes Manager
	Hello Tunes Manager will be used by subscribers to search for, buy  and share hello tunes/hello tune albums. You can use Hello Tunes Manager to  send/receive hello tune recommendations from friends, rate hello tunes and much  more. Special offer for HTC Magic – Free Hello Tune downloads for one month.
3	Weather Channel
	This application provides detailed weather forecasts for the current day  and next 6 days. Any location of user’s choice can be marked as favorite. The  user can obtain weather forecast for (a) Current location (b) Favorite location  (c) Any other location of choice.
4	Mobshare
	MobShare is a Mobile phone picture sharing Application that  enables Immediate, controlled, and organized sharing of mobile pictures, and  the browsing, of the shared Pictures.
5	In-Mobile Search
	This application enables the user to search for contacts, image  files, audio files and video files from a single interface. The user can search  any of the above mentioned files starting with the query string entered. It  provides the user to view the image or play the audio / video files without the  use of any external applications.
6	City Search
	This application incorporates both location and data call technology,  steering you towards the very best activities that your city has to offer. For  the selected category, the application retrieves appropriate list of options  for any location review. The application provides the full information  (address, contact number and other information) for any selected option. User  also has an option to call the selected option or SMS the info from the  application.
The unique features of HTC Magic
1	Superior support and unbeatable mobile internet  experience
	HTC  Magic 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.
2	Providing broad flexibility for personalisation
	The HTC Magic 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.
3	Simply Better
	HTC Magic is enhanced with cool HTC goodies like Smart  Dialler and a versatile on-screen keyboard. Smart Dialler lets you call people  in whatever way you 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.
4	Choose Your Connections
	Take your inbox with you wherever you go. HTC Magic allows  Microsoft Exchange server synchronisation for email, calendar and contacts.  Simply put, with HTC Magic, one can always keep the personal and office emails  flowing