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HTC Magic, the Android based cellphone has become India’s first Android phone.The phone was announced today by HTC and Bharti Airtel. The phone is priced in the retail market for INR 29,900 ($616). Airtel’s subscribers who buy this smartphone will be provided 100MB/month of free data download, for 6 months.

HTC Magic provides ease of use for the Google suite of services like Gmail, Search, YouTube and Maps geared up for use wherever your life leads you. Further enhanced with Outlook® synchronization, Smart Dialer, and an onscreen keyboard with predictive text.

Some of the known features of HTC Magic include:

• 3.2 inch TFT touchscreen display with 320 x 480 pixels
• On-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard
• Trackball navigation
• GSM and HSDPA connectivity
• GPS
• Wi-Fi
• Android Market
• Google Maps
• Google Search
• Google Mail
• Webkit browser
• Easy access to YouTube
• 3.2 MP camera

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.

Below embedded video gives a product tour of HTC Magic

HTC Magic will be available 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.

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