Airtel has launched the HTC Magic / Google Ion / MyTouch in India. This is officially the first phone launched in India based on Google’s Android platform. The HTC Magic is powered by Android v1.5 and has much better specifications than the HTC Dream / G1. It sports a better camera, a virtual keyboard and is much slimmer and lighter.
HTC Magic Specifications:
- Dimensions: 117.7 x 55 x 13.7 mm
- Weight: 118.5 gms
- Display: 3.2 inch TFT Display, 320 x 480 pixels, 65K colors
- CPU: Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz
- RAM: 192 MB RAM
- ROM: 512 MB ROM
- Connectivity: GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
- Camera: 3.15 MP Camera with AF
- OS: Android 1.5
- Battery: Li-Ion 1340 mAh
Airtel is offering services like Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobshare, In Mobile Search, City Search etc with the HTC Magic. It is priced at Rs. 29,900 and will be available at all Airtel Centers and HTC resellers. Airtel will provide free data transfers of 100 MB per month for the first 6 months. It seems to be an unlocked version, will soon confirm this.
Great news, except for the price. I was really hoping to buy this when it came to India but 30K seems too expensive.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
But will it blend?
July 20th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Dont purchase this phone in India unless you want root access.
Read : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535221&page=2